@JoBo @thehatfox This is not sensible.
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JoBo@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Literally no point voting for the Tory seat-warmers. Even if you concede that they can’t be worse, rewarding this behaviour just dooms us to, at best, treading water while the Tories pull themselves together and then pick up where they left off.
Been there, done that, it got us where we are today. Fuck that, fuck Labour.
midgephoto@photog.social 1 year ago
Elkenders@feddit.uk 1 year ago
What would you recommend?
JoBo@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I’m assuming you mean for voting, the least important thing you can do, politically.
It doesn’t matter much. Protest vote (if there’s a good protest vote available to you), spoil your ballot (if there’s something you want to say because it will be read by bored candidates), or stay at home (so that you don’t add to turnout). In the vanishingly unlikely event that your local Labour candidate is an actual leftist, vote for them.
For more meaningful action, whatever works for you. Protest, direct action, letter-writing. In the vanishingly unlikely event that your local Labour candidate is an actual leftist, campaign for them (and turn out to support them when the leadership inevitably comes for them).
Just don’t pretend that voting for the least worst option will give you better options in future. It will not.
lasagna@programming.dev 1 year ago
Your post is quite representative of the Tory support base.
People other than this poster reading this. Great people fought and died in order for you to have this much civil power now. This is very much a case of using it or losing it. The ID requirements are baseless and just the beginning of that loss.
JoBo@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I grew up under Thatcher, looked on with disbelief in 1983, 1987 and 1992, and celebrated with almost everybody in 1997. Then they attacked single parents, loaded the NHS and schools up with PFI debt, failed to reregulate the banks and deliberately reinflated the housing bubble. Inequality continued rising and the Tories supported them every step of the way.
Voting for the least worst option means you end up with no good options. Do what you feel you have to at the ballot box but don’t pretend it means anything. If you won’t fight them, you’re helping bury us all.
Elkenders@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I’d rather be sure the least worst win and still protest etc I think. It’s a Tory stronghold where I live though, and ukip matched the labour votes last election.
JoBo@feddit.uk 1 year ago
As long as you’re holding their feet to the fire, what you do at the ballot box is your call. In safe seats, you can do whatever the fuck you want (but unless the candidate lines up with your politics, simply voting Labour as if all was fine with the world is the worst thing you can do).