What motivates people to vote Labour?

When it impacts on a companys competitiveness is does. And that's what happened to a lot of the heavy industry Thatcher got the blame for that we lost

If I own a popcorn company, it impacts on my company's competitiveness if I'm prevented from going into cinemas, setting up a stall and selling popcorn for lower prices than the cinema's own vendors are selling it for. So should I be allowed to do it?

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Yes you should. What we've had since Post WW2 with the World Trade Organisation is you're company being allowed to go into the cinema to sell you're popcorn and undercut the in house popcorn supplier. What that is meant to create is a competitive market place whereby both popcorn suppliers compete for the business.

What we had in the 70's was your popcorn company coming inside the cinema to sell it's popcorn, and the Cinema's own popcorn seller throwing a hissy fit (Trade Unions) and going on strike,and then wondering why the cinema decided just to get all of its popcorn from you.

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Yes you should. What we've had since Post WW2 with the World Trade Organisation is you're company being allowed to go into the cinema to sell you're popcorn and undercut the in house popcorn supplier.

What an UTTER lot of nonsense!

Why do Tories unofficially support Grammar schools if they are champions of the aristocracy? Why is Kent getting a new Grammar school because of it's Tory MP and Tory Kent County Council?

You do realise a couple of etonians at the top doesnt mean major conspiracy, right?

You're using grammar schools as evidence that Tory support of them means Tories are promoting social fairness?

Grammar schools counter elitism by your argument? Grammar schools ?!?!

When we had grammar schools they upheld stratisfying society into levels

and enforced where people were going to sit for the rest of their lives in the social pecking order before they were even teenagers.

And before you say they promote social mobility, of course they don't.

It's still more than possible to get into great universities with a comprehensive background.

It also means that if you panicked on the day of your 11-plus and messed it up at age 11, you're not going to become a manual worker for the rest of your years.

Please, become globally and historically informed.

I shall never forgive the Labour party for what they put my family through during 2009-10. I am interested though in seeing what motivates people to vote for such a damaging party. They damaged the economy, they damaged family values, they damaged people's trust in their government. They damaged everything you can imagine basically. What motivates you to want another Labour Govt? My opinion of Labour voters is that they are extremely selfish and do not care about the good of the long-term economy, as long as they get their handouts courtesy of the taxpayer. Now of course this isn't representative of all Labour voters, but I am at a loss as to explain why they won so many local council seats, and am quite frankly damn worried.

Lets be honest here- in some way or another every government f*ks us over, its the way of life.

I offically couldn't care less who wins- as long as the country IS FAIR ie not spending millions of £s on doing up a train station that they admitt won't be big enough, spending money on slightly less sensitive doors on the tube trains at the cost of a couple million and instead giving that money to people who need it or putting it into community services like schools, after school clubs etc.

What a question...

I vote labour because I come from a working class family and they seem the best of a bad bunch. However, sometimes I feel like the parties really merge togother on many issues, so there isn't a massive difference. This is only how I feel though, so no offence intended

Put your family through? And this would not have occurred under a Tory government? I vote Labour because the Tories a simply a bunch of thieving, cowardly billionaires that couldn't give a toss about me. Privatisation is a failed concept, watch and see the NHS implode if the Tories succeed. Damaged family values? Like the childcare benefit? University was in theory a great idea, but they encouraged too many applicants. Selfish ay? You say this in same breath as you watch Tories targetting pensioners, students, all while charging money to see our local elected PM?

Madness

Hi, just wondering what you think labour will do to benefit the working class that the tories dont already do? Tories are pretty much hitting the middle class right now so i dont see why labour is still seen as a working class party.

Both parties have done things that harmed the working class.

But don't you think minimum wage, redistributive measures like working tax credits, child tax credits, EMA etc did help the working class?

I would say Labour abandoned the working class mostly when they startrd being europhophiles and allowing mass immigration which depressed wages.

I agree with your last point but a Europhile is the wrong word :P

That means you hate the EU and are against it.

I guess you mean they were in favour of the EU, and yeh i hate the EU aswell.

there are more people from poorer back grounds in uni than ever before

It is foolish to attack the people that vote solely on the grounds that they are so called 'scroungers' and that they are selfish. like wise it is foolish to say that the tories are a bunch of toffs who don't care about the working class.