I think everyone has, realistically, to vote according to their own personal circumstances.
So I, like SS, don't really care about surestart, tax credits, child tax funds, subsidised nursery places etc etc as my dcs were born to early to qualify for any of that stuff and we somehow muddled through without any of that sort of help.
At the ancient age of 47 and with a 15 yr old ds, I'm much more concerned about university places being available to people who've worked hard and got the requisite A levels at A*.
Am also interested in IHT levels and think they should be raised. £650k is really bugger all for anyone living in the SE with twenty or so years work/savings behind them.
So I think that although we should all in theory hold hands under the rainbow and sing together, the reality is that each person will vote in the party who promises to meet that person's needs on the day, whether that's help for young families, a cut down on immigration, banning the burka or whatever happens to float their boat.