I've gone from voting Tory and growing up in a staunch Tory voting family (who thought Thatcher was amazing and Kinnock a silly, whining little man).
We were lucky enough to have a privileged childhood, cushioned from the decisions that Thatcher made, and until fairly recently, didn't have a clue that the way I voted could effect anyone, or if I did stop and think, I would have considered people who were poor and on benefits to be scroungers, to simply not be trying hard enough.
I changed because I started to see the effects on the NHS, on schools etc, and on people like me (my sons and I are autistic).
Corbyn wasn't on my radar until a friend went to see him speak and came back inspired by what she heard. Until then, I listened to my family's views - scruffy, weak, no charisma, didn't sing the national anthem.
Now, everyone whose views I admire is voting labour. People whose views towards poverty, disability, schools etc I find questionable are voting conservative. (I'm puzzled how so many have such a nasty attitude towards disability, that it's a lifestyle choice, that everyone can do something and if they don't they're being lazy, that it's something that happens to other people, not them).
The reasons I'll be voting labour next week are as follows:
NHS - the conservatives have been steadily dismantling the NHS, and if they get back into power, they plan to use the Naylor report (google it). In doing so this will destroy the NHS, irreversibly.
I want the NHS to be in safer hands. Parts of it certainly need changing, but not in the way the Tories will.
Education - the last few years have seen some awful changes, and decisions made that will undoubtedly lead to more children coming out of school disengaged with the system. I've also found that schools are having to focus so much on attendance that the child's mental health is not important. More and more children are suffering mentally, but are increasingly unable to access care, CAMHS are subject to cuts, which leads them to deny support to all but the more severe cases, which in turn leads to more children spiralling without support, in schools that want bums on seats at all costs.
School funding cuts lead to loss of TAs, lack of equipment, basic, everyday equipment that were totally taken for granted not that long ago. Disabled children's needs are routinely ignored.
As for grammar schools, if you are wealthy and can afford one to two year's tuition, your child will stand a better chance of going. I happen to believe (having been to a grammar school) that what we need is good comprehensives that benefit everyone, not just those whose parents can afford it.
Brexit - TM has given no indication that she is capable of leading a team through brexit, and if the articles I've read are right, she has done more to alienate herself from Europe and instead has chosen to suck up to Trump. In no way can I see her, or David Davis, being able to lead our country through a Brexit that is anything other than disastrous.
Terrorism - I find Corbyn's ideas a breath of fresh air. The current approach to dealing with things (bomb the fuckers) is creating more terrorists. I literally cannot understand why people think his views make him dangerous.
My current situation (not working, caring for two autistic boys who are currently home educated because school was so traumatic for them), is decidedly vulnerable. It kills me to suspect that the people closest to me will continue to vote conservative, despite the fact that doing so puts us, and millions of others, in a far more vulnerable situation, and I do believe that lots of people are trusting what the media is telling them, rather than taking things at face value and trusting their own judgement (except undoubtedly in many cases, that judgement comes from a place of not understanding why there are vulnerable, poor people, and believing that they deserve it).
I recently read an article that suggested that the Tories are trying to fail in this election, that TM's repeatedly poor performance, refusal to answer even basic questions, throwaway comments about bringing fox hunting back, reversing the ban on ivory trade, are deliberate. They know that there's a very good chance that brexit will destroy the country, and they don't want to be in charge when it happens, even though it was the Tories who blindly led us into this situation in the first place.
No matter who is in charge, it's likely to be a very rough ride, but after the last few years, I wouldn't trust the Tory government to lead a horse, let alone a struggling country.