how can i vote in the next election

Folks died in order that we now have secret franchise and I feel it is beholden to them that continue to vote. I will always register my vote by going to the polling station, but will probably write "None of the above" on the form.
The art of politics is compromise and in what is now effectively a two party system, we don't get compromise as both are hell bent on their own agendas.

Someone upthread says that labour gather the debts and the tories try to pay them off too quickly....can I just inform her that THIS Tory government has borrowed MORE money in this term of office than ALL Labour governments EVER .They inherited 800billion ,its now sitting around 1.7 trillion...how is that being fiscally efficient or even capable ?
I am not a labour supporter but credit where its due .The tories have been the worst government in history

Lib Dems are, in my eyes, the only people who've had any integrity over the Brexit stupidity. I will never vote Conservative again after the damage Cameron has done. Not voting is not an option, given the sacrifices made for the women's vote.

I will vote Labour, the only party that has a chance of beating this ghastly government. And again I am disappointed to find so many TERF-like comments on Gransnet.

If I feel unable to support any of the parties, I would just spoil my ballot paper. At least then I have exercised my right to vote that the likes of Emily Pankhurst fought so hard for us ladies.

Although I have been as dismayed as most with how the Tory MPs have behaved recently, surely nobody in their right mind would think that this country would be safe under Corbyn?

He holds Venezuela up as a country and economy to aspire to for God's sake!

Well if you can' make your own mind up consider voting for the party who has the NHS a heart.

Well if you can' make your own mind up consider voting for the party who has the NHS a heart.

So you're saying obstain? Cause thats none of them

And again I am disappointed to find so many TERF-like comments on Gransnet.

It can't be a surprise that there are ppl on GN who think that being female should remain a characteristic that is protected from discrimination.

Where I live is a safe Tory seat, I have voted for and campaigned at every election for Labour . Only the tories, libs and Labour stand here. I did think I would vote for the Libs this time but sorry varian has put me off voting for them. So I will not vote.

For me, the NHS policy of any party is a key issue and likely to be an indicator of whether they have the best interests of all their fellow citizens at heart.
Fortunately, for those of in Scotland, our government does have the NHS at heart and is fighting to keep it free at the point of need.

Turn the question round. Someone WILL form the next government. In deciding where to place your vote - you need to know how you rank the possible future governments- so effectively you vote for your 'least awful'.

Its disgraceful that people won't vote after others have fought and died to get us the vote. I don't like JC but I will vote still vote labour to keep the NHS and get more social housing and hopefully put people first.

My area is a massive conservative stronghold, and until the way the count is changed I'm out. I haven't voted for a long time (actually since we moved here) apart from Brexit, as votes were counted fairly for that.

I wouldn't vote for Corbyn and I wouldn't vote Conservative (although I do find Boris quite interesting, so if he got to be leader I might seriously look at his manifesto!) . We need a whole new dynamic.

Women died to give women the vote. Not to vote is so wrong.... You have to use the vote these women died for to give you.

Wait to see what the situation is at the time, hopefully we should all have a better picture of how it’s all paining out by then.
That’s Hopefully with a capital H.?

Ohhps meant ‘ panning out not paining out’ but actually perhaps the computer knows something I don’t ?

The Lib Dems have been out of power for so very long that they are out of touch in every way, and they are highly likely never to be in power again I should think.
The present Labour lot are a shower and would ruin the country, and the Conservatives are torn apart just now.
The Greens are just laughable.
So, doing as David1968 suggests and writing on our ballot paper what we really think is a pretty good idea.

A good friend who has been a Labour supporter all their life tells me they are considering voting anything but next time round, however, a Tory friend tells me the same should be interesting! I think I will look closely at the Independents on the ballot paper although writing what I think instead might be an option.

I won't be voting SNP, that I do know. Nicola Sturgeon is so obsessed with independence that she is happy ignore an NHS in decline, whose performance on just about every level is on a downward slide. And all this on record funding, as the SNP like to remind us constantly.

From a world class education system Scotland's schools are now sliding down the PISA ratings and they cannot recruit staff. Attainment is stalling and that of children living with deprivation is below the levels of other countries.

As for no university fees - that's only applicable to the young people who can actually get into university. Approximately a quarter of Scottish applicants are turned down for a place at a Scottish university which means we're missing out on talent, plus only half of medical school places go to Scottish students.

My student medic dd hopes to leave Scotland when she is qualified as she doesn't want to live in the parochial, nationalistic society that much of Scotland has become. If she does, that means three out of four of my dc have taken their not inconsiderable talents elsewhere. They don't want to be big fish in a small pond which I guess is why Alex Salmond has always preferred Westminster to Holyrood.

Maybe look for a party, the greens, an Independent or even stand yourself, just so long as you vote for somebody you believe in, (or write “a plague on all your houses” on the ballot paper), even if as our current system forces upon you, it is actually not going to make a vast difference. I am just reading Neville Shute’s ‘In the Wet’ which whilst fiction and written in 1954, suggests multiple votes for different types of people, an interesting idea. Me, I am all in favour of proportional representation, but don’t actually believe it will occur during my lifetime since it would defeat our current crop of “professional” politicians who, as a class, are appalling people.

In response to Petunia - I hope there will be no election before Brexit is settled. BUT if not, the characteristics of candidates would not be relevant. Simply which party would represent us in the negotiations best (well least badly).

The way I see it. I voted ‘Leave’ and it should be just that - time will tell. If Brexit goes pear-shaped or doesn’t happen, I feel inclined to never ever vote again. What a scenario if all Leavers never voted again! All party MP’s should be getting their heads together and see through to what the country voted for - LEAVE. It’s pretty clear.

I feel that if we don’t leave the European Union because of politicians sly tactics then democracy doesn’t exist in this country anymore. There was a democratic vote and the people spoke, if that is manipulated then I won’t vote again.

Proportional representation looks good on paper, in theory the multiple parties scramble to make deals and form aliances with each other behind doors and in the process completely sell out their voters. Just look at how coalitions have worked here so far. Proportional representation = coalitions on steriods, with parties doing complete 180s on the very policies that got them voted in in order to join the leading alliance.

Grass isn't greener.