General Election 2024 (Maybe)

[119]

Ok guys, i guess as we may be drawing closer to the election, rather than rehash the original polls, i have started a fresh with all the main parties listed.

I think i have them all but if anyone feels there should be others, let me know!

[oyster]

My voting record since turning 18 (and including a forecast for 2024):
1992 Conservative
1997 Conservative
2001 Conservative
2005 Conservative
2010 Conservative
2015 Conservative
2017 Conservative
2019 Conservative
2024 Labour

I suspect that pattern won't be unusual.

[callyman]

oyster said:

My voting record since turning 18 (and including a forecast for 2024):
1992 Conservative
1997 Conservative
2001 Conservative
2005 Conservative
2010 Conservative
2015 Conservative
2017 Conservative
2019 Conservative
2024 Labour

I suspect that pattern won't be unusual.

Add 1987 to the beginning of your history and it'll be right for me too.
Pains me to think of voting for Labour but we need a change. Cant get much worse.....can it?

[Dog Star]

I’ll be voting Labour as I hope everyone else who isn’t some fundamentalist loon in my local constituency will be doing: get Galloway out.

And that will, hopefully be the last time I will ever have to vote here again. I’ll be in some farmhouse in the Dales.

[Silvanus]

You missed the Workers Party of Britain, anyone from Rochdale on here might be a bit annoyed.

[bitchstewie]

oyster said:

My voting record since turning 18 (and including a forecast for 2024):
1992 Conservative
1997 Conservative
2001 Conservative
2005 Conservative
2010 Conservative
2015 Conservative
2017 Conservative
2019 Conservative
2024 Labour

I suspect that pattern won't be unusual.

Leftist

[Tango13]

I'm tempted to put a black line though all of the candidates names and writing 'non of the above' in big letters across the bottom of the ballot paper.

[EC2]

I live in Scotland so you have to vote tactically to defeat the SNP because however bad you think the Conservatives have been for the UK, the SNP have been worse for Scotland. *

*Other views are available.

[Colonel Cupcake]

I wouldn't vote for any of them. At gunpoint it would be Reform UK.

Pointless flip-flopping from Conservative to Labour every decade or two. The general trajectory seems downwards and something fundamental needs to change.

[Jockman]

oyster said:

My voting record since turning 18 (and including a forecast for 2024):
1992 Conservative
1997 Conservative
2001 Conservative
2005 Conservative
2010 Conservative
2015 Conservative
2017 Conservative
2019 Conservative
2024 Labour

I suspect that pattern won't be unusual.

Almost identical to my record. You are of course talking about GE as I have voted Labour in the odd local election.

I voted for Frank Field as an Independent in 2019 as I just couldn't garner the stupidity to vote for Boris.

[Evercross]

EC2 said:

I live in Scotland so you have to vote tactically to defeat the SNP because however bad you think the Conservatives have been for the UK, the SNP have been worse for Scotland.

This.

Best result for Scotland right now would be to have the same party in Government in both Holyrood and Westminster and that is most likely to be Labour. The SNP have spent 17 years being contrary for the sake of it, duplicating bureaucracy 'because Scotland' and wasting parliamentary time on virtue-signalling pointlessness and fighting battles they know they will lose just to foment grievance. They are an anti-government and need removed ASAP.

[Stussy]

Mine has always been Cons too, it won't be this time, but I just can't bring myself to vote for Labour, let alone Starmer!

[CraigyMc]

Stussy said:

Mine has always been Cons too, it won't be this time, but I just can't bring myself to vote for Labour, let alone Starmer!

I think a large proportion of people who have always voted conservative will be sitting this one out. Some of them may switch to reform, but those are just people who post on NP&E.

If the polls turn out to be anything like accurate, there will be a hefty Labour government, a small Tory opposition, and the lib dems, reform and green party with a few MPs between them.

I've no real feel for what will happen in Scotland, but I suspect the SNP won't be as popular as they were given some of the comments friends have made recently.

[rscott]

oyster said:

My voting record since turning 18 (and including a forecast for 2024):
1992 Conservative
1997 Conservative
2001 Conservative
2005 Conservative
2010 Conservative
2015 Conservative
2017 Conservative
2019 Conservative
2024 Labour

I suspect that pattern won't be unusual.

Mine is similar, except started with a 1992 vote for Monster Raving Loony Party, as I was in my last year as student in Westminster and had a few Lib Dem sprinkled in there.

[John145]

I’ll be voting Labour for the first time. They just need kicking out now to actually get their act together.

[beagrizzly]

Stussy said:

Mine has always been Cons too, it won't be this time, but I just can't bring myself to vote for Labour, let alone Starmer!

Same here. Not sure what I'll do. Waiting for an epiphany that probably won't arrive.

[Vasco]

John145 said:

I’ll be voting Labour for the first time. They just need kicking out now to actually get their act together.

You don't have to vote Labour to make a point about the Conservatives. You can vote for a small other party, or just make a point by damaging the voting paper. Giving Labour an even bigger majority than is expected might not be a good thing.

[P-Jay]

Tango13 said:

I'm tempted to put a black line though all of the candidates names and writing 'non of the above' in big letters across the bottom of the ballot paper.

I've been tempted in the past too, but I think the boring reality is a nice older lady working for a bit of pin money on election night will simply put it into a box on it's way to the bin.

TBH I'm way past worrying about fundamental political beliefs and I'm voting to cool the whole thing down a bit. Starmer seems a bit boring, a bit middle of the road and unlikely to do anything rash or stupid. Which will be a welcome change. Corbyn is gone, Diane Abott is gone and Momentum won't be sticking their spotty beaks in everywhere.

[Superflow]

I’m currently undecided on who to vote for come election time.Traditionally a Conservative voter but feel let down by the government.It depends what happens in the run in if I vote for them or not.

I will probably sit this one out.

[basherX]

P-Jay said:

I've been tempted in the past too, but I think the boring reality is a nice older lady working for a bit of pin money on election night will simply put it into a box on it's way to the bin.

TBH I'm way past worrying about fundamental political beliefs and I'm voting to cool the whole thing down a bit. Starmer seems a bit boring, a bit middle of the road and unlikely to do anything rash or stupid. Which will be a welcome change. Corbyn is gone, Diane Abott is gone and Momentum won't be sticking their spotty beaks in everywhere.

Although I'll broadly be following this sentiment (and like others, a lifetime of Blue is about to turn red for me) I recall that "..cool the whole thing down a bit...a bit boring, a bit middle of the road and unlikely to do anything rash or stupid.." was essentially Sunak's prospectus at the leadership election. I do worry that UK politics is, if not fundamentally broken, very badly dented.