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Because in the manifesto Mr. Corbyn promised he would address the following issues and I believed him.
A GREEN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
ECONOMY AND ENERGY
TRANSPORT
ENVIRONMENT
ANIMAL WELFARE
REBUILD OUR PUBLIC SERVICES
FUNDING
NHS AND SOCIAL CARE
NATIONAL EDUCATION SERVICE
POLICE AND SECURITY
JUSTICE
COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
FIRE AND RESCUE
DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
TACKLE POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
WORK
WOMEN AND EQUALITIES
MIGRATION
SOCIAL SECURITY
HOUSING
CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES
THE FINAL SAY ON BREXIT
A NEW INTERNATIONALISM
EFFECTIVE DIPLOMACY
DEFENCE AND SECURITY
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
And agree with Mr. Smith about the Trolleys.
Sense of social justice.
Genuine belief in the old adage of 'from each according to their ability, to each according to their need'.
Strong sense of right and wrong.
I'd also vote Lib Dem to try to stop a conservative.
I won't make that mistake again.
@footflaps
Book added to reading list. Cheers.
creation of the welfare state was very much a consensus between Labour, Liberals and the Conservatives and each played a huge part in the creation of the NHS
Fair enough, but I’d bet that if the Tories had won in 1945 it would never have happened. These things only occur under Labour governments. The one exception I can think of is Cameron equalising the age of consent - kudos to him, even if everything else he did was despicable.
I don’t think you can judge the Parties of 1945 by the standards of today. The entire country had just been through a terrible time together and the differences were much less pronounced.
TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR
Because they like to pretend they are caring, whilst viciously attacking anyone that disagrees with their vision of how everything should be.
Listen to yourself and then have a word
The long and short of it is people's political leanings are decided, to a large extent but not entirely, by their life situation.
When you don't have as much money as others, and when you feel that you're at the bottom of the pile, you're very much in favour of redistributive politics, and that gives everyone the same opportunity to succeed, do better than their parents etc. Hence voting for working class parties that favour high taxation and a solid social net.
When you have money, and feel that you've worked hard to get it (whether you're deluded or actually have done so), you're less in favour of redistribution, generally, and want to keep hold of what you have. Hence voting for more right-wing parties that favour lower taxation and (in theory) minimal government.
That said, the recent incarnations of the Labour and Tory parties have thrown that into a cocked hat - for some reason the Tories have become obsessed with bringing government into the home, ensuring you don't look at naughty things online, don't parent in ways of which they don't approve, and so on. The Labour party's recent incarnation has been about bringing hard left policies such as mass nationalisation of essential infrastructure with imaginary money, and Uncle Jeremy who believe Nicolas Maduro is just a great guy.
Thank heavens, people can now vote Labour because: they're genuinely in favour of redistributive policies that help the poorer and in theory assist social mobility; they don't want a hard Brexit; and (finally, praise be), they just want someone other than the current BoZo and the amazing Clown Show in power.
I don't agree with the post above, I vote labour knowing that I'll be considerably worse off doing so.
To be fair without resurrecting the Jeremy Corbyn thread, the last two times were incredibly difficult. I no way wanted to endorse Corbyn but Labour were the only chance of removing our useless Tory MP and I know the labour candidate and he's a good guy.
Now Kier Starmier is in charge I'm hoping come the next election I'll not be so conflicted.