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.

  • frazw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    8 months ago

    Not really, the conservatives steam rollered the lib dems. Ultimately it was just a conservative agenda enabled by the lib dems.

    • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      The lib Dems, unfortunately, relied on us votes being rational. They gave up most of their agenda to get a vote on changing away from FFTP. Unfortunately, enough people used it as a protest vote against them.

      • HelloThere@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        8 months ago

        They gave up most of their agenda

        This isn’t particularly true tbh, whilst they absolutely gave up on student loans, they still got a lot of their manifesto implemented. To the point their activists bragged about it during the 2015 election.

        https://whatthehellhavethelibdemsdone.com/

        The major problem is that they also believed in the economically illiterate policy of austerity, so it didn’t matter what they achieved because they were still burning the house down.

    • Nighed@sffa.communityEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      There was compromise though, I can’t remember exactly what it was, but I seem to remember them taking the crazy off the top of the conservative agenda and bringing them closer to centre?

      That was before I could vote though, so wasn’t entirely paying enough attention.

      • HelloThere@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        8 months ago

        In a word, yes. They moderated the Tories. Arguably that moderation made the Tories seem less bad and led to them winning in 2015.