AIBU to think mumsnet isn’t mostly conservative voters?

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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

In my view its left leaning - there are other voices but “Tory scum” etc comes up a lot.

Mumsnet posters are overwhelmingly women and in recent years (since around 2015) women are far more likely to vote Labour than men. Most recently Johnson has a notorious "women problem". Apart from the obvious, he is hugely unpopular with female voters.

I think there’s a sizeable number of conservative voters on here who do not state it openly

i don’t blame them, given the way conservative voters are spoken about…

It is hugely - and vocally - a very left wing site.

I've been on here since the early 2000s. Back in the day it was fairly left leaning but nowadays not so much.
Always folk moaning about 'woke issues'. Fair few brexity types. Loads of 'life long labour voting GC feminists' happy to vote tory however shit they are.
Lots of Conservative HQ trolls who roll up to gauge public opinion. Saw it repeatedly during lockdown just before relaxation of the rules.

I agree. I think a good portion of those 'rich' threads/posters are trollish! Sort of threads I steer clear of.

I think most folk here are snowflakes from the left

Tbf we don't know who anyone really is. Those shouting 'tory scum' aren't necessarily labour voters.

There's a few very vocal and very active tory loyalists on here who maybe skew things a little bit, but at the same time the fact that the Tory's keep winning would suggest that there are a lot of other posters who maybe like to appear more left wing than they really are.

I definitely find MN has more Tories and leans more right-wing and conservative (small c) than most people I know in real life.

Benefits threads have good information, but always get derailed by posters who want to rant about fraud or spread rumours about 'lazy' claimants living in the laps of luxury. Attitudes to refugees and immigrants are often less welcoming here than among people I know. The number of strong Royalists here never stops surprising me. I see posts on her about women/mothers' roles that I never hear in real life, although to be fair there are always plenty of posters who insist on equality too.

But this is probably partly to do with who I spend time with. I live in a Labour area with a strong history of welcoming migrants, and as a lesbian with a lot of LGBT friends, my experiences of women's roles are different to straight people's. So perhaps MN is more representative of the country.

Yes, all of the above.

I think the balance of the site is still left leaning - (pretty sure there are site surveys before each election showing that) - as you'd expect given the age and sex distribution, but there are a few very noisy right wingers of various types.

100%, I've also noticed an influx of new users who seem to have come from more echo chamber type forums/outlets and appear to be genuinely shocked that not only do people have different opinions here BUT will also challenge them on their own.

I reckon its mostly left wing, some of which sometimes vote Tory because they oppose self ID but probably still overall mostly not tory
It's perhaps closer than you might think as tory voters tend to be less vocal about it

IMO Mumsnet is mainly centre left or centre right with a minority of (often loud) more extreme left and right wingers with an axe to grind......a bit like real life from my experience😆

Historically this site was left-liberal middle-class Guardian-readers with degrees in professional roles. Men have always dismissed it as 'yummy mummies discussing nappies' because misogyny - (and even if we were discussing nappies, that would still be misogyny because someone has to do the fucking nappy research arseholes).

Weirdly the fact that it's no longer so earnestly middle-class that has made it seem more, not less, conservative to me.

There seem to me to be very few right wing posters who post about politics. There may be many who keep quiet because the overwhelming vibe of MN is not just left wing but also very anti tory. Also there is no nuanced debate on here or other SM platforms. Insult hurling and anger is the level.

I'm similar to @CulturePigeon . I've voted all ways in the last 40 years, mostly Labour but I've voted Lib Dem and Conservative at times and I don't align with any party. I've been unsure and floating at most recent elections including brexit (voted remain but now wish everyone would move on).

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Do you mean by 'rabid right wingers':

a) Conservative voters
b) supporters of the EDL, National Front or other similar extremist organisations?

I think that, if you truly believe that Conservative voters are 'rabid right-wingers' then you need to get out more. That's like calling the Labour party a repressive totalitarian communist regime. In this country I think we are lucky that our mainstream parties are mostly pretty centrist, and thank God for that.

Mostly fantasist I’d say.

YANBU

I think the site as a whole leans left - mostly Labour voters and 'politically homeless' women who would vote Labour if not for genderist ideology. I also think, though, that there are more Tories here than reading the political threads would suggest, because saying you're a Tory means you'll likely get insulted and have all sorts of assumptions made about you, so you'd have to be fairly thick-skinned to do it.