1 in 4 voters still Tory

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After the last 14 years how have they still got so many voters for this election (which was lost long ago)? And that's despite loads of Tories going Reform as a protest. Labour only just over 1 in 3.

They'll be back again for sure. Really is a Tory country.

My DH is a somewhat Tory supporter, because he thinks he will pay less tax under them. He didn't vote though.

He doesn't care about the sleaze and corruption because he thinks Labour will be the same and that every party becomes corrupt sooner or later.

I didn't vote Tory or Reform because I do care about sleaze, curruption and racism but I wouldn't be surprised if they're back in power within 8 years.

I work with high earners and they still bend towards Tory.

The sooner kids have to learn a bit about politics at school ( - parties, history of etc) the better! Most people are shockingly ill informed/lazy thinkers. Why isn't politics in the national curriculum?

I voted Tory, not for the party politics but because someone from Hounslow (labour candidate) or Southampton (Lib Dem candidate) doesn't have the first clue what's important for someone living in rural Lincolnshire. And the conservative MP both lives in the constituency and has done some good things in her tenure.

I voted for my local MP, not for the Prime Minister (y'know like the system is set up).

That said I'm very much a swing voter, but none of the parties were convincing enough for me to vote in a lad from London to represent a farming community that he probably had never heard of until he got a nomination.

As a middle earner, I must say that the one thing that could've lured me towards one party or another for personal greed reasons would've been unfreezing the higher tax threshold. £50k used to be a lot; now it's not. I'm just over it and it's really annoying. But, neither the Tories nor Labour have offered to unfreeze this before 2028.

fear mongering about what Labour will ‘do’ to the Middle classes amongst other things.

Yes I suspect that would have swayed a lot of people.

Conservative voters are old. Like 65+. Under 50s overwhelmingly vote Labour. I don't see why that should change, especially with a young ethnically diverse population.

I just hope one day we get something better than Lab, Con and LibDems.

You are presumably too young to remember the total shitshow that was the Labour governments of the 1970s.

They put a LOT of my generation off of supporting Labour no matter how crap the Tories are.

I know someone who always refers to Labour as "the stupid people's party".

The Tories were in for half the 70s as well.

Yes they were and spent most of it being kicked from pillar to post by the TUC and the unions.

Margaret Thatcher had a hell of a lot more popular support than many people today, who weren't there at the time, seem willing to admit.

@BrigadierEtienneGerard what did they do? I grew up in the 90s. People kepe saying they ruined things but no one says what they did wrong.

Labour and SDP won over half the vote in 1983 yet Thatcher won a huge majority.

Thatcher also fortunate with FPTP. Labour were a mess at the time admittedly but the last certainly 5 years is as bad as any Labour government.

Thatcher did a lot but she's famous for 'breaking the unions '. There was a long miner's strike as people tried to stop mine closures. The mines, as well as other sources of industry, were closed. The north never recovered. Her statue is on a very high plinth for a good reason.

Politicians aren’t the best and the brightest. The current batch is corrupt and idiotic too.

I’m angry with the massive fuck up of the Conservative Party. Absolute shit show in government. I’ll never be a socialist though, so for me, Conservative is the least worse option.

Hoping an opposition will form against Labour, but with none of the current Conservative crew in place!!

You are not a great ad for state schools as that is not 1/4 of the electorate.

Agree entirely!

The Conservatives deserved the loss, I still voted for them but they created this on themselves. I hope that a spell in opposition will be the making of them.

Just hope Labour are a wet lettuce and can’t deliver much at all.

Thank you @cupcaske123

You can only vote for who stands in your constituency. A number of my friends usually vote Tory but did not want to vote for Reform/UKIP/Tory parties. They lean to the right but with some left principles as well.
Lib dems and Greens were out for them (TWAW and student fees) and felt that they could not support the Labour manifesto either. A fair few did not vote at all or spoilt their ballot.

The last spell as opposition didn't do much for them.

It's a bit weird to hope Labour are a wet lettuce and don't deliver much? Seems really counter-productive to only want things from one party.

@BrigadierEtienneGerard what other decisions do you make based on 45 year old information though? I don’t think todays Labour are the same as 1977 any more than I think todays Tories are the same as 1977. My mum voted for Thatcher in 79. She votes Labour now. The country is different, the parties are different too.

I want them out within 1 term! So the less they achieve or the more they fuck up the better the chances.

@WiseBiscuit and if they run the country well and make good decisions? You’d still want them out? I can’t think of a single good decision the Tories have made in years. Ah no I can think of one, the Lifetime ISA has been quite handy for me

Everyone who voted Labour.. Will be regetting it in a year's time. ..when the country is in a worse state than it is now.
We had COVID.. that changed the NHS.. NOT the government.

I've been voting for nearly 50 years.

The UK is naturally central conservative. If the Conservative Party moves too far right AND Labour occupy the centre Labour will win a GE.

If Labour moves left and Tories shift back to centre Tories will win.

It's always going to be the party that occupies nearest the centre that will win. If they are too close then you get a hung Parliament.

It's who we are. We don't like extremes. We like moderation.

Perhaps it's one reason why mass immigration is objected and even feared - too much could change the nature of the voting population. We could have a rise of extremist politics from outside our own culture. Look what happened to Jess Phillips earlier.

I voted Conservative. I am a single issue voter - women's rights, support for single sex spaces, and knowing what a woman is. Of the candidates standing in the GE I had met last year the incumbent Tory MP and the independent candidate. The Tory was able to hold a 15 min conversation with me on women's rights & concerns. The independent was only focused on 1 issue - large planning development. This year I didn't meet any of the other candidates (lab, libdem, soc dem, green, reform) - all bused in from outside the area.Wouldn't vote lab, lib dem, green and not reform. I like many women had no sensible choice. My MP is considered a safe pair of hands, was not involved with the sleeze, seems a decent constituency MP so I voted for the man not the party. My conscience is totally clear.