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 fully expect my children to have a different out look to me. I am hugely different to my Father. I hope that they have a some sort of political view and appreciate that what you think and how you are really does make a difference. To be apathetic and cant even be arsed to think it matters then I would be very disappointed with them and would prob have an urge to give them a huge kick up the arse.

I know a lot of my DSs friends voted lib dem , because of the no university fees rise big fat fucking lies .

They learnt the hard way there didn't they

Fucking lib dem sell out bastards

I just don't get this "disappointed with them" business.
I could understand it if we were talking about a child becoming an actual nazi. But voting Tory? or not voting at all? get a fucking grip.

See if they had listened to me...

In what way did the Lib Dems "sell out"? They always said they would form a coalition with either of the main two parties if it was an option.

Their "no tuition fee rises" was a nonsense policy anyway, and one they'd have had no chance of implementing had they won the election, which they didn't.

My raving socialist dad didn't turn me into a Tory! Although I am able to refer to a former pm by her full name rather than Thatcher the bastard with mock spit afterwards. Come to think of it I can say Tory without scum after it too! Surely all that should've turned me Smurf coloured!!

I don't understand, Usual. If you met someone, say a woman who you got on well with, shared things in common and had a laugh with and then the friendship developed and you became very close, would you then end the friendship if you found out they voted differently to you? . Or are you that sure of your own judgement that you believe you can spot a bastard Tory or a fucking sell out bastard LibDem a mile off?

the disappointed with them is referring to not having a view point you get a fucking grip and read what people actually write lady!!

irony, really? No, just bitter bitter disappointment

Is a fruitloop the same as a fruit shoot?

I would be disappointed if DC were Tory voters.

But then i suppose my Dad was disappointed that DB and i are both Labour voters.

My Dad was an upstanding member of society a bigot of the first order.

RF, I don't think you quite get just how loathsome the Tories are felt to be by many on the left. So "disappointed" is quite measured.

scrap scrap

I wouldn't have anything in common with a Tory voter

There are lefty fruit loops and then there are
Criminally insane Tories who have grandiose delusions that only their own ten per cent matter ,and that the rest of us can rot.

I get it, alright.
I just think they're fucking nuts. Or they have some great aching voids of time to fill. Personally, I have too many real problems to worry about. Perhaps I'm just unlucky that way.

Hold me handbag , FunnysInlaJardin

Some people must be management!

Oh I have RL problems , most of them caused by the Tories funnily enough.

Brassed!

You are either
a) pissed
b) obnoxious
c) just on a massive wind up

I think a lot of posters on this thread are "in drink".

No I'm deadly serious

d) or just having such a hard time you have lost all sense of judgement

Either way, you are eliminating a large section of society from your acquaintance if you genuinely feel like that that.

Why so abusive RF? Why the snide reflections on the "aching voids" you perceive in some of those on the left?

I suppose there's "disappointed" in the sense that "I'm disappointed that new vibrator I ordered didn't arrive today" which I suppose is just about within the limits of sanity (although it definitely suggests there's not quite enough real stuff to be preoccupying you).
But others here seem to be talking about something a little more extreme.