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Why did people prefer Boris?

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Meshy12 · 14/12/2019 20:16

I have been racking my brain on this and I can see that BOTH Corbyn and Boris have negative points of course. And I know that brexit played a key part in this election.

But I’ve heard that many in the ex Labour heartlands had Labour running through their blood but They didn’t want to vote for Corbyn and had to vote for someone.

What was it about Boris Johnson and his bandits that offered that alternative? It’s not as if Boris is exactly more trustworthy or moral than Corbyn is it?

Why didn’t they vote for LD for example? Or even Brexit party or Greens?

I don’t really understand it

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Cobblersandhogwash · 14/12/2019 22:12

I'm glad they preferred Boris. I'm not a fan of Corbyn at all but Boris gives me the heeby jeebies.

It won't be long before Boris will be shown to be the utterly incapable buffoon that he truly is.

BMW6 · 14/12/2019 22:14

IamCatBed

Of course most people realise that their life can dramatically take a serious nosedive.
But to be able to support those who need support, you must have a strong economy to bring in the £££ to fund it.
Labours manifesto promised the earth, and the moon on a stick.
Tories was much more realistic and achievable.

I am a WASPI and would have got a lovely fat chunk of money from Labour, according to their election promise.

I didn't vote for them.

Isleepinahedgefund · 14/12/2019 22:17

I think it’s a huge case of “better the devil you know”....

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Puffthemagicdragartist · 14/12/2019 22:17

Diane Abbott, The Shadow Home Secretary - in charge of keeping us safe in the event of a Labour Government - voted in two left shoes.Xmas Grin Hardly an endorsement of her intelligence and ability to hold such an important job down. Made my hand stop quivering and firmly vote Tory.

Trewser · 14/12/2019 22:18

I think the shoes thing was photoshopped

Mimx · 14/12/2019 22:20

Babybel90 is right - running a government is complicated, and needs compromise. Pragmatism with few principles lands better than ideology with no pragmatism. JC ran his party as an autocrat, and that’s a scary prospect for a PM.

I grew up in one of the ex mining NE areas that has turned blue, and I stayed home this election for the first time in my life.

WotchaTalkinBoutWillis · 14/12/2019 22:20

Diane Abbott, The Shadow Home Secretary - in charge of keeping us safe in the event of a Labour Government - voted in two left shoes.fgrin Hardly an endorsement of her intelligence and ability to hold such an important job down. Made my hand stop quivering and firmly vote Tory

Please tell me that's not why you decided to vote Tory? Sure that turned out to be photoshopped in the end.
Not telling you how you should vote, each to their own but FFS if so lol

tweedysue · 14/12/2019 22:21

All polititions are liars

user764329056 · 14/12/2019 22:24

IAmCatBed, great summary, Johnson has convinced so many people that he has their best interests at heart and they drank the Koolaid, obviously he won’t deliver and it’ll be 5 more years of the rich getting richer, what joy

DuchessofWoke · 14/12/2019 22:26

Because ultimately (thankfully) most working people in this country want to take responsibility for their lives. They don’t want handouts or free broadband. They want to work, to earn and to keep a good portion of what they earn to spend on themselves and their families.

Labour encourages people to sit back and do nothing and let others look after them. I don’t think this is what most people want from life.

I pay a lot of tax under the Tories, so never mind your “teeny bit more”, thank you. Labour wanted a lot more from me, and to further penalize me for using private schools - despite the fact that in doing so I free up a place for someone else AND pay into a system I don’t use.

It just feels enough to me. And clearly to the majority.

There are so many reasons but others have covered them. I haven’t heard a single Labour minister speak sense in the past three years. They are completely unelectable. I would fear any of them being in power.

Mominatrix · 14/12/2019 22:27

On another thread, someone demonstrated that it was NOT photoshopped.

tweedysue · 14/12/2019 22:27

Personally I thought that both main parties were a poor choice. People remember that corbyn wouldn't sing the national anthem and stand with sinn fein etc.. All polititions tell lies especially Boris.. The Fib dems totally ignored democracy, so no way would I ever vote for them. The Green Party are lunatics that want us all to go and live back in caves. The Brexit party would never be able to form a government. But I voted in the end.

DuchessofWoke · 14/12/2019 22:28

Labour shadow minister I mean.

helacells · 14/12/2019 22:28

Wasn't he a pretty popular mayor? Maybe they went on that.

OhTheRoses · 14/12/2019 22:29

My family voted to leave the common market in the 70s - to escape the communists and the iron curtain.

My family voted Conservative this time, specifically to leave the EU - to avoid the communists.

Funny how it all goes full circle.

Heath, Thatcher and Major were all working class by the way so the Conservative oarty being for toffs is a teeny weeny bit silly. Anthony Wedgewood Benn anyone?

Saddler · 14/12/2019 22:29

Some people still hurting on here badly, great to see 😂😂 💙

tweedysue · 14/12/2019 22:30

How could anyone think that Diane Abucus Abbott could ever be in charge of one of our Great offices of state like the home office, in charge of our countries security and immigration services.... 😂😂😂😂😂Absolutely no way..

tweedysue · 14/12/2019 22:31

On the roses.. They were not working class at all.

Saddler · 14/12/2019 22:32

@ohtheroses great post

Puffthemagicdragartist · 14/12/2019 22:32

@WotchaTalkinBoutWillis

Well, no - it wasn't the only reason but it added to the sole-searching Wink

TheBlueStocking · 14/12/2019 22:33

@Saddler

What an idiotic comment.

IAmCatBed · 14/12/2019 22:34

Puffthemagicdragartist

It was totally photoshopped and not true. You were played. If you voted Tory based on a faked photshopped picture of Diane Abbott wearing odd shoes, which has been thoroughly confirmed as fake on social media, then quite frankly you don't have the intelligence to vote. This is why we are in the mess we are in. People believing utter rubbish without having the sense to check whether it is true or not. Stupid people believing in stupid lies.

And quite frankly even if it wasn't you'd seriously vote for another party based on the shoes a female candidate was wearing? Fuck me. This is absolutely bonkers.

YouJustDoYou · 14/12/2019 22:34

It doesn't matter. What's done is done.

StarbucksSmarterSister · 14/12/2019 22:34

They voted for him because he's a demagogue. The "man of the people" schtick.

I laugh whenever I hear that traditional working class voters apparently saw Corbyn as an out of touch member of the Metropolitan Elite. Because you know, a rich Old Etonian Bullingdon Clubber whose comments have shown his utter contempt for the working class has so much more to offer them.

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 14/12/2019 22:35

I have a sneaky suspicion that behind the bumbling buffoon exterior that people on here criticise so much is a very very clever man.

Don't know if that makes it better or worse though!