Over Half Of Labour’s 2024 Vote Is Considering Switching To Lib Dem Or Greens
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/half-of-labours-voters-consider-switching-lib-dem-greens
by denyer-no1-fan
Over Half Of Labour’s 2024 Vote Is Considering Switching To Lib Dem Or Greens
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/half-of-labours-voters-consider-switching-lib-dem-greens
by denyer-no1-fan
45 comments
I’m entirely unsurprised since over half of Labour’s 2024 vote most likely fell into the “not the Tories” category rather than traditional Labour voters. If that was their mindset, it’s also safe to assume those same voters aren’t too enthused with some of his policies since the election and will be looking elsewhere for the next round.
Yeah and if they do, it will split the vote and put Farage in Number 10 in a landslide. The 20,000 ft view here is that Starmer’s Labour would rather have that than introduce proportional representation. (Just as they preferred a Tory government to a Corbyn premiership – their own leader at the time.) “Democracy.”
I voted Labour, and mostly have my entire life, I’ll be voting tactically, whatever helps keep Reform out of power.
I *wish* the Greens were trying a bit harder. This is your chance! Make some noise! Everyone hates Kier!
I voted Lib Dem but I would’ve voted Labour if it was going to be closer. Going forward it’ll be whatever keeps reform out of power. Tbh I would love for a left wing party who cares about immigration but that feels like a pipe dream
If they’d stop trying to chase flighty right-wing voters and pay more attention to their core centre-left constituency, they might do better.
Look the problem is pretty simple. Starmer got voted in because people were tired of austerity and culture wars. They wanted the change he promised.
Rather than doing anything, he has been responsable for even more cuts to social spending and has trown trans people under the bus
The Greens and Libdems exploding in popularity alongside Reform is hardly a surprise at this point
Has anyone else noticed that we now talk like there’s an election every year?
Labour have four more years to go, anyone who wants them out are just going to have to sit on their hands until then.
The problem with labour is that they don’t represent the actual workers any more.
You have one half of the labour party which is just the “same as usual” Tories in a different coloured tie.
You have the other half of the party that are just student activists who care more about trans and Palestine (not that we shouldn’t care about these things) than they do about British workers. Any policy is basically just “nationalise everything and have it as a state funded benefit”
We have no party (at least not one with a significant following) that is saying “higher wages and lower cost of living”.
Even Gary Stevenson (who I like BTW) is kind of missing the point by having his main goal as “tax the rich”. We tax the rich and tax the wealthy by forcing normal people’s wages up. Whose pocket does it come out of if our wages go up? The wealthy and the shareholders. So much of our welfare budget is spent on people who work. In my eyes that’s tax payer money subsidising low wages. Government hand outs aren’t for the benefit of us. They are for the benefit of employers.
I don’t see any political parties or influencers etc having wages as a primary concern but it’s the primary concern of the average Brit.
A labour party that was set up to represent workers is doing an abysmal job (including the left wing element of the party)
Tactual voting in 2024 was MASSIVE – the exit poll pointed to a large number of Lib Dem and Green voters voting Labour in order to stop the Tories. It’s perhaps not surprising many then now say they’d vote someone else
The missing fact is that manh if those looking elsewhere will still vote Labour if it’s needed tactically
I think about half their voters would have preferred someone else in 2024 as well but there were… other priorities
I voted labour, I’ll switch to the Lib dems next election
Ah yes I definitely believe that when push comes to shove and it’s labour or reform all of those people will stick to their guns
They’ll try frightening people like me with guff about splitting the vote and letting Reform in, but I don’t give a toss. If they want my vote they’ll have to earn it by actually offering policies I want. As it is I can’t say I particularly approve of freezing pensioners and tipping disabled people out of their wheelchairs.
Honestly my hope is the vote is so split no one gets absolute power. We’ve seen what that does in America right now. Coalition of all these bastards or bust.
County Durham used to be a Labour heartland and it’s looking more Reform every day
Hey turns out you screw over the LGBTQ community to chase after racists there are consequences.. who knew!
This Labour government is further to right than David Cameron’s – they lost me as a voter.
this country is fucked and in its death throes. our current welfare state is a financial black hole (keeping it as it is suicide, and people wonder why it’s being cut in the slightest of ways by this government). we have no real investment or research, we spaffed away a decade of the lowest interest rates in history, and covid was the death blow.
no party will (or be able to) address this (pensions and housing especially) until it explodes. i don’t see a way out that doesn’t result in sovereign default and mass overhaul of our parliamentary system. Personally im trying to get myself into a position to emigrate.
Labour are trying too hard to appeal to the right, and therefore losing more reliable voters on the left
Not surprised but the Greens are not the progressive party people think they are. They are NIMBYs and Conservation with a Small ‘c’
Again, look at the polling – it had Labour losing the seat by miles. The fact they didn’t points to reform struggling to turn polling into actual voting, and facing tactical voting positioned to stop them
If they need 9 point margin to barely win a seat then they’re really going to struggle in seats with smaller leads or where polling puts them behind
[https://lordashcroftpolls.com/2025/03/runcorn-by-election-reform-uk-in-pole-position/](https://lordashcroftpolls.com/2025/03/runcorn-by-election-reform-uk-in-pole-position/)
And 0% of Reforms 2025 vote is considering switching to Labour
Irrespective of Labour’s actions, the British media have been vehemently against Labour and Starmer since they were elected. This government has made many positive moves, such as closing tax loopholes, e.g., inheritance tax and for private schools, starting the renationalisation of energy and railway, and ending strikes, and they are underway with reforming the NHS. The trade deals with India and the USA seem good for Britain, and our relationship with the EU appears strong. Even the announcements on immigration is good for working-class people, and looks to force businesses to train and pay decent wages instead of slashing cuts by hiring “cheap labour” from abroad.
If you follow the media narrative, you would see the situation even worse (not a surprise given 80% of our media outlets are right wing and most social media platforms are even worse). I don’t doubt there are issues with some of their policies, but the people voted for 14 years of Tory austerity before this. After Brexit, Boris and Liz Truss, comparitvely I think what they are doing is good but they are starting from a low point and it will take time to see the benefits. I fear by the time things do seem to make a difference we will get a Farage government. I think they’re just at the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s a losing battle regardless of what they do.
So, for 2029, Labour votes will be split between three parties and 25% to Reform, while the right-wing unify and vote for Reform? Leftists do realize they’re shooting themselves in the foot, right?
Elected on not being the Tories.
All they seem to have left is hoping people vote for them not being Reform.
The political centre is intellectually bankrupt and completely void of ideas.
And I really don’t think the ideas need to be particularly great, but we are a year in and it’s being optics disasters (sticking it to pensioners, the disabled and farmers), and dogwhistling to the far right by slyly referencing Enoch Powell then saying it was an accident, as if a bunch of politics wonks in a room haven’t read that speech.
Just do a few things that make people’s lives better, so they think “oh, they made my life better, I quite like that”. It’s not cheating. It’s how politics works.
Starmer’s project looks burned. Guy is out of his depth and out of ideas.
Labour may try to pivot to Raynor, who is at least somewhat politically savvy, but the question of how different it will be depends on whether she can stand up to the power brokers behind the Labour Together project, and if they take her down with their usual thousand cuts should she choose to.
Before you jump remember how the Lib Dem’s lied about university fees not increasing, they should never ever be trusted. I honestly feel so sorry for young people fresh out of uni with the burden of 60k of debt on their shoulders, before they even start their careers
I am a labour supporter but I have recently found out I am more of a Union supporter than the rest of the party.
I will be voting tactically against reform.
I’ve spoiled my ballots for Labour every election since Starmer however with the recent reform shift I’m probably going to have to tactically vote.
I’m sorry but to anyone actually paying attention it’s painfully obvious that Starmer and McSweeney’s Labour Party do not care about electoral success.
People keep banging on about them “trying to appeal to the right” but the Party have more detailed data analysis than the public do and even we can see that this isn’t a viable strategy.
They’re implementing policies that we know and they know aren’t politically advantageous. It’s ideological for them rather than strategic. They have no intention of being a 2 term government, they did their job in sabotaging the left of the party and are now just treading water until they can all fuck back off to corporate lobbying positions as a reward for making a lot of rich people very rich.
I’m an immigrant who will become a citizen within the next year. I (nor any immigrant) will never, ever vote for Labour after how they immediately become Reform lite after the local elections.
Well, you would wouldn’t you?
I switched before the election though.
Honestly the left wingers in the comments who *still* think that mass immigration isn’t the most fundamental issue to address before the next election is insanity
What’s even more insane is the same people who presumably *must know* that mass immigration is the preferred state of affairs for the ultra wealthy, think they’re somehow sticking it to the wealthy by…continuing the policy that clearly favours the wealthy?
I’m sick of voting tactically. Im a millennial and all i’ve ever been able to do is vote Labour as that’s the leftmost party that’s been on offer, and the mainstream is more right than ever before.
Why is Labour competing with Reform? People who are thinking about Reform will literally never vote for Labour – if anything they’ll vote for the Tories nearer the time of election (when Kemi will be undoubtedly replaced by someone with higher core Tory voter base appeal). Labour needs to stick to the centre left, and bring together the different factions of the party – the student activists, the workers, and other folks who are socially progressive (even if they are less concerned with workers rights). Only by uniting the Corbynites, the Brownites and the Blairites, can you get a competent organisation that remotely resembles a successful left
I am in Liz Kendall’s constituency, I’m not going to vote for her if she stands for election again, after she cut disability benefits. I’m not disabled myself, but I know people who are.
A lot of people don’t realise that the popular vote Reform cling to don’t mean Squat, when a majority of the Labour voters I knew and spoke to, much preferred Lib Dems policies, but I’d never have voted for them just on the chance Tories or Reform got in. I am one of those that would of LOVED for a party to actually tax the wealthy and strongly compare the benefits of rejoining the EU and what would be required.
Well it’s hardly surprising, is it?
I didn’t vote for them in the last election, and I’m unlikely to do so in the next. If they want my vote, they can’t skate by on “Well at least we’re not Reform or the Tories!” while shifting further and further to the right, making them functionally identical to Reform and the Tories. They’re not going to win Reform seats, so they can fuck off trying.
I don’t vote for the tories, and it doesn’t matter to me whether they’re wearing red rosettes, blue ones, or light blue ones.
What an extremely hollow mandate this government lives on. I never thought a 400+ seat majority could be described as pathetic, but it really is, Starmer will be lucky if Labour even stay in at the next GE.
Fact is Labour’s base is a lot more fractured than he thinks, but they still turned up for the party at the GE, even if holding their nose from his leadership. At the very least he could have appealed to these people, and I’ve not seen him even try.
Instead he’s trying to court the Tories and Reform voters, people who wouldn’t vote for Kier Starmer even if he firebombed a migrant hotel himself.
What a cowardly government we have.
That is fine, I voted Labour but my local place is a safe Labour hold so that is why I vote them, otherwise it would be Lib Dem.
Id never vote for greens as i value my securty and my familys they want to get rid of our nuclear deterrent at a time when the world is on the brink which makes no sense at all
They should have voted for Lib Dem and Greens in 2024 when they had the chance.
Voted labour, will still vote labour. Did a lot more in a year than tories.
I’ve always voted tactically. Because we have a shit FPTP system.
I’m labour but always voted lib dem to get the tories out.
If we had a proportional representational system then well I’d vote for the local person who I thought would best represent me.
But I can’t.
Because our shitty FPTP system. It will never change because the incumbent party will never change the system. It sucks.
I’ll be going Green or Lib Dem too. The shift that came after the Corbyn failure seemingly has pushed the Labour party into grounds of being more conservative than the conservative party itself. Staking your claim on government by demonizing disabled people is one terrible way to make a start.
Then half of Labour voters either haven’t read the Greens’ policies or are on the far left themselves. The greens are about 1960s style high tax and nationalisation coupled with inane stances on infrastructure development, nuclear energy and defence. A party of student politicians who should be nowhere near power
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