To wonder if tory voters care about the 1 million.

[Jacobsmum1972]

I bet they don't give a flying monkeys for anyone coming under attack by the Tories. The poor, disabled and tennants.

I have felt close to tears all day because I know what a conservative majority means for so many in this country.

Food bank use has been increasing since 2005.

And here's a Fact Check, it's not quite as simple as the headline figures would have you believe fullfact.org/factcheck/economy/food_bank_number-40853

Food banks are a fairly recent phenomenon, we have no comparable data from 50s/60s/70s/80s and most of the 90s.

I think that most people don't care if it doesn't affect them.

Some go further and will lecture the poor and disabled about why they deserve it.

I am disabled.
I have been told that that was 'my choice' by a person who voted Tory today.

Obvs not all are like that but a significant minority ARE.

Perhaps we should start a 'People who start "All Tories are cunts" thread' are cunts.

THAT would be awesome.

I voted Tory, i care about people. My disabled Mother, who was also a single parent voted Tory too

Jobless, we'll soon have more reassurance than we can stomach that the Tories are in fact bastards .

OH FOR FUCK'S SACK SHUT UP

Jeeeeezzzzz, the Labour voters are like a bloody stuck record!!!

Can one of you, just one of you, post something original. Please?

I'm sad Esther McVey is out of a job. I was just waiting until it was my turn for her to magic me better. Maybe she'll carry on on a WorkFare placement or something!

rainbowflutterby you beat me to it, roll on tomorrow for fucks sake!

I think that most people don't care if it doesn't affect them.

You probably don't care about lots of other issues which don't affect you. Its human nature.

I hear she's got a zero hours contract at Sports Direct, Fairy.

Oh FFS. I've said this before today, about this "don't have children you can't afford" shite. I'm sure I'm not the only person in the situation of actually initially being able to afford the children I have, but then circumstances changed. In my case, it was 'D'H leaving me 5 weeks after number 3 was born (yes, he is still involved with them and yes, he does contribute. I am lucky in that respect). So I'm afraid I am now on benefits as dc3 is still tiny. What do you suggest I do, sell one to afford the others, now? Child benefit is not free money for me, it is money for the children - who did not ask to be in a single parent family and should not be punished for being so. If it's cut, we will struggle even more

"Jobless, we'll soon have more reassurance than we can stomach that the Tories are in fact bastards."

I don't think most of the people posting are looking to validate their views - they won't change them. Some of the evil 'Tory' policies were introduced by Labour before 2010, but people aren't too bothered about facts, it's just shrieking and wailing about EVIL. It's no wonder people lie to pollsters when the tone of public debate is so poisonous.

I didn't vote labour, btw. Or Tories, funnily enough!

Madison

Do you imagine an obese person, if sanctioned, can live indefinitely off their own fat reserves, without food passing their lips??

She'll suit the uniform Tondelayo!

Child benefit isn't just a benefit given to support parents support their children; it's a benefit that was introduced specifically to be given to mother's to support their children. The majority of child benefit is still paid to mother's. A cut to child benefit is therefore a regressive attack on women's rights - it will have knock on effects on child poverty, emotional and financial abuse, and domestic violence.

Here is my answer.

I don't believe a word that comes out of Ed Milibands mouth. He slags off all the cuts, but I don't think for a minute he would undo any of them. After the 2010 election Ed Balls admitted there was nowhere near enough money to make have been able to make good on their pledges in that election race.

I do not trust the Labour Party who still think wheeling Tony Blair out to support Ed Miliband is a good idea. Tony Blair, imo, should be in prison rather than getting GQ awards that he clearly paid for.

I wanted Ed Balls out. He does nothing in his constituency. You can't get meetings for weeks and week on end. When you do he agrees and promises to take certain steps....then doesn't. A lot of people in this area are fed up of him. Tories lost by 1100 votes in 2010 and yet Ed still thought he didn't really need to put the effort in to ensure he got in next time. I voted Tory because I wanted Ed out, I do not trust the Labour party and Tory enabled me to vote against both.

Anyone who thinks Labour wouldn't have walked in and pulled the line 'we didn't want to make further cuts but the tories left it in such a mess.....we had to' is naive.

I do not believe the Labour Party would not have made similar cuts.

The labour party need to run a better campagin and rely less on the assumption that enough people hate tories to get them into power. Labour ran a poor campaign with a poor front man, imo.

rainbow

And national insurance contributions are paid for mothers via child benefit too. I have bugger all pension as it is (despite having worked for 11 years and hope to do so for many more) - if it's cut, it's damning many many mothers to virtually no state pension. Such as it will be once we get there, anyway.

(That was to wasting's comment, really).

I hate what the Torys did to child benefit....when we all got it no one batted an eyelid, now those who still get it can be classed as benefit scroungers along with the rest of them.

I think that most people don't care if it doesn't affect them.

Strange, since 'apparently' Labour lost because a lot of their supporters couldn't be arsed to vote. So a lot of labour voters don't care....not just Tory ones.

But surely if the country is in such a state that child benefit will need to be removed the Tories can go about stopping billion pound companies like Starbucks and Google from tax avoidance or get their non-dom mates to pay a bit more tax? Why is any sort of clampdown on the rich anathema to the Tories yet the middle income and poor are expected to go through austerity?