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

sandyRoe | 16:28 Tue 04th Jan 2011 | ChatterBank

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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?

Should the fashion police become a reality?

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sandyRoe

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Trade unions once fought for workers rights. Now we're told they're not needed, there's no such thing as society. It's dog eat dog and devil take the hindmost.

oranger

Maybe working class people have more common sense than to vote for new labour

naomi24

Yes, Sandy, they did, and workers got their rights. So what's the problem?

sandyRoe

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The unions are like Samson in Gaza, chained by edicts from the high courts. Gone are the happy days when men who looked like they had just stepped down from a Soviet Politburo waddled into Downing St for beer and sandwiches.

venator

Has nobody mentioned Mandy yet? Is he lurking behind the scenes still?

sandyRoe

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In the days of Roy Gunter and bessie Braddock he might have been the meat in the sandwich

naomi24

Haa! Yeah - and how about when everyone downed tools for a month and had no wages because someone used someone else's screwdriver? Sad innit. All gone. Then woz the days, eh? :o)

sandyRoe

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Demarcation in the workplace had its uses. People who had served long apprenticeships knew that their jobs were safe.

standian

Thatcher would be
pleased as punch to read the above drivel Her work here is done She can die!!!!!

Apologies to Welsh and sandyRoe I fear you are casting pearls before swine!

welshlibranr

It's cos, they are wanna be snobs!............Simple as!.............

craft1948

okay welshie......I'm working class......I vote Conservative.....therefore I must be a snob.......pmsl.

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craft1948

My MP is a local farmer.

naomi24

Standian and Welsh, so what do you want? That's something I've asked others who have responded as you have to questions like this - and I've yet to receive a definitive and workable, answer, so how about giving it a go?

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