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.

Our income is 90k- I live in a labour/conservative marginal. I voted labour and currently have a labour MP. I'm definitely not so rich that I don't have to worry about the economy (middle management in a school and DP is self-employed) or my own pocket. I do live in London though... along with about 10% of the UK population.
There is a difference politically between London and the rest of England, I'll grant you. I'd say that London is probably closer to Scotland and Wales than the rest of England politically speaking though.

We're high income family. I'm not (run my own business from home - with a severely disabled child it's the only way I can work). DH usually votes libdem. I have joined the lib Dems (was a toss up between them or greens, but I am a natural left leaning liberal) - voted labour in the last election - marginal seat, labour expected to win, crappy tory mp kept it (& he is crap - I have had to contact him a lot - see disabled child - the local tory councillors have been helpful, not so the MP).

Knowing (& living with) the effect ideological conservatism is having on my severely disabled son - I would never vote Tory again. Whatever my income.

Household income of £30,000. SNP voters.

Can't be bothered to read beyond the first three pages but what this post has shown me is that Labour supporters are rich and smug.

Ridiculous opening post we vote Labour, even though we would be worse off, because I think we should help society as a whole. Good for you OP. Have you time to polish your halo whilst doing worthy acts?

Parents very low earners, Conservative voters.
DH, a very high earner, we are Conservative voters. I could possibly vote LibDem. Would never vote Labour.

£120k+ I work in the public sector. I am secretly a libdem at heart but both do and I vote labour

stupidly excessive amounts tbh
Labour only

£200-£250k between us. Both work in the financial sector plus interests in other businesses. Neither of us would vote anything but Tory.

I haven't read the entire thread, but get the impression there are quite a few posters in high income households who say they vote labour. I have a question:
If Jeremy Corbyn is elected Labour leader, and labour win the next election and immediately put taxes up (say 75% on earnings over £50k) would you still vote Labour or would you change allegiance?

My household has a joint income of just over £165k split almost equally between me and DH. We both voted conservative.

Stripesocksarecool although I now vote SNP and not Labour (would probably have voted Green as the most left wing party if I'd lived in England), I can honestly say that yes, I'd be happy to have a marginal rate of 75%. If I'm earning that amount, then I can afford it. I have earned those sort of levels in the past and expect to do so again in the future, either when this business takes off or by going back into employment.

If/when Scotland achieves independence, I fully expect that households like ours will have a higher tax burden. I don't have a problem with that.

£100K combined income - Labour.

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Today 18:43 ThroughThickAndThin01

Ridiculous opening post we vote Labour, even though we would be worse off, because I think we should help society as a whole. Good for you OP. Have you time to polish your halo whilst doing worthy acts?

Joint income approx 11k. Yes eleven. Part time/self employed. No benefits other than child benefit for one dc. Vote green.

That's interesting prettybird. Im not sure that I would continue to do my job if I was taxed that heavily. The only thing that makes the stress and long hours of my job worthwhile is the pay. If that was effectively lost to me becuase of high tax rates I think I'd look for something else to do. I suspect that the majority of my colleagues feel the same.

DH and I both voted Labour in the last election. I earn 150k plus, am a Labour Party member and will vote for Jeremy Corbyn largely because I want a fairer society. I grew up on a sink council estate, had a good education, went to uni and ended up with a decent career. I would like my DCs generation to have the same opportunities.

This thread is depressing me.

Why is it depressing Hibena?

I cannot imagine how I could ever earn the amounts that many of the people on here earn (I currently earn about £22k, but less as I work part-time). I know money doesn't equal happiness, but it has made me realise I must have made a few bad career choices along the way! I voted Lib-Dem btw.

We're all different. I too worked in a highly stressed environment - but one of the things that frustrated my Sales Manager was that it wasn't the money that motivated me (I considered myself well paid even before the generous bonus) - it was the achievement and the quality of relationship and service I built with my customers.

I was fortunate enough to go to Uni when it was still free AND there were grants although I only got the minimum grant and my parents had to make it up to the "full" amount

I believe passionately in education and health (no coincidence that my dad was a purely NHS doctor and my mum was a teacher) and that we as a society have to be prepared to pay for them.

I had more respect for the LibDems when they briefly stated openly that taxes would have to go up if we wanted to pay for the sort of services that the public claims it wants.

Don't be depressed hibena! You are right, money doesn't equal happiness. I think if I was really really rich I would be happier becuase I could give up work, but I wouldn't say that I am that much happier now than when I was first starting out in my career and earned about what you do.

prettybird I do get job satisfaction from doing the best Job I can for my clients and building a relationship with them, but there's no amount of client praise would make me want to effectively work for next to nothing if I was taxed as in my hypothetical corbynesque scenario.

As I said. We're all different. I don't consider earning more than £50k, even if that is then taxed at 75%, is "next to nothing".

I am old enough to remember much higher levels of marginal taxation!

I get mightily tired of all the nasty generalisations. Tory voters are heartless. Labour voters are rich and smug. It's just not nice.
Both labour voters and Tory voters and green voters and lib den voters vote for all kinds of reasons.
Some vote out of self-interest but in the main I think most voters of all persuasions vote as they do because they think that's the best option for the country overall. I don't believe that most Tory voters 'hate' the poor although I disagree with them about how to deal with poverty. Likewise the idea that as a Labour voter I'm rich and smug is insulting. I just have different political opinions. The question about 75% tax over £50k is a bit silly because Corvyn isn't suggesting anything like that. He's significantly to the right of someone like Hollande and even Hollande wouldn't tax at that level.

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prettybird I think I missed some words in my last post... I meant to say that I would be working for next to nothing on over a third of my salary. It just wouldn't seem worth the effort to take home only 25% of that third.