Wednesday 2 January 2013

Can we talk about why professionals don't vote Tory?

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After all it's the real problem. In fact 2010 wasn't lost because the working classes - C2DE - didn't vote Conservative.

This* shows Conservative lead by social class for 1979 and 2010



1979
2010
ABC1
+35
+12
C2
0
+8
DE
-15
-9

In truth 2010 was the Party's best ever post-war result among the working-classes. It's the professionals that aren't voting Conservative.  So why is this and why didn't 'modernising' the Party work?

And maybe we can talk a little less about a 'working class tory' strategy?

*taken from here
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1 comment:

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