Your voting intentions

[trails]

Timothy Bucktu said:

Caddyshack said:

Timothy Bucktu said:

Please can you add 'spoiled paper' as a lot of people have said they'll do that. And 'stay at home'.

What is the purpose of a spoiled paper? What does it aim to achieve….I can’t work that out?

Answered perfectly just a couple of posts up...

They are counted. It sends a message.

But who listens to that message, and what will they do about it?

Not defending any of the current options, just curious.

[Kermit power]

I voted Tory for 30 years but will never be able to bring myself to do so again after the utterly abhorrent, racist dystopian populism of the Rwanda policy.

Having also lived through the era of the illegal Blair invasion of Iraq and the subsequent hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian deaths they're out too!

I've therefore decided on only considering parties committed to PR and then picking the most acceptable. Given that a significant minority of Reform UK probably only support it because they think it stands for "Purge Racistly", that only really leaves the Lib Dems.

[chemistry]

Master Bean said:

Bucket Head or Bin Face.

So many folks are disaffected, one of those might end up as PM!

[Rufus Stone]

Timothy Bucktu said:

Answered perfectly just a couple of posts up...

They are counted. It sends a message.

I suspect not the message you think it does.

[Mannginger]

Voted blue all my life (apart from choosing not to vote at the last GE).

I would vote Labour this time around but it's pointless where I live, so will vote Lib Dem tactically. The Tories need a good long spell out of power to unfk themselves

[Pit Pony]

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ7F9ZqKXq8&...

It's an old song, but I think the message holds today.

[Kermit power]

trails said:

Timothy Bucktu said:

Caddyshack said:

Timothy Bucktu said:

Please can you add 'spoiled paper' as a lot of people have said they'll do that. And 'stay at home'.

What is the purpose of a spoiled paper? What does it aim to achieve….I can’t work that out?

Answered perfectly just a couple of posts up...

They are counted. It sends a message.

But who listens to that message, and what will they do about it?

Not defending any of the current options, just curious.

If nothing else, the Returning Officer will give it all due consideration!

[Kermit power]

Interesting that 40 people have said they'll vote Reform in the poll, but none have publicly declared it in the comments. Is it viewed as something to be a bit ashamed of?

[Pupp]

Kermit power said:

Interesting that 40 people have said they'll vote Reform in the poll, but none have publicly declared it in the comments. Is it viewed as something to be a bit ashamed of?

Hopefully

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Kermit power said:

trails said:

Timothy Bucktu said:

Caddyshack said:

Timothy Bucktu said:

Please can you add 'spoiled paper' as a lot of people have said they'll do that. And 'stay at home'.

What is the purpose of a spoiled paper? What does it aim to achieve….I can’t work that out?

Answered perfectly just a couple of posts up...

They are counted. It sends a message.

But who listens to that message, and what will they do about it?

Not defending any of the current options, just curious.

If nothing else, the Returning Officer will give it all due consideration!

"Amazingly, because it was neatly drawn within the confines of the box the returning officer deemed it a valid vote."

[Timothy Bucktu]

trails said:

Timothy Bucktu said:

Caddyshack said:

Timothy Bucktu said:

Please can you add 'spoiled paper' as a lot of people have said they'll do that. And 'stay at home'.

What is the purpose of a spoiled paper? What does it aim to achieve….I can’t work that out?

Answered perfectly just a couple of posts up...

They are counted. It sends a message.

But who listens to that message, and what will they do about it?

Not defending any of the current options, just curious.

Well, yeah...Nothing will come of it I'm sure.
But if non of the parties are worthy of your vote, at least it shows the people who fought for that vote that you recognise their achievement by being bothered to at least turn up to the ballot box.
A spoilt vote is still a vote and counted as such.
You vote for who you want. I'm effectively going to vote 'why did he spoil his vote'.
I guess turning up without an ID is also counted...but that's more of a 'dumb ass' vote.

[croyde]

I'll not be voting. All as bad as each other, pretty hopeless to be honest.

I'm abroad in July looking into buying a home somewhere cheap and warm as I'm nearing a retirement which is unaffordable in this country of my birth.

[PlywoodPascal]

Kermit power said:

Interesting that 40 people have said they'll vote Reform in the poll, but none have publicly declared it in the comments. Is it viewed as something to be a bit ashamed of?

In the sense that It’s the intellectual and 21st century equivalent of being a leper in the Middle Ages, then yeah.

[911Spanker]

croyde said:

I'll not be voting. All as bad as each other, pretty hopeless to be honest.

I'm abroad in July looking into buying a home somewhere cheap and warm as I'm nearing a retirement which is unaffordable in this country of my birth.

I am looking to move away as well. The UK is a joke.

[LimaDelta]

So far no outright majority for Labour then

(I know, I know, it is a % poll, not a representation of seats won)

[clockworks]

Lib Dem for me, as our constituency was traditionally Lib Dem before going Tory 2 elections ago. Labour has no chance.

The Lib Dem candidate was our MP for many years. Despite twice losing narrowly to the Tories, he's stuck around. Seems a dedicated and decent chap.

It is a shame that the Lib Dem leadership is a bit flaky though.

[valiant]

LimaDelta said:

So far no outright majority for Labour then

(I know, I know, it is a % poll, not a representation of seats won)

Remember this is NP&E where a lot sit to the right of Genghis Khan so to even get the numbers displayed shows a lot of disaffection with the Tories.

[JagLover]

To me this is an election about not only the failure of the Conservatives but an agenda, that it is not putting it too strongly to say, is a betrayal of those who voted for them.

We cannot continue as a functioning democracy where parties view their electoral commitments to the voters, either explicit or implicit, as a set of lies to get themselves elected.

So the Conservatives deserve to be wiped out for that reason. I do not expect things to improve, in fact they may very well get worse, particularly for the sorts of people who hang out on a motoring enthusiasts website, but that is just where we have ended up.

Labour are an irrelevance to the above. They will continue much of the same agenda, and maybe worse in certain areas, but they offer what their supporters want.

[DeejRC]

I’ve ticked Indy.
Im a naturally small c centre right’ish conservative voter. I’ve also voted Lib Dem in the past when the Tory choice was Anne Widdecomb and buggered if I was voting for her!
I see no reason to currently continue voting for Rishi n co. The 10% tax increase he has slapped on me has doomed him there, thanks but no thanks.
I also see no reason to vote for SKS n co. He or his party have done literally nothing to earn my vote, in fact they frequently appear to actively repel and they encourage their supporters to loathe me. So, er, no.
The Lib Dems are nobodies with a Peter principle bank manager in charge. They have nothing to offer - and don’t even believe they do themselves - except being Anyone But Tories.
My wife and I would actually like to vote green. Except they are raving Marxist commies and not in any way actually that “green”. They appear to have minimal to zero understanding of what economics are and even less understanding of ecological efficiency.
Which leaves me hoping for a decent Indy my way. In fact the current thinking down here is that if anyone wishes to stand on a ticket of nailing South West Water, then they will sweep every vote going. They will certainly have mine!

[DMN]

Tactical vote for the Greens to get the useless Tory out.