How miserable are you that the Tories are in power?

[sundayrose10]

I feel tense and twitchy. I used to enjoy reading the politic section/ other political forums, but I fear if I keep on going there and reading more and more about Tory plans, I will give myself a heart attack.

I loath them but worst I fear them. I am anxious for this country and the ordinary man and woman.

Dave makes me feel insane with hatred.

I have a colleague who is in love with the Tories. I don't share biscuits with him any more.

Dave makes me itch. All over.

The minimum wage and WFTC were very welcome - millions of families on low incomes benefited. I'm sensible enough to know a good thing when I see it -
The problem with labour supporters is they never admit the Tories get anything right - bloody hell, no one gets absolutely everything wrong -

the tories did get something right, that is when they booted out thatcher :o

'claig, I don't recall 'the people' saying 'yes please' to the tories either'

That's right. The people said "they're all in it together", which we saw with their expense claims and their cosying up to the press, and with Ed Miliband telling the teachers and people striking over pensions, that striking was not a good idea.

I remember my dad (who voted Thatcher in) shouting at the TV whine she was on. I mentioned this to DH, and aparently his dad did them same.

DH and I have now started shouting at Cameron . Oh well. Only a few years before DS1 can help vote him out.

I remember shouting at the TV when she was on too.

"Go on, Maggie"
when she said "No Mr. Delors, we shall not have socialism by the back door".
"The lady is not for turning".

We shall not see her like again.

yes thatcher did great things for our country, felt that we did not need manufacturing (look up her famous speech), felt poll tax was fair on everyone, abolished free milk, did not beleive in a minimum wage and wanted to privatise the nhs and did nothing to help women in employment laws

never has there been a leader that evokes such emotion, its either love or hate, think it is quite obvious how i feel

plus destroyed many communities by not supporting our home industries

OP YABU, the spending couldn't continue at the rate it was going. I pray Labour never get back into power and fear that people see the Tories are to blame for trying to sort things out and vote them back in.

FreudianSlipper, she got a few things wrong, but look at what she got right!

Not happy the Tories are in power , but am gutted to see anyone swallow their lies / say "I'm all right , Jack" . Slightly depressed too for the hardworking if apparently misguided party activists whose constituency work helped the Liberals , and New Labour before them , get into power to continue to further the exploitation of workers under the capitalist system .

I am delighted we have a Tory/Lib Dem coalition although I would have a preferred an outright conservative majority. Hopefully we will get one next time and by then the economy will be on the mend having been devastated by Blair and Brown just as it was by Wilson/Healy/Callaghan in the 1970's.

what did she get right exactly? is the list that long

The Tories will hopefully get us back on an even keel, Labour just through money at voters and it worked. Now everyone who cut their hours, had children based on benefits or choose not to work will moan about actually having to support themselves.

The cuts have been ok so far but need to go even further if we are to have a country to be proud of again.

I agree with FreudianSlipper on British manufacturing and coal mining and privatisation and ... They were all a tragedy. They sold off our silver and didn't support our industry and our people. They followed teh globalisation philosophy, ehich of course the "we're all in it together" New Labour continued. We should support our industries and our people's jobs and not support the globalisation wanted by the global capitalist bankers.

But apart from that, Thatcher did a lot for us.

'what did she get right exactly? is the list that long'

FreudianSlipper, be reasonable, do you think I've got all day to type out the long list of Thatcher's achievements? If i start that, I'll still be here gone midnight.

manufacturing needed government support to make us competitive, not to totally dismiss it and the communities that were totally reliant on manufacturing

we may have lost out to the far east in many areas but these people deserved support from the government not just to be shunted by her and her ideologies, major himself and many tories set to turn things aroudn once he was in power

:o

ah yes an i do not really have the time (but i would) to dismiss them all (but a very few) with evidence

I voted Tory and joined the Tory party after the election. I like most of what Cam does, even though we're poorer now and both state school teachers with dwindling pensions. Last lot were muppets. Everytime I see Ed Silliband and hear his whingey voice, I feel my hackles go up.
Anyone want a biscuit btw? .

It's an Urban Legend that Thatcher was responsible for the abolishen of free school milk. She was education secretary at the time and if you look at the cabinet papers that have been released you will see she voted against the cut.
However she was outvoted by the rest of the cabinet and as education secretary it was her responsibility to make the announcement.

Am I not also right (and I'm digging to the depths of my memory here, so correct me if I'm wrong) but wasn't the British coal mining industry in such a state that it was actually cheaper to buy coal in Australia and pay to ship it to the UK?

'Last lot were muppets'

I think that is the general consensus of the people on this thread. Well said.

i thought it was abolished in 1980, that was when she was pm