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Anyone else considering spoiling their ballot in the next election? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by K3zi4@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics

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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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[–] frazw@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Not really, the conservatives steam rollered the lib dems. Ultimately it was just a conservative agenda enabled by the lib dems.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The lib Dems, unfortunately, relied on us votes being rational. They gave up most of their agenda to get a vote on changing away from FFTP. Unfortunately, enough people used it as a protest vote against them.

[–] hellothere@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

They gave up most of their agenda

This isn't particularly true tbh, whilst they absolutely gave up on student loans, they still got a lot of their manifesto implemented. To the point their activists bragged about it during the 2015 election.

https://whatthehellhavethelibdemsdone.com/

The major problem is that they also believed in the economically illiterate policy of austerity, so it didn't matter what they achieved because they were still burning the house down.

[–] oo1@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

The lib dem bend-over can be summarised in two letters:
AV

[–] Nighed@sffa.community 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There was compromise though, I can't remember exactly what it was, but I seem to remember them taking the crazy off the top of the conservative agenda and bringing them closer to centre?

That was before I could vote though, so wasn't entirely paying enough attention.

[–] hellothere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

In a word, yes. They moderated the Tories. Arguably that moderation made the Tories seem less bad and led to them winning in 2015.