Do you feel politically homeless?

I vote conservative and will continue to vote for them...

There is no point spoling a ballot paper, it is just not counted and is thrown into a pile of discards. why bother? Just don't vote, it's pointless.

Becuase by turning up you are registering your disapproval, and the number of spoiled ballots gets counted.

If enough people care enough to turn up, but don't want any of the candidates on offer, that is different to just not bothering to turn up at all.

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

Being in Scotland we have had the SNP government for ages and ages, it doesn't seem to matter who you vote for here in they go regardless. The only glimmer of hope we ever have had recently was when the Conservative leader in Scotland was Ruth Davidson, now Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links, sadly we will never see her like again north of the Border.

Because those posts are very old.

Alegrias1 your post about sums it up.
I am suffering from that lovely term electile dysfunction, but I will go to vote, and if there’s nothing good on offer as I feel is the current situation, I’ll spoil the ballot.
If I’ve voted for none of them I can moan about all of them.

I am not a sheep so I will not act like one and vote for a party regardless as to how bad they are like some people will. I have voted Conservative in the past but there was no way I was going to vote for Thatcher the harm that women done to the U.K. is still being felt today a truly wicked women. Since 2010 we have not had one competent conservative prime minister so I voted LibDems. I expect I will vote for them again. The conservatives and Labour have absolute moron MPs among them so I will not vote for them. I know what you men by being at a loss as to who to vote for.

There is a saying "The only person who ever went in to the Houses of parliament with honest intentions was Guy Fawkes". This is so true - doesn't matter who you vote for or which country you live in. None of them ever keep their promises.

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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.

Love it, Gill T57, absolutely spot on!

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.

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)

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.

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 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

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 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'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 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 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'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.

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.

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.