Writing this as I’ve just had my mail delivered and all of it was election material. About 6 envelopes(some addressed to me personally) all containing election things that went straight to the bin. The funny thing is that every single one said ‘vote X to stop Y’.
Reform are ‘vote us to stop Labour and the SNP’. Labour are ‘vote us to stop the SNP and Reform’. The Tories are ‘vote us to stop the SNP’. The SNP are ‘vote us to stop Labour’.
Do any of these parties have anything other than ‘we’re bad, but the other options are worse’?? That was Labour’s whole thing in the last General Election and look at them now. Somehow are more unpopular than the last Tory government, and that takes some doing.
I’m very tempted to spoil my ballot tomorrow as none of these parties seem to have anything to offer except ‘we aren’t them’.
I understand tactical voting exists and that sometimes you do have to pick the worst from a bad batch but this to me is ridiculous, parties should have reasons to vote for them instead of hoping that enough people are sick of every other one.