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Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards Hrolf The Ganger Flag 03 Jul 24 11.25am Send a Private Message to Hrolf The Ganger Add Hrolf The Ganger as a friend

Originally posted by CrazyBadger

So you don't believe in the 'A vote for Refrom is a vote of Labour' then?

I'll be voting Reform, but I have no illusions than in all likelyhood this will result in Labour getting in power.


I believe that you have to vote for the process.

Labour will win. What the country needs is better representation for the so called right. The Tories no longer represent that.

We need someone to challenge on immigration, wokery and all that comes with it.
Labour will take us to an even darker place. Why people are stupid enough to vote for them is a mystery.

 

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silvertop Flag Portishead 03 Jul 24 11.31am Send a Private Message to silvertop Add silvertop as a friend

Originally posted by CrazyBadger

So you don't believe in the 'A vote for Refrom is a vote of Labour' then?

I'll be voting Reform, but I have no illusions than in all likelyhood this will result in Labour getting in power.


I believe it is not our place in a proper functioning democracy to make micro tactical decisions on voting.

"A vote for Reform is a vote for Labour" is hog wash. Those inclined to their politics should look no further than a vote for Reform being a vote for the view they are most closely aligned to. And nothing else.

Democracy is screwed when people over think it.

 

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EverybodyDannsNow Flag SE19 03 Jul 24 11.41am Send a Private Message to EverybodyDannsNow Add EverybodyDannsNow as a friend

Originally posted by silvertop

I believe it is not our place in a proper functioning democracy to make micro tactical decisions on voting.

"A vote for Reform is a vote for Labour" is hog wash. Those inclined to their politics should look no further than a vote for Reform being a vote for the view they are most closely aligned to. And nothing else.

Democracy is screwed when people over think it.

We barely have a proper functioning democracy, which is a huge part of why people end up tactically voting.

It's all well and good saying just vote for whoever you are closest aligned to, but we have an electoral system where that results in a Tory majority nearly every time - despite the majority of the public voting for parties on the left in most elections.

 

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YT Flag Oxford 03 Jul 24 11.51am Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

I believe that you have to vote for the process.

Labour will win. What the country needs is better representation for the so called right. The Tories no longer represent that.

We need someone to challenge on immigration, wokery and all that comes with it.
Labour will take us to an even darker place. Why people are stupid enough to vote for them is a mystery.

If you spend your whole life relying upon, or hoping for, intelligent thinking from the masses in this country, you are going to be seriously and permanently disappointed. Only today I mentioned election day to a MANAGER where I work, and they didn't even know there was an election.

"Seriously?" I asked.
"Yeah..no..I never watch the news or anything like that. I'm not really interested."

Edited by YT (03 Jul 2024 11.52am)

 


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silvertop Flag Portishead 03 Jul 24 11.58am Send a Private Message to silvertop Add silvertop as a friend

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

We barely have a proper functioning democracy, which is a huge part of why people end up tactically voting.

It's all well and good saying just vote for whoever you are closest aligned to, but we have an electoral system where that results in a Tory majority nearly every time - despite the majority of the public voting for parties on the left in most elections.

That is a product of effective monopoly of right for eons and a split in the left for the same period.

An equation that may be altering with the emergence of Reform?

People weep on here about the fate of the Tories, but all I see is them having to adapt to what the other side of the line has had to deal with for generations.

But you should still decide with your conscience.

 

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silvertop Flag Portishead 03 Jul 24 11.59am Send a Private Message to silvertop Add silvertop as a friend

Originally posted by YT

If you spend your whole life relying upon, or hoping for, intelligent thinking from the masses in this country, you are going to be seriously and permanently disappointed. Only today I mentioned election day to a MANAGER where I work, and they didn't even know there was an election.

"Seriously?" I asked.
"Yeah..no..I never watch the news or anything like that. I'm not really interested."

Edited by YT (03 Jul 2024 11.52am)

I don't like him.

No vote, no view.

 

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YT Flag Oxford 03 Jul 24 12.04pm Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

Originally posted by silvertop

I don't like him.

No vote, no view.

It's actually a she not a he. And they won't care about not having a view because they aren't interested.

 


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EverybodyDannsNow Flag SE19 03 Jul 24 12.04pm Send a Private Message to EverybodyDannsNow Add EverybodyDannsNow as a friend

Originally posted by silvertop

That is a product of effective monopoly of right for eons and a split in the left for the same period.

An equation that may be altering with the emergence of Reform?

People weep on here about the fate of the Tories, but all I see is them having to adapt to what the other side of the line has had to deal with for generations.

But you should still decide with your conscience.

Yes, but also the product of a rubbish system - if you have PR, tactical voting ceases to be necessary.

I don't think it will alter long-term - expect Farage and the Tories will get a lot closer throughout the next few years, and no doubt some sort of alliance by the next GE.

I'm certainly not weeping about the fate of the Tories.

 

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JRW2 Flag Dulwich 03 Jul 24 12.13pm Send a Private Message to JRW2 Add JRW2 as a friend

Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle

I am also a lifelong Tory, despite all the jibes thrown here. I only wavered during the Thatcher years.

I will be voting for my Tory candidate tomorrow. For two reasons. Firstly because she is an excellent constituency MP, accessible and helpful.

And I will be voting for Labour for the first time in my life, for that reason: twice in the last parliament our MP helped me promptly and effectively with problems I was having with our state-run institutions, and I promised her at the time that I would transfer my allegiance.

I have to admit, though, that as she already has a majority of
27000, I am confident that the result won't cause me to regret my change in support.

 

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silvertop Flag Portishead 03 Jul 24 12.20pm Send a Private Message to silvertop Add silvertop as a friend

Originally posted by YT

It's actually a she not a he. And they won't care about not having a view because they aren't interested.

Did I just fail a sexism test?

 

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silvertop Flag Portishead 03 Jul 24 12.22pm Send a Private Message to silvertop Add silvertop as a friend

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

Yes, but also the product of a rubbish system - if you have PR, tactical voting ceases to be necessary.

I don't think it will alter long-term - expect Farage and the Tories will get a lot closer throughout the next few years, and no doubt some sort of alliance by the next GE.

I'm certainly not weeping about the fate of the Tories.

I need no convincing on this.

PR = weak government. A lie repeated so many times by those vested in FPTP it has become a truth.

 

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cryrst Flag The garden of England 03 Jul 24 12.39pm Send a Private Message to cryrst Add cryrst as a friend

Originally posted by YT

It's actually a she not a he. And they won't care about not having a view because they aren't interested.

Let me be the first … would ya

 

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