Scottish Labour are expelling members who voted for anyone else at the last election

[andrewducker]

So, if you're a Labour member, and you vote tactically, that's you out...

(Personally, I'd think that if people who actively paid to be a member of my party had voted for someone else, my priority would be to get them to change their vote, not their membership...)

From - and Guardian coverage here.

Edit: I know Lib-Dem members who voted Labour at the last election, to keep the SNP out, and ones who voted SNP to keep Labour out. I don't blame either group. Under FPTP I expect people to vote however makes sense in an individual seat at a given time. (Unless they're focussed on the long-term view, of course.)

Comments

[pseudomonas]

I wonder how much work a Compliance Officer gets.

[miss_s_b]

The issue is not voting for another party, it's encouraging others to do so publicly. You don't get kicked out of the LDs for that, you have to actually STAND for another party to get kicked out, but even so, I can see where they are coming from. It's a bit of a faux pas having it come as a diktat from London though.