Are you Voting Today?

[1959_60]

Local council elections.

I have the choice of Labour or the Tories.

I really can't vote for either.

[army88]

Local council elections.

I have the choice of Labour or the Tories.

I really can't vote for either.

At this moment 59-60 I’m with you and going forward I’m unsure if I’ll vote at all.

Corruption from the highest level and we are supposed to have these figures in society represent our better interests.

Conservatives are a disgrace and Labour is run by a racist - terrorist supporter - it’s not good.

[Altobelli]

The past shenanigans of the past 3 years from all parties has in IMO meant the vote means absolutely nothing, and for those who say "If you don't vote you have nothing to complain about", I say, Go and boil your head.

[outwoodclaret]

I voted today in the council elections. I voted for an independent candidate. I don’t like Jeremy but I don’t think he is racist. His links with terror organisations do however IMHO make him unfit to be PM and that should be a factor in a General Election.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

These are local elections guys. Local Councillors look after local affairs. Our Council is Labour led and they have turned things around quite dramatically in the last couple of years. I have already voted and just nipped home for lunch before going out canvassing again. Please don't waste your vote, too many people have died ensuring you have that right.

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[The Bedlington Terrier]

I voted today in the council elections. I voted for an independent candidate. I don’t like Jeremy but I don’t think he is racist. His links with terror organisations do however IMHO make him unfit to be PM and that should be a factor in a General Election.

I didn't know Jeremy Corbyn was your local election candidate outwood? Why waste a vote on a person who can influence nothing even if that person gets voted in? This "Terror Organisation" bollox really gets on my tits. We have a Defence Secretary of State just sacked for leaking highly confidential documents which compromise our national security.

Jeremy Corbyn has a cup of tea with Gerry Adams in the Houses of Parliament and the right wing media go phucking bonkers. Get real FFS!

I support the people of Palestine and donate fair old wads of cash to the aid programmes for Palestinian kids. Does that provide me to a link to a "Terrorist Organisation". If it does - good!

[outwoodclaret]

Quite right BT. Here in Manchester at Peterloo many gave their lives and they were not alone in fighting for the right to vote.

[outwoodclaret]

Jeremy did not influence my vote in my local elections. He was not a candidate as you pointed out. Different considerations will apply in a General Election. Are you saying my vote for an independent candidate in the local elections when I considered them the best candidate was a waste? What steaming arrogance!

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Jeremy did not influence my vote in my local elections. He was not a candidate as you pointed out. Different considerations will apply in a General Election. Are you saying my vote for an independent candidate in the local elections when I considered them the best candidate was a waste? What steaming arrogance!

Not arrogance outwood - just simple reality! Your independent candidate might be fit and proper or he may not, but voting for independent candidates in my experience is just a waste of a vote. We need local councils with clear enough majorities to get the job done.

[sinkov]

Local council elections.

I have the choice of Labour or the Tories.

I really can't vote for either.

I was really looking forward to both the Local and EU elections simply for the opportunity to give the Tory candidate a good kicking. I can see BT's point that these are local elections, but voting for any candidate, even at a local level, is giving an endorsement of that party's policies at the national level, and they will take it as such. So although I have no problem with my local Tory councillor, I will not vote for her as any Tory vote in these elections will be seen as support for the Madwoman in No 10.

So this morning, before setting out to vote I checked the candidate list to see who would be getting my vote. The Euros will be easy should they happen, Sir Nigel's Brexit Party gets my vote, but no Brexit Party in these elections so this one could be tricky, and so it proved. Besides the Tory there is only one other option, a LibDem, and that's it. What is a poor boy to do ? I'm not voting Tory, and I can't vote for a candidate from an extremist party, who want to threaten the social fabric of this country, by overturning the result of the People's Vote to leave the EU three years ago.

So that's it, I'm not voting, without any feelings of guilt whatsoever. People died to give me the right not to vote as well, if I didn't like the candidates, and I'm exercising that right.