To wonder where all the Tories are?

[Elodie2019]

Not one Tory placard, not one Tory canvasser at our door, no Tory spam on my FB, Twitter feed...

Who are they targeting? Where are they?

(Not a bad thing I might add, but I see labour/lib dem everywhere.

Is it different elsewhere? If so, where are you?

Nothing on MN either it seems!!

We’ve not had anything at all but we live in an affluent area with a large older population. I’d be surprised if the Tories didn’t win by a landslide.

They are there - in the large swathe of blue across most of the UK in election maps. By and large, we are a Tory country - it doesn't need banners and posters for a few weeks every few years to show this.

No banners or placards or signs in windows for ANY political party where I live. It's quite strange as usually there are loads. Maybe people are sick of the lot of them.

I have seen Tory placards and round me they are on the local Tory (MP) page telling him how wonderful he is or on another local page (labour seat) posting how wonderful the Tories are and deleting anything negative about them or positive about labour.

Turkeys voting for Christmas springs to mind. It is areas amongst the most affected by the cuts but they seem to fail to make the connection, it is either the local labour MP or council's fault for what is happening. The Tory party are some knight in shining armour. I am not sure if it is really pro-Tory or just total anti-labour.

Jonathan Pie expresses my thoughts accurately
I don't understand how anyone with a conscious can vote for "more of the same please".

They are possibly sneaking around your local hospital, depleting it of vital medication and bandages which they will use to cover their hands with while they rob the homeless so the police can’t trace their fingerprints, but now there are no police so they will use the bedsheets to dress as ghosts and go into primary schools in order to frighten small children and steal their pencils and exercise books which they will use to write to Juncker and tell him ‘brexit means brexit.’

Seriously OP, it’s the shy Tory syndrome.

I don't understand how anyone with a conscious can vote for "more of the same please".

Because a lot of people have no viable, realistic or credible alternative.

It's between a rock and a hard place.

Because a lot of people have no viable, realistic or credible alternative.

A little bit of 'better the devil you know'

Murtha
JPie has it.

Nothing much here either. A couple of leaflets through the door, that’s been it. But then I’ve never had any candidates from any party knock my door, despite all the ‘what I’m hearing on the doorsteps.....’

They are very busy lying aand avoiding questions. Since 1997 where I live has been tory, the MP always voted to make life harder for the less well paid and less well off. I'd love for her to knock on my door but she won't. I'll see if she's at the hustings, many tories aren't bothering, can't face the electorate after all their cuts!

I don't even know who the Tory candidate is! I'll have to google it!

Whether it's 'between a rock and a had place' or 'better the devil you know' the facts are that looking at the big picture we know that the Tories are only interested in protecting the interests of the elite and very wealthy and they're unwilling to be swayed or influenced by any amount of appeals or evidence that this trajectory is against the best interests of the nation.

If they think it's a safe seat they probably can't be arsed. If they think it's unwinnable they can't be arsed either. Think yourself lucky I reckon, at least you've been saved the bother of telling them to piss off.

We are keepi g our powder dry....

keep one's powder dry. Stay alert, be careful, as in Go ahead and take on the opposition, but keep your powder dry. This colloquial expression, which originally alluded to keeping gunpowder dry so that it would ignite, has been used figuratively since the 1800s but today is less common than take care.

Probably wise. I don't suppose they want it all to blow up in their faces before Thursday.

@MuthaFunka61 it won't be more of the same.

It's going to be much much worse.

It'll be a Tory victory - people really don't mind a liar for a PM, food banks, rising national debt and really want a hard Brexit.

Unfettered Tories. It'll be interesting to say the least.

The Tories are spending their election budget on putting lie-filled targeted adverts on social media. Those of us that are anti-Tory probably won't see most of them.

They don't need ads and placards, they've got telegraph, mail, express, times, soon the i as well, the sun, leave.eu, farage, Brexit party etc doing all the advertising for them. It's effective, read any polling interview and mostly people are voting for tories, not because they believe things will get better or they'll be better off under tories or even because of their manifesto, but because of 'get brexit done' and because they've been told how bad things will be but how much worse they'll be under labour.......

I think they are all a shower of shit, but people have short memories if they think the NHS was better under Labour having worked in the NHS under Labour ,the cuts started well before Conservatives came into power I was redeployed twice in 12 months in the early 00,due to cuts the NHS needs a hell of a lot more than just money thrown at it , it's completely mismanaged ,and Labour also lie anyone remember the small matter of Tony Blair's Weapons of mass destruction ?

because they've been told how bad things will be but how much worse they'll be under labour.......

The thing is, a large group of normal people think that statement is true.

Just the same as another large group of other normal people believe it is fervently false.

Neither group of people are really represented by the silly caricatures that have been drawn about them.

That's how it works. We all get to hear the same claims and decide which set is most credible/good for the country/etc. We are all just doing what we think is best (or in this damned election, least worst). Then the group most people vote for win, even if it is 50.5 to 49.5.

My Conservative MP wins every time, by about 30k votes to 10k Labour and 5k Lib Dem, so I don't think I'd bother spending the money either.

Yes, agreed @Cobblersandhogwash.

Things will get much worse,and having young adult sons that terrifies me.

@x2boys. I've also worked for the NHS in CAMHS when there was SureStart and speaking to my previous co-workers the referral rate are beyond belief and the resources are almost non existent. Having an ongoing interest in CMH services I know that overall the services have been decimated and people are desperate.

I don't think we can afford to be single issue focussed and if it's a case of making the best of a bad job then this is the route we need to take.

As @Symptomless pointed out there's a lot of Tory propaganda machines at work and I think it's prudent to use the evidence we see before us rather than relying on the words of those with vested interests in returning the Tories.

Our Tory representatives are out and about in full force in West Yorkshire.Having said that I think they are canvassing in the seats they need more than the seats they hold.It is a very stratigic campaign this time.