I visited a Telford high street to talk to voters ahead of the General Election and this is what they had to say
Uncertainty was the only sure thing on the streets of Telford on Monday, as we asked residents which way they'd be voting.
For the first 18 years of the constituency's existence, Telford was painted solidly red.
But in 2015, a very narrow victory saw Telford become an emblem for the Tories' post-Blair renaissance under David Cameron when Lucy Allan unseated Labour's David Wright by just 730 votes.
An even tighter election in 2017 saw the Tory's barely hung on, with just 720 votes between Ms Allan and Labour's candidate, now Lord Kuldip Sahota.
But in the tumultuous 'Get Brexit Done' era, residents turned out to vote blue. In 2019, 10,941 votes separated Ms Allan and the labour candidate, Katrina Gilman.
At the same time as people were turning out to turn Telford conservative, voters were increasing Labour's majority in the local council.
Over the last decade, Labour have increased their control of Telford & Wrekin Council, gaining nine seats in 2019, and two more in 2023.
It's led to a few years of rancorous politics between the town's MP and the local authority - most notably over the future of Telford's A&E services.
Conservative hopes of hanging on at the upcoming election look to be waning - with Lucy Allan herself throwing her support behind Reform UK last month.
As of Monday, the polls are predicting Leader of Telford & Wrekin Council, Labour candidate Shaun Davies to win the seat, amid rumblings of a national landslide victory for the party.
But if Councillor Davies and the rest of the Labour Party are to see the predictions come true, they'll need people to turn up to the polls on July 4.
Had they been on the streets of Oakengates with us on Monday, any confidence in a sure win would have been quickly dashed.
From the dozens of people we spoke to, well over 80 per cent of them weren't planning on voting for anyone. "I'm sick to death of it all," one man said as he waved us off.
Kevin Laney, 63 from Sutton Hill, said he hadn't bothered to register this time around.
"I've voted a couple of times in the past," Kevin said. "But there's no point. Unless you make it compulsory it'll never be a true vote. I didn't bother last time and I won't bother this time."
30-year-old Nathan Bateman from Trench wasn't planning on voting either. He said: "I'm not into politics and I'm not going to vote on something that I'm not massively educated on.
"I think they're all the same. I'm not happy with what we've had, but I think if I vote for someone else it's not going to change anything."
Jagdeep Bahri, 58 from Hollinswood agreed: "Whoever gets in, it won't make a difference. It just ends the same way.
"I used to vote, but I don't bother anymore. It just seems like they're all in it to line their own pockets, they don't represent us. We don't count - us at the bottom."
Not everyone was planning on avoiding the polls, however. Carole Buchanan, 70 from St Georges, said she was a traditional Labour voter and would be voting for them again this year, but said the current leadership had made it "very difficult" for her to stay true.
"I'm not happy with Kier," she said. "I think the party has been going too far to the right. But when it comes down to it, I'll be voting Labour. I don't want the Conservatives in again."
Leslie Slater, 75, believed that Labour would be victorious on the day, but was planning on staying loyal to the Conservative Party.
"I think what they [the Conservatives] are doing is slow but sure. I don't think anybody else would have done any better, with Covid and Brexit and the wars. Anyone who comes in now is going to have a really hard time."
75-year-old Nick Haseley, from Ketley Bank, said he would be voting Green for the first time in his life - after he said the main parties had left him with no other choice.
"Who can I vote for? None of them are worth an iota. It's put me in a quandary. I've got to vote so I'm voting Green. I wouldn't call it a protest vote - more like a frustration vote."
For those voting in the Telford constituency, here's a list of your options on polling day:
Conservatives: Hannah Campbell
Labour: Shaun Davies
Liberal Democrats: Jo McKenna
Reform UK: Alan Adams
Greens: John Adams