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?

[TheBigJessie]

What political persuasion are football hooligans? Are they non-voters? Can't stand non-voters. Or hooligans. Or graffiti taggers.

Am I shallow?

[Hullygully]

All right, apart from them.

[Hullygully]

Deeply shallow

[squeakytoy]

I couldnt date a man with small hands... what does that make me ?

[bejeezus]

haha squeaky good point

[bejeezus]

BigJess they are normally far right arent they??

[bejeezus]

squeaky i meant your point about men dating stupid ladies with good hair. not your point about hands! although

[aquashiv]

I have dated them many times and the attraction was probably equally patronising. That said I have more respect for those that do have a political compass than those that say oh they are all the same blah blah. Yet repeat the dogma the paper they read spouts.
Went into business with one. We are yin and yan and it works really well.
I have lots of friends from both camps and find the its obscene to make a profit, stand on your own feet Labourites just as irritating as the I am a Tory and only it for myself brigade.

[ReactionaryFish]

"Presumably then they think that by being at home to care for our 4 SEN kids (2 on DLA and in SN Placements, one being assessed for ASD and needing a statement soon, one with lower level needs and on SA+) I am a lazy tax wasting scrote who needs to be forced back into work."

I vote Tory. I don't think that, Peachy. I was about to say "as well you know" but then I remembered I have namechanged and you don't know who I am anymore

[TheBigJessie]

Definitely can't date far right- although one of my friends did. His opinions began to rub off...

[perceptionreality]

I once arranged to go on a date with a guy without having had many conversations with him first. He was very good looking but said he had not had much luck with woman. I couldn't understand why




...................until I found out he was a BNP supporter! I've never deleted someone's contact details so fast.

[TheBigJessie]

See, now on one level, that's superficial, but it's more a moral issue. I can't date someone who thinks black security guards have no right to ask white customers to leave a shop!

[HmmThinkingAboutIt]

What a load of narrow minded people.

Its not what someone believes, its whether they respect your opinion and whether they try and change your opinion to theres, that matters.

I think its sad so many people on this thread have said that they could even be friends with someone on the basis on how they voted. If more people were, we might all learn something from each other.

The truth is the three main parties are actually closer than people want to admit anyway and all three parties would have, had to take similar action in this term of office no matter who got in. And this was an admission made by Alister Darling of all people.

I really think theres a lot of people with heads in the sand over stuff and want to believe in fairies rather than the real reality. The idea that one party supporter is somehow 'evil' and another is a 'loony' or similar rubbish is ridiculous.

TBH I think a lot of it is about stereotyped nonsense and pathetic footballer supporter type thinking rather than judging people as individuals and by real merit. You close a lot of doors by simply judging someone on how they vote and thats your loss, and probably not theirs.

You should always give people a chance, as you can be pleasantly surprised if you do...

[theressomethingaboutmarie]

Ha this is something that DH and I always have a laugh about. He always jokingly threatens to vote Tory until I tell him that I could never f*ck one.

[Hullygully]

you can join the wryly-depressed contingent Hmmm

[ReactionaryFish]

It is a bit daft in the context of modern British politics.
"I can't date a Tory. but a man who votes for the party that agrees the deficit still needs to be cut, just a teeny bit slower? Why, that's fine."
Loons

[seeker]

I might be able to go out with someone who held Tory views on the economy. But not on social policy. My moral compass would be so very different to his that we would be completely incompatible.

[Hullygully]

If all the parties are so closely aligned that it hardly matters and is a bit daft...

Why are peopel so keen to politically-identify?

Because there si a lot more to it than a few current policies.

[ProfCoxWouldGetIt]

It was a deal breaker for me, years ago, pre DP, I eventually plucked up the courage to ask out a guy I worked with, he was cute, funny and from our brief chats while the kettle boiled I thought he was ideal for me.

He was in every way - except that he was a strong tory supporter, where as I'm very liberal/green. I tried to look past it, but there were just too many things that we clashed so strongly on, mainly down to the difference in our political views.

[thebestisyettocome]

Sally Bercow springs to mind reading the OP. I imagine it's quite funny actually. She doesn't give a shit and I like her for that

[thefurryone]

I doubt it. There are, in this world privileged people who also have a social conscience - who'd have thought that was possible(?) 'posh' people definitely do not always vote tory. Why would you make that assumption?

I know there are. And those that have a social conscience don't always vote labour, I would never vote for them because despite believing that it is fundamentally important for the rich in society to help those less well off, I don't believe that the labour party have a realistic idea of how to actually make this work in practice due to their rather shoddy grasp of economics.

[ReactionaryFish]

"Because there si a lot more to it than a few current policies."

possibly there is, if you're the sort of tedious obsessive tribalist who persists with the delusion that mainstream parties of the left and inherently more "moral" than those on the right. but if you're one of those, frankly you're doing the Tory boys a favour by steering clear, so carry on.

[Fennel]

No, I wouldn't date a Tory. Nor a man who wasn't very pro-feminist, nor someone who wasn't concerned about the environment, nor someone who was interested in earning lots of money, nor a racist, nor someone who had no interest in politics, nor someone who was into crystals or alternative therapies, nor all sorts of other people. So it's not just Tories.

I'm always a bit surprised I'm not single.

[Hullygully]

Your post doesn't make sense Reactionaryfish

[bejeezus]

ha! and reactionary has illustrated quite nicely there, why I could never date a tory