Would you vote Labour if you earned over £80,000?

[NoMansGE]

When doing more research on labours tax policies DH and I noticed that this starts from salaries of £80,000. This would effect our household as that is DHs salary. We both agree with their campaign for 'no more billionaires'.. but we aren't billionaires. We are a normal family who live a comfortable but far from luxury lifestyle. We're both torn how to vote, as it would usually be labour.

Yes I earn over this. Yes I could only vote labour (or green). Could never even consider voting Tory. In very safe Labour Kier Starmer constituency so no question of any tactical voting involved here. Agree to higher taxes to improve things.m for us all.

We’d pay about £1300 a year more in taxes if we voted labour.

We aren’t voting labour. The reasons are:

Their rampant anti-semitism. Completely un-fucking-acceptable.

Claims that “fully funding” the NHS will mean more doctors and nurses. There are masses of unfilled vacancies in the NHS. It’s not going to get better by chucking money at it.

Eroding the rights of women and girls by trying to introduce self-id which will allow any sexual predator to identify as female and have unprecedented access to segregated women’s only spaces (toilets, refuges, changing rooms, prisons). Women (biological women and trans women) and children need protection from predators.

Admittedly the Lib Dem’s aren’t looking like a great prospect either. We’re screwed.

Why do people keep falling for the ‘it’ll only be a tiny bit of extra tax for the really well-off bullshit?

How exactly do you think that Labour will afford all their pledges? Labour will now be paying for rich people’s broadband, and that costs more than the tiny bit extra in tax, so the rich people are actually better off.

If it sounds too good to be true, it really, really is.

I was considering voting Labour but the BT nationalisation madness would put DH and my DSis out of work so they are not getting my vote.

I do earn more, and I will vote Labour

Don’t people realise that the higher wage earners will just leave... they have the money to and wherewithal to do it

I love this argument. Really? Where will they go to, do you think, given that even under Labour's proposals, we'll still have one of the least demanding tax regimes in the world?

And also, they are welcome to fuck off. I know they think they fund the entire country - but really, we'd manage, thanks.

Ps - I'm not voting Labour, btw.

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He doesn't just have friends from ethnic minorities, he has personally installed them into some of the most powerful jobs in the UK.

I find it really difficult who to believe people who I like and respect and who are Jewish openly support labour and Corbyn e.g Michael Rosen then you hear lots of I'm definitely not voting for labour due to antisemitism but some of the people saying that have never actively supported labour before e.g Johanna Lumley, John Le Carre. Plus the added problem of the press and social media who repeat lies/ misinformation on both sides.

Of course not. I earn more than that and will be several thousand a year worse off under Corbyn. The reality is that the 'luxuries' that will be cut (given

Sorry posted too soon!!

Given the luxuries we will have to give up (based on the fact that the mortgage, childcare costs and bills will stay the same) are the cleaner and the person that does our ironing. That is irritating for us but is much more impact for the people that we outsource those tasks to.

Yes, I'm sure we will get slated for our 'first world problems' but we will manage. I'm more worried about the people that need the money

Sorry that sounds a bit crap, I really don't mean it to, but the issue isn't ours - I understand the intention but the reality is slightly different

We are a normal family who live a comfortable but far from luxury lifestyle.

Well, that is 4x what I earn. Your life is luxurious.

Vote for yourself, that is what you want to do. You are a closet Tory, just get on with it.

I do earn over £80k and I will vote labour this time.

What about the Tories Islamophobia, as agreed by Baroness Warsi?

How is it possible for it to be true that it would only be a little more per month and not as much as you think, that if you are in that brackets you are in the top few percentage of the country but that this roils suddenly make such a difference that we would have these marvelous fully funded services?

roils??? = would

From working class background, dh even more so, both of us pretty left leaning, but unless we have an outstanding labour candidate, the party as a whole is bloody ridiculous, at the moment. It's not the 1940s any more. We're also anti brexit, so Labour are not speaking to us there, either.

Nowhere near 80k income, btw, though high for our area.

And, just to clarify, no way are we voting tory.

There are many many reasons not to vote labour even if you earn under 80k. Also so few people earn over 80k that additional tax just on those amounts would raise very little money, certainly not enough to pay for all their bonkers spending promises.

It’s not really a question of not wanting to pay a little extra tax for public services. I’m not opposed to that. It’s the Labour party’s current crazy policies that I just don’t believe in. I don’t think they are fit to run the country.

The unfortunate thing is that also applies to the Tories.