My voting history. First #GeneralElection I was eligible for was 1992. That was just after the poll tax & I think I wasn't on the register. In 1997 I voted for @Lisa_Lovebucket of the Rainbow Referendum Dream Ticket Connection Party (I had to Google that to get it right)...
... & put a Reclaim The Streets "Never mind the ballots" sticker up in the polling booth. Thru the rest of the New Labour years I spoiled my vote as referenced in the @cartoonkate 'Blame me, I voted Lib Dem" cartoon cartoonkate.co.uk/this-is-actual… In 2015 I looked at how UKIP had...
... shifted the Overton window rightwards, even without winning a seat, so I decided I would vote for a party rather than writing what I thought & felt on the ballot. I voted Green. Neither them nor Labour had a chance in our constituency at that point
After that election...
After that election...
... was when Corbyn became LOTO. I didn't join the Labour Party at that point but I did hope he would win. Going back to the New Labour elections I had said that I couldn't vote for New Labour but if I was in the constituency of someone like Corbyn or John McDonnell I would...
.. consider voting for them. And so it went on till the Referendum. I voted Remain tho I'm not uncritical of the EU (remember Greece anyone?) I couldn't believe it when, at the Tories point of greatest weakness the PLP turned on Corbyn. I was raging & joined the Labour Party...
... at that point to defend the best chance we have had of radical change in this country well before the #ChickenCoup plotters finally got it together to put up a candidate
Needless to say I've #VotedLabour ever since
I'll be off to #VoteLabour later this afternoon 🌹
#GE2109
Needless to say I've #VotedLabour ever since
I'll be off to #VoteLabour later this afternoon 🌹
#GE2109
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