To ask what stops you voting for the tories ?

[Icandothattoo]

For me
The unending shite that is brexit
Corruption and dishonesty, especially during the pandemic but not uniquely. And not just Johnson.
Making already deprived areas compete against each other for levelling up money whilst perfectly affluent tory voting areas are handed it on a plate (looking at Richmond N yorks Rishi ! ). Funny that 80% of constituencies getting levelling up funds are tory...
Whole culture war. Singling out certain minorities to attack for purely political gain. In the 80s single mums, 90s benefit claimants, 2000s refugees, immigrants. FWIW I'm fairly gender critical but disliked the way they toadied round Trump and his abhorrent opinions/followers who pretty much wrote the culture war playbook.
So what stops you from voting for them ?

The way they’re letting the NHS slide into complete disrepair.

Their nasty selfish ideology and general incompetence. I am staggered by what Cameron did with Brexit, what Boris did with Covid and Truss did with the economy. All unforgivable

All the reasons above and a thousand others. Mainly, the corruption and lies.

Yes that too. And their overall indifference to state schools and downright cruelty to asylum seekers/refugees.

Meh. The tories are terrible, yes, but they're the only available choice against Labour, Greens and lib dem.

Unless I spoil my ballot which I'm loath to do.

Their destruction of the NHS, education, sure starts, and roads.

The lies

Lies

And more lies.

The way they rewrite history almost daily because even they know they aren't trustworthy.

The gaslighting of the general public.

And yes to all yours and everyone else's too.

Everything about them and everything they stand for.

Lack of decent financial policy
job for their mates costing tax payers millions
lying
still firmly white male thinking
lack of compassion for anyone not like them
thatcher
I’m from Liverpool
I work in children’s social care - I see the impact of their policies daily
they still (claim) to believe in meritocracy and ignore barriers to achievement

Oh yes, and their apparent belief that asylum seekers are less than human

Agree, but I cannot vote for Labour or any of the others, so I either don’t vote, spoil the ballot paper or tick the Conservatives box…

Everything they do, say and stand for.

Brexit

Poor leadership

Lack of values & basic public standards

Their recent track record with the economy

Too much infighting/backstabbing

Poor policy ideas

They need a good few years kicked into the long grass. They are currently unrecognisable from the party they were 10+ years ago. There is no way in hell I could vote for the current bunch so Labour it is.

I'm lucky to be pretty much fine in life, so I vote for people who aren't, which precludes me from voting Tory.

The lies
The corruption
The way they've looked after the very wealthy and let the rest of us to cope with shambolic public services, atrocious railways and roads.
Brexit.
The constant spin and bullshit, treating us like we are too stupid to notice.

I will never vote for them.

They are slowly destroying everything. Schools, NHS, libraries, museums, young start youth programmes. When I hear from people in these areas about the cuts they are making and the serious long term damage they are doing I despair.

I'm not saying the other parties are perfect but the Tories have been in power too long. Their policies are causing irreparable damage. I can make my peace with whoever else gets in but someone needs to clear out some of the rot they've got set in before we lose all our support services.

Apologise, I haven't time to begin to list my reasons....

At this stage it's my own self-respect.

Destruction of nhs, failure to pay public sector workers properly, godawful treatment of refugees, Brexit, sewage, lies, VIP lanes… the list goes on and on.

there is nothing redeeming about them.

Because they're absolute shit-cunts who are mired in sleaze, only interested in what they can gain, grubby deals, lies, corruption, snouts in the trough, hands up the secretary's blouse, bastards.

Everything they stand for is bollocks and any sort of aspiration they try to sell can only be achieved by stepping on those lower down the ladder.

I instinctively like Sunak.
I don't mind Jeremy Hunt.
Gove is an entertaining nutjob.
Steve Baker is thoughtful. I disagree with him, but I can listen to him.
Penny Mordaunt comes across well.
I've always liked Javid.

Can't stand Johnson, Rees Mogg, John Redwood, Mark Francois, Nadine Dorries, Ester McVey, IDS, Patel, Bernard Jenkin. Chris Grayling & Liam Fox are horrid.

my own (tory) MP is a numpty.

Their handling (or not) of the pandemic. The way they lined their mate’s pockets with billions, their total disrespect of their own rules. Their lies.
Their total destruction of the country as a whole!

My morals.

@Scienceandreason what have the tories done so well ? I'm intrigued ?