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To ask those who voted for the conservatives ....

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ginorwine · 19/10/2015 07:28

Reading the threads here there is much criticism about conservative policy .
A lot of people must have voted for them .
Where are they on mums net ?
And on threads such as those re the w t c cuts are they not representing their views as it was clear this would happen ?
I can tell that they may be slated but surley differing views can be expressed so long as it doesn't get nasty - a know that feeling run high but surley ppl can do so .
So to Tory voters -is it how you anticipated .what are your views ?

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ExitPursuedByABear · 19/10/2015 14:58

Exactly Littlelion.

Being thick is hardly the preserve of Northerners.

BackToTheCaveman · 19/10/2015 14:59

I was brought up in a council house, dad worked for council. Yet I voted Conservative.
Just couldn't trust Labour. Still the remnants of the party that took us to war illegally (killing thousands), brought in 5 million people to the UK in 12 years without a mandate (Gerrymandering). Wasted the UK gold reserves and generally promised lots but spent more than we could afford. Including everyone and his dog going to university.

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 19/10/2015 14:59

I don't know of a single SNP voter who doesn't loathe Labour.

Yet according to the papers the two are one and the same..people sucked that one up.

IceBeing · 19/10/2015 14:59

2015 political compass...indicates just how labour surged to the left (according to the Tories) and in fact have surged to the right according to reality...

Also indicates why an SNP labour coalition was a doomed concept, with labour-tory coalition being a more obvious answer.

To ask those who voted for the conservatives ....
m0therofdragons · 19/10/2015 15:02

The problem is, no matter what party, the kind of person who wants to be a politician and has the funding to be one is likely to be an egotistical self important individual from a background that doesn't understand different elements of society so aims to only make their world good as they view it. There are a few idealistic mps but along with those ideals they rarely have strong enough policies to bring them to fruition.
Basically they're all selfish and crap but nice people aren't the ones who'd want to do the job so we're screwed whichever party you vote for.

Axekick · 19/10/2015 15:02

I didn't see a lib dem/ conservative government would have worked either in all honesty. And it kind of didn't. Every just seemed to be ok with muddling through

Bigbiscuits · 19/10/2015 15:11

Another Conservative Tory voter here.

I find these threads full of virtue signalling and abuse by those on the left so I avoid them.

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 19/10/2015 15:12

It isn't though. You are just preemptively shutting people up by saying that.

LittleLionMansMummy · 19/10/2015 15:16

But you haven't avoided this one Bigbiscuits and have chosen to enter it in quite a goady manner, which makes you just as bad as the virtue signalling lefties.

For the record, I don't signal my virtues, I declare them with passion and with pride.

itsmine · 19/10/2015 15:16

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fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 19/10/2015 15:17

But there isnt one.

And yes I don't signal virtues either. I don't really care if MN posters think I am virtuous.

Janeymoo50 · 19/10/2015 15:18

I voted Tory (and probably will again). Labour brought this country to its knees financially and Cameron is still trying to sort it out (and don't get me started on the warmongering Blair). I don't like Cameron though, he is very out of touch with reality - but name me one PM who has ever really understood the man in the street.

It doesn't make me a bad person, the reality is (unfortunately) that it will always be a two way contest (in the main) and we have to decide for one over the other.

However, that said, I do wonder how differently things would have turned out if John Smith hadn't died of a heart attack 21 years ago!

Axekick · 19/10/2015 15:21

Actually this thread is very different to the usual ones. However I generally avoid political threads, because of the way they go.

Not really sure why I clicked this one, but I waited until I saw the tone before I posted for that reason.

Bigbiscuits · 19/10/2015 15:24

Agree this thread is a bit unusual.

My earlier response was a bit goady and I apologise.

I had just had enough of the the way that Tory voters are characterised in most of these threads. And agree that this has led to an echo chamber of political discussion in MN.

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 19/10/2015 15:24

Labour brought this country to its knees financially and Cameron is still trying to sort it out

And failing

BackToTheCaveman · 19/10/2015 15:25

I do wonder how differently things would have turned out if John Smith hadn't died of a heart attack 21 years ago!

Good question, perhaps we wouldn't have been a lap dog in a false war. The Middle East might not be in flames. 5 million people would not be in the UK, which would put us in a massively stronger position to take in larger numbers of refugee's from Syria now (although without the war Syria may not be in its current position anyway...what a paradox).
We may not have wasted all our gold and Labour may still be in power.

LunchpackOfNotreDame · 19/10/2015 15:25

I voted for them because I can't abide labour and my political leanings are right of centre.

I'm not overly impressed with some of the backpedalling theyve done but I can't think of anything worse than a labour government again.

LittleLionMansMummy · 19/10/2015 15:38

Fair enough Bigbiscuits Smile

I am not sure it's just Tory voters who get this though. I've seen many political stereotypes being thrown at 'lefties' too (which in itself is thrown around as a casual insult) - bleeding heart liberals who are idle, careless, working class northern benefits scroungers.

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 19/10/2015 15:42

Yes. Far more on this thread than the other way around.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 19/10/2015 15:43

Well well a political thread where everyone is playing nicely. Thanks for starting it OP, it's interesting.

Although it feels like some posters are prowling round the ring, it won't be long before someone throws the first punch.

In every election ive voted -haven't voted in every election ive been eligible for-it has been Conservative, so not just a grey vote here. I try to keep an open mind on who I will vote for, but when it comes down to it I trust the Conservatives more.

And I couldn't see Ed Miliband as leader and representative of our country; even less so Jeremy Corbyn.

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 19/10/2015 15:47

If you mean me I am not prowling round any ring.

Just highlighting the goady posts

Wheretheresawill1 · 19/10/2015 15:49

I voted for them
There was no chance on earth I was going to vote for any of the other leaders who I had zero respect for and lacked balls

It would be the same now given the choice in leaders at present

With regards to wtc, ctc I'm not affected. I don't altogether agree with tax credits as like another poster has said it discourages people I work with from taking on extra hours. I do admire those single parents on low paid jobs and would have been supportive of helping them more but again if they worked full time

I have to work full time. I have a disability which means I really should only work part time. I can't because of money. I just have to get on with it

Topseyt · 19/10/2015 15:50

Conservative voter here for the same reasons as Janeymoo and others.

Labour simply cannot be trusted to run the economy.

I can't say that I love the current government. I don't, but lesser of two evils and all of that.

Nor could I vote for a party which had a war criminal (IMHO) as PM when in power. How he ever got to be Middle Eastern Peace Envoy is beyond me.

I am not a dyed in the wool Conservative voter. I have floated around in the past. I just don't like the alternatives.

Labour for me is now becoming less and less electable. It is totally unable to explain how it intends to finance many of its policies should it get into power again, and personally I don't find Corbyn or his blundering shadow chancellor at all impressive.

Wildernessrock · 19/10/2015 15:52

I voted green but would have voted conservative if there had been any chance of labour getting in in my constituency. Labour bankrupted the country- they increased benefits so much that it became profitable NOT to work! I support the cuts to tax credits now although think it should probably have been phased in a bit slower.

Benefits shouldn't be a lifestyle choice- they should be a stop gap for a short while ( months, not years).

Wheretheresawill1 · 19/10/2015 15:54

I generally keep away from these threads because people can't play nicely if someone dares to have a different political opinion. We are all nasty Tory voters who want people to go without food and heat in the UK which is nasty when you are trying to watch your Sky TV. Then we are equally nasty to the billions of refugees aka men who have fled war zones... Then shall we get started on the disabled? Let's ignore the fact I'm a disabled Tory voter...