Voting if you’re classed as high earning

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just wondering if you earn high or wealthy who will you vote for?
I’m not wealthy but we both do have a higher than average income, however 7 dependents and a large mortgage takes everything!! So on paper we may look it
but realistically we budget for everything

anyway we live in a wealthy area with a lot of rich people (a lot lot better off than us, as far as I can tell anyway )
and they all said not voting labour as would be bad for them and all now detest the tories so all going Lib Dem or reform they keep asking me but I said I don’t know and I still don’t

got to say I’m not as clued up on politics as them and I struggle with understanding it all and what to believe
(maybe none) any one help me get a better understanding, everything I read I find overwhelming

Labour or Green.

I can’t believe anyone would touch that muppet Nigel F with a barge pole!!!

What are people classing as high earners?

Reform are such fucking numpties. Check out big-brain Farage here. https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1803023561939882366

Turns out the company doesn't even offer vetting services. It's in the FAQ 🙄

ABC - anyone but conservative. It's a very safe seat for them though and the local MP is a rabid anti immigration type. I voted for Corbyn last time [couldn't bring myself to support that w*nkstain on humanity [Boris] ] much to my husband's horror.
I'm torn between the Lib Dems but I'll probably vote Labour again in an attempt to unseat him. I think Starmer is an honourable if quiet type and we could use a bit of that for a bit even though I think that Labour will have a huge financial impact on us. On paper we're high earning but we've been pushed to the pin of our collar with school fees and an unstable income from DH.

DH is likely to vote Green or Lib Dem at a push. Labour lost his vote when they pushed the VAT agenda on private school fees.

We are a high income and have always voted Tory but will vote labour this year. I am voting tactically this year to try and get the local tory MP out, if we were in a safe labour seat, I would vote reform.

Both high earners in 6 figures. I am voting Lib Dem as they are the opposition in our previously safe Tory seat. Never vote Tory as I work in health care, previously i've voted Labour tactically but I'm probably more in line with Lb Dem.
Never ever will I vote Conservative or Reform.

Labour.

We might be wealthy on paper but I want to be able to access A&E if I (or my dcs, dh etc…) need to. Same with a doctor.

I want functioning schools and universities and an economy that will start to recover for my dcs (unlike the current shamble it is now).

I'm a high earner (six figures) and I'll be voting Labour, as I usually do.

The country is in a dreadful state at the moment. I'm happy to pay more tax - if that's what the next government decide - to improve public services.

I'd always rather be worse off personally but live somewhere with reasonable public services and a fairer society than be personally richer but live in a crapper society.

Labour are predicted, in latest polling, to get 453 seats. That's a dictatorship in all but name. There is no effective opposition if that happens. I know people are desperate to see the back of the Tories but this would be just as big a disaster. Where would the checks and balances be?

DH and I have always been conservative voters (though I think I voted Lib Dem in my very first GE at 18!) and would be classed in the "wealthy" category, though not massively so.

I am super, super undecided this time around. Mostly because our local MP is totally useless and is only out for his own career. To be honest, I'm surprised he didn't defect to continue rising the ranks with an in play government!

A Labour government concerns me that businesses and people of a higher earning level will suffer, not least because my business relies on those people too. I am not Kier Starmer's biggest fan.

That said, something clearly needs to change.

In summary:

• I can't stand our tory MP and really, really don't want to vote for him;
• The labour candidate standing seems like a wet blanket too;
• I've met one of the other candidates once and he seemed like a total idiot too, totally up himself; and
• I looked up one of the "independent" candidates only to discover he is a member of a pro-life group and wants to outlaw abortions.

Honestly at this point I'm seriously considering a protest and spoiling my ballot completely because none of them are good enough!

DH will still vote tory, but even he's said it's only because he doesn't want labour, rather than him truly believing in the tories now.

Please. It's Keir.

I suspect that there will be a number of likely Labour voters who fail to turn out (as they are not that inspired by Keir and the Labour manifesto) and therefore cannot be bothered, or are more idealistic and vote Green or for other smaller parties, that may not be fully taken account of by some of the more favourable Labour polling.

Also a really large Labour majority is likely to embolden factions within Labour to not follow the whip or otherwise stir up trouble within the party (as we have seen with the Tories - particularly since 2019). As such it may be self-policing to some extent.

Labour.

Its not about me! I'm already well off, I'm in the 1%. I want what's best for the country.

I'm healthy, I've had my turn at education, ive been lucky enough to benefit from living in a safe western country. Im ok with paying some more tax for schools, hospitals, railways, caring for the vulnerable etc.

Labour are predicted, in latest polling, to get 453 seats. That's a dictatorship in all but name. There is no effective opposition if that happens. I know people are desperate to see the back of the Tories but this would be just as big a disaster. Where would the checks and balances be?

This is scaremongering.

Labour support tends to be overestimated in polls, while support for right wing parties favoured by reliable older voters is underestimated.

There are still checks and balances with a reduced opposition. A bigger pool of MPs won't always follow the whip plus there is the lords and royal assent. We live in a democracy where public support is required - if the public demand change a government doesn't continue - look what happened to Liz Truss.

Green. I earn around 180k and I am happy to pay more in tax (I paid 70+k last year) as long as that goes toward our vital public services and protecting the planet

Totally agree.
They are all an absolute shower of . No one of the parties deserving of a vote.

I'm a higher than average earner and have no dependents so v comfortable.

I would vote for Lib Dem purely because they are pro assisted dying.

We are ‘high earners’ and both work in Private Equity so a Labour government will be bad news for us financially and we have children in private schools.
I’ll be voting Lib Dem or Reform.

Both high earners here, naturally conservative voters.
Won’t vote for them this time, sick of the elite corruption in the party and how theyve
destroyed the economy.
DH is voting reform I’m probably voting labour.

Labour. I'm in a safe labour seat and my MP (who is standing again) is fairly decent.

Lib Dem. There is a good chance they’ll beat the sitting Tory here, so I’m pretty excited about that.

Unnerved by how many on here are voting for Farage. That’s quite frightening.

Conservatives

This particular Conservative Government has buried the idea that the tories are the party of low taxation, or the party of business. Taxing to the hilt ordinary people and cutting public services to the bone. All research after the great depression told us austerity was NOT the way to stimulate the economy. They have proactively acted to crash wage growth and set back the country by a decade. This government are inept at all aspects of Governance, and are corrupt.
I am a chartered accountant, tax is my bread and butter, and will be voting labour.

We are not "hight earners" and not rich but comfortable and we are worried re about and their tax plans they have not declared as is everyone we know

15 years of any political party even if they are doing well will p off most

labour will bleed drive the people in the lower middle to the lower high end!!

High income household. We will all vote Labour.

Would probably vote Lib Dem, but Labour is fat more likely to get the Conservatives out in our area.

We will pay a lot more under Labour (including VAT on school fees), but on the other hand the Conservatives have cut public services so far and mismanaged the economy so badly that it's really unethical not to try to get them out.

I want an actual functioning country for my kids to live in.