Bleaney
Bluelighter
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In the consituency I live in, Labour always win by such a massive landslide, with them getting something like at least 80% of all votes, so that I've mostly considered my one vote pretty pointless in that context.
Sometimes I've voted Green just to support them and boost their numbers, as they need it, and I can't fault most of what they stand for on ethical grounds. Unfortunately it seems that their pragmatism and realism might not be their strong points.
However, I'm not a person of strong political principles. Totally unlike my father who was so highly principled, for example, he was so politically opposed to the sale of council houses, that he held out against buying his own council house for literally decades, (in effect he would be given the house after so many years of paying rent) until it must have finally reached the stage of him realising that if he dropped his principles for the sake of his own financial best interests, and bought and sold the house on, he'd in effect be given a valuable windfall to set him up for retirement, and he finally relented, and cashed in.
I'm so unlike this, and so completely unprincipled that I'd seriously consider voting for Nigel Farage's Reform party just because they are proposing to raise the personal tax allowance to £20,000, which is something I would personally benefit massively from. I don't even know yet what any of their other pledges or policies are.
If I cba I will look into each parties manifestos in more detail. The trouble is that these things are generally full of promises that mostly wont be fulfilled. I've totally tuned out of watching the news for the sake of my mental health for the last few years, (it's not just the negativity and depressing nature of the news, but the transparent, ludicrous, and constant scaremongering that I just cannot abide) but I've just been picking up little bits and pieces about the upcoming election, I'm hearing that Kier Starmer is apparently already gaining a reputation foir dishonesty, almost on the level of Boris Johnson. It seems that anything they are pledging in their manifesto needs to be regarded with a great deal of scepticism.
Even so, I think it boils down to the fact that the Tories have so totally fucked up this country over the last 14 years, that I think everyone really should register that they recognise this, and vote for basically anyone that isn't them. So they get absolutely annihilated, even more so than is being predicted based on the polling data so far. If even some of the approximately 70% of people that don't usually vote, (myself included) could get over their general apathy, and just make the small effort that casting a vote requires, then it could help send the Tories the loudest message they've ever received.
Sometimes I've voted Green just to support them and boost their numbers, as they need it, and I can't fault most of what they stand for on ethical grounds. Unfortunately it seems that their pragmatism and realism might not be their strong points.
However, I'm not a person of strong political principles. Totally unlike my father who was so highly principled, for example, he was so politically opposed to the sale of council houses, that he held out against buying his own council house for literally decades, (in effect he would be given the house after so many years of paying rent) until it must have finally reached the stage of him realising that if he dropped his principles for the sake of his own financial best interests, and bought and sold the house on, he'd in effect be given a valuable windfall to set him up for retirement, and he finally relented, and cashed in.
I'm so unlike this, and so completely unprincipled that I'd seriously consider voting for Nigel Farage's Reform party just because they are proposing to raise the personal tax allowance to £20,000, which is something I would personally benefit massively from. I don't even know yet what any of their other pledges or policies are.
If I cba I will look into each parties manifestos in more detail. The trouble is that these things are generally full of promises that mostly wont be fulfilled. I've totally tuned out of watching the news for the sake of my mental health for the last few years, (it's not just the negativity and depressing nature of the news, but the transparent, ludicrous, and constant scaremongering that I just cannot abide) but I've just been picking up little bits and pieces about the upcoming election, I'm hearing that Kier Starmer is apparently already gaining a reputation foir dishonesty, almost on the level of Boris Johnson. It seems that anything they are pledging in their manifesto needs to be regarded with a great deal of scepticism.
Even so, I think it boils down to the fact that the Tories have so totally fucked up this country over the last 14 years, that I think everyone really should register that they recognise this, and vote for basically anyone that isn't them. So they get absolutely annihilated, even more so than is being predicted based on the polling data so far. If even some of the approximately 70% of people that don't usually vote, (myself included) could get over their general apathy, and just make the small effort that casting a vote requires, then it could help send the Tories the loudest message they've ever received.
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