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Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To vote Tory in the next election?

330 replies

LadyBoyXy · 28/01/2018 20:31

I've lost all hope of any rationality coming out of JC and Labour.

I feel like my biological existence is being wiped out.

I already feel completely bereft that the future of the female/girls/women will likely continue to be ruled and overruled by the patriarchy.

OP posts:
MikeAlphaMikeAlpha · 28/01/2018 22:10

Wait and see what everyone's policy's are at the time. I have voted Tory the last few elections but I would never just automatically go for a party. You have to relate to what they're saying. I do think they got us into the brexit mess so they should probably get us out of it but I have little faith in any of them right now!

Branleuse · 28/01/2018 22:13

thats like one annoyance about the labour party versus completely fucking over the country and all of our public services

anothernetter · 28/01/2018 22:13

Go ahead and vote Labour if you want a communist government in power.

Rebeccaslicker · 28/01/2018 22:14

Posters like creambun2 make me want to go and join the Conservative party right now. Urgh, nothing worse than a sanctimonious moaning Minnie who doesn't even bother to put forward an argument as to why they feel they have the moral high ground!

Tanith · 28/01/2018 22:15

Getting really tired of these transparently political threads!

Corbyn must be doing something they want to distract us from. The rethink on Brexit, maybe?

NinaNoSleep · 28/01/2018 22:19

No way could I vote Tory, working in education.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/27/observer-view-how-tories-starving-schools-funding

Pretty much sums up the local picture, schools closing, schools with massive deficit budgets, schools with no permanent HT, schools sitting with academy orders that no academy trust will take on ( not enough money in them), schools sitting with academy orders but issues regarding ownership of land not resolved in three years governors making decisions about the future status of their school, yet are ineffective in running their school, schools being 'left out of local MATS', diocese dividing local schools by faith....a complete mess!

itsbetterthanabox · 28/01/2018 22:23

What's with the username op?

FanDabbyFloozy · 28/01/2018 22:24

I lived in Corbyn's constituency for a long time.. He wasn't even very effective at that so the idea of him running the country is frightening.

I'd love to vote for a labour PM right now. If the leader was Andy Burnham or Yvette Cooper, I'd vote for Labour tomorrow.

We're going to a dark place if Corbyn is PM, mark my words. What is saddest of all is that he's just a puppet dancing to the tune of his handlers. He'd rather be down the allotment tending to his veg. He's a principled if ineffectual man.

ButteredScone · 28/01/2018 22:24

YANBU.

The Tories are having a very weak moment but they are much more credible than current Labour.

The trans thing has not taken hold of the Tories like Labour. The Tories Gender Recogniton Law is being dumped. They are not ‘trying to privatise the NHS’ or ‘murdering people’ (WTAF?!). They just don’t want to blow the budget.

BonnieF · 28/01/2018 22:26

I could never vote Tory at a parliamentary election, except as a tactical vote to keep UKIP / BNP / Britain First or any other Nazi vermin out.

I am also hopelessly disillusioned with Labour. Corbyn is not and never will be a credible candidate to be Prime Minister of a G7 country. Labour’s stance on Brexit is a complete disgrace. The job of an opposition party is to oppose the government when they are quite clearly making a total mess of running the country. Labour should be the party of soft Brexit, and should be tearing apart the divided Tories. They can’t and won’t because Corbyn is utterly useless and a lifelong Eurosceptic himself.

WhatKatyDidnt · 28/01/2018 22:30

You are boycotting a party that is being insufficiently gender critical (for want of a better phrase), and voting instead for the party that is trying to bring in the self ID legislation? Confused

LyndaLaHughes · 28/01/2018 22:33

The absolute destruction wrought on the Education system over the past eight or so years should be enough for any parent to never vote Tory again.

blankets4ever · 28/01/2018 22:34

Go ahead and vote Labour if you want a communist government in power.

Corbyn's policies are similar to the Scandinavian socialist democratic parties and perhaps Atlee's Labour govt post 2WW, most definitely not communist.

deaddeadgood · 28/01/2018 22:42

Fucking hell. Why do people vote Tory. Unbelievable

Asthenia · 28/01/2018 22:50

I personally love JC and I’ve never been more inspired by a politician before. He’s a deeply principled and brilliant man. I can understand people feeling strongly about him either way but to call him ineffectual is Just simply untrue 😂😂😂

Asthenia · 28/01/2018 22:50

Also I’d rather die than vote Tory.

Whiterabbitears · 28/01/2018 22:56

Well of course you can vote for whoever you want but I'm not sure how voting Tory will help future women and fight against inherent patriarchy? Please explain?

Livelovebehappy · 28/01/2018 22:56

See Corbyns latest bright idea on the BBC today, where he wants to legalise theft and take privately owned homes to give to the homeless, and I can see where you’re coming from OP. The man is a gift from heaven for the Tories, because whilst he is the leader of the Labour Party, we are basically a one party country. There really are no other realistic alternatives.

ButteredScone · 28/01/2018 22:57

To all those people saying ‘I could never vote Tory’ - why? You don’t actually believe that they are a party of all bad/posh/rich/babyeaters do you?

Weirdly, both sides are politicians generally motivated to do good. They have different approaches, and voters should make the decision based on policy. Some years parties or candidates will be closer to the centre and some will be further right or left. Surely it depends who has the most sensible policies on offer? Or is that too pragmatic?

Sparklesocks · 28/01/2018 22:58

If you’re cool with paying for healthcare then go for it.

WhatKatyDidnt · 28/01/2018 22:59

To all those people saying ‘I could never vote Tory’ - why? You don’t actually believe that they are a party of all bad/posh/rich/babyeaters do you?

A quick glance at most Tories’ voting records confirms to me that they are generally Bad.

ferntwist · 28/01/2018 23:00

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WhatKatyDidnt · 28/01/2018 23:01

But anyway, I think the OP is specifically concerned about gender ID? If that’s right OP, the Tories are the problem not the solution.

Mummyrowland · 28/01/2018 23:04

To the post that said torys are murderibg people - wtf are you on about?????

If anyone murdered anyone from a party evenly itcwas Tony Blair sending in soldiers!!!

beany5 · 28/01/2018 23:05

Disregard the comments on here as people want you to vote for whoever they vote for. Make your own mind up. Either way we are most likely buggered anyway.