Amusing a Tory supporter, so presumably someone happy that Rishi Sunak is PM, should refer to Keir Starmer as "little" 😁
I used to be Tory blue through and through. However over the life of the current government I have gone from not voting to voting Labour.
I don't recognise the current Tory party as anything like they used to be. It used to be stuff like basically those who strived hard would get rewarded, fiscal common sense etc, with a tiny bit of pragmatism thrown in.
Today they seem to be in full on idealistic mode of the Victorian era - I'm waiting for them to introduce the equivalent of workhouses. Examples of this are things like the assumption that anyone out of work for whatever reason is a skiving good for nothing manual worker rather than maybe an executive who's been made redundant or someone who's got mental health issues.
They genuinely don't seem to grasp that things like cost of living increases, that mean their ilk have to maybe cut back one of their 4 overseas holidays a year (maybe the Easter skiing trip?), or only replace their top of the range car every 4 years instead of every 3, mean poorer people have to get into debt to heat homes & eat properly.
Possibly the biggest lack of understanding on their part has been the impact of a combination of high inflation and high interest rates on lower income people, and their total lack of comprehension that though in the past high inflation could be countered by increased interest rates as the inflation was due to people spending more disposable income, this time the causes are very different so the approach to reducing inflation need to be different. Previously higher interest charges meant people waiting longer to buy new stuff, or only booking holidays once they'd saved up enough. The cost of living increases had already meant that people were cutting back where they could, the higher interest rates lead to people being made homeless as they couldn't afford their higher rent, or defaulting on mortgages.
To give you an idea of this impact on home owners, just before the interest rates were increased the interest on my mortgage was around £300 a month, now it's around £900 - where the hell am I supposed to find an extra £600 a month when I'm on a salary in the low £20k's? I might also point out here that part of the cause of the raging inflation was the budget brought in by a Tory PM...
So I will be voting Labour again this year. I don't agree with all of their policies, but better a party that seem to have some understanding that not everyone on a low salary or out of work is there due to laziness, and also seems to have a touch of pragmatism, rather than being led by ideology.
Keir Starmer has repeatedly said that they won't make promises they don't know whether they will be able to keep, and they won't know what is and isn't affordable until they get their hands on the books.
TL:DR - Tories are ideological Victorian era bastards, Labour can be pragmatic & bother to look at the impact on all.