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Question: For which UK political party would/do you vote?
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« Reply #25 on: December 26, 2016, 12:17:21 PM »

Not really sure at this point. Lean Conservative, I guess.
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« Reply #26 on: December 26, 2016, 12:47:50 PM »

Tory all the way. It is the type of party I wish were in the US, but sadly isn't.
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« Reply #27 on: December 26, 2016, 12:51:36 PM »

Lib Dem who would consider strategically voting C or L depending on the circumstance. If in Scotland, I might start supporting SNP, but Lib Dem is my first choice.
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« Reply #28 on: December 26, 2016, 01:31:16 PM »

Labour, albeit with a wish for a change in leadership. Wouldn't want to back a centre-right party like the SNP.

I thought the SNP was center-left?
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« Reply #29 on: December 26, 2016, 01:48:26 PM »

I would probably consider myself a Conservative, and would vote accordingly. 
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« Reply #30 on: December 26, 2016, 02:28:34 PM »

People are really overestimating how "moderate" the Conservative party are.

Hint, there are far more Jacob Reese-Moggs than there are Anna Soubreys.
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« Reply #31 on: December 26, 2016, 03:50:41 PM »

Labour, though I might've backed the Lib Dems in 2005 when they were opposed to Iraq.
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« Reply #32 on: December 26, 2016, 04:29:27 PM »

UKIP.  But will tactically vote Tories. 
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« Reply #33 on: December 26, 2016, 04:49:15 PM »

Labour, albeit with a wish for a change in leadership. Wouldn't want to back a centre-right party like the SNP.

I thought the SNP was center-left?

Their ideology is Scottish independence so they go with the winds. Sturgeon is a member of the party's left when Scottish independence was all about STANDING AGAINST TORY AUSTERITY; Salmon was a member of the right when becoming an Ireland-with-oil-esque tax haven was in vogue. As the political winds turn, they will pick up another leader with a fish-themed name who will subscribe to whatever ideology is popular at that current minute. Maybe First Minister Pilchard will strike a case for a business friendly alternative to Comrade Corbyn's People's Republic of the British Isles, or something.
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« Reply #34 on: December 26, 2016, 05:08:12 PM »

Tory, for sure.
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« Reply #35 on: December 26, 2016, 06:05:10 PM »

SNP and Plaid always (if possible). Labour or Lib Dem depending on what area I lived in (if in England). I'd probably back the party with a better chance in my area.
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« Reply #36 on: December 26, 2016, 06:56:23 PM »

I would probably consider myself a Conservative, and would vote accordingly. 

Lol, then you should be a republican, otherwise you would not be a Tory, or vote for any center-right party in Europe. Your ideology doesn't seem to fit into the Tory ranks, you'd probably be in the social liberal wing of the lib dems, or on the right wing of labour.
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« Reply #37 on: December 26, 2016, 07:26:15 PM »

Proud Tory.

Maybe I'd vote for Lib Dem sometimes, but who knows.
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« Reply #38 on: December 26, 2016, 10:12:01 PM »

Conservative, but not as enthusiastically as before. Theresa May's betrayal of Israel at the UN has really dampened the recent high affection I had for the Party.
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« Reply #39 on: December 27, 2016, 12:06:32 AM »

Liberal Democrat, sometimes voting for the Conservatives.
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« Reply #40 on: December 27, 2016, 12:22:41 AM »

I would have joined Labour for Corbyn.
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« Reply #41 on: December 27, 2016, 03:55:41 AM »

You're making more sense than most of the "Conservative" "leftists" here.
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« Reply #42 on: December 27, 2016, 07:23:25 AM »

I see my political position as in the area the Greens, Labour and Lib Dems overlap, and could vote for any of those in the right circumstances but think that given the way the UK system works it makes most sense to support Labour, as the main opposition to Conservatism.
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« Reply #43 on: December 27, 2016, 07:34:12 AM »

I am a Labour Party member, for my sins.
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« Reply #44 on: December 27, 2016, 07:42:29 AM »

I would probably consider myself a Conservative, and would vote accordingly. 

Lol, then you should be a republican, otherwise you would not be a Tory, or vote for any center-right party in Europe.
Simply not the case. There are a number of people on the left wing of the Conservative party who made it very clear both this year and in 2012 that if they were able to vote in the US Presidential election they would have voted for the Democratic candidate. This category most notably includes the former Prime Minister David Cameron. It is unusual for a sitting UK Prime Minister to make his prefernces for a US election known but Cameron did this, not only in 2016 but also in 2012.
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« Reply #45 on: December 27, 2016, 08:00:48 AM »

I would probably consider myself a Conservative, and would vote accordingly. 

Lol, then you should be a republican, otherwise you would not be a Tory, or vote for any center-right party in Europe.
Simply not the case. There are a number of people on the left wing of the Conservative party who made it very clear both this year and in 2012 that if they were able to vote in the US Presidential election they would have voted for the Democratic candidate. This category most notably includes the former Prime Minister David Cameron. It is unusual for a sitting UK Prime Minister to make his prefernces for a US election known but Cameron did this, not only in 2016 but also in 2012.

Although in 2008 Cameron backed McCain, whereas Daniel Hannan backed Obama.
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« Reply #46 on: December 27, 2016, 10:12:07 AM »

I would probably consider myself a Conservative, and would vote accordingly. 

Lol, then you should be a republican, otherwise you would not be a Tory, or vote for any center-right party in Europe.
Simply not the case. There are a number of people on the left wing of the Conservative party who made it very clear both this year and in 2012 that if they were able to vote in the US Presidential election they would have voted for the Democratic candidate. This category most notably includes the former Prime Minister David Cameron. It is unusual for a sitting UK Prime Minister to make his prefernces for a US election known but Cameron did this, not only in 2016 but also in 2012.

Although in 2008 Cameron backed McCain, whereas Daniel Hannan backed Obama.
Well Hannan is a friend of that snake in the grass Douglass Carswell. Both, of course, were never Trump sympathisers in this years election. Two peas in a pod those two, wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.

As for Cameron's 2008 stance that may have been made possible by McCain's more moderate position (except on neoConservatism which Cameron, like his role model Blair, also supports) and may partly be because Cameron was a new leader at the time and willing to occasionally pretend to his right wing backbenchers that he was some kind of conservative.
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« Reply #47 on: December 27, 2016, 10:25:49 AM »

I would vote for some virtual unknown if the Tory and UKIP candidates are pro-abortion (at least on whatever abortion-related issue is being fought in UK right now).
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« Reply #48 on: December 27, 2016, 10:29:24 AM »

I'd be a disillusioned Laborite looking more at the Greens/Lib Dems if I lived in England and some of the nationalist parties if I lived elsewhere.
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« Reply #49 on: December 27, 2016, 10:31:50 AM »

Lib Dem since Jeremy Corbyn
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