OP is getting a lot of responses from people who would never consider voting Tory (and some useful background on what the fund actually is, cheers PPs).
I would consider voting Tory. I’d consider voting for any of the parties dependent on manifesto and urgency of changing/maintaining the status quo. I could be described as a floating voter. I’m also an autistic adult, who has experience of being an autistic child.
As previous posters mentioned, it is covered elsewhere in the manifesto. Whether any party (or this one in particular) can be trusted to deliver a manifesto promise is debatable, and a risk you always take when voting. A party could equally promise to throw money at LDs and developmental disabilities and then go ‘sorry, things changed, other priorities’ once elected. We lack effective advocacy and ability to hold governments to account, which is unfortunate.
I am not single issue on provision for autism and learning disabilities. It’s something I support for hopefully fairly obvious reasons. I have written to the local conservative candidate about another pertinent issue which particularly affects me as an autistic person and received a friendly and reassuring response; the Labour candidate completely dismissed it and talked to me like a slightly stupid child. If he (Tory) is elected I will be in touch again to ensure annoying autistic constituent remains on his mind.
Personally, i do not like Labour’s move towards ‘neurodiversity’ which, for some of us, downplays the extent to which we are disabled by our differences. It was also under a Labour government that I was left to struggle in school without support, try to leap over huge barriers to claim benefits & support getting into work, etc. It probably isn’t fair to hold the present day Labour Party wholly responsible for this, but it does colour my view of them.
I don’t like the Tory party’s authoritarianism and their track record on other issues I care about (women, gay rights, free speech), however I support them on others. I also live in a marginal which has its own implications re tactical voting.
While I don’t think this is happening on this thread, I’d personally appreciate being allowed the agency to vote the way I choose and not have my disability weaponised by outraged Labour supporters. I’ve seen this happening elsewhere on this issue. I think we all should vote according to our consciences, as if it were a democracy where a plurality of views was permitted.