To have zero sympathy for this woman

[wasonthelist]

The tearful woman on BBC Question Time claims to have been a Tory voter. She's reaping what she sows.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hame-you-hardworking-mums-tearful-6643284

[hiddenhome2]

Enjoy your gloat.

[HaydeeofMonteCristo]

I feel sorry for her. It sounds like she's really struggling. Not everyone had the sense to vote labour. People were silly enough to trust the Tories and believe what they said. But I don't think that means they can never complain.

[CultureSucksDownWords]

YABU. She has made a mistake of trusting a politician to stick to their promises, that's all. I have every sympathy for someone in her position who may well be struggling to pay essential bills in the near future. At the same time, I can suggest that she was unwise to believe David Cameron and the Conservative party promises, but that doesn't erode my sympathy for her.

[Pyjamaramadrama]

I'd have never voted for them but they didn't disclose that they were going to make such a huge and abrupt cut to tax credits.

I sympathise with any working single parents about to lose thousands of pounds.

[wasonthelist]

I'm not gloating, and I didn't vote Labour or Tory, but really and truly, what did she expect?

[PurpleDaisies]

Regardless of your opinion on the tax credit policy, can't you find it in yourself to feel sorry for soneone who is clearly having a hard time? Yabu.

[ConferencePear]

I feel sorry for her. The Tories promised to look after hard-working families (which she obviously is) and he didn't really mean it.

[ThenLaterWhenItGotDark]

Who did you vote for? The Goadyfuckery Empathy Bypass party?

[wasonthelist]

I didn't say she's not entitled to complain. I hope (but don't expect) that her words will prompt a change of heart, but really, what did she expect?

[CultureSucksDownWords]

Perhaps she was expecting what was in the Conservative party's manifesto and election pledges to be stuck to? It might be naive to believe that that woudl be the case, but honestly, a lot of people who are not particularly clued up on politics would have done the same.

[Crankycunt]

Yes yabu, instead of gloating and sounding like a cunt, why not say what can we do to prevent this in the future. Be the bigger person.

A lot of Labour reactions have been vile, and makes the left party voters sound like complete and utter dicks.

She voted at the time for the party she thought would give her children the best shot in life, DC all out lied about tax credits.

Instead of vilification of this woman, how about vilification of the Conservatives and the right wing media for lying.

How about getting conservative voters who have been screwed over to see that they have been lied to?

[Pyjamaramadrama]

The Tories made a great case.

Single parents working but claiming tax credits don't see themselves as benefit scroungers but the Tories do I'm afraid.

[littlegreen66]

What did she expect? She expected Cameron to stick to his manifesto promises.

I have no idea why anyone would think that he would keep his promises, given his 2010 lies about the NHS, but he did promise not to cut tax credits.

She may have been foolish, but anyone in her circumstances, regardless of who they voted for, deserves compassion.

[expatinscotland]

She was okay with other peoples' benefits being cut.

[Scoobydoo8]

It will feed the criticism that the BBC has a left wing bias.

[jorahmormont]

YABU.

We need to show people like her that they are welcome in the Labour party, not alienate them even more.

I'm not saying I feel sympathy for her - right now, my sympathies where politics is concerned are the thousands of young parents like me, working minimum wage jobs. We're having our tax credits cut massively... but the government doesn't see us as working hard enough to deserve the Living Wage, seeing as we're under 25. We're losing out massively.

[wasonthelist]

I can understand Sir Bufton Tufton etc voting Tory, but I struggle to see why anyone who is finding it hard to make ends meet could ever imagjne any Tories care - no matter what they claim.

[seagreengirl]

Of course YABU. Anybody with any humanity would feel compassion for someone in distress like that, whatever their politics.

[Georgethesecond]

The woman rents though, so she may get some additional help from housing benefit.

[multivac]

I have huge sympathy for her situation, and sense of betrayal.

Less so for her politics - she voted for the party she thought would be best for her, and her children, even though she knew that those less fortunate than her would be worse off as a result. Those promises - clearly made and amply demonstrated, weren't broken.

[DrasticAction]

nice op

I have sympathy for her, the tax credit cut was a shock. not part of pre election stuff.

You know like all the hideous shocking stuff Labour brought in, hiding behind the fox hunting fuss fiasco....

[gamerchick]

How did anybody not have an inkling? The huge avalanche of propaganda blatantly said the twats were planning something big to hurt people.

[wasonthelist]

Blimey - just for the record, I didn't villify the woman, just say I don't have sympathy - that's not the same thing.

Surely there's a point where people need to link up how they voted to what's happened?

[specialsubject]

politicians don't keep promises. Surprise.

(with any of them!)