what was/is your parents preferred political party?

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Labour

Labour 🙄 tell me you live in the South Wales valleys without telling me you live in the South Wales valleys.

Dad - Tory, Mum - thinks they're all crap. I agree with her.

They never said. Dad now does not vote as is apolitical / thinks they are all crap. He does have a point

Mum also doesn't say.
The in laws - staunch tories.

My dad was Tory although he thought Margaret Thatcher was quite Liberal. If he was still around he'd probably vote BNP. He wasn't nice.
My dm always refused to say how she voted, saying she placed great value, as a woman, on her right to a private ballot.

She was probably avoiding the ear bending he would have given her if she'd voted any other way than his.

Labour

Both Tory every time (although they both liked Tony Blair). My Dad is no longer with us, and i'm so frustrated with my Mom - she is constantly moaning to me about the Conservatives (she watched the Boris doc recently and couldn't believe how he behaved, and has been incredulous at some of the antics of the party in recent years, yet will probably still vote Tory as Starmer as she thinks he's too boring. She admits he seems decent etc, but she will revert to how she's always voted despite all the evidence pointing to her having more in common with Labour this time round. She recently started volunteering at a foodbank and can see that the narrative about benefit scroungers is false, but she'll still vote Tory (she worships Thatcher). I despair

Mum is a floating voter, so SDLP, Sinn Fein or People Before Profit.
Dad has never said but I think he votes Sinn Fein.

Every election day I they each call me separately to see if I need a lift to the polling station. At the bottom of my street. Voting is really important to them.😁

One was a Tory the other Labour

Fucking Tories.
We can't discuss politics. It just descends into an argument. I tried to discuss it once when I was in my 30s and my Dad just took the piss and called me "Red Minikievs" for weeks.
They read the Daily Mail.
I love them but they are blinkered, stubborn, and have absolutely no idea of how the modern "real" world works.
And they mix with like minded pensioners at the golf club, who all agree with each other.

Used to be Labour then switched to Conservatives.

Floating voters which I’m grateful for, none of us siblings suffer from political tribalism.

My parents always voted Labour when I was growing up, but that changed when they bought their council house. They supported Thatcher because, in their view, she enabled ordinary working class people like them to buy their own homes & better themselves while Labour wanted to keep them poor & dependent as tenants of the state.

They are now stereotypical retired Brexit supporting, home-owning, Daily Mail reading Tory voters. Their view is that Labour is now ‘for the immigrants’ & despises the white working class. So they despise Labour.

Labour. Except my mother, a lifelong feminist from before it was a word, got over excited and voted for Margaret Thatcher. Once. And never forgave herself!

Labour

My father stood for Parliament as a Tory candidate in the late 1950’s both my parents voted Conservative. However their views were more Lib Dem than right wing and both hated Thatcher. Both my parents were avid supporters of the EU and I remember as a tiny tot helping my father put “say yes to the common market” posters up when there was a referendum. They had both lived abroad for long periods and spoke Arabic and French, and we travelled widely as a family so I am sure we were a bit avant garde amongst the other Telegraph reading friends they had. 😂
I am a left wing, liberal, passionate EU supporter😂

Parents were Tory.
I remember them talking about Mr Gaitskill I remember SuperMac, too young to vote then.
I voted Labour once, for the Mayor of Tower Hamlets.

Both voted Tory growing up as they liked their local Tory MP but think my mum would now vote labour

Both Labour but voted LD as a tactical vote until the LD embraced the gender woo including the candidate for their constituency. They spoilt their ballot form afaik.

I've no idea who they have ever voted for and they have no idea who each other has ever voted for.

Same in our house. I won't talk about it and I've never asked.

In general, Dad Labour, Mum Tory. But also both very committed to the notion of voting for your best local candidate not for party, and occasional protest votes (Monster Raving Loony, Wessex Regionalist) when completely disgusted with the local offering for the main two parties.

Generally Mum Labour. Dad Tory.

Sometimes one/both would vote differently though or Lib Dem.

Depended on the parties at the time.

Sort of like DH and I. We've both voted for different parties across the years. (Although he'd never vote Tory)

Growing up in his constituency, my dad always supported Roy Jenkins and SDP, and also the old Liberal party . My American mother claims to be a socialist but her views never convince. She did definitely vote Bernie Sanders but her views can be more Trump these days...

My dad and his DW are both now SNP members.

DF staunch Labour, Unionist, quarryman… feels that the working class have been shafted by Labour so is now a floating voter dependent on local issues.
DM voted for Thatcher as she was a woman and apparently believed in bettering yourself! My DB votes Tory after being in the army and now getting a good deal on Universal Credit.
Me … Labour.

Labour.
Mum is getting more left wing as she gets older. She reads Private Eye and is disgusted I buy things from Amazon (she has a point).

Both parents Conservative until I was a teenager. My mum told me she'd disown me if I ever voted Labour. DF got disillusioned with the Tories in the late 80s/early 90s and voted whatever the Lib Dems were in 1992 and 1997. He died in 98.

DM is still voting Tory as far as I am aware. I'm in an area where it's a choice of Tory or Lib Dem so I always vote LD although I'm naturally a Labour voter.