to not date a Tory?

[bejeezus]

Well...actually I dont care if IABU or not, I just couldnt do it.

What I really want to ask you; if you have Labour/left wing politics could you/would you/are you marry/ have a life partner who has Conservative/right wing politics?

And vice-versa of course?

[BoulevardOfBrokenSleep]

EdlessAllenPoe "the irony here is that at a time when there is little difference in the substance offered by the two main parties, people still think that there is."

Ah. But.

If you'd been told in April 2010 that even though all their manifestos looked similar, only one major party had an undeclared but fully-formed scheme to get big chunks of the NHS into private hands. For example.

Which would you have guessed?

Even though they all make the same noises, the underlying principles guiding each party are still predictable. IMO. (Well, except the New Labour thing, that's just an aberration.)

[marriedinwhite]

There is absolutely no way I could have married a leftie.

[Gooshka]

Definitely NOT being unreasonable!!!!

[HumphreyCobbler]

there is no way I could have dated a pompous arse, left wing or right wing.

I am so glad I mix with people of all political persuasions - some of my best friends are lefties.

[thefurryone]

Edless that link is brilliant thank you

[JennyPiccolo]

Haha, no I'm in glasgow, there's a paucity of tories round here. Gay men are ten a penny though.

[JosephineCD]

There might be more gay men IN the south than up north, since more gay men from the north move down to places like London or Brighton than gay men from the south move up north.

[Facebookhurtsmybrain]

YANBU I could never be with someone that believed the crap that Cameron sprouts. It would be like marrying a racist or a Everton supporter

[EdlessAllenPoe]

you are aware of the many public-private deals done under the previous administration, are you not?

many aspects of the nhs were outsourced more than two years ago!

[EdlessAllenPoe]

he thought more gay men were born down South.

he thought this because he didn't know many openly gay men.



maybe if he didn't live in an area where open homophobia was acceptable...he'd have seen different.

[tethersend]

Debate is an aphrodisiac.

So I definitely would.

No I wouldn't.

Yes I would.

[EdlessAllenPoe]

i did marry an Everton supporter.

Derby day is always fun :)

[Whatmeworry]

And yet most women put eyes, Gsoh and cute bum on their lonely hearts ads :)

[threeleftfeet]

YANBU! I couldn't date a tory.

I'd feel terribly ashamed I'd I slept with one!

[Takver]

I did date a Tory, back when I was a teenager - his right-left politics weren't a deal breaker (though I can't imagine it would ever have been a long term thing it made for lots of interesting discussion), but the fact that he hadn't really 'got' feminism definitely was.

So I guess I could cope with different politics, but definitely not misogyny (and as above also not racism/homophobia).

[bejeezus]

josephine YY there are many many stories of people who rose to the challenge, bettered themselves, did well..my dad is also one. It doesnt mean it was that easy. It doesnt mean the people who havent done well are feckless and lazy

You cant have a country full of well-off people. It wouldnt work for the people at the top..they would no longer be so relatively wealthy. A boom and bust economy is ideal for them. So there will always be a bottom rung. Whether that is a moral system is one arguement. Even if you agree it is, you shouldnt then turn round and vilify those that are on it.

[Facebookhurtsmybrain]

I lived in halls with a girl who had a picture of Maggie Thatcher on her bedroom wall. I thought it was a joke until I started laughing and she looked like I had slapped her grandmother in the face. I told her I could never be friends until it came down, she never took it down and we never became friends. And her boyfriend supported Everton, made for one another

[jabberwocky]

yanbu! My first husband was very conservative. After getting out of that relationship I swore I would never get involved with anyone who had the opposite political ideals.

[BoulevardOfBrokenSleep]

Yeah, I am aware of the growing love-in of all parties with the private sector. But if you were forced to pop down to Ladbrokes and put a tenner on...!

[scummymummy]

If s/he was a Tory who cared about social justice and was very sexy I would consider it. But even one of these essential attributes in a Tory is vanishingly unlikely, ime, let alone both...

[Annpan88]

I'm very left wing, and married to a Tory. When we got engaged I had texts from my family saying "so your marrying a tory farmer boy"

I love him and I think he knows deep down he's wrong thats what keeps me going

[tethersend]

I can beat that, Facebookhurts- one of my first friends at art school took me back to his parents' house where a life-size framed portrait in oils of the great woman was displayed proudly above the mantelpiece

[LoopyLoopsTootTootToots]

I turned mine. When I met DH he was possibly even more right-wing than a tory. Now he votes for me Green.

[Facebookhurtsmybrain]

noooooooooo lol. I so would of uploaded a picture of that to facebook.

[PoppyWearer]

In spite of his political leanings, DH did a pretty good job of getting a reluctant DD to bed tonight. And then poured me a glass of wine. And now we're watching a film. More to a relationship than politics!