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I voted Conservative, and am happy to admit it - why don't other Tory voters feel the same?

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MillyMolly99 · 09/05/2015 15:05

I voted Conservative, and am delighted with the election result. However no one else seems to admit to being a Tory voter, but there are clearly lots of us around. I told someone at work about my voting preferences - she looked at me as if I'd just killed a puppy.

DH commented that being left-wing is a more fashionable view, even if you don't agree with left-wing politics.

I think he has a point. And I get heartily sick of people who brag about being brought up on a council estate, holding it up as a badge of honour, assuming this gives more weight to their opinions than those of us who come from a different sort of background. It's some weird, inverted snobbery thing.

I totally agree with David Cameron's comments about wanting to ensure a good life for those of us who are prepared to work for it. What's so wrong with that????

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InterOuta · 09/05/2015 15:31

Noble, spot on Smile

IAmAShitHotLawyer · 09/05/2015 15:31

"If you have an issue with work overload then take it up with your Manager"

I am the manager.

And if a member of staff is off sick, someone needs to cover their hours (think NHS hospital ward type job).

And it's always the same people who have to take on the extra shifts. Never the lazy fuckers on tax credits.

Oh, and before anyone says don't do the extra shifts, well that's not an option. Where I work, people can die if there aren't enough staff on shift.

putthekettleonwouldya · 09/05/2015 15:31

Yes! Very well said!

LumpySpacedPrincess · 09/05/2015 15:31

I will be better off under the tory government. However, I didn't vote for them as lots of other people won't just be worse off they will go without basic things. The tories want to scrap human rights and bring back fox hunting.

Plus, labour didn't wreck the economy, but it's a lazy stereotype that people latch onto failing to realise that Osbourne would have matched Brown pound for pound until outside forces decided otherwise.

Milliband is a really decent man, smart and emotionally intelligent. He is the best prime minister we never had and more fool us for judging someone on how they eat a sandwich.

The demonization of the poor while the people who colluded with the idiots that caused all this mess carry on in the same way sickens me.

We had a chance, we blew it, but so long as your isa is okay...

eeniemeeniemineymo · 09/05/2015 15:33

I voted Tory.

We both work, OH is in currently working two jobs and I work part time in the retail sector. I have to grit my teeth when customers use the phrase "thought I would treat myself as I have been paid today" and when I ask where they work they say "oh no, I mean my benefits went in today".

It is so totally wrong. I want benefits to go the genuinely needy, not these effing lazy parasites....

NRomanoff · 09/05/2015 15:33

usual I have been on a few of these threads and never seen anyone say all tories are hard working. And its certainly not true.

Each parties voters are a mix of people and personalities

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AuditAngel · 09/05/2015 15:35

I also voted Conservative. I think all the parties have good policies and bad, but actually Conservative is the one that I align with most. I used to vote Lib Dem for local elections as they did a lot locally. Where I live now a very high profile Lib Dem has lost his seat.

putthekettleonwouldya · 09/05/2015 15:35

Damnit! That was meant as a response to Noble's comment!!! Agh is there a function to delete comments???

Quiero · 09/05/2015 15:36

I would imagine that those who won't admit they voted Conservative feel uncomfortable in some teeny tiny way about what they've done. If you truly believe in Tory policies and that they are undoubtedly the best people to run the country - why would you be ashamed? Confused

amybear2 · 09/05/2015 15:37

ha ha ha bonk! just laughed my head off at the notion that tories might help the working poor!

IAmAShitHotLawyer · 09/05/2015 15:37

"Milliband is a really decent man"

Milliband wouldn't take time off work to go with his girlfriend to register the birth of his own child.

How very decent and emotionally intelligent.

AuditAngel · 09/05/2015 15:38

Amybear that U.S. a rather personal attack, just because you don't agree with someone, doesn't make them the one who is wrong!

putthekettleonwouldya · 09/05/2015 15:40

But Auditangel- the conservatives manifestly don't help the working poor?

TripTrapTripTrapOverTheBridge · 09/05/2015 15:40

I'm a single mum to a disabled child,whom I had at 17, who grew up in a council house, is self employed and voted Tory.

I don't believe throwing money to cover gaping gaps in society where we have failed to raise and help people, throwing them into 'traps' they are scared of or become accustomed to, helps them. I think it damages them more than they realise and is destructive.

usualsuspect333 · 09/05/2015 15:40

Come on,NRomanoff . The implication is always 'I voted Tory because I'm a hard working tax payer'

Well guess what, I'm a hard working tax payer and I live on a council estate. Imagine that.

I wouldn't ever vote Tory though.

Quiero · 09/05/2015 15:41

ShitHotLawyer can you not see those people are trapped by the system? If the system means that they lose benefits the minute they work over 16 hours but the job cannot guarantee they will work the extra hours every week they are stuck.

LumpySpacedPrincess · 09/05/2015 15:41

eenie so people on benefits are not allowed into shops anymore? Maybe only charity shops and we could make them wear a special badge so we can recognize them.

Are you equally appalled at the huge transfer of wealth to the top 5% that has happened over the last 5 years? One person treating themselves to a new top is pretty much irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

You really are hating on the wrong people.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” Malcolm X

putthekettleonwouldya · 09/05/2015 15:42

Ahh ok I assume you were referring to earlier post, fair comment. Can all get a bit emotional this politics lark eh.

Golferman · 09/05/2015 15:42

I always vote Conservative based oN what is best for me and my family I admit I am not interested in anyone else so sue me.

ghostyslovesheep · 09/05/2015 15:43

oh I shouldn't engage with this shit but

my husband never registered any of our childrens births with me - because he was at work and I am perfectly capable of doing it myself

people on benefits need clothes

IAmAShitHotLawyer · 09/05/2015 15:43

"ShitHotLawyer can you not see those people are trapped by the system? If the system means that they lose benefits the minute they work over 16 hours"

They lose benefits but they gain wages. However, wages have to be worked for. So they choose benefits instead. like I said. Lazy.

GahBuggerit · 09/05/2015 15:43

i voted for them because if labour had won my dp would almost certainly be out of a job in 6 months with no chanceof getting another on the same pay as hed have to completely retrain in a new industry, and at his age hed have no chance.

TondelayoSchwarzkopf · 09/05/2015 15:44

Those people on benefits keep you in a job Eenie. What a genuinely bizarre comment.

IAmAShitHotLawyer · 09/05/2015 15:44

big difference between a husband and a boyfriend legally ghosty

Can't give your child your boyfriends name if he's not there.