Will you vote Tory next time?

Absolutely yes. Can’t vote Labour.

Answering the question - No. But where or earth do you go that is the problem. Is any other party any better?

Never have, never will.

Yes probably

I can PROUDLY state that I have never voted Conservative and never will, but I will engage in tactical voting so as to not totally waste my vote.

It's all about greed really, if a particular Tory MP has done 'well' for an area people will continue to vote in self-interest ... a pity they can't see the wider picture. I have a relative in that situation, occupies a council house, has used the NHS permanently with three boisterous children but consistently fails to realise that the very things he believes he has to 'conserve' wouldn't exist if it were not for socialist principles that see beyond immediate areas. It's not a good enough reason to say that because an MP has done well for a small group of people, s/he should be supported against the much wider backcloth of Tory sleaze, lies, profiteering. It's indefensible.

Joane123

Answering the question - No. But where or earth do you go that is the problem. Is any other party any better?

There is no party as corrupt as the Conservative party.

YES.

yes. i've absolutely no faith in any other party.
despite partygate i believe that boris has done a good job of handling both brexit and the pandemic plus the war in ukraine. i don't believe any other party (especially labour) could do better.

If you want a corrupt elitist dictatorship (because that’s what we will end up with if the Tories get in again) and want nothing to change, vote Conservative. Actually, scratch that. If you want life to get worse. For most of us.

Well said vetrep. No other party capable to deal with the problems .Boris has had.absolutely will vote for them.there is no alternative capable of running our country

YES

I have always voted on the basis that people died to give me the right to do so and it seemed an insult to their sacrifice not to.
For the first time in my life I will probably not bother. I have no faith in ANY of them!

Good post Cambia, there are many like you, people who can see the difference between a Tory government and a Johnson government. He has not only done dreadful damage to the country, but also to the Conservative party.

YES - couldn't vote for party that doesn't know what a woman is.

Never have, never will. Those who do know for sure they are voting for people who cannot be trusted - willing to lie to Parliament and to the British public. How the hell do you put power in the hands of prolific liars?

Germanshepherdsmum

I agree about Labour. Won’t forget Kier Starmer banging on about his father being a tool maker in a factory but omitting to mention that he owned said factory.

He was a tool maker, who eventually developed his own business. His mother was a nurse. The family had a ‘normal’ income. Starmer was not privately educated, but he obtain a fabulous university education due to his own exceptional ability and got to the top of his profession as a Human Rights Lawyer (in which his did lots of pro bono work with those struggling financially). Then he went on to be the Head of the Crown Prosecution Service. He understands real life. It is crazy that people get a bee in their bonnet about him being privileged, yet embrace a self entitled millionaire, a proven compulsive liar, who complained his £180,000 salary in Parliament was “chicken feed” and has never done a days work in the real word in his life. No wonder this country is in the mess it’s in!

I do know about KS’s background, don’t need a potted biography thanks.
As for Johnson’s career, it depends what you call the real world - I imagine journalists would disagree with your opinion there. And frankly the salary isn’t a huge amount for what a PM has to do. Just consider dealing in quick succession with Brexit, the pandemic and now Ukraine. KS would have earned much more as a lawyer.

@vetrep tell us the good news stories!

volver

I am very aware of the posts saying how people don't admit to voting Tory because they get rounded on, so I am being careful about what I say.

It actually makes me sad when I read things like "Claiming people all followed the rules is ridiculous. They are going to pay fines like anyone else." Are we really in such a state that we don't expect the Prime Minister of the country not to break the law, because of some misplaced idea that "everyone was at it"? They stood there on TV every night telling us that if one person broke the rules we'd all suffer for it. They spent millions on a campaign about "Look her in the eyes and tell her you didn't break the rules". And the whole time, they were breaking the rules.

Is this what we've come to accept as normal behaviour from our leaders? The only "real people" they seem like are the selfish, self centred ones who don't care if you live or die. It makes me so sad that people will accept, even support such behaviour.

This has to be the winning post! Well said Volver ?

I'll do what I always have. Read the manifestos look at what my local MP incurrently supporting then chose the one I think is likely to do what they say they will. If I don't like or trust any of them I don't vote. I don't then bother to moan about who ever wins. My late husband never voted in his life from 18 to 67 but he very rarely complained about the Government stating they were all much of a muchness and we had to do what was right for us at the time. He hasn't been wrong.

Never, never , never !!

I bet there were just as many rule breakers in the Labour Party and other Political parties but the weren't as carefully watched or spied on. They did wrong shouldn't have but I bet there were others with as much responsibility that did the same.

She's back.

Never would I vote Tory....Old Boys Club where women really aren't welcome although they try hard to disguise this fact...I live in Scotland so it's snp all the way for me...Love our first minister Nicola Sturgeon..