Why do so many working class people vote conservative when it's clearly against their own interest?

[sandyRoe]

The wealthy have family trusts to protect their wealth and property. The middle class have scrambled into the lifeboat of success and pulled the rope up behind them. How do ordinary workers ever bring themselves to vote for millionaire old Etonians?

[squarebear]

Best of a bad bunch I suppose.

[craft1948]

Surely you don't advocate anyone voting Labour, regardless of 'class'.

[AB Editor]

Pocket-book voting?

[McMouse]

Blair, Brown, Prescott, Balls, Straw, Iraq, financial melt down, EU surrender.........how many reasons do you want?

[Bbbananas]

Does the class system still exist then????!!!!!!! ;-)

[Sqad]

sandy...that is a very good question for which I do not have an answer.

Why do some wealthy middle class folks vote Labour.

Beats me.

[jake-the-peg]

Because sqad some of us have an old fashioned notion of voting for a party that will benefit the country more even if we ourselves are slightly worse off as a result.

It's (and I hate to use the word) real patriotism.

[Sqad]

Jake....I go for pragmatism rather than patriotism............patriotism I can´t afford....pragmatism I find that I can.

[craft1948]

lol pinki.........when you take over at the treasury, and are left a note saying "Sorry there's no money" what do you expect the incoming government to do......carry on spending like the labour lot did?

[jake-the-peg]

That't the thing isn't it?

I notice that those most vocal about patriotism don't seem to recognise it as such when it involves opening their wallets.

Shooting a few foreigners yes - paying British people a minimum wage? come on now that's communist talk!

[DrFilth]

drugs

[Sqad]

Jake

<<<<<I notice that those most vocal about patriotism don't seem to recognise it as such when it involves opening their wallets. <<<<<

Thank goodness that you are not referring to me as a vocal patriot.............I din´t live in the UK.

[jake-the-peg]

They don't have to "spend like the Labour lot did" Craft - we've already bought all the banks!

Or had you conveniently forgotten that the money was spent bailing out Camerons mates in the City?

You remember! the same ones he was always going on about how "red tape was tying their hands"

You don't hear much about that from him any more do you?

[jake-the-peg]

Wasn't particularly you I was thinking of sqad.

Mostly the people who wax lyrical about green fields and Dunkirk spirit and Winston Churchill (Famous Liberal) whenever asked about patriotism.

[Davethedog]

People to an extent are lazy. They don't look at the issues or party manifests or history.

The Sun tells them that the financial situation is the governments fault, even when logic says A) It wasn't and B) The Tories would of had no option but to have done the same.

When the media then started saying that Labour should of put some by for a "rainy day" when the going was good, this was a political attack as anyone who knows thier history knows the Tories would of funded tax cuts with the money rather than public spending.

Having said that it was obvious that should Labour be in power not a lot of difference would be going on V.A.T would be rising and public spending cut. To a lessor degree, therefore slower who knows.

To many in this country allow media moguls to decide thier vote when a couple of hours research may make them change thier minds.

[sandyRoe]

And don't forget the spinster on her bicycle going past the cricketers on the village green on her way to the evening service

[jd_here]

Perhaps because they're stupid!