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!

That's funny. I thought you despised and hated them?

That too

What would the country be like if everyone voted Labour at every election?

Being a tory is one thing.
Having shitty attitudes to your children - like determining to disown them on the basis of their politics - is quite another.
Anyone who thinks the former is worse than the latter is a fruitloop. there is no more to be said.

Most of this thread all talk, I suspect that if in the future most poster's children did vote for or even join the Conservative Party then they wouldn't lift a finger never mind disown them. Stop lying to yourselves

I have a natural body repellant for Tory males so they know not to enter my zone ...

I'm a LW fruitloop though

Go to bed all of you. This is all crazytalk.

I'm enjoying myself too much on this thread , so I will pass on the go to bed order

usual WE is tory heaven. My pair of ants are lefty rebels in their massive house........

GOD, usualsuspect! LIGHTEN UP. It wasn't a fucking order.

Where is WE?

Rekite: I think you may be right! I hope so anyway!

PS have one of these .

Given the choice between them having their own political view or simply becoming a frothing sanctimonious $*%# who seems entirely incapable of understanding that good intentions can come from all sides of the political spectrum well....

It's not the voting - anyone could vote tory once and not really mean it. It's the attitude. I'd feel I'd failed as a parent if my child genuinely was right wing in belief. But that's life, you can only do your best with your kids then you have to stand back and let them make their own mistakes in life

WE is a lovely tory haven in the Easy Midlands. Otherwise known as Woodhouse Eaves, home to Peter Shilton and Dave Bartram of Showaddy Waddy fame. Beat that Tory bastards!

Although, there is an upside. All this parental leftie sanctimony is bound to produce a massive pro-Tory backlash in the persecuted offspring.
We can look forward to a couple of decades of Tory dominance at least in due course.

would that it did, RF would that it did.........

Well I bloody won't. I hate the Conservative party. PS didn't Robert Peel change the name of the Tory Party to the Conservatives in the 1840s? Just sayin...

It's not the voting - anyone could vote tory once and not really mean it. It's the attitude.
What "attitude"?
I'd feel I'd failed as a parent if my child genuinely was right wing in belief.
That is utterly ridiculous.

I don't even know who my mum votes for, she won't say. My grandparents are the same, I think they're Tory voters. I dont think they will make the same mistake next time.

I would also be very sad if DC were Tory voters.

As it is eldest DS voted for the lib dems and is now totally disillusioned and says he will vote Labour next time.

Won't make any difference in sunny,sunny Bournemouth though.

Toryville down here.

If your child says they are a Tory and you respond by threatening to disowning them or some other form of sanction then won't that cement their belief. All that Labour/Socialist parent has left is threats and emotional blackmail, its not exactly intellectually compelling is it.

Fruitloop isn't the word I'd be using RF.

For people who claim to be more compassionate than other available political flavours, I can't help but think that there is more than a few examples here of some pretty good old fashioned hatred and intolerance.

I think there might be some irony in there somewhere.