Is anyone else really scared of the prospect of waking up to a tory administration on May 7th?

The Conservatives are the best party for Britain. You need not fear. You will be better protected if they get in. Give them your voite.

MuminLondon: yes you are wrong i don't know whether to be disturbed or flattered that someone on here would go to to the trouble of checking when I joined but probably the former . I lurked a lot last year on the education posts when my daughter was moving up to secondary school and we were going through the hell of entrance exams, but decided to join the threads here now because I enjoy political type discussion and I think this particular election is so vital for all of us. Aren't people on this site allowed to have similar views to others without arousing suspicion they are posting under multiple identities?

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But still a coincidence that lincstash and Tashtodd both joined the site at the same time (in March this year) and have similar views. Unless you both have tashes and/or changed your names at the same time. Sorry if I'm wrong!

TDiddy - none taken

Tashtodd- i was only making light humour. No offense meant

T Diddy - re your earlier post. Whether Lincstash, tashtodd and tootlesmummy has a rhyme to it or not I can assure you my views are my own though I empathise with their posts to a great extent. To be clear - we are not the same person

lincstash i was interested in following your arguments, even though I wholeheartedly disagree with you, until your 15;53 post. What a vile comment to make - and so completely unfounded. I find that very insulting as a Brown supporter .

Is it not posible to vote for a politician without lusting after them then!?!You have a narrow and IMHO warped view of the world.

I think my real concern is that with labour to start with it was a watered down tory gverment with hard line labour getting very frustrated - it really was a wolf in grannies clothing.

I have said before I didn't like the tory hard line either of the 80's the damage it did.

We seem though to swing from one extrem to the other and Lib dem to my own mind are something in between.

i don't like all their policies - but far more I like than I don't like. I would be happy if they raised income tax and raised the threshold for personel allowence to 10k, at least everyone would benifit from the 10k allowence in the first place and the lower earners would benifit even more - far better then the measley 3150 the torys want to give married people, and take away nursery places - seems tory's like couple but not actual families with children.

It's not that I want a change either - I feel there is no one else to vote for.

DC is worried though trying to brush aside the fact that NC came out much better than expected on thursday night.

i am not going to vote for a tory goverment just to get labour out either

sense senseless

the sense 150 for married couples to grab headlines does not bode well for a party serious about spending cuts!

Me too. As a lone parent with a disabled child living in social housing, the future under a Tory government does not seem particularly bright.

My parents are staunch Tories and it does bug me a bit, as they live in their ex council (now worth a fortune) house reaping the benefits of that selfish generation who had everything and left us with jack all. Know I will get flamed for that but it is true.

We're somewhat nervous, since DH works for a company who does IT projects for the Highways Agency. We also have 2 children with autism and some of the services we rely on are stretched to the limit, already without cuts being made.

Lincstash- are you our answer to Sarah Palin?

lincstash - notice you don't mention Lord Ashcroft there. It's only Labour donors who worry you, huh? No concerns about rich tax exiles controlling the Tory party?

As for the unions, stop lying. The union link to the Labour party is democratic and open - no member of an affiliated union has to donate, they can opt out of the contribution. What's more anyone who wants to can look up the figures - unlike the Tory party which has spent something like five years pretending they didn't have a clue about Ashcroft's tax affairs.

No doubt it would suit rabid right wingers like you if ordinary working people had no political representation. The link with the unions was a way for ordinary people, who didn't have millions, to get that representation. By pooling their resources.

So that we remain friends why don't we all talk about policies and values rather than attack personalities

Well I'm terrified about waking up to find that slimy git DC as PM.

And scare mongering about some Labour revolution is fanciful

lincstash - gosh you are a firey man/woman!

linctash, tashtodd and tootlesmummy has a rhyme to it. I don't think that the difference between parties is all that big and I don't think DC is a bigot. But I think the core of his party is still intolerant of women, gays and other races whatever the window dressing. So that is one good reason why I haven't been won over by well meaning DC.

cos they cant stand the idea there might people who dont actually want to suck Browns dick like they do, or have a view about the EU that isnt looney left political correctness.

If Brown gets back in, said, you DO realise there paymaster UNITE has vowed to eject the Blairites and Brownite and return the party to far left socialism, and they CAN do this because UNITE on its own gives Labour 25% of its funding, which gives them massive clout. This will mean civil war in the party and another winter of discontent. UNITE and the GMB have promised this will happen.

So, vote labour, vote for political chaos, a winter of discontent, and a return to 1972.

Said: No we are not - why do you presume that

I presume linctash and tashtodd are the same person?

I fear that GB will still be in charge in a months time. I've no doubt that people we get lots of benefits and don't work will be worried that DC will get in and cut benefits but that's what they should be doing.
And for people who work in the public sector concerned that they may lose their jobs? and? there is a recession if the public sector is top heavy with admin and management (and I really don't mean front line workers like nurses, teachers etc) then they should be made redundant.
There is no job for life now and I think a new government might try and reduce the huge debts that the country has so that our children have a better future. That's got to be a good thing hasn't it?