Describe a Remain voter who voted Tory afterward
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« on: October 23, 2020, 06:18:48 AM »

How would describe a person who voted Remain initially but now voted Tory 100% of the time?
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« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2020, 09:18:36 AM »

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« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2020, 09:47:51 AM »

In one word? Posh.
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« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2020, 10:00:41 AM »

A wealthy man educated at a posh school who works in the City for an international finance firm, and has voted for the Tories his whole life, before and after Brexit.

Fine with the EU out of personal self-interest, but is too well off and "in too deep" so to speak to ever consider leaving the Tories.
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« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2020, 10:10:13 AM »

Most of them, upper-middle-class suburban resident of somewhere like Surrey. Owns a property and sends his kids to a private school or very good state school. Post-graduate  or at least masters degree. Voted Remain and swings between Tory/Lib-dem. Couldn't risk having Corbyn in Number 10 and voted Tory.
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« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2020, 10:20:13 AM »

Most of them, upper-middle-class suburban resident of somewhere like Surrey. Owns a property and sends his kids to a private school or very good state school. Post-graduate  or at least masters degree. Voted Remain and swings between Tory/Lib-dem. Couldn't risk having Corbyn in Number 10 and voted Tory.

Yeah, I have a feeling plenty of Remainers, especially upper middle class ones like the person you describe, would prefer a Hard Brexit over Corbyn becoming PM.
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« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2020, 05:24:31 PM »

My mum fits into this category, although her 2019 vote in particular was very much an anti-Corbyn vote rather than a pro-Boris one. (She really didn't like Boris, but felt that Corbyn hadn't provided a realistic and credible alternative).

I myself don't fit into this category, but I did seriously consider voting Tory in 2017, because we were in the middle of delicate Brexit negotiations and I didn't want us to change horses in midstream. In the end, I couldn't bring myself to do it after seeing how awful the 2017 Tory manifesto was (and I didn't even consider voting Tory in 2019: that was just a non-starter for me by then). However, I can imagine people like myself fitting this pattern, if they were less disgusted by that manifesto and stuck with my original line of thinking.
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« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2020, 06:23:01 PM »

Jewish, strongly supportive of Zionism and lives in a seat with a weak Lib Dem presence.
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« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2020, 12:49:21 PM »

Wealthy, educated, urban. Pretty self-explanatory, really.

Imagine living in a country where people actually vote according to their economic interests and not according to culture war red meat. What a concept.
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« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2020, 01:21:30 PM »

In 2017, 25% of Remainers voted Tory, so this was one in four remain voters, in 2019 however this number dipped to 19%.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/12/17/how-britain-voted-2019-general-election
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« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2020, 04:24:49 PM »

Wealthy, educated, urban. Pretty self-explanatory, really.

Imagine living in a country where people actually vote according to their economic interests and not according to culture war red meat. What a concept.

That's not really the case in the UK nowadays though. Think of all the people who voted Tory in places like Sedgefield and Bishop Auckland.
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« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2020, 07:33:08 PM »

This wasn't even that rare? About 1/3 of 2015 Tory Voters voted to remain. Obviously, the share would have changed since the referendum, but I still don't think pro-Remain Tories would have at all been rare.
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