Let’s get this over with, I voted conservative, previously I’ve voted lib dem and labour. I don’t vote tory because I’m a crap human being but in this case largely because:
I wouldn’t have trusted the two eds not to have ruined us.
Our local tory is actually quite good and a pleasant chap (as was his lib dem predecessor)
I don’t believe the labour party are any more compassionate than any one else in anything but rhetoric.
They’re no longer the loony left with whom I largely agreed and seem only to represent the same self interest as the tories but hidden behind past leftist leaning.
The lib dem seemed to offer more of the same unachievable manifesto promises they did last time, last time they had the defence of never seriously expecting to have to deliver, this time they didn’t and it seemed a little too wishful thinking
I personally am what most people consider to be not well off – minimum wage – and was better off after four years of condemn rule than 14 of labour. Self interest possibly, but frankly being told by huge numbers of people who are leftists and significantly less poor than me, that the labor party is the party to support poor people and the tories would see me rot rather grates.
I was always told to judge people by their friends, I never saw a rabid tory activist spitting at aour deriding a labour voter I have seen the other.
I don’t shout about it, my vote is like my health, it’s my business and none of anybody else’s.