To all of you toryphobic but lovely mumsnetters...

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I found the tory-dating thread quite interesting. Clearly some people have very strong and deep-seated political views. I couldn't help but wonder: what would you do if your offsprings became conservatives? Would you be disappointed? Would you try to change their opinions at every opportunity? Would you buy them the complete Ken Loach collection? Would you dare admit it to your friends?
And what about their future partners, wouldn't you at least try to love them a little even if they were tories?
For me, I have right wing tendencies but it would probably be fun if DS ended up politically minded and on the left. At least it wouldn't be dull!

I would disown them

I would be deeply saddened by their lack of sense.

There is no danger of my dd becoming a tory. She did date one though but ended it after 2 months due to him being weird, clingy and a tory.

He dressed like an evacuee fgs!

On the basis that all intelligent children usually spend their teenage years thinking their parents are wrong about pretty much everything, I am fully prepared forfor 8 years of tedious lefty whining.
if they're still at it when they're 21, time to worry. they may turn into Ed Miliband. nobody wants that.

Haven't read the other thread, but all the political parties are as shit as each other.

Nature of the beast.

Personally, I would be wondering where I went wrong and how I'd managed to raise someone with such horrible values.

I would feel I had failed as a parent if My DS voted Tory.

sorry I thought the Miliband brothers were right wing..................

Won't happen. They're much too well indoctrinated brought up.

it wouldn't happen would it?

if you were 'toryphobic' then you'd bring your DCs up the correct way to be the same, no?

I haven't been over to the other thread cactus. When it comes to love i'm inclined to think You love who you love.
I would say my politics are left-wing, as are dh, so thats nice for us. But a person is more than the sum of their political views.
I would be astonished if my dd turned out to have right-wing views, but how could that change how i feel about her? I would buy her Ken Loach though.

x-post with mol so it must be true

Yes, I would be disappointed if either of my DCs voted Tory.

I believe I am raising them to know better.

My dd was doing Cherie Blair impressions as 3 and could name a fair few of the cabinet from their pictures.

I know its bad form to out another MNetter but.... I think manic is Yvette Cooper .

Ours has his sights set on being leader of the LibDems because they represent what he think. His Tory parents are contemplating disowning him but won't because we love him too much. DH is contemplating throwing in his cap as UKIP at the next election .

I used to be a Labour supporter. Then Tony Blair came along and pretty much ruined that.

Once I realised they are all in it for what they can get and fuck the "common man", it was pretty clear to me that my life had veered towards to the slightly right of centre. So now I vote Tory.

I like capitalism. I don't like reliance on the welfare state, but I want there to be a welfare state for people who really need it, rather than it be a way of life (my own brother and his family - never worked, endless children who've never worked - it grates tbh)

I would like my DS to make his own choices in life, based on all the information available to him. Unless he joined the Socialist Workers Party or the BNP, he pretty much has the right to choose for himself, with my blessing.

What lockets said. Within reason, someone's political views are their own business. You don't own your children.

I am not!

My socialist dad loved my then Republican (American) husband! He liked nothing more than to be able to set someone straight!

Both these threads have made me laugh. It's not the '80s any more, and all three major parties are squatting on the fence smack bang in the middle (taking a shit on it, imho).

I wouldn't care if someone was Tory, Labour, LibDem, whatever, because it doesn't make a stitch of difference any more. (disclaimer:clearly BNP the exception to the rule - I'd have a massive problem with that!!)

Yvette Cooper is older than me. Not by much.

Ok, so some of you really seem to think it virtually impossible. I don't want to burst your bubble but I know some right wingers with quite petulantly left wing parents... You've been warned!
So what about the future partners, how would that go?

Not so much Tory as right wing full stop - as others have said, I'd feel I'd failed to instil a good moral compass. NoWayNoHow has it with the party thing - it's not so clear cut anymore, and there are plenty of leftwingers that are extreme, amoral crapbags.

But to be right wing in outlook I would define as having an essential lack of compassion for one's fellow human being.