what was/is your parents preferred political party?

My mum and GPs definitely Tory. I have no idea about my Dad. I suspect he didn't bother to vote. I certainly never heard him utter a political opinion, but my contact with him was always a bit sporadic, so I can't be sure what he thought about anything really. Apart from the pub. He was a big supporter of the pub.

When I was growing up dad voted Tory while mum stood for the Greens. These days they’re divorced, he’s a member of the Tory party and mum’s politically homeless and raging at all of them, especially the gender woo nutty Green Party who are no longer an option.

This is so alien to me. You couldn't have gone a day in my house growing up without knowing what their political beliefs were!

No idea, it wasn't something they discussed, I think they did vote but never really mentioned it.

Dad Conservative..( Mum nothing) they would be 98 years old now. My Dad thought Margaret Thatcher was brilliant.. intelligent and amazing.
I'm the same.

Parents & grandparents all Labour. My Mum is almost 94 and determined to hang on to see the next Labour government! She watches a lot of US politics too and doesn't want to miss Trump losing.

I'm an active Labour member and my adult children vote Labour. I'll be helping with last minute canvassing, delivering leaflets and 'getting the vote out' in the autumn but not in my own constituency, which has a huge Tory majority but might go Lib Dem!

Labour.

Grew up in welsh valleys

Diehard Labour

My mother was Conservative through and through and even shook Mrs Thatcher's hand once on a visit to our town - a fact she later denied.;

My dad voted Liberal mainly because his best friend did and he was always swayed by his opinions.

They both had a deepseated hatred of the SNP.

Both parents Conservative until I was a teenager. My mum told me she'd disown me if I ever voted Labour. DF got disillusioned with the Tories in the late 80s/early 90s and voted whatever the Lib Dems were in 1992 and 1997. He died in 98.

DM is still voting Tory as far as I am aware. I'm in an area where it's a choice of Tory or Lib Dem so I always vote LD although I'm naturally a Labour voter.

Labour.
Mum is getting more left wing as she gets older. She reads Private Eye and is disgusted I buy things from Amazon (she has a point).

DF staunch Labour, Unionist, quarryman… feels that the working class have been shafted by Labour so is now a floating voter dependent on local issues.
DM voted for Thatcher as she was a woman and apparently believed in bettering yourself! My DB votes Tory after being in the army and now getting a good deal on Universal Credit.
Me … Labour.

Growing up in his constituency, my dad always supported Roy Jenkins and SDP, and also the old Liberal party . My American mother claims to be a socialist but her views never convince. She did definitely vote Bernie Sanders but her views can be more Trump these days...

My dad and his DW are both now SNP members.

Generally Mum Labour. Dad Tory.

Sometimes one/both would vote differently though or Lib Dem.

Depended on the parties at the time.

Sort of like DH and I. We've both voted for different parties across the years. (Although he'd never vote Tory)

In general, Dad Labour, Mum Tory. But also both very committed to the notion of voting for your best local candidate not for party, and occasional protest votes (Monster Raving Loony, Wessex Regionalist) when completely disgusted with the local offering for the main two parties.

I've no idea who they have ever voted for and they have no idea who each other has ever voted for.

Same in our house. I won't talk about it and I've never asked.

Both Labour but voted LD as a tactical vote until the LD embraced the gender woo including the candidate for their constituency. They spoilt their ballot form afaik.

Both voted Tory growing up as they liked their local Tory MP but think my mum would now vote labour

Parents were Tory.
I remember them talking about Mr Gaitskill I remember SuperMac, too young to vote then.
I voted Labour once, for the Mayor of Tower Hamlets.

My father stood for Parliament as a Tory candidate in the late 1950’s both my parents voted Conservative. However their views were more Lib Dem than right wing and both hated Thatcher. Both my parents were avid supporters of the EU and I remember as a tiny tot helping my father put “say yes to the common market” posters up when there was a referendum. They had both lived abroad for long periods and spoke Arabic and French, and we travelled widely as a family so I am sure we were a bit avant garde amongst the other Telegraph reading friends they had. 😂
I am a left wing, liberal, passionate EU supporter😂

Labour

Labour. Except my mother, a lifelong feminist from before it was a word, got over excited and voted for Margaret Thatcher. Once. And never forgave herself!

My parents always voted Labour when I was growing up, but that changed when they bought their council house. They supported Thatcher because, in their view, she enabled ordinary working class people like them to buy their own homes & better themselves while Labour wanted to keep them poor & dependent as tenants of the state.

They are now stereotypical retired Brexit supporting, home-owning, Daily Mail reading Tory voters. Their view is that Labour is now ‘for the immigrants’ & despises the white working class. So they despise Labour.

Floating voters which I’m grateful for, none of us siblings suffer from political tribalism.

Used to be Labour then switched to Conservatives.