#vote the fucking tories out

[donotbelasagne]

Yeah, no, I'm sorry I occupied the staff toilet for 45 minutes. I was busy looking at pictures of dogs at polling stations. That's on me! Won't happen again guys! Sorry!

[mistressdickens]

If you're in the UK and wondering who to vote for to ensure we dump the Tories in a ditch, take a look at Tactical voting. This is such an important year. Throw the tories in the bin.

[vordemtodgefeit]

‘nobody wants a general election, obviously’, says second PM in a row that wasn’t voted in by the general public, wasn’t even voted in by members of the party let alone the people he claims to represent, and whose party is predicted to lose said general election

[nausikaaa]

UK folks, the general election is set for the 4th of July 2024!

get registered to vote NOW! you must be registered by the 18th of June in order to be able to vote in this election.

check your constituency, as the lines have been redrawn.

check how your current MP has voted in regards to Israel and Palestine.

look into tactical voting; which party in your constituency is the most likely to beat the tories.

check you have a valid photo ID- if you don't, you can get a Voter Authority Certificate.

register for a postal vote if you don't want to/can't physically go the polls.

let's get the tories out!

[alphonsze]

If you’re in the UK and of voting age please make sure to be aware of your polling location, what you need to bring and when you need to go. Also please look at polling in your area and tactical voting plans. I know none of the options are great just now, but we cannot let apathy allow even worse candidates to take seats from the Tories.

JULY 4th

[amorphousblobqueen]

Something that I wish more people understood is that this election is no longer about who forms a government. That is a forgone conclusion at this point unless shit really hits the fan. This election is about who leads the opposition.

If the conservatives are allowed to get away with second place, they will still have the platform to poison our politics and rebuild to come back down the line.

If the lib dems get to finish second instead, they will get to set the narrative, the media will be forced to platform them more and the conservatives less, and we actually stand a chance at having the labour government held to account. Polls show that this is on the cards.

We are so close to a seismic shift in politics in this country.

But to do it, we need to vote tactically. We need to the number of lib dem seats where possible, but realistically they have a ceiling of support at around 70-75 seats. So the other half of the equation is to reduce the number of conservative seats as far below 70 as we can. There is no such thing as a safe tory seat this election, with enough tactical voting they can all be wiped out.

To that end, here are two resources that can help:

^^The most reliable tactical voting site with the greatest track record, proven to be legit unlike some of the fake ones that the tories have set up, and the only one that I know of purely focused on getting the tories out of power and out of the opposition.

^^An initiative to try to beat the tory and reform uk bot farms at their own game.

Together we can reach net zero tories

[deepermadness]

IT'S HAPPENING

HERE'S THE DATE: JULY 4TH

MAKE SURE YOU'RE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE AND GET YOUR ID READY

TIME TO GET RID OF THE TORIES FOREVER

Tell everybody. Get everything in order. Together we can stop the chaos!

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Hey hi hello to any fellow Brits reading this.

You probably know we have a general election coming up, which by the way, make sure you're registered to vote and have the qualifying photo ID.

And hey maybe you're a fence-sitter who doesn't want to vote for Labour for whatever reason.

Well, this post is giving you a reason to vote for Labour (or any party other than Tory if the candidate actually has a chance to win the seat).

You might have noticed that a lot of local and city councils have either gone bankrupt recently or are teetering on the edge, and that officially, it's the councils themselves that have been blamed, and uh yeah, that's horseshit.

The majority of a local council's funding comes from core grants given out by Westminster.

There's actually a limit on funding that local councils can raise via taxes, and like a whole lot of issues in the UK, that comes down to Margaret fucking Thatcher. It's also thanks to her that local councils don't have as much power over the local area as you'd ideally want them to.

(That's been eased a little since, but if a local council ain't got the money, they can't exercise that power.)

Suffice to say, local councils are very much dependent on funding from the central government.

And as you might imagine, 14 years of Tory government has just made it worse. From 2010 to 2020, that funding was cut by 40%.

Wanna know why hundreds of libraries have closed down? Or why public services like bin collections are almost entirely ran by corporations? Or why bin collections are now once a fortnight rather than once a week? Or why council houses haven't been built? Or why public toilets are being closed? Or why you have to Tokyo Drift on the drive to work because it's been 2 years and no one's done shit about that goddamn pothole? Or why parks seem to now be maintained by Big Foot and by the way Big Foot has also declared bankruptcy? Or why local arts have had their budget of 17 paperclips and a whistle reduced down to 10 paperclips and no whistle? Or why your local museum is effectively a mausoleum?

It is all down to this.

Your local council runs on a shoestring budget because Tory rule has deprived local councils of the funding that they need.

If the Tories win in July, this problem is just gonna get worse and worse and worse.

More councils are going to go bankrupt; more public services are going to be cut or underfunded; more vulnerable kids are going to fall through the cracks; more local services will be privatised; more pressing issues will be ignored because there's no money left over to fix it.

You might not like the current Labour party, but hi hello welcome to harm reduction politics. Maybe a Labour government won't fix this, but another 5 years of Tory rule is going to break this country.

So for god's sake, get over yourself and your leftist purity bullshit, and just fucking vote for Labour as a vote against the Tories.

[Information for this post comes from this video by Tom Nicholas]

[cosmologicalspoon]

i keep seeing anti-labour memes about how they're just tory lite and listen. listen i fucking get it ok they suck ass they do. sure kier starmer is flawed as fuck and labour is diluted conservatives sure. but diluted. is still LESS. if this election is gonna be a pick the lesser of two evils situation u gotta nut up and fucking vote for the lesser evil. i don't give a shit. srsly I dont care. I know it sucks I know its bad but u can't. u can't sit it out. u can't protest vote. it won't work. and the tories will stay in power

no matter how much u can hate on starmer (and trust me I hate on him a LOT) he will be better than the tories.

blair was also a labour leader considered tory lite and u kno what? yeah he sucked ass but he got Some shit done. the NHS flourished a lil under his leadership u can hate him all u want for not having been a left enough leader but he was a damn sight better than the tories wudve been

so when the election rolls around u gotta fucking suck it up buttercup. I hate seeing this kind of anti-labour rhetoric even in meme form cus it's just gonna either discourage voting especially among the left, or it will completely split the vote. and then we will b truly fucked.

vote smart. vote labour if u have to. unseat the tories and fucking get them the fuck out of power

[sky-larking]

[lost-carcosa]

[frogayyyy]

so has anyone got any idea what the fuck we're supposed to do in this general election? particularly when you're in a constituency where a vote for anyone except labour is a vote for the tories and a vote for labour is also a vote for tories (ie. tory policies.)

"democracy" it's an actual joke

[tuttle-did-it]

IF YOU HAVE VOTING RIGHTS IN THE UK PLEASE PLEASE VOTE THE FUCKING TORIES OUT OF OFFICE. POLLS OPEN TOMORROW (4 JULY). TAKE ID!

They've spent almost 15 years destroying every social structure we have. If we don't get them out now, the NHS will collapse, and so will what's left of the social supports we have for disabled people, elderly and children.

Get these fuckers out. Please.

[thetardisisnotourdivision]

PLEASE VOTE

I am seventeen years old and can't vote. My friends and I are living in a country that is quickly eroding our rights, and a lot of us live in abusive households that are perpetuated by the Tories scaremongering and media lies. Our only hope is the future, but under the Tories or Reform, our futures would be bleak.

None of us have the power to vote. None of us can do anything but watch as the voting takes place.

Please, if you were planning to spoil your ballot, please vote. Even if this only reaches one person it will have done it's job. Voting Labour isn't ideal, especially recently, but we have to get the Tories out, and a future under labour after spending our entire lives under the Tories will suddenly seem so much brighter. If you live in an area where you can afford to vote Lib Dem or Green, please do, because they're much better options. Just please vote. Please help to get rid of the Tories.

Our futures depend on you.

[brasskingfisher]

Today's Observer Cartoon, offered apros of nothing...

[oxventurequotes]

dob: egbert says register to vote