To have put in my (postal) vote today for the Tories?

[IonaNE]

I agree with their education policy (especially grammar schools) and a lot of their criminal and immigration policies. I have done the "isidewith" quiz (uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz) and I side 58% with Conservatives, 48% with Labour and 40%, 36% and 34% with UKIP, LibDem and the Green Party, respectively. But in general I have done it because it seems to me that the Conservatives are clever people (mostly Oxbridge educated), and you have to trust the leading of a country to clever people. (We all remember a certain Labour prime minister and his "bigoted woman" remark, when he thought his mic was off, don't we?) The Tories support working people, as opposed to second- and third-generation lifelong benefit claimers (large estates of high deprivation in my region) and they have already proved themselves by decreasing unemployment levels to those in the 70s, if I remember well (I wasn't in this country then, I'm an immigrant).

Disclaimer: I mostly use MN at the weekends, so I will come back and read replies today but I can't promise anything from Monday onwards...

It's your vote to do with legally whatever you wish.

'Oxbridge educated' doesn't mean clever

Nor should we 'trust the country to clever people'.

If you've already done it, what is the point in asking? Are you going to accost the Postie on Monday and make him hand over your vote if you're deemed unreasonable or is this post just to goad?

What's done is done.

Yanbu. Not because i am voting tory.

But because its your choice. How could it be unreasonable.

I do find it odd you have posted this on a mainly left wing site though.

Come on Theresa...we all know you're at a loose end with no campaigning today...

Not unreasonable at all if you support their policies (I don't). Very unreasonable to suggest they are they "clever party". Gordon Brown made an error (don't we all) and whether you agree or disagree with his policies You cannot deny he is a highly educated and intelligent man

But in general I have done it because it seems to me that the Conservatives are clever people (mostly Oxbridge educated), and you have to trust the leading of a country to clever people.

Hahahahahaha!

You can vote how you want. IMO you're wrong but this country is a democracy.

YABU for thinking that oxbridge educated and clever are the same thing. And YABU for posting yet another goady thread on here about the bloody tories

You can vote for who you like.

But there's no evidence in actual studies that there are families of three generations who've never worked. Literally none. Plus the unemployment level is only low because they include all people working at all, so those on zero hours contracts or part time but still earning so little they can't afford to live, so needing housing benefits and tax credits. So maybe read less Daily Mail until the next general election.

But in general I have done it because it seems to me that the Conservatives are clever people (mostly Oxbridge educated), and you have to trust the leading of a country to clever people. You can vote however you like.

But thinking that rich people who can afford privileged access to education are cleverer somehow is not clever. I do believe that people with privileged access to things are more likely to preserve that privileged access for their children.

But vote that way if it floats your boat. It's your right.

Your not unreasonable at all, your right to vote for whoever you want. I sent my conservative vote of this week as well.

Yawn

And there's no third generation of worklessness, indeed there's hardly any second generation.

Total myth put about by right wing nut jobs to make people hate and despise those claiming benefits

https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/are-cultures-worklessness-passed-down-generations

And benefits are under claimed. Literally millions of pounds worth of unclaimed that people are entitled to

You've swallowed the shit monkey my dear.

the conservatives are clever people

Goad City Arizona.

Sure thing GMF

Jeremy Corbin is a very educated man. Tony Blair was a very well educated man. It's not about education.

Haha @ "oxbridge educated" as the justification oh lord

Lololol!

Hilarious.

What else is in your thought diary for the weekend?

About the Oxbridge thing!