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Do you feel politically homeless?

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Anniebach Wed 06-Nov-19 14:38:39

I certainly am politically homeless . Will not vote regardless of
the promises made .

Vote Tory and if they won I would have voted for a PM who is
an adulterer and liar

Vote Labour and if they won I would have voted for an anti semetic, terrorist supporter and liar.

ladymuck Wed 06-Nov-19 14:29:05

I've never voted consistently for one party. I have always voted for the one I thought best suited to run the country.

Right now, I can think of several reasons not to vote for any of them. However, I can't let my vote be wasted so I'm open to persuasion.

grapefruitpip Wed 06-Nov-19 14:27:50

Lol, Gilly . I am aroused but I can assure you it's not in a tutti frutti, rumpy pumpy kinda way.

sunseeker Wed 06-Nov-19 14:25:11

I will be voting for the person I think will be best for the constituency regardless of which party they belong to. Once I receive the election leaflets I will study them, question the candidates and make my mind up from there.

pinkquartz Wed 06-Nov-19 14:20:38

yes I am now politically homeless.

will perhaps spoil the ballot paper cos if I don't vote it is not apathy it is lack of a reasonable choice. we don't have many candidates to choose from where I live. No independents so far.

Shelmiss Wed 06-Nov-19 14:20:31

I was a lifelong Tory voter yet won’t vote for them anymore after the debacle they have made in parliament of the past couple of years. They behaved shockingly, like a bunch of children, baying and screaming in the playground.

I will never vote labour, so I’ve decided to vote for the LibDems.

Whitewavemark2 Wed 06-Nov-19 14:15:04

It has occurred to me looking at all the MPs who have/are standing down from the Tory party, that there must be a large number of conservative supporters who would fall in the one nation camp and its paternalistic philosophy .

The Tory party is no longer that party, to an enormous degree. who will these supporters turn to?

GillT57 Wed 06-Nov-19 13:55:04

I am feeling the same, in fact there is a term for this situation; it is called 'electile dysfunction' which describes the feeling of failing to be aroused by any political party. grin

grannyactivist Wed 06-Nov-19 13:49:13

The news that Dr. Bendor Grosvenor, the art historian, has withdrawn his support from the Conservative party has got me thinking.

I wonder about how people are affected when they have become disenchanted with parties they have supported assiduously in the past.

My parents-in-law were lifelong supporters of the LibDems (previously Liberals), but they tore up their membership cards when they joined forces with the Conservatives. I also have a dear friend who has been a very active lifelong Conservative party member and even an Agent for many years. I know he has struggled with recent events and I don't yet know whether he has jumped ship, as I suspected he might do, but there must be a huge personal cost to someone in giving up on a political party they have been so invested in.

How do you choose who to vote for when the party you've believed in no longer seems like the party you joined? Do you feel you've been betrayed? How do you find a new political home?