Your voting intentions
Poll: Your voting intentions
Total Members Polled: 1237
Discussion
PlywoodPascal said:
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.I’m very torn tbh.
As a lifelong Tory voter this next election could be my last before I retire, so from a purely selfish pov I want a government who aren’t going to pillage the pension contributions I’ve been loading up, and one that doesn’t crash the stock market…
Fed up with the Tory’s ineptness, Starmer still concerns me with his past links to Corbyn, and I think a vote for anyone else is a waste of a pen stroke.
First time in my life I’m stuck for what to do.
As a lifelong Tory voter this next election could be my last before I retire, so from a purely selfish pov I want a government who aren’t going to pillage the pension contributions I’ve been loading up, and one that doesn’t crash the stock market…
Fed up with the Tory’s ineptness, Starmer still concerns me with his past links to Corbyn, and I think a vote for anyone else is a waste of a pen stroke.
First time in my life I’m stuck for what to do.
S600BSB said:
PlywoodPascal said:
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.
PlywoodPascal said:
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.Square Leg said:
I’m very torn tbh.
As a lifelong Tory voter this next election could be my last before I retire, so from a purely selfish pov I want a government who aren’t going to pillage the pension contributions I’ve been loading up, and one that doesn’t crash the stock market…
Fed up with the Tory’s ineptness, Starmer still concerns me with his past links to Corbyn, and I think a vote for anyone else is a waste of a pen stroke.
First time in my life I’m stuck for what to do.
The pensions issue is one I'm interested in, what concerns do you have?As a lifelong Tory voter this next election could be my last before I retire, so from a purely selfish pov I want a government who aren’t going to pillage the pension contributions I’ve been loading up, and one that doesn’t crash the stock market…
Fed up with the Tory’s ineptness, Starmer still concerns me with his past links to Corbyn, and I think a vote for anyone else is a waste of a pen stroke.
First time in my life I’m stuck for what to do.
If I have an independent I will vote for them, otherwise spoil or not bother depending on the weather. Anyone thinking Labour is the answer is very deluded, especially the latest incarnation with Rayner and Starmer, supported by a copy and paste what other people say, chancellor.
The problem for me is no party will admit that all that "we want" and demand from the state is too much and massively unaffordable yet they still try to do it then moan we have deficit and run up massive debts.
The NHS needs breaking up completely and starting again under a new charter of health obligations Some things need ignoring completely as they are just fads.
In the modern age, the government should set out its policies and deliver them and stop pandering to the social media warriors.
The problem for me is no party will admit that all that "we want" and demand from the state is too much and massively unaffordable yet they still try to do it then moan we have deficit and run up massive debts.
The NHS needs breaking up completely and starting again under a new charter of health obligations Some things need ignoring completely as they are just fads.
In the modern age, the government should set out its policies and deliver them and stop pandering to the social media warriors.
Crippo said:
There is a Reform thread going which is full of very rude people, why start it here as well? Your answer above shows what kind of person you are. Nobody needs to justify their opinions to anyone else on this forum. This is just a voting intentions thread after all.
Sorry I didn’t mean to be rude, I was just suggesting that we should put all the reform voters out on an island in the lagoon, like Venice did with anyone with leprosy. You’re right, no one NEED defend their opinion but I’ve always found it good practice for my own opinions, holding them up against supporting and conflicting arguments and properly engaging with dissenting arguments is the only way I’ve ever found to increase my own certainty in my opinions and to strengthen the arguments supporting them. The unexamined life is not worth living, etc.
Edited by PlywoodPascal on Thursday 23 May 09:02
valiant said:
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.(I know, I know, it is a % poll, not a representation of seats won)
Not if you look at the poll.
In the minds of several posters on here 'The Right' seems to occupy the same amount of brain space as 'Immigrants' do in the minds of Britain First supporters.
The idea of breaking up the NHS is a funny one. It actually removes one of the major strengths of our healthcare system: the size and universality of it means it can do things few others can in terms of research on what sort of care is most effective, and in terms of delivery. We had examples of this in the pandemic, we have examples in some of the cheapest prices for medicines globally, we have examples in the world leading research that happens in the UK. Reform it, sure, maybe even radically. But fracture and fragment it? Probably best not to, its size and universalism has value well beyond the symbolic.
Amateurish said:
If Labour are winning on a PH poll then the Tories really are f
ked
Dunno. PH has lurched to the left over time.kedAs a lifelong Tory voter I simply cannot vote for them again. Voting Labour is just Tory but worse. I think Lib Dem for me as I also connot vote SNP or the Scottish Green child-obsessed deviants.
Maybe Reform as a protest vote.
Interesting poll so far, albeit a snap shot of one obscure corner of the internet. But I can see something similar panning out - when you see the Labour group photo with Lammy and Angie centre stage reality begins to bite quite hard and I suspect many are going to be looking for that bag of pegs (and not for hanging out the washing)
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