How much do you earn and who do you vote for

[Beautifulbabyboy]

So inspired, by another thread that contained the words "labour are cancer" I am genuinely interested in the correlation between what people earn and who they vote for. Is anyone else interested in this?

Our household income is £125k pa and we vote labour, even though we would be worse off, because I think we should help society as a whole.

I'm single and retired. My annual income is approx 13.5k which is made up of old age pension, a miniscule private pension and recently awarded lowest level DLA.

As a long term Tory supporter I of course voted for them at the last election. I would never trust labour, whether left or right, to effectively deal with the economy and I don't want a nanny State.

I'm not sure why you asked the question but you should know that the results are going to be massively skewed because MN and MNers are predominantly left wing.

I think it's getting better. Many of us Tories are now here on MN and hopefully more move away from the nanny state idea of the left each week.

Save your breath, Pan. I've been through this with others on this board. Others who similarly claim that Pakistani gangs predominantly targeting young white girls was a mere coincidence. Some sort of accident of fate.

House income of 150k or so; neither of us voted as we were out at work.

RedDaisy, I think I remember you supporting the idea of a citizens income. You've said on other threads that Iain Duncan Smith is doing heroic work. How do you reconcile that (in my view) good idea with what he is actually doing? I'm interested because I agreed with you for once regarding the first thing

Household income approx £400k.

Me: lib dem / tory
DH: tory

RedDaisy How do you square your views with the DwP sanctions and the fact that people with disabilities are having benefits removed and are dying because of it?

illegal delays

human rights

it applies to disabled people too

silveroldie - Recently awarded DLA, or do you mean PIP? New claimants now have to apply for PIP, which is much much harder to get than DLA.

I earn £28k (public sector) and DH earns £21k (private sector) but also brings in around £6-7k annually from company shares and dividends - roughly £55k in total.

Both vote labour. DH only since we've been together, don't think he cared before. His background is working class, not sure which way his parents vote if at all.

Posted too soon! My background is middle class and my parents always vote labour.

I don't understand why anyone who works for the public sector would ever vote conservative.

I also vote labour because I don't think the vulnerable are there out of choice.

Our household income used to be £26k but now is £16k as I'm a student nurse so no earning and DH had to cut his hours because of my schedule .

I've always been an SNP voter and DH was always a Labour voter until the last few years has changed to SNP .

£150k
Vote Tory because I do not trust Labour with the economy or anything else really. The only policy the seem to have is that they are not Tory.

75k - Tory.

SAHM, household income 36k - voted Plsid Cymru, would have voted Green but no candidate standing here. Perhaps should have voted Labour as the "anything but" vote.

Household - 30000 (42000 when I return to work part time).

Both voted SNP Both labour voters in the past

The universal income idea is an interseting one. On the one hand I support universal benefits which are means tested so the lazy slob who never worked by choice gets only the same sum as the hard worker and perhaps that sum is £10k a year flat rate per adult person - a much much lower benefits cap than now - couple would get £20k. Abolish all tax free allowances and state pension included in that too. On the other hand yes it would mean a lot of people wouldn't bother to pull their finger out, would sit around doing nothing and the nation might go to pot so may be it would need to be at a lower level.

DH earns about 80k and i am a sahm. We are financially better off under Conservative, but vote Labour as we vote with the poorest and most vulnerable in mind. We can afford to pay more, so we feel we should shoulder more of the burden.

Thanks for answering, RedDaisy. There was an interesting thread pre-election. It was suggested that there would be better opportunities and increased wages for those who did want to work, and more support for those who can't for whatever reason.

I just need to convince Mr Duncan Smith...

Thanks Camel. I'd never thought of that. I thought this was actually a forum for oligarchs

Mine is none of your business.

£33k voted UKIP. Made zero difference as I live in a very safe Labour seat.
Working class background, family are avid Labour supporters, I would never and have never voted for them.
I'd be interested to know how many of the posters on here banking 90k+ a year and voting Labour actually live in Labour safe seats, I'm willing to bet most are in Conservative strongholds.

Actually there is a defined group of rich left wing Londoners who are rich enough not to worry about their own pocket and the economy - the bleeding heart liberal types who do often live in Labour seats. London is very different from many other parts of the country in that respect.