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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2024/jun/11/how-britain-became-a-food-bank-nation What a change in 14 years

Agreed, the amount of people I've seen on social media saying they will be voting Reform is quite frightening, even before you see the even larger number of people who agree with them.

We used Bell and Sons years ago and couldn't fault them https://www.bellandsons.co.uk/

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Do you mean in seats where they trail way behind? Or in general?

Are you sure about this?

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I'm also not sure that as many people are going to switch from Tory to Labour as is thought, but I guess we will find out. My guess is that the split will be more even between the Lib Dems, Reform, Labour and the die hards who can't tear themselves away from their traditional vote.

My constituency is Harborough. It's tipped to go red, and I want to vote Lib Dem, the LD's will be a trailing 3rd in Harborough, so ultimately a wasted vote. I've swapped my vote with someone who lives in a very tight Tory/Lib Dem seat, and they will vote LD for me, in the hope it gets the LD candidate over the line. The person I have swapped with wants to vote Labour, but it would be a wasted vote in their constituency, so I will vote Labour in Harborough, and that will therefore help to get the Labour candidate in. It's a great way to make your vote count when we are constricted by constituencies where our votes wouldn't otherwise count.

It's with https://www.swapmyvote.uk/ Incredibly easy to use, and you can check the likelihood of your vote making a difference within the constituency of the person you agree to swap with before you choose. I had a couple of people offer to swap with me, I'd agreed to vote Labour in Harborough if someone would vote Lib Dem for me, and some of the offers I received were for pretty safe LD seats anyway, I chose someone who lives somewhere where the Tory/LD vote is pretty close in the hope it will help get the LD candidate over the line.

I hate the Euros being on at the same time as Wimbledon, same as I hate when the Wimbledon final has been on the same day as the UK GP.

I might be wrong but I think he can, he's just chosen not to. Someone should start a poll, my money would be on him voting Lib Dem depending on his constituency. I genuinely don't know any historical Tory voters who will be going the same way this time. Apart from my mother possibly, and maybe @Bellend Sebastian's inlaws. All DM readers, obvs.

It was never in doubt

If my husband wasn't still paying tax in the UK and my final salary pension wasn't there, and also our potential state pensions so I will also be paying my taxes there when the time comes, I would probably agree with you. I remember querying this ages ago, I think it was @Sampson who made some valid points. We also pay income tax and property tax in Spain but aren't eligible for the GE's here so I suppose we have to be able to vote somewhere? Conversely we can vote in the local elections here, but not in the UK... Regarding the over 67's, there ought to be some kind of Daily Mail test. Like, where did you read that? Oh in the Mail, vote revoked. Next!

Apart from them being neither Tory nor Labour Their desire to rejoin the EU, their stance on Gaza and Israel, their LBGTQ support, their ideas to reform immigration and the asylum seeker programme which is clearly broken... The UK needs a change, and for me they are the best on offer. I'll be very happy if they are able to form the opposition for the first time. Also, whilst I'm happy to answer your question Col I absolutely refuse to get drawn in to any arguments about my choice with anyone, I'm happy with it and I'm not going to argue about it, the same as I won't argue with anyone else about their choices. Unless it's Reform. We've all been well behaved regarding the GE and I'd hate for the thread to be closed now.

Yes obviously there's a fair amount of trust involved!

Isn't something like only 10% of land in the UK built on?

Thankfully I'm abroad all the time

Just realised I haven't answered the question yet. I'm swapping my vote with someone in Romsey and Southampton North who is going to vote Lib Dem for me, the polls there are currently at around 33% Tory and 31% LD, so hopefully it might make a difference. I will then vote Labour in my constituency, Harborough, for them. No point me voting Lib Dem there, and there's no point the person I'm swapping with voting Labour in their constituency.

Sorry I thought my question was pretty clear My question was how it can be seen as a negative trait to be 'well-informed, up-to-date, alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice and so on. I'm not convinced that being accused of being 'woke' is quite the insult the people who use it as such seem to think it is, that's all

It's taken from an article you posted to back up your claims of what 'woke' means?! More from your article: Woke definition: what does woke mean? In its modern-day, politicised context, ‘woke’ is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice’. The Urban Dictionary, meanwhile, explains that ‘being woke means being aware… knowing what’s going on in the community (related to racism and social injustice)’. Today, 'woke' is now best known as a negative political buzzword used to describe anything deemed too liberal or progressive. Again, in simple terms, woke means you are 'alert to racial prejudice and discrimination'. In today's world, it embodies a broader awareness of social inequalities. This is also taken from your article: The Guardian refer to anti-woke as an ideology in itself i.e. ' an attempt for the right to rebrand bigotry as a resistance movement'. My question was how it can be seen as a negative trait to be 'well-informed, up-to-date, alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice and so on. I guess if people aren't those things they would see them as negatives, but I don't see any of them as insults.

I skim read it, I particulary liked this bit If 'woke' feels like a loaded term, then other similar terms include 'politically correct', 'right on', 'enlightened', 'culturally sensitive' and 'conscious'. However, if you have any Piers Morgan-esque relatives, other synonyms for 'woke' might include 'snowflake' or 'tofu-eating wokerati'. Otherwise it pretty much says what I thought, and as the post above confirms.

Thanks, so nothing like what Col said then, and no reason for it to be an insult

I don't think what you have described there is anything to do with woke, though, is it?