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The Tory line is usually about excluding "the other" who are the scapegoat for all the ills of society.
If you're working class and vote Conservative, you're wanting someone excluded from society who isn't you.
You believe that through sheer hard work you can climb the ranks of society occupied by other Conservative voters. Each person on their own merit. "The other" is some part lazy, corrupt, or unable to do things "the right way" and will make everything so much harder.
The proof of this is the very fact that you seem to be spinning your wheels and not getting anywhere in climbing the ranks of society, and "the other" is in plain sight. See?! See! It must be "the other" who is at fault!
What you fail or refuse to see is that from the point of view of societal ranks above your own, you're part of "the other". Nothing will change your mind about this, nor theirs.
Now, not to be completely partisan here, it's true that non-Tories have their own "the other".
When we're being nice, we call them Tories.
(Last part lapsing into silliness of course. There are plenty of non-Tories who have questionable prejudices of their own. Brexit going the way it did would appear to contain some proof of this.)