to wonder why anyone votes tory?

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All they seem to represent us keeping the rich, rich and the poor, poor. There doesn't seem to be that many rich people so why do they get so many votes?

And again totally agree with Metoodear her post totally says it all for me

OP your question is the kind of puerile student union dross that achieves the very opposite of your intention. But you don't get that, do you.

Ohmydayslove, most of the MPs and members will be the same people, surely?

I think most students now see through Corbyn, thankfully.

He clearly won’t cancel their debt so it’s been their first disappointing forray into politics. They will be better adults for it.

Bit like England winning the World Cup

Because who in their right mind would vote for Corbyn??? There is no competition... says a person from a staunch labour, Welsh mining village. Nobody I know voted for Corbyn. Maybe the best thing for Labour to do is dump Corbyn?

I could never vote for anyone else. Imagine Diane Abbott and Corbyn in Government 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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I think it was Ed who changed the rules and allowed anyone to join the party and vote in the leader wasn’t it?

Massive stupid miss judgment and allowed momentum to take over the party.

Shame.

You aiways get racism and mysogynistic views on the far left and far right and that’s what we have now. Clearly labour have not dealt with the problem of anti semitism or indeed the disgraceful self ID but that’s what you get for voting in extremists unfortunately.

The mogg is a good example on the right.

I was a teen through Tony Blair's labour. He talked a good talk but df was made redundant, was entitled to £96 a month on benefits because he had savings. We're not talking millions just a few thousand but despite paying taxes from the age of 16 he felt totally let down. My family weren't poor enough to benefit from labour's policies but money was very tight at times. So, in short, my family's experience of conservative government is stability and support. I'll probably be shot down but we were on tax credits for a year and we were very comfortable. Labour tend to talk the dream but fail to deliver.

Because if people didn't vote Tory we'd be stuck eternally with an increasingly smug and useless Labour government. Governments like nappies are full of shit and need changing often. (I've never voted Tory, but I'm certainly NEVER voting for the current Labour shit-show).

@m0therofdragons

I think you need more than a "few thousand" to have not got any help. £96 p/w is less than jobseekers allowance. which I think was around £54 p/w so he must have had decent savings to get that.

do you really think your father would have more now if he was in the same situation today?? do you really think he would get more help now with "a few thou" in savings??

96 P/M EVEN

I would vote Tory because of Corbyn, McDonnell, Abbot, Lady Nugee Thornberry, oh and did I mention Corbyn? Between them they almost have enough brain cells to rival the number of Lib Dem MPs.

It never ceases to amaze me that as a population of 62 million people we have the worst 650 representing us !! Surely we must be able to get better people with some business nouse to stand for election. We might then get better laws made and the money being spent more fairly.

@metoodear yes yes yes. Been watching your posts, you know

Anti Semite Jeremy Corbyn

Answering snob Emily Thornberry

Towering hypocrite Chakrabarti

And a completely shite grasp of the economy.

Not to mention immigration

Labour is a complete shit show. How anyone could vote for them is beyond me.

Thornberry is a TOWERING snob, bloody autocorrect!

Because the Labour leadership are a bunch of twats with no braincells?

Can I ask people who think they do a better job of running the country than Labour (which is a totally valid point of view) - do you think they have made a good job of it since 2010?

I come from an unbiased point of view (not British, not living in the UK, but do live in a country with a very similar political system), but I think it's difficult to accurately assess because it has been volatile (resignation of Cameron, the EU/Brexit issue overshadowing everything else for over 2 years now), and because the Tories came into power on the back of the financial crisis. Sure, a decade on from the crisis, we should be seeing better economic management, but again, it's being overshadowed and distorted by the Brexit issue.

It's a bit like assessing the Bush/Obama era or the Blair/Brown era. They were both dominated by significant events and controversial long-term decisions, making it difficult to objectively assess their terms. It will probably be decades before we get a nuanced, or revised, perspective of their terms. The same will go for the current lot.

Because i am allowed to support who i want? Because the alternative is a one way ticket to hell? Because the leader of labour is a terrorist supporter, who would rather be 'down with the kids' than do his job and try to run his party? Because Abbott is racist? These are just the first few reasons - sorry but if i had to list everything, it would be christmas.

Ohmydayslove, I appreciate your comment as I'm genuinely interested in understanding this. I've known a few people on the far-left and I haven't found them to be racist or mysogynistic. In fact some are very socially progressive and big on equality. But I have heard of sexism within trade unions, so there might be some truth in this.

My own (incomplete) impression of the far-left is that a disproportionate number of them are angry, middle-aged men. Some of them are obsessive, and oddly, share the trait of being extraordinarily long-winded. I've met a few who were seemingly unable to express themselves in fewer than 10,000 words.

Stockholm Syndrome or similar is my best guess tbh.

I’m a floating voter and have voted Tory, Labour, and Lib Dem in the past.

I tend to read around and consider which MP I think would be best for my constituency, as well as considering what policies I’d like to see at a national level.

Sometimes I think the Tory MP / councillor is the best option, sometimes the Labour one.

The beauty of democracy is that you can vote for who you like for whatever reason you choose. You could go through life voting for no one but the Green Party because you like the colour if that suits you (although I’d argue that you might be missing the point of why you’re voting).

People brainwashed by media portraying Jc as Satan

People believing Blair's new labour is the same labour as current Labour Party

The sun/daily mail have a good hold of wc people buying into rubbish

Social media

Corbin and his mate McDonald supported the IRA murder gang.
The IRA murdered lots of people including friends of my family.
Thats why we vote Conservative.

More than one brain cell is my best guess TBH