Hiya fellow U.K. Bluighters....
I'm sure I can't be alone in feeling.so sick and fucking.tired of the whole thing, due to it feeling like the seemingly endless election buildup has been going on since about three months before last years Scottish referendum..
And so at the tender age of 28 I'm ashamed to admit this'll be my first time voting.
I live in the southeast of England in a super safe Tory seat (the incumbent Tory MP held the seat at the 2010 election with a majority of over 7000) which has been held by the nasty nasty party nonstop since 1945.
And so although I'd very much like to vote either Labour or Green it's the sad truth about this country's fucking retarded first-past-the-post electoral voting system that to vote for either the Greens or Labour in my constituency is a total waste of time.
So, the only credible alternative to the incumbent Tory candidate is the Liberal Democrats.......and up until the Liberal Democrats joined forces with the Nasty party to form the vile coalition government of the last five-year-long parliamentary session I'd always thought I'd vote Lib Dem (seeing as how voting Labour in the southeast of England/the U.K. is about as much use as a chocolate teapot).
But after the Lib Dems were complicit in TRIPLING University tuition fees I'm seriously fucking loath to give them my vote.
In conclusion,, can anyone more knowledgeable tell me something/s good and noble that the aforementioned Lib Dems did or achieved during their time in office these last five years?
Something that would outweigh their vile complicity in tripling uni tuition fees, helping to set the privatisation-of-the-NHS in motion and being seemingly willing partners with the Vile Nasty party in tailoring the austerity cuts to hit the poorest and most vulnerable hardest through brutal benefits cuts and the wholesale stripping of local mental health services up and down the entire country?
Otherwise I feel like its not even worth dragging my arse along to vote this Thursday.
Many thanks if you've read this entire post and even greater thanks - in advance - for hopefully taking a minute or two to respond to my queries and give me your two cents worth.
I'm sure I can't be alone in feeling.so sick and fucking.tired of the whole thing, due to it feeling like the seemingly endless election buildup has been going on since about three months before last years Scottish referendum..
And so at the tender age of 28 I'm ashamed to admit this'll be my first time voting.
I live in the southeast of England in a super safe Tory seat (the incumbent Tory MP held the seat at the 2010 election with a majority of over 7000) which has been held by the nasty nasty party nonstop since 1945.
And so although I'd very much like to vote either Labour or Green it's the sad truth about this country's fucking retarded first-past-the-post electoral voting system that to vote for either the Greens or Labour in my constituency is a total waste of time.
So, the only credible alternative to the incumbent Tory candidate is the Liberal Democrats.......and up until the Liberal Democrats joined forces with the Nasty party to form the vile coalition government of the last five-year-long parliamentary session I'd always thought I'd vote Lib Dem (seeing as how voting Labour in the southeast of England/the U.K. is about as much use as a chocolate teapot).
But after the Lib Dems were complicit in TRIPLING University tuition fees I'm seriously fucking loath to give them my vote.
In conclusion,, can anyone more knowledgeable tell me something/s good and noble that the aforementioned Lib Dems did or achieved during their time in office these last five years?
Something that would outweigh their vile complicity in tripling uni tuition fees, helping to set the privatisation-of-the-NHS in motion and being seemingly willing partners with the Vile Nasty party in tailoring the austerity cuts to hit the poorest and most vulnerable hardest through brutal benefits cuts and the wholesale stripping of local mental health services up and down the entire country?
Otherwise I feel like its not even worth dragging my arse along to vote this Thursday.
Many thanks if you've read this entire post and even greater thanks - in advance - for hopefully taking a minute or two to respond to my queries and give me your two cents worth.
). It's difficult - i personally would find it very hard to vote for orange book lib dems after their betrayal - it would be terrible if they weren't severely punished by the electorate this time for their lies. At the same time it would feel bad to help a tory get in - this should not happen in a democracy. I think if i did vote there, i'd still vote with my conscience (eg green or another left party), as in effect a lib dem mp could very likely join the tories again, so there's not much difference. At the very least you might contribute to a lowering of their majority. It is a difficult choice though - the fucking electoral system is a joke.
