butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Why?
General election, the urban75 vote
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redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
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Because each option is capitalism.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Because I am curious, I can understand it there's no chance of ousting a tory, but am struggling with why you wouldn't use you vote to do so if there was a chance of getting rid of one.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
for sure, we don't have a great choice but one party is far more destructive than the other. i would rather exercise that choice than forego any choice at all
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Fair enough - not question why for anyone else. Assumed ends (getting rid of tories). But the question is fair. My answer is that there is no hope for or protection for the world i want to see and the world that i am forced to live in through these politics. None. I don't protect a damn thing by voting labour, i simply endorse the idea that someone has got to get hurt.
Labour -- mainly because I like Swansea East MP Carolyn Harris (I've explained why in 2 other threads).
Voley
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Would take a small miracle for our Labour MP to get elected in this Con/LibDem seat (at the last election Conservatives got 35+%, LibDems weren't far behind and Labour got 9%) but I'll be voting for them nonetheless. In marked contrast to the rest of the country we actually had a bit of a swing towards Labour in Penzance in the local elections, which is odd, but it would take a massive leap for that to be translated into an MP.
Wild card is what might happen with the UKIP vote now that's collapsed. They used to do quite well around here. If they all vote Tory now, as is likely, they'll do a lot better that the LibDems this time.
Wild card is what might happen with the UKIP vote now that's collapsed. They used to do quite well around here. If they all vote Tory now, as is likely, they'll do a lot better that the LibDems this time.
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
How did that go for you in 2010?
Supine
Newt Member
I lived in a different constituency and voted labour
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
Anyway, I've posted at length on other threads why I'm spoiling and what I think about Labour and as 'least worst' politics. Besides, I'm not in a marginal (although if it was a Con-Lab one I might just vote for them if their candidate was reasonably sound and to try and unseat the Tory).
Meh, what a load of shit electoral politics is.
Meh, what a load of shit electoral politics is.
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stethoscope
Well-Known Member
So, you tactical voting then? I'd never vote for a Lib Dem (especially that Farron twat) even in a Con-Lib marginal.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
I've heard people talking well of Farron in his constituency (I spend a lot of time there). He seems "good at the local stuff" - helped save a hospital, does fell running at the Ambleside (or Grasmere I forget which) Sports etc.
The area was festooned with orange lozenges when I was last up there a few weeks back.
I don't like it.
The area was festooned with orange lozenges when I was last up there a few weeks back.
I don't like it.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
As I said in other threads:
How can I vote for the Labour Party who are closing the local children's centres, closing the local swimming pool and enacting swathes of cuts?
The Labour candidate has explicitly defended these cuts too.
I was there on Sunday, a sea of orange 'winning here' lollipops.
They need to update their campaign posters imo. I remember defacing a 'winning here' poster with obscene graffiti 20 years ago.
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
If forced at gun point to vote for one or the other, I think I'd actally juat vote con. Or get shot.
what makes you think labour would continue with those cuts if they got into no10?
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
These are the 184 Labour MPs who didn’t vote against the Tories' welfare bill
Full list of Labour rebels who abstained as MPs backed Tory spending cuts
Unless you think they've suddenly had an epithany and have changed their politics in less than two years.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
History.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
What the Labour candidate in my seat says on his campaign website.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
possibly. Not seen him wish cancer on anyone yet tho - that would be proof positive
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
Labour. Lancaster and Fleetwood is a Lab-Con marginal and Cat Smith is a good constituency MP. I think she's going to lose though 
maomao
普費斯
Doctor who, prog rock, wishing cancer on people and an unreasonable faith in the Labour party. We're at least half way there.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Awesome bingo
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Support the bedroom tax, the VAT increases, the tripling of HE fees!
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
When are you going to justify it?
Strikes me that Labour's real electability problem is that those who basically support Corbyn don't want to vote for their Blairite constituency MP whereas those who would support their Blairite constituency MP don't want to vote for Corbyn. Either way, no vote for Labour.
This is what happens when you allow the soul of a party to be utterly corrupted and then think you can fix it just by choosing the right leader.
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