@JoBo @thehatfox This is not sensible.
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JoBo@feddit.uk 10 months 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 10 months ago
Elkenders@feddit.uk 10 months ago
What would you recommend?
JoBo@feddit.uk 10 months 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.
Elkenders@feddit.uk 10 months 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 10 months 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).