{"id":23436,"date":"2019-09-15T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T12:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=23436"},"modified":"2019-09-15T13:51:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T12:51:01","slug":"thats-my-vote-sorted-for-the-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=23436","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s My Vote Sorted For The General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a lifelong Labour voter. In my youth, I was even an active member. But I simply cannot vote for them while Jeremy Corbyn is leading them. That\u2019s just on general policies and leadership issues, though. Corbyn\u2019s turn-and-turn-about half-and-half stance on Brexit is a separate reason why I wouldn\u2019t vote Labour, no matter who was leading them.<\/p>\n<p>I have only voted for one other party in my life, and that was at the last elections. My vote was specifically for an anti-Brexit party and, in hindsight, it was a wasted vote. ChangeUK made the right noises, but it wasn\u2019t their time.<\/p>\n<p>The Lib Dems gained a lot of votes in those elections, <a title=\"Lib Dems pledge to cancel Brexit if they win general election\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-49706643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">but now they\u2019ve come right out and said that they will cancel Brexit if they are elected in the forthcoming General Election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve got my vote. I was already planning to vote tactically this time. Now I won\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n<p>Brexit was a national embarrassment on 24 June 2016, and it has become more so with every single day that has passed since then. The sooner it is stopped, the better we will be able to repair the material damage it has caused. As for the underlying social damage, well quite frankly, those idiots who got us into this back in 2016 can go to hell. It\u2019s where they were trying to take the rest of us these last three years, so they\u2019ll be quite at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a lifelong Labour voter. In my youth, I was even an active member. But I simply cannot vote for them while Jeremy Corbyn is leading them. That\u2019s just on general policies and leadership issues, though. Corbyn\u2019s turn-and-turn-about half-and-half stance on Brexit is a separate reason why I wouldn\u2019t vote Labour, no matter who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brexit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}