[Houseboy]

I'd like to throw a genuine question out here. I am honestly baffled as to why any "working class" person (sorry for an old fashioned term but it seems to fit) would ever want to vote Tory? We can go on for months arguing in circles about politics, it's what people do, and I know that I am not going to convince a Tory that socialism is good (my father-in-law is a total Tory but I still love him greatly, as was my own father) but I have asked this question many times in the past in conversation but never really got a satisfactory answer.
My personal life experience when it comes to politics is that with the Tories in power we usually have high unemployment, high interest rates and almost invariably some form of taxation hike (usually VAT these days) to pay for tax cuts to the already wealthy. We also quite often get restrictions on workers rights accompanied by some form of pay restraints "below inflation" whilst allowing companies (including utilities) to raise prices to whatever degree they wish, regardless of inflation. It doesn't take Einstien to work out that if workers continually accept pay rises below inflation that said workers will continually and progressively be worse off, year on year. The same cannot be said of blue chip companies, announcing "record profits" on an almost annual basis.
We now, of course, have the privatised industries who control life-essential commodities putting the "desires" of shareholders before the "needs" of customers. We are also now suffering a chronic shortage of affordable housing due to the Tory obsession with selling council houses in the eighties (the reason given at the time was to give people the opportunity to own them, the real reason being let's get these properties off our hands). There is now an incredible amount said about the numbers of people scrounging on the social and how we must do all we can to reduce this expenditure (I actually agree that something must be done on that score) but hardly anything is done by the Tories about plugging the legal loopholes (and indeed the illegal) that allow the wealthy (both individual and corporate) to pay little or nothing in income tax, which costs the country far more than any social security bill.
The Tories hate the NHS (they would scrap it if they could but it would be political suicide). They don't seem to be in love with the idea of state schooling (it's another expenditure they would rather do without). They have historically never been in love with the idea of democracy (they opposed votes for women, they opposed the scrapping of the dual voting system which gave businessmen two votes at an election, they opposed the reducing of the voting age to eighteen and Ted Heath in 1964 was the first Tory leader to be elected to the post democratically). In recent years (late seventies onwards) they have actively promoted greed and self-interest.
I could list many more examples of Tory contempt for the "ordinary" person but I think you get my drift. If anyone can address this genuine and honest question I promise I will read it without prejudice (my political affiliations are far more wide-ranging than might appear).
Of course the Labour party are far from perfect, which is why I have distanced myself from them in recent years, but the Tories do seem to have an open and transparent contempt for most ordinary people that I find it difficult to understand (genuinely) why anyone but the reasonably well-off would ever vote for them.