Why are you voting Labour? - Another election poll

[hiccy18]

I resent having my voting choice boiling down to a single issue, yet again, is it the sixth time in a row? However Labour has put up a strong candidate in our area, so I've voted for the man who represents the best chance of ejecting the SNP idiot I helped vote in as a vain hope of stopping Brexit.

Apologies for my part in demolishing what little is left of the economy and infrastructure, I don't expect Labour to be anything other than even worse than the existing self serving swines. However, in this instance, risking generational economic disaster is worth it for giving the Yellow Peril a good kicking at the ballot box.

I find it interesting that for so many this election is not about voting for something, but against something else. I'd really like to vote "for" something next time, but they all seem useless.

Edited by hiccy18 on Friday 28th June 22:46

[OutInTheShed]

1) Our sitting tory MP needs to go. Just useless.
2) We're going to have a labour government, get used to it. Having more moderate Southern, rural labour MPs might be a good thing, when the Northern townie commies turn on Starmer.
3) It won't make any difference!
4) The more the tory party gets beaten to a pulp, the more chance of it evolving into something useful. Or being replaced by something useful.

[Pit Pony]

fat80b said:

Somewhatfoolish said:

Kick tories in face.

Probably gonna cost me loads of money too through CGT increase.

But kicking tories in face more important.

And I say that as a conservative party member.

F1GTRUeno said:

Nope. Voting Labour purely because I'm sick of the fking Tories.

It's st now, it'll likely be st with Labour in charge too but you hope that they won't take the absolute fking piss like this current cabal of Tories have.

It's a terribly sad state of affairs when the *whole country are prepared to vote in an ideology that they don't actually agree with just to send a message to the last lot and that the last lot deserve it.

I predict that we are going to end up with an awful lot of regret a few years down the line..... And looking at this future (whenever it may be - 1 term, 2 terms, or 3 terms even), I wonder how many people who put their cross in the labour box this time around will deny the fact that they did so........

I've voted Labour (apart from when I voted lib dem) in every election since the 80s.
I have vivid memories of growing up in Merseyside with a Thatcher government. When I went to Polytechnic, in the Midlands, I couldn't get my head around the fact that people my age had real jobs, whereas anyone not going to further education was joining a YTS scheme back home. The conservatives let manufacturing die a slow death in the UK and labour under B'LIar didn't fix it.
But let's face it Britian has never been that great. Has the NHS every been a success ? Have the Police ever not been corrupt and underfunded and institutionally sexist racist and homophobic? Have we ever invested in the right things, used education as a way out of poverty. Have we ever treated the poor and infirm with dignity? Were politicians ever honest?

Anyway if you want a sing along in the pub tonight.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=cOBAH-2tw9k&...

[hidetheelephants]

You appear to be arguing that the post-war settlement was rubbish and never did anyone any favours. Evidence suggests you're wrong, although hindsight reveals plenty of flaws to choose from in how it was executed by every govt from Atlee onwards.

[BigMon]

fat80b said:

It's a terribly sad state of affairs when the *whole country are prepared to vote in an ideology that they don't actually agree with just to send a message to the last lot and that the last lot deserve it.

I predict that we are going to end up with an awful lot of regret a few years down the line..... And looking at this future (whenever it may be - 1 term, 2 terms, or 3 terms even), I wonder how many people who put their cross in the labour box this time around will deny the fact that they did so........

It shows just how terrible the incumbents are I guess.

I wonder how many people would regret and deny voting Conservative if they got in again given their abysmal track record.