Anybody else who doesn't know who to vote for?

I am rather partial to a half of Guinness.

zakouma66

growstuff

GrannyGravy13

Germanshepherdsmum

I don’t like Champagne, with the exception of Dom Perignon …

Depending in the vintage

I prefer Lanson Black Label.

I like a nice can of stout after me shift. Feet up on the pouffe, maybe a sneeky puff on a cig or a bag of Doritos.

That's how I always imagined you - with your curlers and chiffon scarf!

(not really)

GSM I guess I’m only “atypical” as (now) a LP supporter because I grew up in a staunchly Tory home, in a very Conservative part of Essex. Both my lovely parents were very right wing Tories with very good Grammar school educations and I was a member of the young Conservatives in my youth.

It’was years and years before I changed my political views, firstly to Lib Dem and then to Labour and I have many many reasons for doing so, I guess the most telling is having spent almost 30 years working in the City, within the Lloyd’s Insurance Market, after my first child I changed to work locally, then the public sector and at the same time became a Primary School Governor at a local, quite deprived school, which our last three children all attended. Things I saw and learnt and new “friends” opened my eyes to a whole new set of people that I genuinely didn’t really know existed.

I have friends of all political persuasions, those who don’t share my views simply agree to disagree, but we are able to discuss without falling out, likewise religion.

The one extremely valuable thing my parents gave me was encouragement to be a free thinker and to seek out new experiences.

growstuff

GrannyGravy13

Germanshepherdsmum

I don’t like Champagne, with the exception of Dom Perignon …

Depending in the vintage

I prefer Lanson Black Label.

I like a nice can of stout after me shift. Feet up on the pouffe, maybe a sneeky puff on a cig or a bag of Doritos.

Left of centre but how far to the left remains to be seen. I will be voting tactically for the party I calculate has the best chance of ousting the Tory in this constituency.

At the time of the evacuation from Kabul I got into an argument with our Tory MP which resulted in him blocking me and refusing to read my emails. I recently saw him giving a talk and was surprised to find that he seemed to be exceptionally nice and I wondered how he ended up as a Tory. Last week I bumped into him in a car park and we got talking. I started to feel that he's really a very good constituency MP, working on a lot of things I agree with and co operating fully with our Labour council. At the moment I know nothing about any of the other candidates, but I'm hoping they will turn out to be electable because I can't see myself voting for a Tory, however pleasant he is. GSM may not know anyone who votes Labour, but I don't know anyone who votes Conservative. Most of the people I know are scientists, teachers or doctors. Although my son is a delivery driver and certainly not a Tory.

Asked and answered above already.

Freya5

Wyllow3

Re post above - Former HMRC perm sec Edward Troup is part of small expert panel that will specifically and only look at how to boost tax compliance ie break into the problems of high levels of tax avoidance

Definitely not to implement what was suggested above.

Currently 4.8% which is 35.8 billion. Labour intend to increase the number of Civil Servants with the necessary skills and ability to investigate.

www.taxwatchuk.org/hmrc-tax-gap-2023/#:~:text=The%20amount%20of%20tax%20lost,bn%20in%20the%20previous%20year.

Tax avoidance a legal method used by any tax payer to minimize amountvof tax owed. Wonder how many Labour supporters have cash ISA, a legal way of avoiding paying no tax on interest earned. Are they going to ban those I wonder.
Personally don't trust Reeves or the old codger who is advised g her.

Yawn! We know that Freya. The "old codger" used to be an advisor to Ken Clarke. Didn't you trust him either?

My vote doesn't really matter anyway because this seat is predicted to remain Conservative, even if there's a Labour landslide.

Nevertheless, I'll vote. I haven't decide yet who will get my X. Unfortunately, none of the parties (including Conservatives) put much effort into canvassing round here. It's just taken for granted that it will remain Conservative.

I haven't decided whether to vote with my beliefs or to vote tactically - if a tactical vote would make any difference. It would be a particular highlight for me if our smug, arrogant MP were to lose her seat and she experienced a Portillo moment on TV.

Wyllow3

Re post above - Former HMRC perm sec Edward Troup is part of small expert panel that will specifically and only look at how to boost tax compliance ie break into the problems of high levels of tax avoidance

Definitely not to implement what was suggested above.

Currently 4.8% which is 35.8 billion. Labour intend to increase the number of Civil Servants with the necessary skills and ability to investigate.

www.taxwatchuk.org/hmrc-tax-gap-2023/#:~:text=The%20amount%20of%20tax%20lost,bn%20in%20the%20previous%20year.

Tax avoidance a legal method used by any tax payer to minimize amountvof tax owed. Wonder how many Labour supporters have cash ISA, a legal way of avoiding paying no tax on interest earned. Are they going to ban those I wonder.
Personally don't trust Reeves or the old codger who is advised g her.

I could be the sister with space for a pony

Disclaimer, we no longer have any ponies or horses.

Lanson Brut Rose is rather nice on a warm summer day/afternoon/evening, anytime really 🥂🍾

GrannyGravy13

growstuff DH had an acquaintance (cannot call him a friend) who I disliked instantly, he always referred to me as ^Hyacinth Bucket^

Ooops!

Patricia Routledge went to the same school as I did, so maybe I should be Hyacinth.

growstuff DH had an acquaintance (cannot call him a friend) who I disliked instantly, he always referred to me as Hyacinth Bucket

GrannyGravy13

Germanshepherdsmum

I don’t like Champagne, with the exception of Dom Perignon …

Depending in the vintage

I prefer Lanson Black Label.

Casdon

growstuff

This thread has turned into the script for a sitcom.

Maybe a Citizen Smith revival? Up the revolution!

That's what I was thinking - with Alf Garnett and Hyacinth Bucket.

I am not choosy about my champagne, I know my place

Of course!

Germanshepherdsmum

I don’t like Champagne, with the exception of Dom Perignon …

Depending in the vintage

I don’t like Champagne, with the exception of Dom Perignon …

MayBee70

Or a Nadine Dorries novel…

Apparently Nadine Dorries’s novel The Plot has been fact checked and passed 😱

I started a thread when Boris Johnson’s term was coming to its closure with the numerous proven scandals and Liz Truss’s short residence in No10 asking if I was now a Champagne Socialist

As the Conservative Party was becoming unrecognisable to me, and I do have a penchant for champagne…

Or a Nadine Dorries novel…

growstuff

This thread has turned into the script for a sitcom.

Maybe a Citizen Smith revival? Up the revolution!

maddyone

^Fine lot of good Johnson’s so called charisma did for the country^

I didn’t mention Boris Johnson, nor was I even thinking of him. However I think Janet Street-Porter is right. This is a thread about, and for posters who don’t know who to vote for, which includes me, and I’m certain doesn’t include you Maybee, but please correct me if I’m wrong. As far as I’m concerned, both Sunak and Starmer are charmless and unconvincing. I’m fairly certain I won’t vote for either of their parties, but that leaves me with a quandary because who on earth do I vote for?

I campaigned for the LibDems at the last election but voted tactically. I did once nearly vote Conservative when they lied in their manifesto about a couple of things that would have benefitted me and my family so my vote isn’t cast in stone. Why does a politician have to be charming? Which previous PM’s have been charismatic?