Here’s a poll to vote on which UK political party you would vote for in the upcoming general election. This poll is open to everyone, don’t have to be a UK voter to participate.
I’m in Chicago, USA and have followed UK politics since the House of Commons has been broadcast. I’d vote Lib Dem in this election. I would normally vote Labour, but I just can’t vote for a government with Jeremy Corybyn, Diane Abbott, and John McDonnell.
My constituency has historically been a Labour/SNP marginal, though the SNP now have a sizeable majority after 2015. I’m voting Labour. It helps that I’ve known the candidate for thirty-odd years, mind you…
C’mon, you’ve got to pick a constituency!
I voted “other” because my husband mailed in his vote for Plaid Cymru last week. This is for a constituency where they actually stand a chance, though not a strong one. (They voted against Brexit, and certainly won’t go Tory.)
I’m still deciding. My Labour MP, Sir Keir Starmer, opposed Brexit, so I may vote for him, but I may vote Lib Dem to show my opinions on Brexit. Sir Keir will win anyway.
I’m voting Conservative, pretty much solidified by all my facebook friends whining about the “nasty party” and then linking to a policy that makes perfect sense to me or talking about “good old Jezza” and linking to something that looks completely bonkers. Labour/Green/Lib Dem supporters running riot on Facebook are better than 1000 Conservative party political broadcasts.
Right now I’m trending Tory. I voted Labour last time but the need to preserve the Union is more important to me than who runs the Union and voting Tory seems to be the most likely way to oust the SNP. Kezia Dugdale’s antics - suspending the local Labour councillors and threatening others - have not endeared Scottish Labour to me. I want pragmatic politicians.
I’d pick Lib Dem precisely for that reason (if I could vote in the UK).
If I were in Scotland I’d vote SNP to express strong preference for leaving in order to join the EU. If England wanted to stay then I would have wanted to stay with England, but I don’t think these things should be undertaken lightly and the UK government has totally committed to Brexit on the barest of majorities.
If I were in the rest of the UK, I’d tactically vote against the Tories, even if the weak-on-EU Labour were the other choice in my district.
If I as an American citizen were hypothetically allowed a vote for a generic party I’d vote Lib Dem because it aligns closest with what appears best for the UK, even though stopping Brexit seems impossible now.
Who got the colours wrong?! This side of the water, red is left and blue is right.
I’m voting Lib-Dem. My natural inclination is for Labour but where I live the seat is a straight fight between the Lib-Dems and the Conservatives. This is a strongly anti-Brexit area and the Tory candidate is the strongly pro-Brexit Zac Goldsmith, who was ousted last year in a widely publicised by-election shortly after also losing the London Mayoral election, having run a rather xenophobic campaign. He is such an entitled little shit I don’t believe he can even conceive of the notion that he could be a three time loser - here’s hoping.
That’s a recent invention in the USA, due to the extended 2000 election. If you watch some USA election coverage before then, most of the time blue was used for the incumbent party and red for the rivals. Since the 2000 election dragged out for over a month, the blue for the Democrats and red for the Republicans became entrenched.
PatrickLondon was, I think, referring to the poll colours, which are “wrong” based on longstanding colour associations.
Given the palette available, the UKIP and Lib Dem colours seem the closest they can get. Looking up SNP it looks like they use yellow - I assume this was because blue was already taken?
I’ll vote Lib Dem for 2 reasons.
firstly, I’m a life ling liberal voter. Firstly because I wanted my vote to count - for most of my life I voted in a heavily conservative constituency, so pretty much my vote was wasted every time. this is true of maybe 50-70% of constituencies, which rarely change party.
Secondly, I’ll be voting for Vince Cable. As well as being the rarity of having qualifications in the subject that he speaks on, he’s a great local MP and a nice bloke to boot.
Even if I wasn’t a fan of Corbyn, which I am, I’d suck it up and vote Labour.
Failing to vote Labour where I live, would effectively be a vote for the tories, and I would sooner drink battery acid than vindicate our current government.
I’m in a safe Labour seat and will be volunteering fr the party next week - the neighbouring constituency is a desperate fight and they have asked us alone for 150 helpers. Election day itself is a thing of great beauty
I live in a constituency that has one of the highest proportions of Remainers in the country, according to the referendum results. The contituency’s Labour MP actually voted against Brexit’s Article 50 bill, so as someone who is 100% opposed to Brexit with every fibre of my being, I am a little bit conflicted as to who to vote for. I actually emailed Labour to inform that I would never vote for them again because of their support for Brexit, post-referendum, and this is still my sentiment. So, as the only major anti-Brexit party, I will be voting for the Lib Dems.
The Tories will probably win my seat. I will vote Labour. If I was voting on policy I might go for something like the Socialist Labour Party or the Bus Pass Elvis Party, but around here there will only be the two major parties, the LibDems, and UKIP.
SNP are normally orange because the LibDems are yellow. Plaid Cymru are an odd one, they can be green or red. Normally green, I think, because the Greens, who are also green, don’t normally win anything.