I guarantee that those Tory voters pretending they've finally seen the Tories for what they are, and that they'll either not vote or vote with more compassion next time, will miraculously re-emerge come election time.
They always do.
And if over a decade of hatred of the poor, the disabled, the young, the old, the non-Caucasian (don't let Braverman and Kwarteng's appointments fool you), not to mention whipped up hatred of refugees, environmentalists and those fighting for human rights (including Tory human rights, by the way) hasn't been enough to make you see through this callous bunch of sub-human miscreants, let alone Brexit, the PPE, the nepotism, the mismanaging of Covid, and the demonisation of anyone who isn't ex-Oxbridge/Eton/posh and rich, I don't know what will.
Maybe when your NHS has gone and you're having to pay for your treatment or watch your loved ones die because a) you can't afford treatment and b) there are no medics left, maybe then you'll understand what you've done. Or maybe not. It took the poll tax for my Tory-voting mother ("because her mother always had") to finally understand the Tories. I have a chronically disabled friend who's dependent on PIP (or would be if it wasn't for her husband's salary) and SHE still votes Tory, despite her benefits being cut and cut, and her having to defend her long-term neuro condition every couple of years, "because her mother does".
More people didn't vote Tory than did, but under our outdated FPTP system, they got in.
We now have the third unelected Tory PM in a row. (Or is it the fourth? I lose count.)
The blethering nonsense about Tories understanding what a woman is, is just that - nonsense. They understand what a woman is when it suits them, and that mainly involves what the Nazis used to call Kinder, Kueche, Kirche, if you'd care to look it up on Google and see exactly where we're heading next.
And as others have pointed out, the Trans legislation and everything attached to it was put up by the TORIES, not Labour or any of the other parties.
To use Hartlepool as the perfect red wall example - back in the nineteenth century, during the Napoleonic Wars, the good folk of the town hung a monkey because they thought it was a spy. That pretty much sums up the ability there, and in other red wall towns, to think logically about what voting in a bunch of toffs and hangers on is likely to do to their lives. They'll just obediently do what the Sun and the Daily Heil tell them to do, never understanding for one minute that those papers are owned by overseas magnates who have their own reasons for wanting to destroy what's left of the UK.
I have no sympathy, none, for people who voted in the Tories. If those voters are rich, I can understand it, though I still despise the "I'm all right Jack" mentality of it. If they're poor, I hope they're ready to watch their kids suffer. I'm part of one of those generations that will never, ever, ever forget being poor under Thatcher; and this lot are far, far worse.
I DO, however, have sympathy for those (like me and many who are far, far worse off) who've ended up, yet again, with a bunch of entities who are subhuman, incompetent, insane by any normal measure, and beyond misogynistic and misanthropic. Oh, and if any Tories reading this don't believe me on the misogyny, just look at the policies they've introduced since they came to power. Although that would require actually looking at the evidence and looking outside your cosy little bubbles.
I know I'm wasting my keyboard strikes. I know I will never, ever be able to make dyed-in-the-wool Tories understand.
But that doesn't stop me trying.
(And before any snarky types who've overdosed on their daily smart ass pills come on and ask me why I don't do stuff in real life, I do, thanks, and so do the rest of the household. What's your excuse?)