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  1. PINKIE

    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

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    I know we have a politics thread already, but why pass up the opportunity to create another **** storm :)

    Anyway who will you vote for tomorrow ?

    Personally I shudder at the thought of another 5 years of Tory cuts, protecting their rich chums, privatising the NHS, more austerity, not tackling tax evasion and making a hash of negotiating a deal with Europe. So I will be voting to try and remove the Tory MP in my constituency, which means a vote for Lib dem.
     
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  2. Chief

    Chief Northern Simpleton
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    The thought of voting for Conservatives and, to a far lesser extent, Labour scares me.

    Am still considering Green, which is a waste, and Lib Dems are now just a waste of time.

    Labour probably, based on their rather fanciful manifesto and that it stands for me way more than any of the others could.
     
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    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    I will be voting Labour because, as their leader says, their message is about hope. The tories offer the opposite.

    If I lived in a constituency where Labour had no chance of winning, I wouldn't hesitate to vote Lib Dem. Anything really to put two fingers up to the contemptible May and her gang of rotten spineless liars.
     
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  4. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    My constituency is a straight fight between Lib Dems and Conservative. I've got a feeling it's gonna go Lib Dem. My vote will be Tory.
     
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  5. Stan

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    Lib Dem but the Tories will win by a landslide in our constituency.

    The funny thing is, so few people say they're going to vote Tory in this election but they're still going to walk
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  6. Chief

    Chief Northern Simpleton
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    Yeah, this.

    Tories won't get in where I live, Lib Dems did during the coalition years and I voted for them then. Still ended up with a ****ing Tory government though.
     
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    yossarian Well-Known Member

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    And there's the problem. An elected upper house with enhanced powers, based on proportional representation would make it easier to vote with one's conscience. Your vote would then count towards both houses.
     
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    Saints_Alive Well-Known Member

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    I'll be voting Labour but to be perfectly honest, if it was the Lib Dems or the Greens that the best chance of beating the Tories I would vote for either of them. I want to see an end to the damaging austerity that is decimating our public services and I want to see a bit of levelling up in our society. I want to see less homeless people on the streets, the disabled treated with more respect and dignity, a better NHS with our nurses getting paid what they are worth, no more food banks and zero hour contracts and a real living minimum wage.
    I'm quite proud that my City has been generally anti Tory in a sea of blue in the south and we have been stitched up by boundary changes too.
     
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    Chief Northern Simpleton
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    Yeah, absolutely.

    I could yet go in there tomorrow evening and vote green. Which I feel I should.
     
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    yossarian Well-Known Member

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    I wonder how many people up and down the country feel the same? I get the feeling that the Green vote would be a lot higher but for tactical voting
     
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    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

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    Until we get PR then it's all about the tactical vote. I want to see a labour govt, but it's split between Lib dem and Tory in my constituency. Labour came behind ****ing UKIP last time !

    I voted Green last time and it allowed the Tory candidate to sneak in (my seat is a marginal) so this time it's definitely LIb Dem to try and oust the ****er
     
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    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    The only thing I'm looking forward to in the event of a Labour victory, is Corbyn visiting Israel.
     
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    I have voted Green in council elections, and will probably do so again.

    It's in local government that the Greens have their best hope of an electoral breakthrough. They'll struggle to get a toehold in Parliament for as long as we have 1st past the post.
     
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    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    I doubt they get the Daily Mail in Israel, so I can't see his presence there being a problem frankly.

    Has Trump been to Israel yet?
     
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    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    Israeli's know all about Jeremy Corbyn and his past.

    If you want to make your own assumptions, crack on.
     
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    Skylarker PL High Commissioner

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    It's rude to ask someone who they're voting for.
     
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  17. Stan

    Stan Stalker

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    Who are you voting for?
     
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  18. I am voting Labour, not because I am a Socialist by inclination (I'm probably Liberal), but because I believe in Corbyn's message for democracy.
     
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    You speak for Israel then?
     
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  20. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    I know a lot of Israeli people, and I know that Corbyn turned down their last invitation like a ****ing coward.
     
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