Why the Tories are bastards

Sorry the university offered me me a place- God forbid the local party started funding places

Oi there with your MC claptrap Custy

Though I seem to remember I do 'own' the name PinkoLiberal LMAO. My family are all WC and pinkos (not sister's branch but the rest) but that might just be us.

Gigondas absolutely agree; local party asked me to stand, even offered a place to study Social Policy at a good uni: nope. Wouldn't want to spend that much time with politicians lest I turn into one of them !.

I have an issue that most politicians are career politicians. They Ghent done much or anything outside of politics and they get bound up by their theories etc then wonder why it doesn't work so get sucked into politics by PR.

Tory, Labour or Lib Dems - it matters not.

i think that in general working class and upper class people have amazingly right wing views

its the mc who are pink liberals, helping puppies and poor people n stuff

I think part of issue is why would anyone go into politics? The time commitment and fact that people seem to start younger and younger . This adds to lack of empathy as you get caught in a political bubble, often not doing/having much of a career before becoming a career politician. I know this happened in past but heseltine, thatcher , foot etc all did something else as well as politics.

I dont want to divert this onto an expenses claim rant but that whole saga amongst other points flagged a sense of being isolated and out of touch with what goes on I'm rest of world (ie put your hand in till like that with most jobs you wouldn't get very far)

'because my experience has been that people who have dragged themselves up by their boot-straps are more likely to expect others to do the same rather than less.

there's some truth in there; the 'I did so you can even if your life is vastly different to mine' brigade

Oh fgs

I am not a fan of Tory politics, just not my philosophy or natural leaning, but there are many Tories in RL I like. One or two I don't admittedly but the same goes of any political leaning amongst my social circle.

As for rich people are incapable of empathy- ffs.

There's a book due out soon about empathy with a big hype and people are jumping on the bandwagon is all. Silly really as the key concepts as far as I can work out are outdated anyway (my research is centred on empathy and ASD so know a little) but why would that get in the way of saleable pop psychology at it's worst.

I don't think a wealthy background makes someone automatically incapable of empathy. In fact, I have more problems with people who harp on about their impoverished 'roots' as if that makes them somehow more qualified to care... because my experience has been that people who have dragged themselves up by their boot-straps are more likely to expect others to do the same rather than less.

Maisiethemorningsidecat I think you have framed the wrong party with the decimation of manufacutring and industry that wonderful little gem shall always belong to Thatcher. As for illegal wars come on yourself the Tories were in full support and if Blair hadnt gone in he would have been blasted.

Still dont let a bin of spin get in the way of the facts.

As the research was run in California, wouldn't it be safe to assume that the participants in the research were American?.... a country where 'government' is regarded as a not-particularly-necessary evil and 'tax' is synonymous with 'robbery'?

Yes, because the bastard (the same one who is now lining his own grubby pockets) that sent us to an illegal war was also a Tory, wasn't he? Oh no, I believe he wasn't. Or the party that decimated our manufacturing industry, created the most complex tax system in Europe and created more child poverty than ever before were Tory too, weren't they? Oh no, wait a minute, that will be the other lot too.

Stop with the all Tories are bastards line. Labour are just bastardy. In fact, all politicians, regardless of which side of the house they sit on, are egotistical despots.

Yeah cos all Labour MP's are all paupers themselves right?

Oh wait.....no they're not!

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