Tactical Voting Could Wipe the Tories Out for a Generation. Here’s How I Think It Should Be Done

THE GUARDIAN: Voters are realising that we have the chance of a lifetime to consign this destructive, incompetent party to third place

With coordinated tactical voting in this election, the unthinkable could become possible. We pretty much know that Labour will form the next government, probably with a large majority (I’m sure even Tories have placed a bet on that). But such is the country’s visceral loathing for the Conservative party – its lies, entitlement, scandals and incompetence – that millions are now hoping that it will be voted into third place. This could change the course of British politics for at least a generation.

Everywhere, including in the foreign media, tactical voting is a huge story. This is the political opportunity of our lifetime. I’m part of the tactical voting website team at Stopthetories.vote, where you type in your postcode and, based on the latest polling, you’re informed how best to vote to make sure that a Tory candidate does not win in your constituency. Others will be using different platforms with the same aim. » | Carol Vorderman | Wednesday, July 3, 2024

My followers and my regular visitors will know that I have been saying for years now, ever since Brexit in fact, that the Tories need to go the way of the Whigs: into oblivion. Or, put another way, as a punishment for that ridiculous Brexit, they should go the way of the dodo: into extinction. The party is a fossil, and it is populated by many fossils too. Old, stale, über-rich and often corrupt people who think of the past and often live in the past, too. There is little consideration given to the circumstances of the 'little people' or of the benefits of EU membership for them, either. And for the less fortunate and underprivileged? They don't even come on the Tories' radar screen. The time has come to teach these selfish unrepresentative 'representatives' a hard lesson. Tomorrow is your chance to do so! I probably will not vote. None of the parties offer me what I want. Therefore, I am up a creek without a paddle. Or put into politcal jargon, I am disenfranchised. I am an ex-Tory voter who will never vote for the spivs ever again. I am a full-blooded European. The Tories have taken the rug from under my feet, and I shall never forgive them for it. – © Mark Alexander