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So many threads on here throwing all kinds of hatred towards our loving, caring Government. What will happen in 2024?
Barring the close relatives of the Mogg Man, who in all good conscience could still find it in in their (stone dead) heart to vote Tory?
Surely we won't forget all of this by then....
Where will you put your X?
We'll all be voting the way the Bots want us to
There will be no vote then, the general franchise will have been revoked, only toffs and Tories will be able to vote by then.
The UK Government is seemingly set on undermining or removing all the constitutional normal practice so that voting won't matter much. The opposition will have no relevance, a majority will hand the PM executive power without meaningful oversight and boundary changes will have meant that the Tories can win with a tiny proportion of the vote.
Scotland will have voted to be independent, there'll have been a border poll leading to a United Ireland.
Where will you put your X?
Yes, I would like an Independent Scotland to rejoin the European Union
My current constituency is blue first, with a reasonable but not insurmountable gap to red.
I'll be voting red, hopefully without holding my nose in repulsion at myself like I did when voting for Corbyn last time.
Its a choice between sectarian or sectarian for me.
I'll go green (environmental) if there is one. Unlikely. Or there will be a united ireland and i'll do the same.
Depends on whos to vote for and what policies they stand for at the time are.
Whoever is most likely to beat the incumbent Conservative MP. Except UKIP.
Anyone but Gove. But history has shown that this forum is in no way a reliable electoral barometer so not sure what you're hoping this thread will achieve?
Hopefully I won't be eligible for a vote by that time as negotiations towards Scottish independence progress
I'm waiting to text in my vote on Britain's Got Politics.
Or maybe I'll light my Molotov for Britain's Got Issues.
Tory, of course.
Only joking!
Well, or the last few I've been voting in the Cotswolds, where they could affix a blue rosette to a turd and it would still be returned as the Conservative MP. I've always voted Lib Dem there (because, honestly, it didn't really matter)
In 2024 I'll probably be voting in Macclesfield, which is still pretty Tory but with the slightest chance of a swing towards Labour. So, probably be Labour for me, as a tactical vote (assuming they still have someone competent in charge).
thepurist - not sure I'm expecting this or any other thread to 'achieve' much tbh. Your comment about reliable electoral barometer was the catalyst for posting however.
Was curious as to whether we really are a bunch (maybe 90%) of anti-Tory lefties or whether most recent politcal (and policy related) threads indicate a sea change within the greater population? In other words, are many people regretting their 2019 electoral choices?
I do realise that asking on here if 'here' is representative is a little naive...
So, probably be Labour for me, as a tactical vote
Think carefully about that. I go it wrong once and have felt a bit guilty to say the least.
IHN - I'll double your Macclesfield Labour vote!! That will steam roller the Tories out!
What a bloody pointless thread.
Instant arguments
What oldbloke says.
Plus I live in a constituency that hasn't not been a Conservative landslide since the boundaries were drawn in 1950. So it really doesn't matter unless somehow the other parties decide to put differences aside and work together, and even then it would be really difficult to get over the line.
Why pointless weeksy?
I'm interested in ideology versus performance? What does it take in order for one's mind to be changed?
We saw a lot of Red votes 'being loaned' to the Tories at the last election. Ignoring the likelihood that these votes will be reversed, could we see a 'loan' in the other direction?
How bad does an imcumbant Government have to be in order for their own to turn against them? Are we there yet? Is there time for the Tories to recover, with or without 'the man of the people' leading them?
Depends on whos to vote for and what policies they stand for at the time are.
Is the correct answer.
Though it'll take some serious effort from the blue corner for me to not vote Labour.
Depends on whos to vote for and what policies they stand for at the time are.
With no regard to what they’ve done previously? Voting for what the current lot stand for at a given time may change by the time you’ve left the polling booth, if doing so suits their own self interest.
Politics hasn’t been an honourable pursuit for decades, to think that will change anytime soon is somewhat naive, IMO.
Not much of a choice unless FPTP ends, I doubt I will ever vote blue again.
Plus I live in a constituency that hasn’t not been a Conservative landslide since the boundaries were drawn in 1950.
Snap.
Cotswold-ish area. Round here we had an actual turd with a blue badge win last time.
What a bloody pointless thread.
Instant arguments
What a weird thing to say
With no regard to what they’ve done previously?
Will prevent me from doing this:
still pretty Tory but with the slightest chance of a swing towards Labour. So, probably be Labour for me, as a tactical vote
This seat is Tory. Labour could theoretically take it with a big swing, but I'll be voting LibDem after Starmer voted for the Brexit deal last week.
Depends on whos to vote for and what policies they stand for at the time are.
This.
However, i live in a hard Tory constituency (Orpington) which realistically will never turn red.
Despite being a little 'right of centre' I think the current lot need removing from power as they are a sham and an embarrassment - If Starmer is still in charge he'll get my vote.
My votes would be
Yes leave UK.
Yes rejoin the EU if they'll have us.
Then anyone but the SNP because I don't trust flag wavers.
I expect I'll be voting for Boris because he's done a really good job so far.
So many threads on here throwing all kinds of hatred towards our loving, caring Government. What will happen in 2024?
Barring the close relatives of the Mogg Man, who in all good conscience could still find it in in their (stone dead) heart to vote Tory?
Surely we won’t forget all of this by then….
Where will you put your X?
you must have learned your survey techniques from that road user survey the other day 🙂
Do we have a Single Transferrable Vote yet?
Greens? Yellows? Reds to keep the Blues out?
I expect I’ll be voting for Boris because he’s done a really good job so far.
due to the somewhat hostile reception to anyone who suggests they've voted conservative on here in the past, I'd be surprised if anyone claims that on this thread, but we'll see.
fwiw I don't believe the current lot have excelled, but I doubt those who voted for them think they've done a particularly poor job either..
I plan on voting Labour. But I suspect I would vote for whoever is in a good position to stop the seat returning a Conservative MP. I fully expect this seat to return a Conservative MP though, and, now we don’t have MEPs, to have no one I have voted for to represent me. Trying asking for help or representation from our current Tory MP… he just doesn’t do that job at all.
IN my case, any vote is pointless, one of the safest blue seats in the country. I won't be voting blue, but not red either as that is just a waste of time.
Anyone who thinks that Scotland (or NI) will have left the Union by then are just dreaming. By 2024 the SNP will be under new leadership, Labour must be in a better state than under Comrade Corbyn and the LDs still won't matter. Unless BJ totally messes up the next few years, it will be a blue government with a far smaller majority.
Remember that last time the Conservative Party won the popular votes with 43.6% of it (56.2% of the MPs), Labour with 32.2% (31.1 of the MPs), LD with 11.6 (1.75% of the MPs) and SNP 3.9% (7.4% of the MPs). It will take a huge political swing to not have a blue government.
IHN – I’ll double your Macclesfield Labour vote!! That will steam roller the Tories out!
Let’s make it three! Tis the magic number after all.
I expect I’ll be voting for Boris because he’s done a really good job so far.
Bit early to be on the hard stuff or had you just got in from a big Sunday out?
due to the somewhat hostile reception to anyone who suggests they’ve voted conservative on here in the past, I’d be surprised if anyone claims that on this thread, but we’ll see.
I mentioned this last week in a non-political way.
On a “what do you carry on rides” thread about 10% mentioned first aid of any kind.
On the same day, a thread “do you carry a first aid kit” had almost a unanimous yes
Leading questions get the answer they want.
I expect I’ll be voting for Boris because he’s done a really good job so far.
Colour me surprised.
I'll be voting whatever the best choice is for keeping the Tories out, I don't actually know since moving but I expect it'll be Labour. If Boris is still PM in the next three months let alone the next three years I will be astonished.
Whoever is most likely to beat the incumbent Conservative MP. Except UKIP.
This +1.
by 2024 I expect us ( Scotland) to have left the UK and the next Scottish elections not due for another year. so i won't be voting in Westminster elections
Lord Buckethead if I’m still living in the UK.
Labour, though I'd vote tactically to get the local Tory MP out obvs.
That said, not a chance in hell she'll be voted out.
Not because it's posh here, it's not on the whole but because so many that frankly should be voting Labour/ Lib dems are so utterly disenfranchised they just don't vote.
So.... It'll still be Tory here for many moons to come.
Boris's forehead to give the sniper a better chance....
Just joking brexity folks.
I have come to a realisation that may, or may not, have merit.
If you attained 'political consciousness' in the 70's, the Winter of Discontent will be your defining moment - the rubbish in the streets, the unburied dead, the 'Labour's Not Working' of it all. You might think that, come what may, you'd never, ever, vote Labour again.
If you came to the party in the 80's, the Entire Disaster of the Thatcher Years, and the 'No Such Thing As Society', and the ditching-of-full-employment-in-favour-of-low-inflation ethos screwed your entire family to the wall, you might not ever, ever, vote Conservative again.
Then it becomes a simple numbers game.
Which begins with: who has the Millennials?
Which is far from simple.