What kind of people vote tory?

Question

I only ask as people think labour voters are communists, immigrants and people on benefits, so if they are the characteristics of a labour voter can we assume that tory supporters are bankers, millionaires, business owners or money grabbing parasites that dont give a toss about anybody but themselves?



Or is there really a middle ground and you dont really have to be extreme to vote a centre party?

Answer 1

I am your basic middle class peasant who worked all of my life and paid my taxes. I am not a money grabbing parasite and I care about others. I have never voted Labour but I do not believe that Labour voters are communists, immigrants and people on benefits. I suspect like me there are committed party supporters who come from middle class backgrounds.



The Answer forum allows for some pretty radical views but for the most part I think the British public are just trying to live their lives and get on with bringing up their families whatever Party they support and whatever their ethnic origin is.

Answer 2

You have summed it up quite well - Tories are the same sort of people who vote for New Labour. Both parties are centre-right and are fighting over the same political ground. At least the Tories never pretended to be anything other than a bosses' party - but Labour are completely different - it was once a party for ordinary people - look at the gains of the 1948 Labour landslide which gave us the welfare state and the NHS. However, that is not true any longer - New Labour have completely sold out and have completely eroded any gains that were made in the past.



I think you do need some people in Labour who stand up for working class rights. Look at the massive cuts that New Labour is pushing through now to our public services. They are the same cuts proposed by the Tories - where I live 700 jobs are going in our hospitals and 1000 in our local council. A genuine Labour government would refuse to make any cuts, would make the rich pay for the financial crisis which they got us into and would also refuse to increase taxation for ordinary people. A real Labour government would have representatives on the same wage as those who elected them. That is the programme of the party I belong to (the Socialist Party, formerly Militant Labour) and the coalition it belongs to in the elections - the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (source 1).



What is the point of voting in Labour when they will carry out the same cuts as the Tories?

Answer 3

Great Britain founded democracy? The ancient greeks were using it while we still lived in mud huts my friend. And secondly Britain isn't a democracy, it's a constitutional monarchy. First past the post is the least democractic of all voting systems, a true democratic system is proportinal representation. There isn't another option, no other system is democratic. We use a system that isn't democratic so we can get a more definite result, yet our result is broken if no party holds majority alone, the whole point of the system is gone. You might find if our parliament ends up hung every election we HAVE to move to AV. And since when did the amount of people voting make to slightest bit of difference lol? Democracy IS proportional repesentation, if you want democracy that IS the voting system because its fair and proportional. ALL OTHER systems corrupt the result in favour of the big parties funded by the upper class and corporate entities. First past the post is EXACTLY the same as a monarchy or dictatorship, rulers get chosen at birth and therefore get funded. The only difference is you SHEEP think your free under this system. If parties use AV like systems it should be used everywhere, obviously its good enough for them but not us! Wouldn't want the morons to weaken their corrupt grip on power would we?

Answer 4

The bulk of Tory support comes from the confused working class but of course the rich will and privileged will also vote for them. The Tory Party, after all, is the party of the ruling class. New Labour have been making inroads with courting this group of people and have successfully wooed many of them with their Thatcherite policy's but the Tory's would not be in the running without many votes coming from workers.



Perhaps some immigrants will vote Labour but communists would probably vote to the left of them. People on benefits and low incomes are the least likely to come out to vote. They are among the most disenfranchised and disillusioned people in society and tend not to bother. Can't say I blame them really.



Interestingly it seems that the class most likely to vote far right are the disenchanted lower middle class and that would take votes away from the Tory Party.

Answer 5

I know bankers who vote for Labour and immigrants who vote Tory. I don't think there really is a stereotype for either. After all, if the assumptions you give were correct, then neither party would ever win, as it leaves out the majority of people in this country who are neither on benefits, nor millionaires.

Answer 6

Your assumption is correct. However, there are still a number of older working class people wh believe that, because many tories are born into the ruling class, and have the benefit, if that is the right word, of a private education, they are our natural leaders.

There is no doubt in my mind that the tories are far from being a centre party. They may wish to give that impression in the run up to an election, but so did Thatcher, until she got elected, when the country took a massive leap to the right. I believe that would happen again.

Unfortunately, in order to win the votes of all those people Thatcher had allowed to buy their council houses, and who, by virtue of a having millstone mortgages, now considered themselves to be middle class, Labour also took a massive leap to the right, and became New Labour.

Anyone that wants real change will vote for the socialist coalition party, TUSC.

Answer 7

Basically people that want to rely on the Government to run their lives for them vote Labour. Those that want a less restrictive Government and not a nanny state will vote Tory. All this cr@p about people on benefits vote Labour and the rich looking after themselves vote Tory is ridiculous.

I vote Tory and I care about my community, I care about the NHS, I care about people not being in poverty, I care about children getting a decent education. The thing is I look around now and see that Labour have failed at all of the above despite taxing the working class people to death.

Answer 8

When the Conservatives were previously in power they were harsh and relentless in some of their policies, but i can tell you this every single Briton could still hang their heads up high with pride.



These days people are ashamed to be British and the English are scared to celebrate their own patron saint for fear of being labelled racist.



What has Labour achieved apart from the following things?



* Handing over Great Britain to the European Union by signing the Lisbon Treaty.

* £170 Billion worth of debt, worst on peacetime record.

* Flooding the country with Immigration to 'Engineer' Multicultural Britain.

* Reducing our mighty Armed Forces to almost nothing, not even kit for the Battlefield.

* Implementing over 12,000 EU directives in the last decade.

* Damaging our nations image by following the USA in to two wars.

* MP's thieving expenses at a time when people are struggling to make ends meet.

* Endless bureaucracy, Political Correctness, Lack of Democracy.

* Pro-Devolution almost breaking up the United Kingdom.

Answer 9

Ordinary people who are not fooled by Labour promises of riches for all without effort and the idea that the Labour Party actually serves the working man

Answer 10

People who have so much money that they wipe their *** with it rather than give it to the needy.

Answer 11

i vote conservative. im very middle ground. 3 bed semi. paid for. small car. paid for. small job reduced to part time from full time .

i dont claim handouts.

i pay council tax. trebled since 1997

my passport to leave this country has risen in price from £18 to £96 since 1997



i pay taxes so the government can use it to fund the unions. which in turn funds the government. see the telegraph today.

i abide by the 4300 laws introduced by labour since 1997.

no. im not extreme. i vote for my freedom to do as i choose .not as im told.

Answer 12

Anyone who resents being sold out to the undemocratic eu by the liar Gordon Brown who promised a Lisbon treaty referendum and then refused to have one. Anyone who resents seeing Parliament's law-making powers handed over to completely unelected bureaucrats through a series of treaties that have no consent from the General Public and therefore no democratic legitimacy. Anyone who resents being governed by foriegners who don't represent this country whatsoever, who make laws and regulations that damage our economy.



Conservatives will make it law for referendums to take place on treaties before they are ratified.



Labour will continue to sell us out.

Answer 13

People who think businesses and the market know best

People who think that by the wealthy few making money, a few crumbs will drop off the table to the rest of us

People who think the making and keeping of money is the most important thing

People who think privilege and aristocracy still have a place in society.

People who think businesses should be self regulating....



*sigh*

Answer 14

Samantha Cameron!!!



Oh no she votes labour.....

Answer 15

Bigots, Little Englanders and selfish bograts. The sort who steal from the poor to give the rich.

Answer 16

Sensible ones do we really want another 5 years of Labour please no