I grew up in Rishi Sunak’s constituency (was William Hague when I last voted there and Leon Brittan before that) and I think people probably have similar views there and it’s across the board.
It’s rural Yorkshire and there’s very few immigrants there, so I think that’s just a fear of the unknown, stoked by the media. There aren’t too many “big” employers around there (apart from the Army), so lots of people are self employed or work for small businesses, so channeling Thatcherism in their outlook to hard graft and self-sufficiency.
Im in Chislehurst which is very affluent. Many aging, set in their ways . Previously i was in Old Bexley and Sidcup, Ted Heaths old seat and i thought that would change when he retired but seems not even though the area has gone proper downhill. It also with a fair splattering of immigrants as well but I guess not enough get to vote further diluting the voting pool to the older wealthier bunch.
I’m not fully familiar with the local politics of where we live now - MP is Tory but has been LD in the past. It’s not valleys enough for Labour or maybe Plaid Cymru.
Where we lived in Sussex it was pretty much Tory land although Hastings as part of the constituency has helped to swing it Labour in the past and have come close in the last but one election when Amber Rudd was MP - she clung on by about 400 votes before leaving at last GE.
Less ‘retired with paid-off mortgages’, and more ‘affluent, and on the happier side of the line between comfortable and uncomfortable financially’. Perhaps better presented as not so well equipped with empathy skills, and a bit of an “i’m alright Jack” attitude…… lots of farmers too, who traditionally have leant right in most cases.
Government are supposed to be reinstating the triple lock next year. Hmm, nothing to do with an election about 14 months later is it? And most pensioners can remember that far!
But the tax paying workers have to suck it up and not expect a payrise
Quite the opposite “someone has to take responsibilty”, “I resign”. Carefully worded resignation letter not to definitively call out anyone else, but still also able to say he did call out the pm.
