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?

I'm having a child with one :o

Wouldn't say he's a particularly passionate person about politics, though. We do have opposing political views, but it doesn't automatically make us incompatible. There are many, many things we have in common, and the odd minor disagreement on political issues is just a drop in the ocean, really. We've never really clashed over it, it usually ends with him calling me a communist and me calling him a Tory twat. It's all in jest :o

I wouldn?t want to date an authoritarian of any stripe, so Labour and Tories are both out.

hmmmm...interesting J...so you look for apolitical partners?

Not at all. I am very happy with highly political partners, just wouldn't find it easy getting on with authoritarians. There are many UK parties who don't fall into that category.

www.politicalcompass.org/ukparties2010

ReactionaryFish i think I know who you are but go on, PM me

I;d like to reiterate that I have no problem with having friends across the political spectrum- just that I look for someone very different in a partner. I have dated tories- everything from the level of a poster of Maggie above the bed through to disinterested borderline UKIP- and it hasn't worked partly because of ideology but also because I am one of those people who is hyperpoliticised I guess, and heck I have had Universities chasing ME to sign up for hteir Social Policy courses LMAO, and since then an offer of an MRes on poverty and childhoopd*, although i stuck with the MA I am doing.

But I had more respect for the tories than the ex who campiagned tory with his Mum so they kept in with the neighbours but both secretly voted lib Dem- WTF?

*Apols for typing, migraine yesterday so can;t wear glasses today.

only if you promise not to blow my cover
i have people after me you know

I would not say I am hyper Labour either mind.

I am me, leftie and happy with it- don;t think there is anyone out there really represents my views. i go with best fit, which is actually flexible.

PMSL RF

I'm not fucking joking you know!
there were crazy people after me. I have to stay in disguise.
You must promise

headfairy - I fill in those questionnaires too. I come out near Ghandi but voted UKIP in the local elections and think that Cameron needs to move to the right to get relected.

I would find it very hard to date a left winger, but then I work in politics for the right...

This thread rather neatly illustrates why I could never date a Leftie!

HullyGully

"Um

I'm having a lot of trouble spotting the semantic differences there.

Perhaps it's me."

It does rather seem that way, doesn't it?

Um

okay doke

Left wingers aren't that bright in my experience. I would find it hard to date a man who was that naive about the world. Me and my partner are both very working class and our parents were Labour voters (mine switched to Lib Dem though). But the left now is nothing like the left that existed back in the day, it's all posh people and public sector types.

Wow you have an err healthy sense of self esteem there

Xposted, my post was to Josephine

It's interesting that the right always call the left naive.

So acknowledging that a lot of people are greedy nasty and selfish, but wouldn't it be good if we worked for a better world, is naive?

I'd call it loving and humanitarian.

Accepting that the world is nasty brutish and capitalist and we should all go hell for leather dog eat dog is far worse.

josephine that is something I have found about right wingers;
left wingers disagree with right wingers because they believe right wingers are wrong.

Right wingers always assume an air of superiority and assume left-wingers are such because they 'dont understand' and are less clever

x posted hully

I;ve noticed the left hates the right far more than vice versa.

And it's so much easier to dismiss ideas you don't like as "naive" to justify your own greedy selfish motives as you trample folk to get to the top of the heap.

Yanbu. I married a Tory . Huge mistake never again. I'm a proud lefty

Tories ai know vote that way because they are naive. I have deconstructed many an argument with actual knowledge of social policy as opposed to something they read in the torgraph.