To all of you toryphobic but lovely mumsnetters...

[catus]

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!

Tories would've thrown money around too, it was happening globally. They just wouldn't have been so helpful to those in need, based on usual performance. Also austerity was never going to work, The Economist predicted that, but it suits Tory ideology so they ran with it. That ideology being "Fuck people less well off than us".

Tell that to the poor fuckers who have lost their jobs , tell that to the million unemployed young people

tell that to the disabled who are having their benefits cut .

Go on , justify it to them

usualsuspect's response is typical of how these threads go. the left-wingers spew a load of gratuitously insulting toss about Tories being thick/uncaring/selfish/racist (delete as appropriate). Then when someone of the opposite view (often me) turns up and gives them a gobful back they piss and moan about how rude and unpleasant it all is.
Pathetic, isn't it?

How many young people were unemployed under Labour?

Try living in the real world

Have lost my public sector job and my disabled benefits .
I spent my career caring for others and yet now no one is caring for me or my DC...

Yes you're pissed off. I get it. I'm pissed off. Life sucks at the moment, for loads of people. My business is struggling. I can't afford much. Fertility treatment is being withdrawn.

But fucking hell, I'm not going to dump friends or family because of the way I think they might vote. And I'm not going to ask them. It's none of my business.

Sorry - crossed posts with Nanny. That wasn't in answer to your post.

I may have to forgive dh for voting Limp in a moment of lunacy, & stop calling him a weaselly Tory apologist.

RF has reminded me that he's not actually capable of being enough of a nob to be an actual Tory, bless him. I owe her one.

Ok Ariel .
I'm not normally so self pitying.
It's just that it hit me today that I might never get out of this situation.

My dads a Tory and can't understand my votin labour despite living in the north east!!!

We have blazing rows.

My mum refuses to tell us who she votes for but it's so labour

But I still love my dad blood is thicker than a voting ballot

My dad always voted Liberal , he would be spinning in his grave if he knew they had sold out to the Tories

Why did he vote Liberal? Their policy has always been to form a coalition with either of the big two if it was an option. They have more of a chance of getting some of their policies passed than if they stayed on the outside, criticising the government but not prepared to step up and have to make the tough decisions.

OK, so rather than engaging in conversation or anything, you would prefer to machine gun unanswerable one liners into the mix.

Great.

They haven't actually had any policies passed have they?

I don't know, but they definitely wouldn't have had any passed were they to have remained in opposition.

I told you I would have nothing in common with a Tory voter , so no I wouldn't be friends with them

And that's conversation is it?

OK.

Night night.

Oooh, just tuning in.

Who's winning, the goodies or the baddies?

Good thread = my exDH is the product of committed Tory voters along with his sisters. Not one of them now votes Tory - my exH did until he moved out and went to London where he witnessed poverty for the forst time in his pampered life and just felt that the Conservatives did not have the right answers.

I have never voted Tory and never will but my last parrtner was Tory - led to some heated debates but all good fun. Neither of us convinced the other lol

I don't tend to have conversations with people that personally attack me , do you?

That will be me tethers , again

'I would have nothing in common with a tory voter.'

Not even tastes in music? Hobbies? Tv shows? Love of the outdoors/ indoors? Similar sense of humour? Love of debate if nothing else?

It's pretty shit to write off a person for the way they might vote tbh. I think I would probably enjoy it because (as you may know from my AIBU participation) I am an argumentative lass and love a good debate/ bunfights

I couldn't be friends with someone whos values and outlook on life was completely the opposite to mine