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.

DH's income (so household) us 75k and he would normally vote Tory but voted Green with me in the last election.

I wonder how many of us vote the way our parents did?

I do. My parents were average income earners in their day.

Single parent, 6 figure salary, lifelong labour voter as I believe we have a duty to protect the most vulnerable.

Household income about £105k, both defected from Tory (both brought up that way and had both felt strongly in the labour years about the need for smaller govt, and then felt utterly sick the whole way through the last govt) to Green. Dh mainly on environmental grounds, me on a mix of that and feeling the desperate need for radical reworking of our entire economic system.

LP - £25k total income. Vote Lim Dem.

Use to be labour but didn't trust Ed Balls.

Never conservative - work public sector (education), LP, social housing and child with disability. (They hate me as much as I hate them )

£80k, Labour all the way.

We earn about £42-44,000 a year, I'm self employed, dh is public sector.

We both vote conservative.

We live in a VERY safe tory seat and our local mp is a campaigner for educational freedom.
Labour will fuck with home schooling laws again and ill do anything to avoid that.

just under 20k and labour.

£70K householf income at the moment. I vote either Labour or Lib Dem. Because I believe we should help those less fortunate than ourselves.

£37k household (though that is the husband as I'm a Sahm) I usually vote Green (and did so). My husband is a Labour voter and did so again. Even though he didn't like Ed Milliband - he was brought up in a Labour household and continues to vote that way. I wasn't - both parents voted Tory.

The only thing this little survey illustrates is that a) the richer you are, the more likely you are to vote Labour or Green (which completely contradicts the prevailing MN socialist narrative that all Tories are minted) and b) that MN is entirely unrepresentative of the electorate as a whole. Thank God.

75k, have always voted Labour in the UK and my home country (NZ).

Growing up in a single parent household, I strongly believe we shouldn't put our most vulnerable down the shit creek with no paddle.

About 100k joint income, and we both vote SNP. Both ex-labour, and have flirted with LibDem in the past.

I earn £8800 and DH £16000, I vote conservative he as far as I know votes labour. We used to discuss politics a lot we have agreed to disagree for a long time.
I have a theory on it, that our politics are inherited and our parents views are more what you would expect, my parents earned over £150,00 before they retired, his father was a labourer.

I earn =41k. Household income of 65k.
Voted Labour since i was a student. I am also a teacher. I believe in investing in a fair society for all. I believe we can not judge sectors of society and punish them. I belive in the NHS etc. It does pain me slightly that tax payers money funds the odd work shy person, but it pains me a lot lot more when a millionaire MP claims about the same amount just for his breakfast.

£16k, DP is still training and I'm saving up for masters so should eventually be a bit more than that.

I am a staunch Labour supporter. He is Plaid Cymru.

£20500 and vote Lib Dem

I am a floating voter, voted Tory this time, income £30k pa.

My income has no effect on my voting choices.

Earnings are very high. Conservative because we believe about supporting the vulnerable and making sure there remains a secure infrastructure for the nation as a whole so the country doesn't end up bankrupt. We would be happy to pay more tax but we would have to be certain that money would be spent well. We fund some things that matter to us to help people who otherwise probably wouldn't be reached.

Household Income roughly 90k. I voted Labour this time and DP voted Lib Dem. Last time we both voted Lib Dem. I was bitterly disappointed when the Lib Dems went into coalition with the Tories but was really saddened by what happened to them on election night. I'm now a labour member.

I don't get a vote at the moment but always voted labour (would probably have been Green this time though). DH has similar politics. Family income about €100k.

My dad was a liberal but became one of the original UKIP members when it was an anti-EU party not a bunch of racist nutters. Our other parents are floating voters and relatively unengaged politically, but interestingly although all three are retired and therefore beneficiaries of Tory largesse, none are in favour of what the Coalition did to public services and benefits.

Household income £80. Both lifelong Labour voters. My parents are lifelong Labour voters (dad was a union spokesman but a lot less 'left' these days), DH's dad is too (though he voted green last election). His mum is Conservative.

70K - labour or lib dem

No, Radicalrooster, it simply shows that income has little to do with voting preferences.

Household income £50k
Lifelong labour voter.
Dh voted lib dem this time, was Tory before that.