Don’t get me wrong, I will probably cave at the last minute and vote SNP again for a number of reasons. Mostly, being supportive of a number of their progressive policies that I have benefited from over the years, and also because my constituency is a two horse race between them and the Tories who I will never vote for. Though the SNP are probably now at their lowest point in years since they finally managed to oust Sturgeon.
I will also never vote Labour, they have no identity here and during the 2019 election they were campaigning for the Tories to oust SNP here, so 100% fuck them too.
I once voted for Lib Dem and we ended up with the catastrophic Clegg/Cameron coalition (though due to FPTP my vote didn’t matter there.)
I would like to vote for Green, but it would be a wasted vote here.
It’s just bizarre to me that Westminster’s voting system is such that a vast majority of votes in the UK are binned, how is this considered normal?
Sorry for the rant, but I am just so incredibly disillusioned with politics in this shitehole of a country but absolutely refuse to be passive about it since that is what they want us to be.
No need to spoil the ballot, if none of the people running represents you, you have the ability to vote none, which is what I’ll be doing (with absolutely no expectation of it actually changing anything, just like a vote for any of the other parties won’t change anything, because electoral politics is a charade designed by the powerful to make sure they stay in power, and playing their game will never gain us freedom, but it’s literally the bare minimum)
Instead of spoiling it, vote for your local Monster Raving Luny party candidate and help get their deposit back. (Or any other niche party you like)
Otherwise - unless you were a student at the time (me 😭) wasn’t the coalition a much better result than a full conservative government?
I didn’t vote Lib Dem to end up with the fucking tories, which is exactly what happened. I’m not surprised their support plummeted after that.
I was a student at the time, but fortunately, I’m Scottish, so the student loans fiasco didn’t apply.
What did you expect then? They would never have got a majority, a coalition or vote trading is the best they could have hoped for.
They didn’t do as much as they had hoped, but probably still better than a Tory majority (for the apparent userbase here). The alternative would have been either a minority government or another election?
I didn’t expect much if I am honest, I wasn’t that politically engaged during that election. I took the time to read and appreciate the manifesto, went off to vote, then realised afterwards what you had outlined there. Again, fortunately it didn’t matter because my constituency didn’t return a Lib dem MP, but I was still pissed.
I only have anecdotal evidence but: spoiling your ballot is less effective than voting for a third party with a flagship policy you want one of the main parties to adopt.
And that’s less effective than joining the membership of the party you want to influence and raising the issues from within.
And that has less impact for your life than getting involved in your local political activity.
This screams Russian interference.
No. Do not spoil your ballot. Vote as your conscious demands.
Does it fuck. I am Scottish, not some Russian bot.
The Russians already won when they convinced the plebs to vote for Brexit to separate the UK the EU as they planned.
Indicating I would consider spoiling my ballot, then outlining detailed reasons as to why based on my local choices, should really tell you everything you need to know.
So stand up and run yourself, or spread the message of dissent. I think Labour are a lot better than the Tories, who are a total goon squad of moral and financial corruption. The SNP has wrecked many things in their pursuit of power but done little to actually help the country (Scotland). I saw the education system wrecked while I lived there. The police command concentrated in Glasgow was also ridiculous, instead of locally knowledgeable groups able to judge things for themselves.
Is our shit government and shit opposition also a Russian plot?
Well to be fair, I won’t be surprised if many Tories and Farrage’s circus are paid by Putin.
They’re all on GB news since Russia Today got banned.
The sooner Brexit is reversed the better.
