'the norht' might be regretting voting tory

[coffeelover3]

just cant help thinking how did so many people get sucked into tory propaganda this time last year. It's terrible what's happening - the corruption and nepotism, what with Dido Harding and test and trace receiving billions, for what. But at the back of my mind all the time is that this is who the british people voted for - massive tory majority. Wonder if the 'red wall' regret turning blue...

[Goosefoot]

Do you see some evidence they are regretting it? Or that they think they'd have done better had they elected Labour?

[coffeelover3]

no I actually don't see any evidence. do you?
though they might have gotten free school meals.
why wasn't Keir the leader before the election. Labour have a lot to answer for as well.

[Clareflairmare]

I flippin’ hope so.

[PercyKirke]

the corruption and nepotism

Don't know a lot about Northern Labour councils do you OP?

[Elsewyre]

Well labour seem very pro lockdown the north is currently hating lock down.

So no I dont think they're regretting it. I think they'd be regretting going labour and having spent most of the year in lockdown

[Livelovebehappy]

hardly had an alternative did we? Did you think Corbyn would have been the better option? Place the blame at the door of the Labour Party, not the North. Any half decent opposition labour candidate would have wiped the floor with the Tories, because they’d had a pretty crap year.

[amusedtodeath1]

I think a lot of people from all over the country regret having no viable alternative but to vote Tory. I blame Corbyn.

[ConquestEmpireHungerPlague]

I certainly hope so. I can't imagine why so many people, in the north or anywhere else for that matter, ever got sucked into the delusion that the Tories gave a fuck about them.

[amusedtodeath1]

We didn't, I have always voted Labour until Corbyn. We're not deluded, just not prepared to vote for someone who is more activist than politician who did nothing about rampant anti-Semitism and who would have put nuclear disarmament before public safety. No other party stood a chance of winning.

[PhilSwagielka]

Yeah, and things have improved so much for Jews, what with us getting blamed for COVID and QAnon and the far right running rampant. I guess Johnson will protect us, right?

OP, don’t bother. Tories don’t give a shit and they’ll just laugh at you.

[Clareflairmare]

I’m amazed so many people think Corbyn was “not viable” and yet BORIS was! Jesus...

I’m not even a Corbyn fan by any means.

[mrsmrt1981]

I bloody hope so.

[MoonJelly]

@Livelovebehappy

hardly had an alternative did we? Did you think Corbyn would have been the better option? Place the blame at the door of the Labour Party, not the North. Any half decent opposition labour candidate would have wiped the floor with the Tories, because they’d had a pretty crap year.

Face it, anyone would have been better than Johnson. His government's levels of utter incompetence and rampant corruption have now reached staggering levels.

[DarcyProudman]

Does anyone else wonder how it would have gone if Theresa May had stayed? I’m not saying any better or worse, but I do wonder.

[TheSeedsOfADream]

I think TM would have cried in public to show her caring side and very quickly resigned. She liked handing over the hot potato at the best of times.

[Aroundtheworldin80moves]

I always thought that Labour lost the last election, rather than Conservatives won (I didn't vote for either).

[NotFrozen]

OP, do you live in the North of England?

[DarcyProudman]

I bet TM is so glad she went, though, and is thinking “You wanted to be PM. On you go, it’s all yours!” 😂

[Vello]

Labour would have had us in total lockdown, probably all year. They are obsessed with control.

I reluctantly voted Labour but it can't be denied they are more instinctively statist and authoritarian than the Tories. (I've never voted Tory but do prefer their approach to civil liberty.)

[PracticingPerson]

I don't know. People often struggle to admit they've made an error of judgment so it is best to just try to give them a positive reason to vote differently next time.

[pylongazer]

No I don't OP, but thanks for your concern 🙄

[CeeceeBloomingdale]

Yes , I'm sure, because everyone voted Tory? 🙄

[Hairyfairy01]

I wonder the same OP.

[Bickles]

I would have voted Labour if Keir had been leader then.

[sweetheartyparty]

I live in North East and hope a lot are regretting voting tory. I don't see any 'I love Boris, the cheeky wee scamp' posts on Facebook anymore. A few are scathing this morning about their local MP's not voting for free school meals