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Anyone else considering spoiling their ballot in the next election? (self.uk_politics)

submitted 8 months ago by K3zi4 to c/[email protected]

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Don't get me wrong, I will probably cave at the last minute and vote SNP again for a number of reasons. Mostly, being supportive of a number of their progressive policies that I have benefited from over the years, and also because my constituency is a two horse race between them and the Tories who I will never vote for. Though the SNP are probably now at their lowest point in years since they finally managed to oust Sturgeon.

I will also never vote Labour, they have no identity here and during the 2019 election they were campaigning for the Tories to oust SNP here, so 100% fuck them too.

I once voted for Lib Dem and we ended up with the catastrophic Clegg/Cameron coalition (though due to FPTP my vote didn't matter there.)

I would like to vote for Green, but it would be a wasted vote here.

It's just bizarre to me that Westminster's voting system is such that a vast majority of votes in the UK are binned, how is this considered normal?

Sorry for the rant, but I am just so incredibly disillusioned with politics in this shitehole of a country but absolutely refuse to be passive about it since that is what they want us to be.

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[–] calamitycastle 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just don't feel like this is the time. Tories out is the only measurable positive outcome that can be achieved at the next election. So I would advocate to vote for whatever is the most likely to help with that.

One the Tories are gone, the next target simply has to be proportional representation otherwise they will be back in 10 years or so. And the only way to achieve THAT is to organise!

[–] K3zi4 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My stance has been Tories out since the Cameron and Clegg love affair, I have voted on that basis ever since. I'll likely vote SNP to get rid of them.

Not to mention SNP are the loudest advocates for PR in the UK, even though they stand to lose the most from it (by far).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I suspect that if either main party in England started to adopt PR policies they'd find a way to moderate their stance, exactly for the reason you describe. For example, that English votes don't apply.

The SNP, on Westminster issues, have a very easy role to play because they are perpetual opposition. I agree with them on a lot, if not most, things they say, but as we saw with the gaza ceasefire amendment debacle, if they have an opportunity to paint Westminster and/or Labour in a negative light, they will take that route instead. It's a shame really.