To think that someone must be voting Tory

[Mammylamb]

Hi, I know very very few People who admit to voting Tory. I’m from Scotland and from a working class background but do work in finance and have many middle class friends. But only two people I know have admitted voting Tory (and both are from England)

But clearly, someone is voting them in. Can I ask, why do people vote Tory? I just want to understand from the other side

Labour voters are a disgrace!
I’m a medic working in the NHS but voted Tory. I’m very happy with the result mainly because I just heard JC is stepping down!
I’m also black

Generally speaking Labour believes in equality by punishing people - bring everyone down to the same low level = equality

Tories believe in equality by allowing everyone an opportunity todo as well as they can - raising everyone up to the same level = equality

One Labour leader has been different - Blair who understood that giving people an opportunity to do better was a good thing- he got into power...

Real honest decent people do not like a party that talks down to them and threatens to punish them - we are not 5 year olds any longer... the immature attitude of Labour supporters swearing at others shows their petulance and dishonesty - when the chips are down they show what they really think of others... all of that is why Boris has won so convincingly...

The view on MN is overwhelmingly leftist but also those are the people who shout the loudest giving a false impression that their view dominates - the Tory view is quieter and clearly much wider!

I heard yesterday that apparently

'labour Voters don't turn out to vote in the rain'

I can't vote in the UK, but if I did, probably would have voted Tory.
The hysteria over the last couple of days is just unbelievable.

Clearly a lot more people did that admitted to it.

I too can't stand JC. Ineffective he is and should have stepped down long ago. I only voted labour to stop BJ. Look where that got me!

No one I know, it's labour mostly with a sprinkling of Lib Dem's but I know I live in an educated, affluent, middle class bubble of socially conscious people.

Tories are really not 'other' - it's a mainstream view.

That’s what yesterday has proved. I’m so ashamed of this country. A man who calls people, real people, ‘picaninnies’ and ‘letter boxes’, who arranges to have journalists beaten up, who cheats on his wife and doesn’t acknowledge his children, now represents the mainstream.

And why tactical voting for SNP was needed (and I've seen at least one post on MN where poster says she did that). Which might mean that actual support for a new independence referendum is not everything it seems.

That was me. I really had to hold my nose, I don’t believe in independence at all, I don’t want it, I would never have voted for it otherwise. I still chose it over Conservative’s lies and demonisation of the poor.

I voted Tory. Not because I love them it or believe in their policies right now but because the alternative was downright terrifying. I have teenage DC who ardently support Labour and we have had some fantastic talks about politics and what we want or need to happen. I love my kids but they’re not ready to run a government and sadly listening to JC was like listening to my 18yr old except she was much more passionate.

I wanted a middle ground party. Equal representation of left and right views with a good balance but there was nothing available. The vile FB posts by local Labour supporters was also extremely off putting and in many cases extremely hypocritical.

So I voted Tory as they least worst option. I’m sad I had to but couldn’t see an alternative that wouldn’t be disastrous. I would like Labour to split now with the hard socialists having their own party so that the centre can form a credible alternative without the risk of it being hi jacked and dragged back to the seventies.

Boris Johnson has to be the worst Tory party leader they have ever fielded. And yet I voted for them as Labour's economic policies would have been catastrophic for this country:

Nationalisation: these are publicly listed companies. Most large UK companies have a sizeable proportion of non UK shareholders (my own is around 70pct non UK). They don't have to own our stock or invest in the UK. Once you nationalise one company and fail to buy out the shareholders at a premium, you reduce the appeal of a UK company as an investment for all companies. The message is that your assets can be appropriated. Share prices fall. Companies have less access to capital to invest for growth and job creation, and pension funds suffer. We all need our pension funds to grow or face penury in old age.

Private school policies: essentially trying to make it so unaffordable that they close. Why? It's not like we have the space in state schools for all these additional children anyway. Cue overcrowding etc. I'm not sure why the opprobrium is thrown at users of private schooling rather than for example private healthcare. Or private housing.

Free broadband: what the actual fuck? Why? What does the government know about running broadband services? Nothing. I'd rather free water or electricity first but if I'm not paying for these things, who is? Taxes presumably...so me again...but with an extra layer of state administration to pay for. Just utter nonsense.

I could go on. But basically I had nightmare visions of the UK becoming like Venezuela. A once functioning economy turned into a place where people are truly suffering.

Oh and the anti-Semitism. Just shocking. Medieval and backwards. These are not caring, inclusive people.

I don't trust Labour, as I remember the Wilson/Callaghan years. I certainly don't trust them to deal with rural issues, and I especially don't trust them on defence and security. Thus, I voted Tory.

It shows how different peoples experiences are as I voted labour and have been insulted by tories non stop. I've been called a traitor, cunt, thick, brainwashed...