If there was a general election tomorrow ..........

[Deleted member 21784]

Go democracy.......

Yes because our system isn’t broken at all? First past the post completely outdated doesn’t respesent who actually gets the most votes

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I see Begsby [Robert Carlyle] is going to play the PM.
Well I would vote for him before Mayhem.

 

[jim8flog]

Interested to read about people spoiling papers, I appreciate it makes a point but would anyone notice? Never done that - do you write something funny, draw something rude or just put an X outside any of the boxes?

When the results are announced they also announce the number of unacceptable ballot papers. One hopes that somebody takes notice. I just a big X across the whole paper, something I do in local elections rather than Parliamentary ones.

 

[MegaSteve]

Interested to read about people spoiling papers, I appreciate it makes a point but would anyone notice? Never done that - do you write something funny, draw something rude or just put an X outside any of the boxes?

I kept it simple and wrote 'none of the above' with a little box alongside and placed my cross in said box...

The downside of living in a safe seat is the other parties just put up a 'patsy' not really worthy of consideration...

 

[clubchamp98]

West minister is full of second and third rate politicos.
They need to up their game for my vote.
At the moment nobody.
After this I may never vote again.
They just don’t understand winning and losing a vote.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

West minister is full of second and third rate politicos.
They need to up their game for my vote.
At the moment nobody.
After this I may never vote again.
They just don’t understand winning and losing a vote.

There were no winners to that vote full stop.

 

[clubchamp98]

There were no winners to that vote full stop.

YEs there were but when they lose they think they should get another go!
This is the problem now there are no losers because they may be upset.

Unfortunately most MPs come into this latter group. Inc TM.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

YEs there were but when they lose they think they should get another go!
This is the problem now there are no losers because they may be upset.

Unfortunately most MPs come into this latter group. Inc TM.

I’m sorry but everyone lost

The MPs realised they were out of touch
The people don’t get what 52% wanted st the time
The country is split and hatred is on the rise

Point me to some winners here? I’m really struggling to see any.

 

[clubchamp98]

I’m sorry but everyone lost

The MPs realised they were out of touch
The people don’t get what 52% wanted st the time
The country is split and hatred is on the rise

Point me to some winners here? I’m really struggling to see any.

52% of people have been left behind by globalisation for one reason or another.
When they were given a vote they decided to leave the EU.
But MPs know better!
They care more about business than their voters, it’s all about business.
The ones who caused the problems in the first place!
So the 52% are now thinking it’s not worth voting anymore.

I know what your saying it’s a mess ,but it’s a Uk mess what the EU have done was predictable.
I reckon the lawyers will win as usual.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

52% of people have been left behind by globalisation for one reason or another.
When they were given a vote they decided to leave the EU.
But MPs know better!
They care more about business than their voters, it’s all about business.
The ones who caused the problems in the first place!
So the 52% are now thinking it’s not worth voting anymore.

I know what your saying it’s a mess ,but it’s a Uk mess what the EU have done was predictable.
I reckon the lawyers will win as usual.

Exactly those 52% didn’t win. They lost . Lost whatever faith they have in the process

 

[Swinglowandslow]

I kept it simple and wrote 'none of the above' with a little box alongside and placed my cross in said box...

The downside of living in a safe seat is the other parties just put up a 'patsy' not really worthy of consideration...

Just write, " I've already voted. Am awaiting for result to be implemented"

 

[Tashyboy]

Re the bit in bold Tashy me man, facts from the last GE don’t really support your point.

Labour made a net gain of 30 seats with 40.0% (its highest share since 2001 and the first time the party gained seats since 1997).

Corbyn increased Labour's share of the vote by more than any other of the party's election leaders since 1945.
Labour's proportion of the vote grew 9.6 per cent the biggest swing since Clement Attlee shortly after the Second World War.

Certainly cannot argue with facts, but when the Tories have been at there very worse ( up until that point) Corbyns Labour still could not get in to outright power. In the Labour stronghold of Mansfield a Tory got in.😳

My grief with both Labour and the Tories is this. There will always be hardcore labour and Tory supporters. The old adage of put a monkey with a blue or red rosette on and put him up for election and he will be voted in.
It's not the hardcore supporters both Corbyn and May need to convert. They are already blind. It's me an ex miner, it's Missis Tash an ex nurse. Both industries have been devastated by Labour and the Tories. They have to convince us that they are both fit to govern. They both convince me that they are incompetent knobheads.

 

[Fish]

I voted ‘other’ as I think a new party will emerge from this carnage, Labour is unelectable with Corbyn (and Abbott) and has/is too far to the left now, which I think the conservatives have played on, but they’ve gone too far themselves and have committed suicide also, so now, with many MP’s across all parties staring at the prospect of losing their seats in the next election because they have betrayed their constituents, a new party will rise from the ashes full of those who stood their ground and they’ll get the support of the people.

There needs to be a good culling.

 

[backwoodsman]

Who would l vote for tomorrow? Honest answer - l really don't know. Up to now I've been a rather dyed-in-the-wool supporter of one of the major parties, but will be very hard pressed to give them a vote next time. And can't see myself voting for the other side either.

Its evident that major rifts are forming in both main parties but whether the fractures comes in time for an election is anyones guess. We can only wait & see what happens. The whole EU/Brexit nonsense has (or will) change politics forever. The referendum result hacked-off half the electorate, but in the intervening 2 years since then, the politicos have pulled off the fairly tidy trick off hacking-off the full 100%. The country needed being united again after the referendum - but I'm not sure making everyone dissatisfied was the way to do it.

I think we all now want/expect change and l think we've had the catalyst. l only hope the change is for the better (on which note, I'm off to make sure I have a good supply of paddles - as I don't want to be without one)

 

[KenL]

I always used to vote Lib Dem as I'm most in tune with their policies.

Now I vote for whoever has the best chance of keeping the SNP out. Worked last time as Labour knocked SNP off their seat.

 

[lobthewedge]

Anybody but the snp

 

[ColchesterFC]

I shall vote for the party who are currently the 3rd largest at Wastemonster and according to the polls will increase their MP's by about 20%.
By some error they have been omitted from the GM poll, whilst the 4th largest are included.

It's because this poll is only for mainstream parties and all of the other single policy and joke parties have been omitted as well.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

It's because this poll is only for mainstream parties and all of the other single policy and joke parties have been omitted as well.

The SNP are pretty mainstream in Scotland, roughly half of votes cast.
Are you actually saying Scots should be excluded from this poll.
I would imagine that it is more likely that the OP has just made an error based on historic voting practices.

 

[ColchesterFC]

The SNP are pretty mainstream in Scotland, roughly half of votes cast.
Are you actually saying Scots should be excluded from this poll.
I would imagine that it is more likely that the OP has just made an error based on historic voting practices.

No, I'm saying that all single policy parties and joke parties have been excluded from the poll. Otherwise you'll have to include Doris who is standing on a platform to build a bypass for Bideford because she's worried about the effect of increasing traffic on her pet cat tiddles. There's no point including a party that only around 8% of the UK population have the opportunity to vote for, and by your numbers only 4% of the population actually vote for.

 

[GG26]

It is now a really depressing state of affairs with a complete lack of competent individuals at the helm of both main parties and the LibDems having lost the support after being part of the coalition.

I can't with a clear mind feel that I could vote for any of them at the moment.