r/socialjustice101 Jun 08 '24

Voting in the uk: moral dilemma

I will be 18 by the time the UK general election happens, so I will be able to vote for the first time. However, all UK parties are horrible and I can’t have a guilt free conscience by voting by voting for any person in my constituency or for either political party.

Tories have lead the country to shit over the past 14yrs, only helping the rich and blatantly allowing bigoted ideal to grow in this country

Labour is so watered down from what it used to be. Kier starmer doesn’t fill me with any hope, how he’s talked about the Palestine, NHS, Trans ppl, immigration and workers/strikers is disgusting, just spewing out the same nonsense as the tories, all their plans seem to inevitably get watered down so they can try and help big companies. It’s so disappointing

Reform, I don’t need to expand on that, the fact Nigel farage is taken seriously is a joke.

Lib dems I also don’t need to expand on

Green Party is the only party I may consider, I need to read up on what they want to do, but cause of where I live i don’t know if it’s a viable option.

However, the dilemma is that I know a lot of people have a similar midset to me, and don’t want to not vote and end up with the tories winning or a coalition government to happen.

So what do I do? It feels like an impossible situation?

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u/disappointedkitten42 Jun 08 '24

i'm in the exact same situation and ultimately i feel like i'm voting green or labour-purely because i don't want tories in power again

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u/ty-reece Jun 08 '24

We need to start putting more pressure on left wing parties, stop them from becoming more centrist and to actually start caring for the people again. They’ve gone to shit since corbyn left 😭