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

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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...

Nice to know you work(ed) with the disadvantaged whilst simultaneously sneering at them. What an asset to the role you must be.

Thankyou for supporting the government responsible for leaving me as a Registered-Disabled single parent penniless for 2 months whilst they 'transfer me over to Universal Credit' and make me PROVE I'm disabled despite having been in receipt of full Severe Disablement payments & DLA/PIP for 13 years!!

The Tories are making not only people like me but PARAPLEGIC patients go into the Jobcentre and LOOK FOR WORK whilst they take the standard-3 months gathering EVIDENCE of their disability!!!!!

Who was a bigot?!

I am almost tempted to vote Tory as I like TM's shoes. Alas, I have no vote in the UK. Sigh.

OP, the Conservatives have been in power for 7 years now. In your example, the first generation woman who has never worked was 11 years old when they took over from Labour - so Tory policy hasn't worked there has it otherwise she would have been supported into employment by now.

Also you can't say on the one hand, record numbers of people in employment, but on the other hand, three generations of people who have never worked. Who is taking all these jobs if there are huge swathes of people who have never worked? It's contradictory.

I'm not even going to start on the inequality in the grammar school policy.

OP - PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEASE watch this, it only takes a min www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/30/disabled-readers-austerity-disability-cuts

I'm voting Conservative because I was born in the month of May. I think this is therefore a sign that Theresa May is the right candidate.

I'm voting conservative because my favourite colour is blue and I once bought a nice top in H&M that was blue

Eminently sensible my dear girl. Hurrah for H&M for leading you on to the true path. 😀

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we should make members of the public pass an intelligence test before being allowed to vote
I would vote in favour of that. I suspect the outcome of the Brexit referendum would have been different.

What do you want to do if in fact YABU?
What do most mnetters do when it turns out they were BU? Well, that's exactly what I'm going to do.

Smashing.

BTW, grammar schools will remain the privilege of the rich. Tutors are expensive you know.

I'm voting Conservative because I hope it will give them the impetus to return to their 90s style sex scandals. It's been ages since I've seen a sheepish MP posing for photos at his garden gate.

Two magpies just flew overhead. Two rhymes with shoe. TM rocks a pair of heels.

I'm on the fence, I really am. I might check out the horoscopes.

I'm loving your work here today squash

Or even squoosh. Autocorrect fail!

YANBU to vote for the party whose policies you agree with.

YABU to think that introducing more grammar schools will improve the education system, and YABVU to vote in a way that will cause will cause huge amounts of suffering for many people with serious illnesses and disabilities and their families.

It's up to you who you vote for so yanbu to do that.
But YABU to say tories are the clever party and that they support the working people. Yes they might support higher paid workers but they don't support lower paid.
They have also cut disability benefits for a lot of people who really are unable to work.
I also had a postal vote but I certainly didn't vote Tory

Loving that the irony of the IQ comment went completely over her head. Hopefully she filled in a pizza delivery form, thinking it was her vote.

Yes dear.

They might be academic, but. They're not so clever in other ways. They haven't got a damn clue. What's going on in their country. If they think a person can live on a sweaty £ 70+ PW or on a zero hours contract. They clearly were not listening in mathematics. !!!!!!!
Also. All your posh plummed gobbed 'clever people'. Got their Education for free. Handed to them on a plate. Not like students of today.
You might regret your vote if/when the time comes you're having to visit food banks or You become unemployed

YANBU to vote for whoever the hell you want however repugnant.

YABU to post what is clearly no more than a goady post.

Tiresome and puerile

Hahahahahha at Oxford education making people clever or good leaders. I'm Oxford educated and have taught at one of them and all I can say is hahahahahahhaha.

I'd like to see the stats which show the Tories are 'mostly Oxbridge educated' in greater numbers than any other main party, out of interest.

My delightful* MP certainly wasn't. If anything, she is anti-intellectual.

• note : deep sarcasm

ODFOD

Do what you like with your vote. I really couldn't care less. But the clever thing is such shite. How about doctors - naturally socialist in the majority. Not everyone uses their brains for solely personal gain thankfully.

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.

Think Boris Johnson, eh? Cameron? Osborne? Gove?

Why is it that Eton/Oxbridge can't teach how to run the country properly?

YANBU because you get to vote for whoever you want.

YABVU for thinking the way you voted is worth a dedicated thread to and for thinking you will get a positive response because mums net is mainly a left wing site. I am a conservative voter btw, and i would never in my worst nightmare think of putting post up on AIBU about it.

HTH

Good for you