General Election 2017 | Cabinet reshuffle: Hunt re-appointed Health Secretary for record third time

How do you intend to vote in the 2017 General Election if eligible?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 80 14.5%
  • Labour

    Votes: 322 58.4%
  • Lib Dems

    Votes: 57 10.3%
  • Green

    Votes: 20 3.6%
  • SNP

    Votes: 13 2.4%
  • UKIP

    Votes: 29 5.3%
  • Independent

    Votes: 3 0.5%
  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 11 2.0%
  • Other (UUP, DUP, BNP, and anyone else I have forgotten)

    Votes: 14 2.5%

  • Total voters
    551
  • Poll closed .
Setting myself up for a Tory win. This will not be good news for the country but it will in the long run be very damaging to the conservatives. Just hope we get a much better than expected result and grow from there .Because no doubt there will be a lot of anger with this current government in the coming years.
 
What constituency is it? If it was a big swing from Labour to SNP last time then I'd presume there's no chance of the Tories taking it, in which case you can vote for whoever you want in good conscience. If there is a chance of a Tory win, probably best to stick SNP. Plus a good local MP is always handy.
Glenrothes, it's a shame because I miss the alien abductions that used to happen on top of the old Tesco car park near where I used to live and now have to settle for a constituency that contains more roundabouts than people.

True enough, but I also don't really want to vote SNP for what they've done to colleges and schools in this country. For all their positives, education is certainly not one of them. I'm probably going to be voting for the person not the party this election.
 
Setting myself up for a Tory win. This will not be good news for the country but it will in the long run be very damaging to the conservatives. Just hope we get a much better than expected result and grow from there .Because no doubt there will be a lot of anger out there in the coming years.
They'll just find another distraction, and the press will back them up with it. Five years from now they'll be re-elected on a platform to stop Russian hackers from taking away our Facebooks and Twitterings.
 
Setting myself up for a Tory win. This will not be good news for the country but it will in the long run be very damaging to the conservatives. Just hope we get a much better than expected result and grow from there .Because no doubt there will be a lot of anger with this current government in the coming years.
This is pretty much what I'm hoping for - a best case scenario of a narrow Tory majority, followed by years of utter disarray within the Tory party leading to permanent damage within the party ranks.

The trouble is the country will pay a price for it too.
 
Glenrothes, it's a shame because I miss the alien abductions that used to happen on top of the old Tesco car park near where I used to live and now have to settle for a constituency that contains more roundabouts than people.

Ah the Milton Keynes of the north.
 
Think I'm going to be reading up on emotion-based voting after tonight.
 
Setting myself up for a Tory win. This will not be good news for the country but it will in the long run be very damaging to the conservatives. Just hope we get a much better than expected result and grow from there .Because no doubt there will be a lot of anger with this current government in the coming years.
The press will forgive anything the Tories do for dropping Leveson and this country will have given 'feck the vulnerable, I'm alright' their seal of approval twice in the space of a few years, having bought the 'Johnny Foreigner' EU lies in between. I wouldn't be holding your breath for anything after the first sentence of this.
 
whats emotion based voting and how is is it effecting this election?

People voting emotionally - ie, voting because of a person instead of policies, and perhaps for how something makes them feel as opposed to how it'll genuinely affect them.
 
People voting emotionally - ie, voting because of a person instead of policies, and perhaps for how something makes them feel as opposed to how it'll genuinely affect them.
Yeah pretty much that, the Leave campaign used it to strong effect during the referendum (Farage in the most grotesque of ways) and Corbyn achieves similar (though the effect differs across the age spectrum it seems). It's a powerful driver by the looks of it.
 
Mumsnet is very left wing. You get quite a few trollers on there.

Are you sure, been through quite a few threads and seems to have a strong tory contingent as well.

For all the talk about young voters, for me the female vote is massive as they're usually more floaty and can lean either way whereas men tend to be pretty forthright in their views and stick to them.
 
No, you go in with a diplomatic approach that you hope will work for the country as a whole while sustaining a decent relationship with our nearest neighbours.

But you don't apply that same expectation to the EU/Germany? It's as if people have forgotten past negotiations with Brussels, or believe it to be some cuddly and totally reasonable organisation. Even as far back as her first conference speech the PM left the door open for future UK contributions; a move which was met with a demand for a large cash sum, to be paid all at once.
 
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That's all good and dandy. But your reasoning earlier was to vote Tories because May is a woman and she'll get a good Brexit deal because she'll nag. That is absurd. May from my perspective is a terrible leader, was a terrible home secretary and will get us a terrible deal and will then blame it on the EU. I'm sure you'll disagree, that's politics.
To be honest regarding the deal your guess is as good as mine. I'm purely basing it on personalities. If work in commercial finance and I would negotiate with Corbyn all day long till I got the deal I wanted. May would probably annoy me and eventually I'd save the fight for another day, i.e. Backdown a little bit.

It might be an absurd simplified view, but let's be honest what else do we have to go on.

This is one area of the voting that comes down to a punt. There is no firm logic.

Whereas I've studied enough Economics and worked long enough in Finance to understand the difference between marketing and reality when it comes to what can and can't be achieved by a government and their policies.

Labour take an economic model that ignores free movement and tax evasion and assume therefore near perfect gains to every policy. They also seemingly ignore the cost of interest and value everything today as worth infinitely more than the future. Great marketing tools, but doomed to fail.
 
As an aside - if you're threatening not to vote again because your ideal candidate might not be around next time, this may be why for the most part your ideal candidate doesn't get in a position to win. If you aren't a regular at polling booths, the major parties will continue ignoring you.
 
Not been to vote yet. I'm leaning toward the local Conservative MP but could be persuaded to vote Lib Dem if i knew it wouldn't hand the seat to Labour.

Wouldn't mind having the ability send part of my vote to another constituency though.
 
There wouldn't have been a vote if they hadn't called the referendum.
This was a gamble on May's part. The European conversations were clearly challenging and the momentum seemed to be behind Labour so she figured now would be a good time to cement here position in the strongest possible way. Reality frustratingly is many of our population are too stupid to understand this and having voted Brexit are now trying to damage our outcome by voting Labour.
 
As an aside - if you're threatening not to vote again because your ideal candidate might not be around next time, this may be why for the most part your ideal candidate doesn't get in a position to win. If you aren't a regular at polling booths, the major parties will continue ignoring you.
Of all the elections to make this point, you choose this one? When a twice elected leader doesn't have even slight backing from massive numbers of his own party? :lol:
This was a gamble on May's part. The European conversations were clearly challenging and the momentum seemed to be behind Labour so she figured now would be a good time to cement here position in the strongest possible way. Reality frustratingly is many of our population are too stupid to understand this and having voted Brexit are now trying to damage our outcome by voting Labour.
Pssst. The EU don't give a feck how many MPs the arms dealing vicar's daughter has. You'll note they didn't wait until Friday to hold their meeting to agree on their stance, they did it weeks ago. The only person 'damaging the outcome' is her, by your logic, by even giving people the chance to have someone else in charge of the process.
 
Its strange, a lot of people I know have gotten more right wing as they have gotten older, Ive gone the other way :lol:

Same here. Used to be consistent Tory voter, these days I'm practically ready to join a people's front movement with Che Guevara and Karl Marx. :lol:
 
Not been to vote yet. I'm leaning toward the local Conservative MP but could be persuaded to vote Lib Dem if i knew it wouldn't hand the seat to Labour.

Wouldn't mind having the ability send part of my vote to another constituency though.
Nick, I will forever struggle to work out how you decide on your vote :lol:
 
But you don't applying that same expectation to the EU/Germany? It's as if people have forgotten past negotiations with Brussels, or believe it to be some cuddly and totally reasonable organisation. Even as far back as her first conference speech the PM left the door open for future UK contributions; a move which was met with a demand for a large cash sum, to be paid all at once.

Truth is a stranger to Brexiteers