I always voted Labour, that was when they represented the working class. I'm politically homeless now, this lot are just a poor version of the tories and they were s**t. The Guardian readers on here will tell you brexit only benefitted the rich, well i'm not rich, I never have been but when we left the EU I got four pay rises in two years and was about 1/3rd better off. Why? Because every time the company wanted temps the agencies didn't have any or the few they did have were fecking useless. We became the companies "number one priority", without us they were fucked and they knew it. Now we have immigrants from everywhere to insure wages are nailed down and the wealthy get their way.
I don't have any statistics to prove it but I'd imagine the number of people who consider themselves politically homeless in the UK.
Brexit I think is certainly one issue that broke Labours support base forever. I think you saw that with the "Red Wall" voting for Boris all those years ago.
Politics was just easier to understand in a more class-bound Britain. Generally it was felt before the 80s (from what I understand) that Labour represented the working class, and the Tories represented the middle class.
Then after thatcherism everything became a bit more confusing with the Tories representing working class people who wanted to earn money and go up the money ranks and traditional conservative people/middle class people.
It sounded like the Thatcherite era also caused a schism with Labour. Some wanting to stick to their roots but maybe stuck in a class war which was starting to no longer exist in the same way, some wanting to embrace a more centre-left/ "Blue Labour/ new labour" position, which led to Blairism and the late 90s/2000s era.
With mass immigration on a scale never seen before happening over the last 30 years it's made the picture even more confusing.
I think it's seen the Tories are now the party of "old money" / "rural countryside" people, but have lost support of centrist suburban middle class people to the Lib Dems and Labour.
To me Labours key demographic has shifted to university students/ university students going into creative jobs. I imagine they capture a huge amount of votes from first and second generation immigrants, NHS workers/any unionised job workers
But they've lost the support of white working class people, not entirely but badly, I think lots of white working class have likely turned to Tories or Reform.
I admit to most friends I didn't vote in the last election (I did spoil my ballot) and lots can't understand it. But not only do I not believe any party represents my feelings, I also don't have any faith in the system to deliver any meaningful change. It's hugely outdated.
I have voted before but only one single issue things like Brexit/trying to signal my opposition to *mass* migration on a level almost unheard of in human history
Since c1922 we have had basically only conservative and labour governments. It doesn't feel like a proper choice.
When you see other countries voting in the likes of Wilders/Netanyahu/Trump etc it does show a lot of people feel their political systems aren't fit for purpose and are voting in more of the "strong man" type to try and cut through the bureaucracy and improve people's lives.
Most of the political systems in the west are hundreds and hundreds of years old and need an overhaul.
