MoskvaRed
Full Member
I used.to work with this builder in thr 90s, hos mum didnt know how to vote so.he asked her what her main concern was, nuclear threat, so she voted tory.
My Dad was a builder and he voted Leave. The lesson is, don't take political advice from builders. We can all come up with anecdotes but I do not think most Tory voters voted for Cameron in 2015 because of the referendum pledge. It was a strategic move to shut up his right wing and neutralise UKIP. It may have carried him from a hung parliament to a majority but I doubt most Tory voters below 50 cared too much about this issue, and certainly not the professional class in the City referred to in the "it bit them on the arse" comment above to which I originally responded.