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

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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?

A selfishcuntydupethickkamikazeecunt?

Didn't vote Tory but prefer them to balls milliband.

My FB is full of abuse of Tories, and people saying I can't understand how people could be so heartless, selfish, stupid etc.

Didn't smallwhitecat flounce in the end because she had a child with ASD but still dared to vote right of centre so got hounded? Or am I misremembering? I used to love her posts.

I'm not anti-Tory voters, though I only seem to know one. She is in her 60's, absolutely skint, on a state pension, ex-NHS nurse. I simply baffled by her vote.

Perhaps voters think Tory is synonymous with 'self serving'.

Oh well, my Facebook page is full of happy conservative voters and we are off to the pub to celebrate, stick that in your pipe and smoke it!

Selfishcunty

Also going out tonight, luckily our friends are far too well-bred to question or harangue others for their political choices.

You should all come! Far nicer than most of MN today. Interesting about the tone over there at NetMums.

There will be homemade cheese straws and an obscene amount of drink.

I frequently post here that I am Scotland's only Tory voter and all of my fb friends know my political leanings although I only tend to post on election nights with the occasional lighthearted banter with my SNP friends in between. I have found that amongst the people I know, I get on best with the SNP supporters and can have a bit of light political chat with them, whereas the Labour supporters I know on FB are far more ermmm, "forthright" and get in far deeper than I want to online.

Patsy yes it was pretty feral on that other thread last night.

Have a drink on me for your support

I'm not anti-Tory voters, though I only seem to know one.

Given the result, I'd say that was highly unlikely but having read your post about how you feel about the one friend who has admitted how she votes, Im not surprised no one els eis telling you.

Sardine - sounds fantastic!!! Takeaway to celebrate and lots of wine here tonight!

Loads of people round me must have voted Tory as they managed to vote Vince out!

Interestingly there was not one Tory poster up in windows....I commented about a week ago that at the last election, the area was covered in Lib Dem posters and this time there were only a few.

I even asked someone who was very involved with the election whether it was possible that Vince would lose his seat to the Tories as the absence of 'out' Lib Dem support was far less and was told that OF COURSE he wouldn't lose his seat!

A lot of things happened last night/this morning that even very experienced political journalists and analysts didn't see coming so I think a lot of people are in a bit of shock today!

Well, sardine, selfish, chandalier, patsy and I are going to have a good night, cheers girls!!

Selfishcuntydupe has summed up everything I want to say with this post:

"Yes - the hatred, the bile, the vitriol at people who simply put a cross in a different box. And the baby killing nonsensical hyperbole posted across this site. It's hysterical. Utterly, hysterical.

And no,the Tories here can never win because whatever they post, no matter how sane and objective , it will be used against them to accuse them of being a smug rich, bastard or as evidence that they are heartless.

No one predicted the election outcome because good, decent people stayed silent and quietly voted to avoid the bile , the bullying and the abuse they were seeing heaped upon those who did speak up.

MN admin - I would advise you to look very very closely at what some of your members are saying and how they are behaving or it may bite you on the arse too. This is an amazing website but some of the posts today are shameful."

And I think it is shameful that MNHQ has stayed so very quiet over so much name calling & personal abuse.

I didn't realise that had happened to swc
She was a brilliant and inspiring poster.

cheers to you too Happfeet

Magi well said!!!!!

Nicely put magimedi

Cheers all you decent posters who have handled the relentless abuse and vitriol with utter dignity and grace

MN HQ - I would look at the level of abuse thrown around here today. I have never seen anything as bad on here. It does not become you.

getting carried away----ha!

Thank you for giving a name to the nonsense I have seen going on today on FB - virtue signalling is it in a nutshell. Drives me potty as does all the 'the end of the world is nigh' crap as well. On the whole, life will carry on as before.

I didn't vote Tory but I live in a safe Tory seat (I voted Lib Dem so I can sense the virtual head tilt and sad face instead) and I am not sorry that the Tories got in. Eds x 2 were an awful prospect and as a normal working class family our most difficult times have been under a Labour government. I can't admit it because I know that I am apparently not as entitled to my views as the loud left.

Also really fed up with SNP and their negative campaigning. Sturgeon didn't open her mouth without the words 'anti-Tory' coming out. They certainly haven't helped although they have shot themselves in the foot. They had a big hand in making sure the Tories got an absolute majority (although they won't admit it) so there are no pacts, no minority government and no need to consider the SNP at all.

I voted for the conservatives. I am not ashamed to have done so.

I didn't post about it on FB. But then, I just checked my FB feed and none of my "friends" have posted anything political today, at all.

I'm in my 40s. Maybe browbeating people over political beliefs is a young person's thing?

I have to say I was a bit shocked to find NetMums a haven of political diversity and varied, generally rational debate by comparison to MN. In all other respects I've always found the tone on MN much more congenial and broad-minded but when it comes to politics there seems to be a bit of a blind side.

would look at the level of abuse thrown around here today. I have never seen anything as bad on here. It does not become you

But MN is always had this really unpleasant ,hypocritical undercurrent, today has just bought it to the fore.

Ohhuge - even I have been a bit shocked by the sheer level of bile hurled our way today. You need to have a thick skin even on the internet to post while that is flying around. Just no need for it - intelligent , rational debate is so much more powerful than hurling, " You're a cunt!" at people.