Do you feel politically homeless?

Sometimes it's hard to tell parody from reality these days.

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I'm with Boris all the way. He's done his best to please everyone during this pandemic and our vaccine rollout is the envy of the world. TBF no other PM has done any better anywhere in the world as this has been new territory for every country. Some countries have had stricter lockdowns, less government support, overwhelmed hospitals etc but we have sailed through it. He didn't get everything right but tries to right mistakes hence several u turns.
If you know of a country leader who is better please let me know

This is a parody account, of course...

I'm with Boris all the way. He's done his best to please everyone during this pandemic and our vaccine rollout is the envy of the world. TBF no other PM has done any better anywhere in the world as this has been new territory for every country. Some countries have had stricter lockdowns, less government support, overwhelmed hospitals etc but we have sailed through it. He didn't get everything right but tries to right mistakes hence several u turns.
If you know of a country leader who is better please let me know

Labour is two parties...a radical left and a New Labour right
Conservatives are two parties...one nation Tories and the new populists.
In a rational system, we would have more choice and could support groups closer to our views, and they could then collaborate more.

I’m certainly politically homeless although being a natural Lib Dem voter. I’m so bitterly disappointed in them and Ed Davey. They have thrown away so many chances to shine and rise above the mediocre and shoddiness of the other two main parties. Oh, for a leader with vision and fire in his/her belly who can run rings round the clown who’s in charge at the moment. I have friends who smile indulgently while saying “oh, Boris, he’s a bit of a clown, isn’t he!?” And I reply, gnashing my teeth, “clowns belong in circuses, not running the country .......”. I live in such a safe Tory seat that a donkey with a blue rosette on would get voted in, I am in despair of ever shifting this incompetent lot.

I think quite a few posting on this thread would find the New Statesman podcast Westminster Reimagined with Armando Iannucci, part two - Activism a good listen.

I wouldn’t vote for any of the parties. The majority of MPs these days are not concerned with what’s best for the country, it’s how it affects them, their life and their salary. They say a fish rots from the head and therein lies the problem. But what can us peasants do to change things, absolutely nothing. We just swing from one diabolical party to another. As has been said Guy Fawkes had the best idea

I have never been a member of any political party, but have, for most of my adult life, voted for one party.

For the last many years both DH and I have felt that yes, we are politically homeless, as no party seems to have values that correspond to ours any longer.

We are left voting for "the lesser evil" at each and every election, something we find preferable to handing in a blank ballot.

This is an old thread which popped up but nothing has changed apart from Corbin has gone. I still feel politically homeless do you?

No, I’m a staunch Tory voter and unless the Labour Party really upped its game with a truthful and non-bitter leader, that’s the way it will stay. I wouldn’t ever consider the Liberals who sway left and right as it suits them.

Unfortunately who ever you vote for, a self serving waster will get in, the only people politicians these days serve are themselves, I fear for the kind of world our children are growing up in now and I can honestly say that had I known 40 years ago when I had my first son what the world would become I would not have had any children. The conservatives throwing away the Nuclear proliferation treaty and order my nukes says it all for me.

I'm politically homeless too. Mostly a lifelong conservative although I have been known to vote for Screaming Lord Sutch and the Monster Raving Loony Party in protest. Now I vote LibDem even though I don't care for a lot of their ideas and I actually quite like our MP - Rishi Sunak. Just can't support the current tory party under Boris and Carrie.

I certainly feel politically homeless. I recently posted a thread about a Party for the Common Good, trying to find one that appealed to my values. It didn't get me very far. For me, the LDs pose a problem that I feel I need to get my head around.

They sound as if they are socially democratic in outlook. However, the Liberal Democrats also, rightly, have the philosophy of liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law. But I still find it difficult to merge the idea of "social", which I would interchange with "common good" and the ever-evolving meaning of liberal.

It seems pertinent that when the Liberals merged, they did not adopt the word "Social" into their title. For me it's a question of how liberty and the common good can work together. If someone could answer that I would probably have a party that echoed my views.

I am stranded in a rural constituency which ALWAYS returns a Tory. West Suffolk Matt Hancock at present.
As a long time Labour voter I have felt totally disenfranchised for the 50+years I have lived here. Both main parties do not support Proportional Representation but go for absolute power. We need complete reform of our voting system. If I was still living in Scotland where I grew up, I would at least have access to a partial PR system as in Wales and N Ireland, ThecEnglish first past the post system is totally dysfunctional. As a Quaker, I find many of my Ffriends go for the Green Party which would have more chance with PR as would the LibDems. Who would not prefer the sole Green Party MP as Prime Minister? She would make a better job of it than the present hopeless, hapless incumbent

I'm not politically homeless (I have strong political roots) but I am politically impotent. It matters not one jot who I vote for. The sitting MP in my constituency has a massive majority and is in an unassailable position. Bring on PR.

I live in a safe Tory seat with a reasonably effective and active in the community MP. However, I would have great difficulty in voting for the Conservatives now after the appalling hypocrisy and other nonsense displayed by Hancock and others. Boris Johnson lacks leadership skills and frequently underestimates the intelligence of the people of this country with his patronising addresses and U turns etc. On the other hand, Angela Raynor? Diane Abbott? No thank you!

I have to agree with many of the previous comments. I was previously (up to Nov 2019) happy to continue voting for the sitting Tory MP as he's a really good constituency MP (up to November 2019, the adjoining constituency had returned a Labour MP for a very long time and the two of them worked together for the general good of the area) - however since the advent of Boris, I cannot see myself ever voting for them again. Serial liar, philanderer and lacking in any interest in the detail, meaningless catchphrase specialist etc. - apparently he has 'charisma' on meeting him....
Like others I ended up voting LibDem, though I knew there was no chance. I'm a great believer in the Green party too, but that option wasn't available. Proportional representation please, so we no longer have this rigid two-party system.

I couldn’t support Labour, what on earth do they stand for? I don’t fully support Conservative on a number of issues. I still think overall they have it over Labour but I will spoil my paper next time if they don’t get there act together. I

Our family have always been Labour ever since Kier Hardy and my grandfather formed the party but my son has now torn up his membership card. I now vote for whoever does the best for our local community. That is not our present Tory MP who doesn’t even bother to reply to a letter.
I don’t trust any of them. They are all in it for their own interests

I hadn't realised at first that this was an old thread but I am in this position. I left the Labour party because of Keir Starmer's disgraceful treatment first of Jeremy Corbyn and then of local CLPs, not allowing us to discuss it. Sheer Stalinism. I can't imagine ever voting anything other than Labour though, so I shall continue to grit my teeth. I don't think it will ever return to being Socialist in my lifetime.

sadly we will never see her like again north of the Border.

She didn't see off proud Edward's army single-handed at Bannockburn

She decided to give up being Leader of the Scottish Conservatives and an MSP to spend more time with her son (fair enough)

But she then decided to take up the offer of an ermine cloak and unelected position in a Parliament 500 or so miles from said son (not fair enough)

Grandma2002

Why are we talking about Jeremy Corbyn? I thought Keir Starmer was Leader of Labour party

Because the LP needs someone who is electable- and because Corbyn was not.

Love it, Gill T57, absolutely spot on!

I have been a Lib Dem activist but can't work up any enthusiasm for the current leadership. Where I live, we have had a Lib Dem MP but the Tory now looks to be embedded for life.
We desperately need to change the voting system for Westminster MPs. Until we have some form of proportional representation there is no hope of a government that fairly represents voters. I would vote Green too, but that just splits the opposition vote and lets the Tory in again.
I do hope that for the next general election (should I be preserved to vote by then) all the opposition parties work out a pact whereby only one of them opposes the Tory in a given constituency. Otherwise the Conservatives will be in power to the end of time.

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