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AIBU?

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To try and persuade you not to vote Tory.

375 replies

MissBax · 07/06/2017 14:21

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2017/05/31/the-nayler-report-nhs-privatisation-by-the-back-door/

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/naylor-report-tory-nhs-privatisation-healthcare-flog-off-conservatives-theresa-may-election-2017-a7766326.html

www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-property-and-estates-naylor-review

I am totally and shamelessly begging people not to vote for Theresa May.
Amongst a host of other reasons (education, policing, housing, pay etc), she has confirmed she fully backs the selling off of the NHS.
Follow link above for the full Naylor Review.

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MissBax · 07/06/2017 18:40

Jesus Christ, you'd think I'd titled this "AIBU to threaten to kill you if you don't vote Labour RIGHT NOW". Calm down people.
Iputbaby - think you need to look up the meaning of 'dictate'.

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IPutBabyInTheCorner · 07/06/2017 18:45

What people vote has got nothing at all to do with you. Why do you think people should vote to suit your views?? You have a vote, use it and leave everyone else to theirs.

Sick to death of all the Tory haters on here. Just leave people to vote how they wish. Let the parties do the campaigning, it's not your role.

user1486062886 · 07/06/2017 18:45

I just hope we don't end up with a Labour SNP coalition, oh my God Noooooooo

MissBax · 07/06/2017 18:47

Iputbaby - seriously, relax!

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Goldangel · 07/06/2017 18:48

Great response Nikephorus. We live in a full on labour majority area and we keep our opinions to ourselves for the sake of our sanity & safety!

I had hoped a few Tory voters would discover a social conscience in time...but I'm not holding my breath.

Examples like this are a good reason for not voting Labour. Who wants to be associated with people who can't handle others having a different opinion without feeling the need to insult them.

coldcanary · 07/06/2017 18:52

Well I'm not voting Tory, our local candidate has some views I don't agree with and I'll be buggered if I'm going to vote for a Labour candidate who's been parachuted in over a potentially excellent local person. Then there are various right wing or independant candidates that aren't even worth the bother. Which leaves me with a choice of LD or erm... LD.
Fab.
I'll just be over here in the orange corner waiting for the first thread to demand a do-over when the result is unsatisfactory.. Grin

IPutBabyInTheCorner · 07/06/2017 18:54

It's annoying though OP. All I've heard for the past few weeks is Tory this, Tory that, everyone should vote Labour ... well no. We all have a choice for a reason. People who vote Tory are as entitled to their vote as anyone else.

If you'd said the OP was lighthearted then yes, you could say I'm being argumentative but you didn't, you posted in AIBU presumably for a debate - that's what you're getting. If you didn't want differing opinions (or god forbid, Tories) on your thread you shouldn't have posted in AIBU!

User843022 · 07/06/2017 18:55

'The kind of people who have and will always vote Tory are the kind of people who would vote Tory even if May kicked their baby in the face'

Confused
MissBax · 07/06/2017 18:56

Iputbaby - I'm totally game for a debate. But people just commenting "I'll vote for who I want".
Well yes, OBVIOUSLY! I don't reaaaallllyyyy expect that anyone would read the OP and voila - their minds are changed.

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Sparklingbrook · 07/06/2017 18:57

OP is a bit bossy. Confused

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 07/06/2017 18:57

The kind of people who have and will always vote Tory are the kind of people who would vote Tory even if May kicked their baby in the face

Nice

MissBax · 07/06/2017 19:00

Sparkling - really?!

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User843022 · 07/06/2017 19:00

'The kind of people who have and will always vote Tory are the kind of people who would vote Tory even if May kicked their baby in the face'
Op how can you say relax when people post crap like that ^

IPutBabyInTheCorner · 07/06/2017 19:01

Well I'm voting Tory, whether May kicks my baby in the face or not!

NavyandWhite · 07/06/2017 19:02

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IPutBabyInTheCorner · 07/06/2017 19:03

Seriously though, just leave it! Leave people to make their own decisions. Concentrate on your own vote and if your party loses, just accept that the majority of the country disagrees with you! (Which they do 😁)

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 07/06/2017 19:03

Don't know about the baby, but if Theresa May kicked my dog in the face then I will vote for Corbyn. It's a promise.

MissBax · 07/06/2017 19:04

Myrtle - I in no way advocate any of those views. I haven't thrown insults at all on this post. Well, maybe the "pig fucker" comment but I thought that was mildly humorous and I wouldn't ever intend to personally offend anyone.

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waitforitfdear · 07/06/2017 19:05

The shouty left have put off a lot of people who would have voted labour in the past but won't with Corbyn he's ridiculous.

tamatoe

Hope won't be like the post Brexit time that was bloody tedious and I voted remain

Lynnm63 · 07/06/2017 19:05

But op you've not addressed the points made about the Labour Party being unelectable.
Dianne Abbot as Home Secretary, the temporary Home Secretary who swore at and pushed a blind man in the HoC. McDonnell as chancellor, Emily Thornberry as foreign Secretary. Do any of them make you feel safer? The Lib Dems are non entities. Frankly the Tories are the best of a bad bunch.

MissBax · 07/06/2017 19:06

Iputbaby - unfortunately though, it wouldn't necessarily indicate that the majority of the country disagree, as it's not a vote for vote majority!

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user1471517623 · 07/06/2017 19:08

BamBam don't understand your logic at all! Surely you can see that under JC this Labour government is a totally different kettle of fish - he is a total pacifist and has been roundly criticised for it, he also won the Ghandi peace prize in 2013 for his commitment to peace and social justice - we are far less likely to go to war under him than May.

On the issue of privatisation, don't understand how anyone can agree with it. No one should be able to make a profit out of it, if there is any money spare it should go back into the NHS to fund cancer drugs etc

MissBax · 07/06/2017 19:08

Lynn - I'm certainly glad Abbott has gone, although it's way too late!
Just as people have said they'd vote for anyone but Corbyn, I feel the same about May. I'd rather anyone but her run the country - I have no faith in her whatsoever!

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atotalshambles · 07/06/2017 19:09

I am completely sick of all the social media/mumsnet Jezza is the next messiah nonsense.
We have to start negotiating Brexit in a couple of weeks. It is the most important issue of our times. I wouldn't trust Jezza/John McDonnell/Diane Abbot to run a cake stall at a school fete.
I was (and am) a Remainer and would have absolutely no strong political views . If David Milliband was LabourLeader now he would 100% have had my vote.

waitforitfdear · 07/06/2017 19:10

chardonnays Grin

Didn't the new labour home sec no idea who she is, hit a blind man in the face?

Op you are voting ukip I take it?