Election 2021: Who did you vote for?

Not voting - don't know enough about any of the candidates or policies, and I don't really care that much anyway.

I’ve just moved to St Albans which is apparently Lib Dem land. My party is now anyone but Tory so Lib Dem’s it is this time.

In the Mayorals Louisa Porrit (Lib Dem) and then Count Binface

If it was going to be tight between Sadiq and Shaun Bailey I would have put Sadiq 2nd pref, but as it's not I refuse to give him my backing. He's a terrible mayor. Cancelled the Canada Water/Canary Wharf footbridge but at least we have a cycle lane to nowhere (CS4 was supposed to connect to the bridge), all the additionally housing development and a £5 each way ferry instead. At the same time spending £2b to put a motorway through Greenwich & Newham. Crossrail isn't finished, nothing on housing but hey at least he's planning to bid for the Olympics again (which I don't mind, but it's classic all flash no substance Sadiq Khan).

Couldn't vote for Greens as they have terrible housing policies. So went for Binface even though it won't count to show my disdain/ I think renaming London Bridge Phoebe Waller is a great idea.

Corazon de Leon

Karl_ wrote:
Corazon de Leon wrote:Have the maximum poll options been reached? Cause I'll be honest, it feels a bit reductive having SNP, Sinn Fein and Plaid Cymru lumped into one option.

It's too late to change it now, but I'll try to bear in mind this criticism for next time. It was only intended to make the poll easier to engage with - I voted Plaid Cymru myself so it was no slight or anything I promise!

Oh sorry no, I didn't think it was a slight or anything like that! More just that the three parties have quite a lot of different policies outside of pulling their respective countries out of the UK so I wasn't sure it was the best thing to put them into the same category.

Corazon de Leon wrote:
Karl_ wrote:
Corazon de Leon wrote:Have the maximum poll options been reached? Cause I'll be honest, it feels a bit reductive having SNP, Sinn Fein and Plaid Cymru lumped into one option.

It's too late to change it now, but I'll try to bear in mind this criticism for next time. It was only intended to make the poll easier to engage with - I voted Plaid Cymru myself so it was no slight or anything I promise!

Oh sorry no, I didn't think it was a slight or anything like that! More just that the three parties have quite a lot of different policies outside of pulling their respective countries out of the UK so I wasn't sure it was the best thing to put them into the same category.

For sure - that makes a lot of sense and I agree in retrospect!

Voted Labour for local councils and PCC. How a Tory party candidate can stand on a platform of being tough on crime after the party has spent a decade eviscerating the police, courts and prison service is beyond a joke.

I'm not voting today, I'm still very anxious about the covid situation and don't want to go anywhere.

I live in a tory stronghold so my vote wouldn't matter anyways unfortunately.

Lotus wrote:Not voting - don't know enough about any of the candidates or policies, and I don't really care that much anyway.

That's poor. You should at least take the time to spoil your ballot paper as a very last resort. Or just vote for the greens because you must know they're not banana splits.

I'll be voting SNP. It's primarily a tactical vote as they're the only party capable of beating the Tories in my constituency. The SNP won the seat in 2016 but the Tories were uncomfortably close, sadly.

I’m unhappy with the state of the Labour Party, but do I want to live under a Tory council? No I strawberry floating do not. Voted Labour.

Rex Kramer wrote:Voted Labour for local councils and PCC. How a Tory party candidate can stand on a platform of being tough on crime after the party has spent a decade eviscerating the police, courts and prison service is beyond a joke.

PCC was difficult for me as I'd normally vote for the Lab candidate, but Tipping is backing a plan to move the main police station in Newark to a location that puts a regularly used railway crossing between it and 99% of the town :fp:

(the current location was purpose built only a decade or so ago at the cost of millions)

Can't even remember what I went for in the end, think it was the LD guy, basically as a protest vote :lol:

Not going until after work, but using my amazing future sight I can tell you I voted for SNP twice.

Qikz wrote:I'm not voting today, I'm still very anxious about the covid situation and don't want to go anywhere.

I live in a tory stronghold so my vote wouldn't matter anyways unfortunately.

I signed up for postal voting for the first time for this election, it's great. I'm never going to a polling station again.

Blue Eyes wrote:
Lotus wrote:Not voting - don't know enough about any of the candidates or policies, and I don't really care that much anyway.

That's poor. You should at least take the time to spoil your ballot paper as a very last resort. Or just vote for the greens because you must know they're not banana splits.

If I don't really care that much I'm not going to spend 40 minutes on a round trip to the polling station just to spoil the ballot. Around here it's always Lib Dem or Cons, they're both terrible, and a vote for anyone else will achieve nothing of any use, so I don't see the point.

Who said democracy was dead, eh?

Voted Labour for both.

Blue Eyes wrote:
Lotus wrote:Not voting - don't know enough about any of the candidates or policies, and I don't really care that much anyway.

That's poor. You should at least take the time to spoil your ballot paper as a very last resort. Or just vote for the greens because you must know they're not banana splits.

Last I read, the Greens had this crazy policy that only men go to prison. I wouldn't vote for that.

The Green ideology on prison reform is that non-violent, petty offenders should be rehabilitated in the community rather than being sent to prison.

They have a plan for an "immediate reform" to release female and underage non-violent offenders. Presumably they want to address those groups first because statistically so few female or underage prisoners are guilty of the more serious or violent offences.

I actually think the manifesto should contain an explicit commitment to extending the same policy to the adult male prison population too. But I don't think it's fair or sensible to read "we want to improve such-and-such conditions for women and teens" as "we want to discriminate against adult men" or whatever.

I voted Labour as I didn't have much of a choice.

To be honest the Greens could have a policy of punching me in the face every Tuesday, but with the more pressing commitment to save us from complete ecological collapse and a post-resource wars fascist dystopia, on balance I'd probably still vote for them.

Voting Green is unlikely to result in Green government (certainly at a national level, almost probably at a local level) however it does raise the profile of environmental policy for Labour, Conservatives and the national parties who will be in government. Even if I strongly disagreed with their prison policy I think it's doubly redundant and irrelevant. An increase in Green voteshare will only ever be interpreted as a backing of green environmental policy.

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