Has our love affair with the Tories finally ended this week?

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From the working class cap doffers to the upper classes and the top 1%. The Tories have always been the main party of government in this country for the most part. They've ruled certainly most of my life.

It felt like the public fell out of love with them on Black Wednesday 1992 and that let in New Labour for a spell in power, before David Cameron reignited the English's centuries love affair with the Conservatives in 2010 and they've been in power ever since. Traditionally the only thing more popular here that has ruled longer is the Royal Family. The Conservatives are such a part of the fabric in this country that they should have their own verse in our national anthem almost.

This week has felt like another Black Wednesday though. The Tories will be back, of course they will. As we speak there'll be hordes of Etonians and Oxford types plotting their path to power in the future. However, like in the 90s it looks like they might lose the next election. They're going to have to rebuild that trust and love again.

The Conservatives must be very confident that even though their actions would have collapsed the pension companies today if the Bank of England hadn't stepped in with £65billion, people with pensions will still vote for them. Likewise people with mortgages even if mortgages become unaffordable. and people who own houses if the housing market crashes.

People who need the NHS still vote for them despite what the Conservatives are doing to the NHS.

People with children still vote for them despite what the Conservatives are doing to education.

I can't bloody wait for Labour to get back in. The last Labour govt treated me and my family well.
I bloody loved Corbyn and I think Starmer's a good guy and a safe pair of hands.
I think Rayner is cool as fuck and I love Andy Burnham.

There, I've said it!

The silence from Tories on this speaks volumes.

No, I don't think it is OP.
I think we'll have a one term Labour government, things with generally improve for the ordinary person, then the Tory wreaking ball will be voted in again. Also, I predict, give it twenty years, the Tories crashing the pound, will be misremembered as having happened under Labour. Just like the last time the Tories crashed the pound.

Some of us have hated them for as long as we can remember.

I think you are likely to be proven correct @Kendodd

I did say it won't last and they'll soon be back.

PR & get rid of them forever please

Can happily say I’ve never voted for them. Never would either. Not that they care! For as long as I’ve been voting, they’ve been winning. I look forward to the glory of a Labour landslide one day

I think you could be right.

It seems to me that most people who vote Conservative do so because they want a conservative (ie cautious, risk averse) approach to the economy. The Tories have torched that this week in spectacular fashion.

You loved them?

@OliverBabish (great username!) I hope you will! I’m well old enough to remember 1997 - it was an incredible day, the sun shone, the birds sang and for many years it was truly wonderful to live under a Labour government. He fucked it all with Iraq which was a bloody shame, but they achieved so much before that.

one day . . . .

The Tories have never been fiscally responsible though. It is a myth, I don't know how people still fall for it. Even the financial crisis of 2008 was set in motion years before by Thatcher/Regan deregulation of the city.

There's a petition to hold a general election.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/619781

And this.

wesayenough.co.uk/oct1/

This this this.

Cunts. It was the cunts all along.

I hate the bastards. They couldn't care less about us little people. One even referred to a man simply doing his job as a pleb. That's what they think of us. Why would anyone love them, let alone fall out of love with them? It's beyond my comprehension.

My parents are lifelong Tory voters. They voted for Sunak and are aghast at what's happening. I think they will vote for them again, mainly because they just couldn't bring themselves to vote anything else. But if even they're wobbling, I can't imagine anything other than annihilation at the next election. Especially bearing in mind that nobody is actually feeling the full effects of the COL crisis combined with interest rates rocketing.

I wouldn't vote Tory if my life depended on it, only ever voted Labour.

I wouldn't say its ever been a "love affair" at all.

Just a judgement call at an election for the "least worst"

HTH

I speak as one who has voted for all 3 from aged 18 to 64.

I distrust anyone who says they will only vote for one Party, whatever. Smacks of Dogma to me.

Why do people come out with this shit? Half of your friends and family voted Tory in the last election and that is how you describe them? Is that likely to make them change their minds? And if you say you have no friends and family who vote conservative then you are lying to yourself or if true then you are part of the problem. You must have boarded yourself into your echo chamber and purity spiralled with the like-minded. This is never going to win votes for your cause. Get out. Find out why people vote Tory and engage with them like the real life people they are. You know, the tens of millions of them you seem to despise.

😂

I do think people, at least the middle classes, were happy with the Tories while interest rates were low, inflation low, house prices high and were happy to let the poor bear the brunt of Cameron and Osborne's austerity which kept it that way.

And the working class types (not all of them) loved cheeky chappy Boris.

I'm not sure Truss has that appeal, apart from with the member types who still have Margaret Thatcher posters on their wall.