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Anyone else considering spoiling their ballot in the next election? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by K3zi4@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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Don't get me wrong, I will probably cave at the last minute and vote SNP again for a number of reasons. Mostly, being supportive of a number of their progressive policies that I have benefited from over the years, and also because my constituency is a two horse race between them and the Tories who I will never vote for. Though the SNP are probably now at their lowest point in years since they finally managed to oust Sturgeon.

I will also never vote Labour, they have no identity here and during the 2019 election they were campaigning for the Tories to oust SNP here, so 100% fuck them too.

I once voted for Lib Dem and we ended up with the catastrophic Clegg/Cameron coalition (though due to FPTP my vote didn't matter there.)

I would like to vote for Green, but it would be a wasted vote here.

It's just bizarre to me that Westminster's voting system is such that a vast majority of votes in the UK are binned, how is this considered normal?

Sorry for the rant, but I am just so incredibly disillusioned with politics in this shitehole of a country but absolutely refuse to be passive about it since that is what they want us to be.

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[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 4 points 7 months ago

After a boundary change a lot of people I know are now in one of the safest seats in the country, so their vote is pointless but most still get out and vote - some for the Greens (as the more votes they get, the clearer it is the system is broken) and I know one person who has been spoiling their vote for 50 years in a protest about something or other.

I'm in a previously Tory seat that's now solidly Labour and should stay that way in my lifetime but it doesn't pay to take your eye off the ball.

The worst thing is not voting, as the Tories will use voter apathy as an excuse to wriggle out of taking responsibility for their trouncing. So if you can't bring yourself to vote for anyone then spoiling your paper is better than not voting.