Anyone still thinking of voting tory at the next General Election?

If there was a GE tomorrow the Tory party would be wiped out if all the polls are right.
I would never vote Tory I find them untrustworthy.

I have voted Tory in the past, when I was much younger, less politically aware, and because my parents did. Since reaching responsible adulthood though, I have never voted for them, and switch from LibDem to Labour, but could not vote for Corbyn. Now, however, at the risk of inflaming this thread, I seriously wonder just why anyone would think it is a good idea to vote for more of this administration. I am truly mystified. I have said it before, but the Tory party that my parents voted for has gone, replaced by a vile right wing clique run out of Tufton Street.

Jodieb

If we have a candidate (doubt it) I will vote for Reform. Their leader, Richard Tice talks a of sense. He has a radio show on TalkRadio on Sundays at 10am.

Isn’t that the latest incarnation of UKIP? It would worry me if a party had to constantly change it’s name

Richard Tice and his sidekick Isobel Oakeshott certainly have not changed! How anyone could even consider voting for them is beyond be.

? Daisyanne!

I thought we had a monster raving looney party in already?...no my mistake thats the conservatives??

Never have and never will! Not that it matters as Tory will always win in my constituency as our first past the vote system favours the tory party. My vote hasn't counted for years but I will still always go and cast it.

Theoddbird

How can anyone decide what they will do in two years time?

Because we can see the absolute wreck the Tories have made of the UK. Whatever they say in a manifesto, isn't to be believed. What is to be believed is exactly what Jeremy Corbyn warned about before the election in 2019, that the Tories were planning to get rid of the NHS.

I have voted Conservative all my life, but just can’t see me voting for them ever again.They had in the past been the party that didn’t do things we as a country couldn’t afford to finance.
But it is many years since that has been the thinking.
I can’t stand Liz Truss I think she is very arrogant and gives the impression she knows better than anyone at all.I watched the news yesterday.All the interviews she did I felt she couldn’t answer the questions, some of the answers were dragged out of her,it gave me the option she didn’t know how to answer very poor performance from a PM.
unfortunately whatever stand I personally make will make no difference as we have had a Labour M P for many years

I only voted Tory once as I was keen for us to get out of Europe. I won’t vote for them again, I think they’ve made such a mess of everything- including Brexit!!!

I am horrified by what Liz Truss and her cabinet are doing. They are now talking about cutting back on benefits while giving the richest tax cuts! They have caused the threat to mortgages,pensions, further price rises and are acting completely irresponsibly. The FT said that on a scale of 1 to 10 their economic policies lie at 9.4 to the right. I have never voted Tory and am so upset by what they are doing to increase inequality in the UK. Living in Scotland gives me some hope but our government can only mitigate these policies slightly.

Keffie12 Well said. Excellent post.

There is a website that tells you who to vote for, to make sure your non-Conservative vote has more power. I will vote as it suggests...anything but Tory.

Treetops05
Could you let me know the address of the site you wrote off
As I have always voted conservative but really can’t in future
I am very interested in this site
Many thanks

It’s rumoured that this shower will abandon the triple lock on pensions and not give a cost of living rise to those on benefits. This will help to pay for the recent tax cuts. Nice to know that the poor will pay for those tax cuts for the rich. The first time I voted, to my eternal shame, I voted for Thatcher because she was a woman. I have never voted Tory since and never will.

Watching Question Time on catchup from Manchester- just amazing. the audience was selected to include more Tories te reflect the last GE results. 100% condemnation of what happened with last week's 'fiscal event', and every single other Tory policy.

Not a single person prepared to support any of it- not one! Now that is telling.

Mouse like you I have only voted Tory once, many years ago when Mrs Thatcher stood. I had wanted my dds to see that women
Could succeed in whatever they wanted to.

I don't see this post/thread as 'threatening' - if you don't want to answer the question, then don't, or am I quoting the bl*****g obvious? We are all volunteers.
I recall my dear old Dad saying, many years ago, that he couldn't bring himself to vote Tory, but he also couldn't bring himself to vote for 'that shower' (the then Labour Party) Consequently for the first time in his adult life he abstained. I am feeling much the same way.

Haha thanks for the best laugh today!

As a lifelong Tory voter my answer is ' no way'!

I won't say that I will never vote Tory again but I certainly won't vote for this shower. I will listen to all the party candidates in my area to see what they have to say but our Tory Candidate is a career politician who is a waste of space so it won't be him.

Sticking my head above the parapet here, I was pro Boris and wish he was still PM. Not mad about Liz and Kwasi but I will almost certainly vote Tory in the next election but who know what will happen between now and then. I could explain why I am a Conservative, but it would take up too much space but it is to do with freedom of choice.

DaisyL

Sticking my head above the parapet here, I was pro Boris and wish he was still PM. Not mad about Liz and Kwasi but I will almost certainly vote Tory in the next election but who know what will happen between now and then. I could explain why I am a Conservative, but it would take up too much space but it is to do with freedom of choice.

If you’re living in poverty you have little choice

MiniMoon

I have voted Conservative in the past. I too thought Rory Stewart a good MP. I don't live in that constituency any longer though. I now live in another safe Tory seat, but while we've been here I haven't voted for them.

Rory Stewart was thrown out of the party by Johnson (for being too moderate). He says that the party has effectively become fascist.

The reason why Maggie Thatcher improved the finances of the country was by selling its assets. Prior to her you paid rates which included water - now the water system is privatized and separate to council tax. the majority of public transport is owned by foreign companies. Gas etc was sold off. Now the country has nothing to sell! Whoever gets in power now can't sell off what we no longer own