As an example jimmy and Olly
My DH will be voting Cons.
Higher rate taxpayer.
Got up at 4.30 to leave for work at 5am this morning. Just got back, on the phone as he walks in, will stop 10 mins for dinner, and then be back on phone/computer until at least 9.30 maybe 10. Quite hard work, surely?
Cancer patient - yes he ticks that box too. Just finished 12 rounds of chemo over 6 months, which he managed to work through too (albeit in a different way). He has private health insurance, so has saved the NHS £45000 so far in treatment, but if Labour get in he will be taxed on that too!
Disabled - does a child on the autistic spectrum count? Under the Labour government I volunteered to go in and help out at the school to free up a TA so my son could have an assistant, because otherwise he would have been disrupting the whole class, and there wasn't funding available for him. At the time DHwas just on a reasonable wage, and we made cutbacks to send him to a private school because nothing around us was suitable - ohh ticks another Labour box, tax the private school fees too. If we had sent him to an LEA approved boarding school it would have been just over £100000 a year. Paid for by the 'great British taxpayer'
Welfare, didn't claim anything we were 'entitled to'. (I HATE that word), we weren't 'rich' at the time as in the MN definition, but it wouldn't have sat right.
Is it any wonder some people don't want to vote Labour.
And as for all the tactical voters. Well here is a thought - actually vote for the party you want - because you may just shoot yourself in the foot!!!