AIBU to think mumsnet isn’t mostly conservative voters?

[fhdl34]

After the mumsnet interview with Bojo last week, DH commented that “even mumsnet have turned against him”. I felt a bit perplexed and asked him what he meant and he said that mumsnet users are predominately Tory voters. He doesn’t use this site, at all, and this is a view he got from probably from Twitter but I think he’s wrong. I haven’t used the site much in recent years but it never struck me as a particularly Tory leaning.

YABU it is mostly Tory voters
YANBU it’s more balanced than that

YANBU. That is totally nonsense.

Bloody hope not!

Yanbu. I'd have said mostly left wing!

I'd have said mostly left wing or centrist (New Labour-ish), definitely not mostly Tory.

If you read the threads at election time, I'd say 90% of MN wanted Labour to win.

Unless there's a huge subboard I've missed, it strikes me as pretty mixed but mostly left-leaning on here. It's a massive site though, so you can still have quite large numbers of Tories that aren't the majority.

I've never voted Tory in my life! There's definitely a feeling of political homelessness for a lot of women at the moment who are passionate about women's rights, but again I would be reluctant to paint even those as the majority view.

Honestly, before I joined four years ago I would have made the same assumption as your DH. (Based on another couple of assumptions that most people on here were likely middle class mums and within that were therefore more likely to align with Conservatives politically. A stupid assumption to make given that I myself don't fit neatly into this 😅).

However I've seen that's there's (thankfully!) a whole spectrum of experiences, life values and political pools on here.

Depends on your own standpoint. I'm a middle-ground liberal kind of person and I think the woke left dominate here. Or are they just those with the loudest shouty voices? And most unshakably certain that they're right and everyone else is a fascist? Tory scum, anyone? I'm from an earlier age before social media when shouting others down, insulting them for their views and using crude language in discussions wasn't that common. But I'm not very brave, so on the whole keep my views to myself because of the strident nature of many discussions now.

I don't chime with any political party completely - you'd have to be simple-minded to do so. I've voted for all the main ones, plus Greens too in my time (which is a long, long time). I have to say I distrust people who agree with only one party...life is just too complex for that. I hate being labelled too.

Met a mad woman over the weekend at a wedding. She was a rabid SNP supporter (born in Nottingham, though, to English parents). No problem with supporting Scottish independence - i do myself, really, and I'm English. But she declared her hatred for the English (despite getting drunk at an English host's expense) with such vehemence it was chilling. She was proud that, during the Falklands War, the Scottish footie fans had cheered Argentina...although, Argentian at that time was ruled by a genuinely fascist junta. How does that work?? The mindless, half-baked, ill-informed views which are expressed by over-confident idiots never cease to amaze me.

It's easy to get the idea that one view prevails, but it may just be those people who are most vociferous and combative.

There are certainly far more rabid right wingers on here than I ever come across IRL. Not sure they're the majority though.

You just need to look at the “how much do you earn” threads to assume either
A. People are extremely well off and likely vote Tory
B. People are lying about their earnings
C. Posters are too embarrassed to admit their Tory
D. Both and C and their the absolute tits who continue to vote the Conservative government in yet can’t pay their electricity bill

A lot of people seem to believe that 'Mumsnet' is just one homogeneous lump of mums (mainly middle class SAHMs) rather than a mix of women with their own thoughts and views. I'm not really sure where this idea comes from?

It's not mostly Conservative voters, however a higher % posters have voted for them in recent GEs than in pre Brexit times. Just like the rest of the country.

If you overlap the demographics of mumsnet users* with the 2019 GE results, it suggests Mumsnet users are more likely to be labour supporters.

The community here generally seems to take no prisoners, and we definitely don’t suffer fools lightly. So how the hell any of us have any political affiliation at all is a mystery to me. If there was a general election tomorrow, I’d be voting for my toaster.

*sorry this is the best sample I could find online.

I've have said it was a fairly even split - I think there's a fair amount of people who are small-c conservative rather than necessarily Tory voters.

Orwellwasright can you give some examples of the rabid right wingery on here?

I think your husband’s comment @fhdl34 says more about him than it does about Mumsnet.

Judging by the amount of discussion on food banks etc i would say it's very leftie here.

Sure. Read any thread about benefits. Or any thread about Bozo. Or any about the BBC.

Or, something topical, any about the royal family. Or brexit.

I thought I was right, I will show him this thread.

I find the general population of MN to be quite conservative in their views, but that doesn't necessarily mean they vote Tory. I imagine pre-2010 the majority would have been Lib Dem voters.

I’m a Tory voter but haven’t noticed a swing on MN either way!

E. People who don't earn either high enough or low enough to bother posting about don't post on those threads. I don't!

I think there are more Tory voters here than would seem obvious.

There tend to be a lot of 'if you vote Tory then you don't care about xyz' comments, which would then put people off putting their head above the parapet. (Similar to the rhetoric about those who voted Leave.) Rather than accepting people can have different points of view as to the 'best' way to achieve reasonable ends, or even might like all the promises from a party but not be convinced they can actually be achieved.

A mix. Although I think a few are sent on here to start threads.