We need a General Election

I’ll be voting for the party that most closely aligns with my political leanings. Currently it isn’t either of the two you mentioned.

Tory, or Red Tory. Wouldn’t make much difference would it?

Didn’t realise it all hinged on my vote either!

Is that not Labour’s fault for not providing me and others like me with a reason to vote for them?

And in doing that you are effectively voting tories. Congratulations.

It's a difficult one. I feel like Big Si and FOP both basically want the same thing but have different ideas on how to get it, both of which I sympathise with.

The reality is it's only going to be Labour or Tories at the next elections, so which would you rather have? I'd go for the ideology behind Labour, even if it's not well represented by the current leader.

At the same time, I identify with the viewpoint that it's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it. Having said that I'm not sure I'm a big fan of the Greens anymore having cosied up with the Lib Dems over Brexit, and if I were in Wales I would be thinking certain members of Plaid Cymru didn't endear themselves to me with their behaviour about the Deva's location at the start of this year. So I'm not sure there is a party I really identify with right now.

I think I'm resolved on my decision to vote Labour out of respect for the ideology and my MP, but I'm not proud of it. If they were to get in I would consider joining the party and pressing for change. God knows, the last five or six years have shown us that the governing party can easily change its leader.

Starmer down in the polls against this lot is hilarious.

Small boats, Muslim grooming gangs and trans people.

I wish I was 100% confident that this strategy of rancid cruelty against minorities won’t prove electorally popular but there’s an “opposition” peddling the same stuff anyway.

The good thing is wetwipes look set to be banned in England so that’ll get rid of Labour’s front bench.

Student politics doesn’t win though does it? You and Noam Chomsky can celebrate not winning elections until the cows come home but what Starmer is doing (the part that you loathe) is appealing to the middle ground. In the words of Blair ‘Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile.’

🤣🤣🤣 Let’s all try and reach a peace settlement in Ukraine eh?

This mantra is why we keep getting the wrong people as leaders. We get people who are interested in power rather than service. And if we accept it as voters, we get the leaders we deserve.

The anti-Sunak smear campaign is the last straw for me. Labour are trying to make out they are the grown-ups in the room and they resort to that sort of crap.

Three votes for the Greens in the council elections for me this week. I can't feel proud to associate myself with Labour at the moment.

Keir Starmer is a petty, obnoxious little megalomaniac who shouldn't be let anywhere near power.

If he wasn't an MP, he's the sort of vindictive loser who would spend his time haranguing his local council asking them to put up 'no ball games' signs in his street. He'd spend his entire evenings watching the footage from his Ring doorbell on his phone, waiting to see any teenagers on his street so he could call the police and complain of 'loitering youths', all the while wondering why it is that his wife and children absolutely loathe him. 

As ever, I'll be voting for the furthest left available option on the ballot paper (which won't be Labour). I won't be having on my conscience the heinous, pernicious shit Starmer will get up to with power.

Sounds like there were quite a few issues with ID yesterday. People forgetting theirs, not having their passport because it's with the Passport Office (who are on strike like everyone else), people not wanting to take their masks off etc, and of course this descending into polling station staff and volunteers getting verbal abuse. And all this because of a grand total of nine cases of electoral fraud over the past five years.

You could well argue that anyone who turned up without ID is a div, but a div's vote is as good as a genius's. Turning away people who are on the Electoral Commission because they don't have ID is undemocratic I think, whatever their reason for not having ID might be. I can't help but think it's all just an attempt to stop vulnerable and apathetic people voting.

Crap results for the Tories and the Tankies. Good results for the rest of us. Reasons for optimism.

Also good to see the “adults are back in charge” throwing around words like ‘tankies’…