To think that MN is a bit like the Daily Mail today......

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....the Conservative Government intend to abolish all forms of welfare so they can use the money to purchase 331 bulldozers so each MP can personally knock down all our hospitals tonight. And other alarmist stuff.

YABU.

What do you expect the day after a General Election? A mild mannered 'oh dear such a shame'. It will pass and people will calm down.

Shame the Royal Birth wasn't this weekend instead of last.

Yes YABU.
Some of the posters are being accused of scaremongering when they post about actual Tory manifesto commitments.

YANBUOne poster today has basically said they will get rid of every single benefit

Ooh, link please!

I can't link hazey because I was lurking didn't post on the thread and I can't remember which of the endless political threads it was. It was one that started about disability benefits

I must have missed the insulting posts - link anyone? - but there have been some odd, "Woe is me posts." That said, when Labour last got in, there was a load of "I'll have to emigrate" hysteria about.

YANBU. I'm done with mumsnet for now. I cannot believe the judgmental, narrow minded, naive, sensationalist and downright fucking rude comments being posted on here and chat towards Tory voters. Seriously, pull yourselves together and get a grip!! If the comments represent on here are a good representation of the labour supporters as a whole, I'm more glad then ever they lost.

See ya

Not being a reader of the Daily Fail, I couldn't possibly comment on its resemblance to MN.

However, I've rather enjoyed the fallout from the election, especially the whining Tory voters on MN who seemingly can't bear being held in contempt on a public forum. Diddums.

Also the irony, unintended, I'm sure, of the OP slagging off exaggerated fears by non-Tory posters by, er... exaggerating their claims.

fairgame - if that was the thread in which the artwork which included the names of people withe disabilities and mental health problems who had committed suicide, had benefits cut whilst dying etc, was described by another poster as 'a joke', and where someone posted that self deluding lie, 'if I can do it anyone can'....then there was absolutely no assertion by anyone that, they will get rid of every single benefit

i am disappointed and worried by the election results. I voted labour but if I'm absolutely honest i would have been worried if labour had won.

I have never felt this way after an election before. I am worried for the NHS , specifically mental health resources. I am worried that their benefit cuts have all been wrong wrong wrong - not that there shouldn't be cuts but that they have done it wrong.

I am worried that the minimum wage is not a living wage.

I am worried that we have a government that totally blinkered to the fact that unless they stand up for the little person they will be ultimately fucking over themselves because without sounding like a loony lefty our economy is built on the backs of the workers.

i am worried about my dd's education, specifically that she has dyslexia and i have to pay £38 a week for a tutor to provide the additional support that the school does not have the resources to provide. What happens when we can't pay this? It would be considered a luxury by some but her tutor taught her to read!

i am worried about the number of teachers on the verge of mental breakdown due to the fact that their workload is too high and the goal posts are constantly moving.

I don't think tory voters or even the tory party itself are bad people, that is ridiculous . I just believe they are wrong and do not represent people like me. i consider myself to be ms average.

No it wasn't hazey i didn't see that thread at all.

We live in a democracy; as it stands the party that got the most MPs elected into Parliament is now in Power. IMHO this Government is more valid than the Coalition was, as none of those involved had a Mandate. I did not vote Tory but will accept the result, I voted, I engaged and I did all that I could to change the result but them's the breaks. As PP have said, I had doubts about any of the Parties and voted with the candidate who had the most in common with my thinking although, for once, it was a reasonably last minute decision.

I am angry with those who didn't vote, however. The people I spoke to today who "couldn't be arsed". I think it should be compulsory ( with a None of the Above box to register dissent). It is your only choice of a say for 5 years!

I am also really angry and disappointed with the vile coverage from the media. The Thinly veiled anti-Semitiism and scaremongering was appalling, and the suggestion that it was Murdoch and the non-dom newspaper owners who influenced the vote must,at some levels, be damaging for Cameron and his cabinet even if it were untrue.

LEM has summarised my feelings rather well.

I voted tactically and wish I hadn't - it didn't work so I may as well have voted for the party I actually believe in! That's by the by now though. If we as citizens feel we have been denied a voice then we now have to be active participants in our society. If you don't like the way education is going, get involved in your kids school through PTA or as a governor. If you don't like the local council then become a councillor, join a party, campaign and be a loud voice. Voting is really only one tiny aspect of citizenship, and there are many other ways of being democratic.

There are a lot of keyboard warriors of both left and right persuasion on MN at the moment and I understand their anger. Feeling impotent isnt exactly something to be celebrated but I feel they are directing it at the wrong people. Ordinary voters are ordinary people, and abuse does noone any favours.

But I must say that as a lefty I have been called stupid, naive, unwashed, a hippy, a Marxist and a Trotskyite. Surely I'm just a person who sees things slightly differently to whoever gives me those labels? Maybe some of us on the left feel the need to defend ourselves in the face of such attacks. Mudslinging on either side is pathetic.

That was the only thread i saw that was started about cuts to disabled benefits

Op

Think how it feels to be Scottish on here just now, every second thread on here is about " the scots", because obviously we all think, feel and vote the same

What I think is unbelievable about the anti Con comments is people seem to forget that Blair won three recent elections - very convincingly. Some of the people who voted tory yesterday very likely voted for him and would /will vote labour again sometime. In England at least. They just weren't convinced by the EDs. This does not make them selfish or nasty. In Scotland they lost to an even more progressive party.

Which article was on the BBC website, fuck?

I'd don't really care whether you think I'm scaremongering by posting a link from a reputable paper. At least it wasn't the Daily Fucking Mail. I didn't vote Conservative. I didn't vote Labour either. They're both as bad as each other imo, and I'm entitled to my opinions, whether you like them, or want to dismiss them as bunk not.

Found it, the article on the NHS and TTIP.

So why is that scaremongering, seems pretty plain to me, or does it simply not fit in with your views?

Even I know that cat's cannot talk.

Sandbar Did you never see Sabrina the Teenage Witch? Salem, the talking cat? You need to start living in the real world!

Mumsnet has recently been a bit like Jeremy Kyle for the educated!