Are there typical characteristics of supporters of the main political parties?

I agree trisher. He has a carefully tended persona. So does Boris. I've seen him so often on tv ruffling his hair up before he realises the cameras are on. However, he's a really sharp cookie if you read his writing. Brexit debacle a big miscalculation though.
Its no use. I can't help it. I like him. I'm so ashamed!

Oh I like Rees-Mogg, not least because he is openly 'old Conservative' and much as I hate his politics he is a character and honest. Boris I fluctuate about sometimes I think he's funny, sometimes I find him appalling.

I saw a news item this weekend that said that there was a broad relationship between intelligence, education and political views.

Lib Dems were the best educated and intelligent, then Conservatives, then Labour. The study only looked at main parties.

As I cannot find the source I can offer no opinion on the sampling methods or source data and the trustworthiness of the results.

I don't either like or dislike Rees Mogg, ( I saw footage of him as a boy and he was more or less the same as now) and I feel the same about Boris, but since all who know both of them seem to really like them, then I assume they are very charming and likeable. However, you don't need to be either to be a good and competent politician, but you may need those characteristics to be a liked politician.

Good point roses

But what does it matter if I like a politician? I vote for policies not people.

Re the purple rinses - just been shopping and in front of me in the queue in Marks ( Tshirts, plain fine cardi and hand wash) was a lady sporting a lavender coloured rinse and her top was a slightly darker shade of the same colour. Looked very nice.

MawBroon, has Blair done anything ilegal ?

Most people ( even if it's at a subliminal level) tend to vote for those people who are perceived as likeable though, I think Ed Miliband simply wasn't liked enough.
It may not be the right way to view a politician ( it almost certainly isn't) but it is the human way.

Difficult trisher if you don't trust the politician making the policies

trisher I thought if I dyed my hair I would choose a lavender shade! 'When I grow old I shall wear purple'.
However, it won't go grey so I am stuck with dark brown (apparently the Marijuana Party of Canada uses brown).

I was thinking about Diane Abbott and hair this morning as I struggled with my own and wondered if a politician's hair said anything about their characters because Diane said her views had changed as had her hair.

MawBroon, has Blair done anything ilegal ?
You mean apart from the Iraq War annie?

presumably Blair and wife pay their taxes

I went red for a bit (I know appropriate really). I quite liked it until I went back to my proper blonde/grey and a friend said "It looks so much better"!!!
I like these long styles grey/white at top shading down to purple, blue or pink. Unfortunately my hair isn't long enough (and I'm a bit too old)

I used to be slightly auburn (in the sunshine) when I was younger and enhanced it but not scarlet like one of my friends.
And someone I met last weekend was greyish-blonde with lilac streaks. Very nice.

I notice that both JC and TM have shorter hair styles now - 'Trust me, I mean business?'

One of my loveliest friends always lets me know what colour her hair is before I meet her it changes so often but I doubt it alters how she votes!

pogs and there you had it in one

"The Silent Majority are simply going about their own business, seeing what is going on in their lives and surroundings with regard to their everyday living and making decisions for themselves. " In other words they only think of themselves ,cant imagine they would ever be in the same position of people who are on benefits,because of sickness they didn't ask for or because they had a good family life then lost their job...they are the people the tories hit hardest the women ,mainly,who the 3rd child benefit withdrawal (rape clause) will hit.The I'm all right jack brigade just dont care !1

Why just because someone wants a third child do tax payers have to fund it. If they can't afford a third child without child benefit then don't have one. In this day and age with the morning after pill there is no excuse.

Sigh!

Paddyann we were talking about characteristics not going for yet another Tory bashing thread.

Safer talking about hair colour maybe kitty....

I have noticed that 'most' left leaning people have had a sense of humour bypass, and don't get irony.
Take Corbyn & Abbott, they aren't exactly the Chuckle Brothers, are they.

paddyann Mon 29-May-17 15:37:47

pogs and there you had it in one

"The Silent Majority are simply going about their own business, seeing what is going on in their lives and surroundings with regard to their everyday living and making decisions for themselves. "

In other words they only think of themselves ,cant imagine they would ever be in the same position of people who are on benefits,because of sickness they didn't ask for or because they had a good family life then lost their job...they are the people the tories hit hardest the women ,mainly,who the 3rd child benefit withdrawal (rape clause) will hit.The I'm all right jack brigade just dont care !"

I was answering the OP question 'Are there typical characteristics of supporters of the MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES.!!!

I will however answer your spin on what I said.

The 'Silent Majority ' are not necessarily thinking only of themselves!

The Silent Majority are perfectly capable of imagining what life on benefits would be like, some will indeed be on benefits because of sickness, lost their jobs!.

The Silent Majority are only seen as 'The I'm alright Jacks' brigade by political motivated idiots who don't understand that the 'Silent Majority' is NOT a political party motivated by hard line politically motivated/brainwashed commentators.

The ' Silent Majority ' cannot be put into boxes! They are free thinkers who will work out for themselves how their NHS Service is going, how their schools are performing, how they see their councils funding appropriate or inappropriate services etc. etc. They do not react kindly to what they know to be the politics of class warfare, political spin nor being told who to vote for. They are not interested in the small minded political beliefs of others who have a superior attitude, a self righteous belief their way is the only way.

Thank goodness or we would live under a dictatorship!!

Oh I don't know Petra.......DH calls them Abbott and Costello

Petra says most left-leaning people seem to have a sense of humour bypass. Calling Jeremy Corbyn or Tim Farron "a joke" is no indication of a sparkling sense of humour.

What the Tories have already done and are threatening to do is certainly no joke, and anyway just how humorous is Theresa May?.