Anyone as confused as me on who to vote for

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  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,527 Championing

    So do you, as a trained solicitor, know of the trickery set in motion by IDS in 2011?

  • brandondreamer
    brandondreamer Online Community Member Posts: 16 Contributor

    my head is telling me vote tactically to get this government out but my heart is telling me to vote for the manifesto that most aligns with my interests and that is greens.
    big decisions to make.

  • Cantilip
    Cantilip Online Community Member Posts: 621 Empowering

    I thought of suggesting vote for a candidate not a party, if you can find one that seems a relatively normal human who broadly thinks what you think but that means actually seeing and talking to candidates. Not hide or hair in this neck of the woods. Apart from a couple of leaflets from the Greens, there might as well not be an election. Maybe in more divided constituencies candidates are fighting for every vote. Here in Brighton Pavilion Queen Caroline has abdicated and her heir is pretty much assumed to be going to win. I'd guess Labour have quietly decided not to argue and the Tories know they haven't a hope.

  • rebel11
    rebel11 Online Community Member Posts: 1,690 Pioneering
    edited June 2024
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/875422#Comment_875422

    I'm not talking about their politics / decsions. I complained to The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) about the Conservative Government regards 'Austerity'. I have the emails. I'm talking about them as an entity.

    If were talking 'crazy' policies, I'd start saying they withdrew 'free school milk', free school meals etc (this is going back some decades).

    Also, even if politicians don't believe in policies, they 'go with the flow', there's always some 'horse-trading' to be done, 'I'll vote for your policy, if you vote for mine'.

    Keir Starmer / Corbyn is a 'good example'.

  • JW77
    JW77 Online Community Member Posts: 240 Empowering

    As I replied on another post.

    I read the manifestos (although I had to push myself to read the conservatives)
    Benefits & Work has created a summary of how all the manifestos stand on benefits and disability etc

    I've already postal voted. Let's just hope the proposed drop for conservatives is real!

    https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,527 Championing

    JW it is real! 😅 I've never known a General Election like this one though.

    I've read that Sir Keir Starmer plans to 'super-charge' the Windrush compensation scheme 👏 and is willing to consider reversing the two-child benefit cap so I'm hopeful that he will protect welfare benefits and all vulnerable claimants. Why wouldn't he? Those are core Labour values.

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