[jaxie]

I'm what you might call a floating voter. I often struggle to find a party I believe in and respect enough to vote for. I used to go Lib Dem as the lesser evil but after the betrayal of the students in the last parlement I will never vote for them again as I can be very unforgiving.

My roots are Labour, my dad would spin in his grave if I ever voted Tory, and I should be a natural socialist with how I view the world and the people in it. Yet the Labour party turns me off as much as the Tories do. I can't warm to any of the leaders. Brown and his back door leadership deal and facial habit that reminded me of a toad. The humiliation of the lady who asked about immigration and was branded a bigot. Ed with his attempts to look caring and concerned just came across almost as patronising as a Tory and a bit weird. Corbin feels like a step backwards to the 70s little grey men and someone needs to tell him the point of a nuclear deterrent is that you don't tell everyone you'd never push the button. I can never warm to this man he is not a leader. I admired a speech Hilary Ben gave on action over Syria. Someone like him could engage voters more I think. Though I don't agree with him on Europe.

I would love a political home, a party I can believe in and I feel it should be labour and yet they cannot engage me as a potential voter. I often feel that I am one of those lost to all parties, not particularly rich not particularly poor, dont live on benefits, pay my taxes I'm the middle no one seems to speak up for or represents, gets hit with every new tax, crippled by winter fuel bills when prices are high, of no particular interest politically to any of them. Yet I might argue that those of us in the middle, paying our way may often be poorer and have harder times than those who live on benefits. Often it's a struggle to pay our way. Who represents us?

I am a passionate vote leave EU and I feel that Labour should be too and yet the party line continues to waffle in favour of an institution that Labour naturally should stand against. The EU decimated fishing communities and shouldn't those people and their needs be at the heart and soul of Labour? Where was their voice when this happened? Labour should be the natural champions against the undemocratic EU taking power from the people but they are not. I never really understood that until a recent article which said that Jacques Delores made a speech to the TUC in 1988 and convinced them that Brussels lack of democracy could be used to implement left wing ideas without voters consent. This makes me feel incredibly sold out.

Thoughts anyone?