From the other angle - I went to private school and Oxbridge, I'm a higher rate taxpayer, I own a BTL house, DH has fibromyalgia and a bad back but works full-time at enormous cost to our family life, my siblings-in-law live in social housing and receive "in work" benefits so I could wax indignant, Daily Fail style, that they always have the holidays, new car and consumer goods that we don't (because roof repairs, because new boiler, because pension pots and college fund etc - in other words, I may not have a big shiny TV but I have the privilege of financial security and my own roof to have to fix). I always vote. Contrary to what might look like my self-interest, I have never voted Tory and will not be voting Tory.
This is an interesting read, though a few years old now - the point about different conceptions of what "fairness" means, and how the media feed them, has echoes on this thread.
www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jun/05/why-working-class-people-vote-conservative
"You can think of the moral mind as being like a tongue that is sensitive to a variety of moral flavours. We have identified six moral concerns as the best candidates for being the innate "taste buds" of the moral sense: care/harm, fairness/cheating, liberty/oppression, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, and sanctity/degradation. Across many kinds of surveys, in the UK as well as in the USA, we find that people who self-identify as being on the left score higher on questions about care/harm. But on matters relating to group loyalty, respect for authority and sanctity (treating things as sacred and untouchable, not only in the context of religion), it sometimes seems that liberals lack the moral taste buds.
Even on the two moral taste buds that both sides claim – fairness and liberty – the right can often outcook the left. The left typically thinks of equality as being central to fairness, and leftists are extremely sensitive about gross inequalities of outcome – particularly when they correspond along racial or ethnic lines. But the broader meaning of fairness is really proportionality – are people getting rewarded in proportion to the work they put into a common project? The conservative media (such as the Daily Mail, or Fox News in the US) is much more sensitive to the presence of slackers and benefit cheats. They are very effective at stirring up outrage at the government for condoning cheating.
The derogatory term "nanny state" is rarely used against the right... Conservatives are more cautious about infringing on individual liberties in order to protect vulnerable populations.
In sum, the left has a tendency to place caring for the weak, sick and
vulnerable above all other moral concerns. It is admirable and necessary that some political party stands up for victims of injustice, racism or bad luck. But in focusing so much on the needy, the left often fails to address – and sometimes violates – other moral needs, hopes and concerns. When working-class people vote conservative, they are not voting against their self-interest; they are voting for their moral interest. They are voting for the party that serves to them a more satisfying moral cuisine."