Reply With QuoteI voted SSP until they imploded, 57vintages c0ck & baws party, SNP to shift Gemma Doyle & will vote Green next, despite Patrick Harvie.
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Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever switched allegiance from one party to another and what were your reasons?
My first political party I followed/ had interest in was the LibDems. I studied modern studies and part of a school project was to research a political party and do a mock election, with debating canvassing etc. The LibDems were the party I was tasked with and i just stayed with them after leaving school.
I turned 18 in 2000 and decided to switch over to the SNP. It all started when I wrote a letter to Alex Salmond asking for his opinion on rising fuel costs at the time. It was again all part of a school project and he replied to me with a lengthy and witty response and from then on I supported the SNP. I was an avid SNP and Salmond supporter right through until he stepped down as FM.
That said, I have now decided to support the Scottish Greens as I have grown disenchanted with the SNP in the last few months. I'm not the biggest fan of Nicola and my interest in the greens has been growing for a couple of years now.
Anyhoo, made me interested to see what others have done over the years.
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I voted SSP until they imploded, 57vintages c0ck & baws party, SNP to shift Gemma Doyle & will vote Green next, despite Patrick Harvie.
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I switched to nae c@nt at the last election as I wasn't overly enamoured by what anyone had to say to me
First time I cock and ballsed an election in my voting life
Prior to that I was Lib Dem every election
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Used to post leaflets for the Labour party we my da back in the late 60s .
But by the time I was allowed to vote back in 76 I've been with the SNP all the way. I also remember labour voters in Aberdeen getting angry with me because voting for SNP is a vote for the Tories and it's a wasted vote.
Haven't we come a long way since then.
Voted SNP
Not just because of oil but for the passionate beliefs that Scotland would be a success..Must admit to liking the Greens mainly due to Harvey. I've also been asked to post leaflets for a young lad for the upcoming council elections which I said I would do .
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I was a member of the Labour Party back in the 80s and early 90s, but, as Tommy Sheridan put it, I didn't leave the Labour Party, they left me.
I've c&b-ed quite a few times, Green a few times. I've never actually joined the party, but have thought about it.
I voted tactically for the Liberals in the 2010 election, thinking a hung parliament would usher in a new grown-up, consensus based politics, then watched in horror as they became partners with Trish and Co in the horrors that ensued.
I'll never do that again, and, as fervently as I want an independent Scotland, I'll never vote SNP.
They voted with Thatcher in the no confidence vote in 79. Any party whose opportunism brings about behaviour like that can poke it.
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I've voted SSP, SNP, Lib Dem and Labour in various elections. There's at least one thing (in reality multiple things) hideously wrong with all four of those parties but at the time the alternatives were all worse. In my book, anyone who supports a political party to the hilt is being naive: you should select the least bad option available and treat everything they do with as much scepticism as possible.
If you look through the history of politics you'll see a long list of political chancers who came along claiming to be different, riding a wave of optimism into power, then proving to be just as insincere as their predecessors (if not more so). You'd think we'd learn from that experience yet you'll still find millions of people passionately convinced that May/Sturgeon/Macron/Grillo/Trump/Rivera/Farage/Iglesias/Wilders/Le Pen (the list goes on) really are different this time. They aren't.
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That, with bells on.Originally Posted by InversneckieDob
Their constant whingeing mantra straight from HQ (probably originated by the former Runrig piano player and Zoomer-In-Chief, Wishart, along with the puerile playground SNPbad line) "standing shoulder to shoulder with the Tories" is 100% hollow for those of us old enough to remember that. Revisionism is alive and well among that cabal of spineless careerist chancers.
I've really had nothing to vote for in about 35 years. Too bad.
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You must've missed the memo. The phrase you're looking for is 'tough titty'
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Tactically voted once, never again (Lib Dems, to keep the Nats out, shouldna have bothered). Tory all the way apart from that
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Who you vote for reflects how grown up you are. Socialists live in la la land. People on this thread vote for certain parties for spurious reasons. A more macro view is needed, not narrow, sentimental, fashionable, hip, reasons. Which party is adult? Which is a rebellious, pain in the a sss child.? I will leave it with you.
Major Tom.
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