Why do poor/middle-class people vote for the Conservatives?

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When the Conservatives protect privileged interests, why would anyone not particularly rich vote for them?
The conservatives are now uncapping bankers' bonuses ffs

When the same people lose money for the bank, do they take money off them?

@jgw1 historically they are the party of lower taxes. I don't trust the other parties to not raise them more in this climate. We live in hope.

No of course she hasn't. @Sally99 She has been a far right ERG Brexiteer for all her life. She has never campaigned for Remain. She has never campaigned for the abolition of the monarchy at the Lib Dem Conference. No, none of that was her. That was a different Liz Truss.

@jgw1 not really how a salaried job works now is it

Except event that isn't true.

Are you in the demographic that the OP's question is about?

They have been sold a lie. It's depressing.

So they get paid more if by random chance they make money with their gambling and if they lose money then it would be wrong to take money off them.

Makes perfect sense.

Going by this thread, Labour are more appealing to higher earners than they are to normal working-class people. This would seem to be a problem IMO.

Probably.

Where's the problem?

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People who think they're richer than they are because they compare themselves to their neighbours.
I haven't RFTF so sorry if this has already been posted

Why do some people have problems with immigrants? I am an immigrant, I changed my name to fit in, I have always paid my taxes, I volunteer with my community etc.
The immigrants who fail to assimilate and commit antisocial acts are rarer than the immigrants who behave well and appreciate the economic opportunities the UK provides for them

Tbh OP 'poor/middle class people' is the majority of the population.

There is a wide chasm between the poor and the middle class. To many, middle class people are as good as wealthy. They are such different groups of people that no one answer can apply to both groups.

So it's a bit of a pointless question, you'd have been better off asking about just one group of people.

Because they are foreign and that gives us someone to hate.

People have a racist, outdated view of immigrants coming over and having lots of children, taking council homes and benefits.

Shudder to think what the NHS would look like without immigrant nurses and Doctors.

All of the above

And yet Tory MPs can say whatever they like and still get your vote?

Rees-Mogg publicly saying Grenfell Tower victims died because they lacked commonsense.

Dominic Raab calling feminists "obnoxious bigots"

I simply don't have time to list all the racist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, homophobic and misogynistic things the last Prime Minister has said and wrote but can you imagine the outcry if Jeremy Corbyn or Keir Starmer had said a fraction of them? And yet Tory voters were willing to turn a deaf ear to it when it suited them.

For some reason in this country we still believe that the Upper classes will look after the poor. We hear a posh accent and we roll over and bare our throats while hoping for crumbs. We still think that feudalism is alive and well. The Lord of the manor might treat us like shit but at least he feeds us (his leftovers)

Yes exactly!

Only three reasons anyone would vote Conservative IMO.

1. You’re fairly well off (household income of £100k+ or single household of say £50k+) and a bit mean and/or antisocial in worldview - see cuts to public libraries, early years childcare, bullying of disabled people on benefits, targeting of easy targets, be they teachers, immigrants, single mothers etc etc etc - all stuff that most wealthy Tory voters don’t ever really seem to have much of a hard time squaring with their moral compass.

2. You’ve been misled by the right wing media which dominates the UK, are somehow ignorant of the effects of Tory governments on those with lowish incomes, or are doing it because solely out of habit, because that’s what your parents (who were probably, relatively speaking, a lot better off than you) used to do.

I guess because they feel the labour party is only looking out for members of trade unions, communists and people who don't want to work.

Angela Raynor and her Tory scum comments are enough to put me off. No one is scum. Most Tory voters are hard working and want to better themselves and have their children enjoy a better standard of living than them. They won't get that if average earning or just above, workers are treated as though they are high earners and taxed out of existance. Basic rate tax has been lowered since the last labour government so the first thing they will do is raise it.

tbh I don't much care for the Tories either, but choice is limited.

3. no, give up

I don't hold Tories to the same moral standards as I do Labour. If a party casts itself as the "good" party, they need to live up to it.

The contempt shown can be an issue, it puts the people off that used to be their voters