Wow. I started a thread with 1000 posts on a topic in 12 hours and Mumsnet got ‘full’
One more off the bucket list!
So MN told me to start a new thread if I wanted to post anything else. I didn’t particularly but there were some queries raised in the first thread.
Thank you to all first thread posters, even the small minority who were abusive to me and/or my opinions. Coherent arguments may have been more persuasive.
I have read many posts, but not all. I do have work to do!
In answer to some queries:
Yes I was drunk - explains GR typo in the first title not GE. Although that could well have been a Freudian slip too.
I am English living in England.
I’m not an entitled git living in a Stately home eating cucumber sandwiches. Like most I have been hit very hard by mortgage rate and utility price rises.
I restricted my request to English voters because I don’t understand other UK countries voter motivations.
a) Scotland has voted in a party which in my opinion is morally bankrupt (maybe financially too?) and totally incompetent.
b) Wales has elected a party which means when they go for a drive they’ll likely be overtaken by cyclists - maybe very fit joggers too
c) I genuinely don’t understand Northern Ireland politics. Didn’t even know there were no Tories there till reading it on one of the posts.
Totally get why so many won’t vote Tory, but for me freedom of speech is a die in a ditch issue.
Here’s what Angela Eagle is reported to have said will be in the Labour manifesto:
“• Strengthening the law so anti-LGBT+ hate crimes are treated as aggravated offenses”
For this I read anyone stating biological facts risks being banged up. JKR no doubt top of their hit list.
So give me another option to stop this madness other than vote Tory.
If all posters on the first thread had said they weren’t going to vote Labour due to their threat to women’s rights maybe Labour would have paused for thought about their policies. But seems very many women will vote Labour anyway so they don’t have to worry.
Very very happy to vote Labour and kick the Tories out if they will commit unequivocally to protect women’s rights, parents rights and freedom of speech. Otherwise not a chance.