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Original poster

To think that if you voted Conservative you won't admit to it?

248 replies

Jjcrackers · 08/05/2015 10:02

My Facebook thread is chocca-block with 'anti Conservative'/country ruined/heath to the NHS' posts. Yet nobody has piped up to cheer that the Conservatives are winning.

AIBU to think that with such a majority, probabilities would suggest that a large proportion of my friends (in the loosest sense of the word)voted conservative but are sitting on their hands?

OP posts:
ender · 08/05/2015 11:05

I'll admit to it, even though I might be accused of killing babies.

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Jjcrackers · 08/05/2015 11:06

DamnBamboo I agree. I think you are pilloried if you admit to voting Conservative and made to feel like an uncaring, soulless, self-interested beast. Mumsnet has always had a left wing leaning but in a way that doesn't allow for balanced conversation

I voted Conservative for fear of change and fear of a country going so left wing (SNP influenced) that we'd be going down the pipe like France.

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Bobian123 · 08/05/2015 11:06

Interesting thread. OP, I was going to post a similar sort of question. There seems to be an assumption, as pp's have said, that you must be a selfish ignorant arse who doesn't care about the NHS or any public service if you vote conservative. I find it really patronising and quite offensive when people spout off like they do, but such is the joy of the Internet Smile

Bobian123 · 08/05/2015 11:09

X post!

Selfishcuntydupe · 08/05/2015 11:11

I changed my username in honour of some MN abuse I received merely for putitng a cross in a different box from some random who has never met me nor ever will.

Stickytoffeepuddingplease · 08/05/2015 11:15

Agree with Bobian too .

I'm a Tory voter and stand proud on that.

What was lovely this morning was that there were tons of people in my town all wearing headbands with GB and blue flags on them. Old and young alike.

I think the people of the country have spoken and Lefties need to accept that.

However, like pp have said, this site is very left and there are some v nasty and arrogant posts on here these past few weeks aimed at the right. Totally unnecessary and very uncalled for. Okay, so it's only the internet but if that's the kind of people posting on here then I really have no care to continue with this site.

The electorate will always be poles apart in opinions on left and right regarding politics. Nasty posts on here from the left make me even prouder to be a Tory voter.

Now watch this space for the flaming I will now receive from the left.....

firesidechat · 08/05/2015 11:15

I don't come on mn to be called scum or similar, but since you ask....

To be honest the anti Conservative vitriol has rather put me off this site, so I guess that's job done for a certain cross section of people on here. Angry

lampygirl · 08/05/2015 11:15

if the internet was more capable of having a balanced debate rather than flying off the handle if someone disagreed, more people would pipe up. I voted Tory, and I can have non-offensive discussions with friends who voted differently where we agree on a few things, take each others view on some things and agree to disagree on others. No political party 100% matches your views, so you go with the one you think works most for you, or the best local candidate for your area.

I basically cant be bothered to entertain waving a red rag to the left wing bull and then letting it run at me because we feel differently about some issues.

Sunbeamarses · 08/05/2015 11:17

I voted Conservative and I have NC to reveal this because I have RL friends on here. I would probably admit it if directly asked but it depends who was asking. I wouldn't reveal it voluntarily though because of the abuse Conservative voters receive on FB, MN and Twitter.

I voted Conservative because I believe in privatisation. I also believe in welfare cuts.

Noodledoodledoo · 08/05/2015 11:18

I appear to have the opposite - a lot of Tory congratulators on my feed this morning.

I opt to not disclose my vote as I don't want to enter loads of debates. However a number of people's feeds have been unfollowed this morning as I can't be doing with the comments - from both sides to be fair.

FreckledLeopard · 08/05/2015 11:18

I campaigned for the Tories and vote for them, but don't particularly want a brick through my window or abuse from passers-by, which is why I didn't display a poster in my window.

I know a lot of lefty-thinking people, have a lot of Labour-voting friends and whilst I disagree with their politics, I like them as people, so don't feel the need to start causing bad feeling.

Bodyinpyjamas10 · 08/05/2015 11:19

Think you need more grown up friends op.

How pathetic. See this is completely why the pollsters got the result completely wrong.

Vocal bullies just turn people off.

Unfortunately there has been some of that on mumsnet today.

glittertits · 08/05/2015 11:20

I'll admit it. I'm a Labour member, but I voted Conservative. The Labour candidate got in anyway. I couldn't bring myself to vote for the shambles that is Ed.

FarFromAnyRoad · 08/05/2015 11:22

They're probably getting pissed off with the name calling. It's very tedious on MN

Very much this.

And I'm also tired of the implication that people can only be friends with those of identical political views. Very tedious. My best friend of nearly 30 years is about as far left as you can get. I am not. We respect one another's views and quite often discuss politics. Ridiculous to think that this is not possible.
I find that squawking, name calling and insults - both implied and outright - a real shocker on here. Labour supporters seem to be not that far removed from Scientologists in the way they respond to criticism or debate.

FarFromAnyRoad · 08/05/2015 11:23

Oh - and sorry to keep quoting but this really hits it right on the head

Vocal bullies just turn people off

Yes, yes, yes!

2boys2girls · 08/05/2015 11:24

Fact t they won says it all .... We Tories supporters don't need to post and gloat
Saying that my group of friends etc are so happy and proud to be "shouting from rooftops"that like I say theres no need to post and get abuse as the best man won and I thankmy lucky stars they did,

wowfudge · 08/05/2015 11:26

Someone has posted they voted Tory on my FB feed. That's one against many more anti-Tory posts though.

stircrazyinthecountry · 08/05/2015 11:26

I did. Its the same for UKIP supporters. I don't boil babies for lunch or shoot the sick and disabled for sport. Conservative voters tend to be doers rather than keyboard warriors. I personally don't have time to sit here defending my beliefs if I express an opinion.

Selfishcuntydupe · 08/05/2015 11:29

Millions of ordinary people voted against Labour and for the Tories. Some will be cunty, some lovely, some rich, some poor, some young, some old, some disabled, some able bodied, some clever, some not so, some selfish, some generous.

But the fact remains all these people wanted the Tories not Labour. Now, you can rant and rail and gnash your teeth as much as you like and believe,that every single one of those millions is a selfish cunty thick dupe.

Or you can hold your head high, refrain from abuse and accept that this time, your part didn't make it. And move on. With decency and with good grace.

Sootgremlin · 08/05/2015 11:52

There is a lot of aggression and name calling on this site directed at people who voted conservative, so I'm not surprised they are not more vocal.

SquiddlyDiddlyDoo · 08/05/2015 11:52

It's all about the moral highground. Loads of people this morning banging on about how woeful it all is and how the country will now go to the dogs, and even some banging on about how we have all been selfish and not voted for the country as a whole. Pathetic really, but it's easier to shout and moan when you didn't get what you wanted than if you did.

midnightvelvet01 · 08/05/2015 11:53

My grandma once told me that voting was secret & to this day I've never told anyone how I vote because of that Grin I have no idea how DP votes, or my parents, I've never asked them. I took the DCs to the polling station yesterday & showed them how to vote & I even told them that who you vote for is nobodies business but your own. Is this just me, or is it an etiquette that once was popular, but has been lost along the way?

Discopanda · 08/05/2015 11:57

YANBU! Everyone has turned into Nick Robinson but the problem is that most people have just seen propaganda, haven't read the full manifestos, don't usually take an interest in politics so don't really understand what's going on and don't realise that what parties SAY they'll do isn't necessarily what they will be able to do. I have a close friend from a Labour voting family and she asked me who I was voting for, I voted Green for the locals and Tory for the national so just told her Green, it's easier than getting into an argument.

Phantomteadrinker · 08/05/2015 12:00

I'll admit it if asked but my FB has been full of at best aggressive and at worst appalling anti Tory personal insults that it seemed best to keep a dignified silence and let the votes do the talking. As on MN, it seems unless you are left wing, you are an evil, uncaring and stupid rich bastard and you have no right to an opinion.

Discopanda · 08/05/2015 12:02

If Tories only care about the rich and privileged, how come the majority have voted for them?

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