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?

We've had lots of Tory leaflets through the door, plus a canvasser. But we are in an extremely marginal Con/LD seat - the Con candidate only scraped in by a recount-whisker last time.

I am fully expecting LDs to win this time, and just wish our Con MP was a total arse we'd be thoroughly glad to see the back of, but in fact although I disagree with him about certain things, he's a very good and active constituency MP.

Hiding under rocks probably. To emerge when it is too late to have to account for their vicious, self serving, cruel manifesto and their record of greed led by the opportunistic, lying arse licking scum that are their leaders. I have no sympathy for anyone who votes for them and consequently suffers ie the poor. They have rightly prioritised knowing all about I'm a celebrity and blindly repeating the shit churned out by the media over researching things that really matter. I have the utmost sympathy and compassion for the ill and disabled who are treated appallingly by this government and its Welfare Reform which is akin to ethnic cleansing. Only the smug and self interested votes for themselves and ignores the less fortunate and the climate. If a Tory came to your door and was asked to account for the last nine years they would look you in the eye and lie as per their leader or blame everything on the previous Labour government. That was old 5 years ago. I'd like to think shame and embarrassment but I am kidding myself. Most of them don't show up down to arrogance and disdain for the electorate and fear of not being able to answer hard questions. Sorry is it 6 or 40 hospitals, why do you want Parliament and the Court system to have less power? Why do you favour the rich and villify the poor. Why is your leader anti Muslim and that's OK but pillory Corbyn for anti semitism and I defy you to quote any such words from his own mouth? Why do you deny responsibilty for the huge rise in homelessness and need for foodbanks? I could go on.

You'll see plenty of us Tories when it counts - when we win on the 13th. MN is a leftie luvvie bubble which bears no relation to the real world.

I don't understand how anyone with a conscious can vote for "more of the same please".
One reason is that a lot of people have done very nicely thank you out of the current government, and also they're probably Leavers and want Brexit finished with. The other main reason is that people don't see a realistic alternative.

Your username was a pretty good indication of your stance silverysurfer! You make my point perfectly ie you will come crawling out of the woodwork to vote and subsequently gloat but until then keep your heads down. The question was where are you now? The OP was curious about the lack of presence as part of the election campaign? Out of interest, care to address any of my questions as opposed to just summing up the whole of MN as a leftie luvvie bubble?

Most of the tories here still blame labour for everything 🙄

"One reason is that a lot of people have done very nicely thank you out of the current government" and screw anyone who has suffered?

Yes, screw them. That's the 'real world'.

Silvery surfer sounds super proud that she votes for a party that has made the most vulnerable suffer for ten years. Do you want a medal?

FaFoutis
It will never be my real world, I hope I will never go through life shrugging off and accepting injustice simply because it exists and I've made to my mid 50's without becoming jaded or too cynical I hope!!

Me too nics. A selfish and nasty worldview benefits nobody.

Exactly what SilverySurfer said.

I normally can't be bothered with the usual lefty liberal div-ocrats and their angry rants that tar everyone else with their own warped brush. It gets boring. Conservative voters have class and dignity, we don't need to come out all guns blazing on a parenting forum. We'll happily come out to rub Corbyn's racist, slimey, lying face in it on the 13th though :)

Eggies - too full of your own importance to have to defend the indefensible

They're all over my area

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tory candidate visible here and has been knocking on doors . Going by conversations there will be a lot of tactical voting to try to unseat the SNP MP.

My local conservative MP has not been sighted but there is a black cab that drives around with a poster of her and loudspeakers playing "Rule Britannia" interspersed with instructions to vote for her. I don't know if this is her official campaign or just an over-enthusiastic supporter.

Downstairs - just for balance; for those people whose memories don't go back far enough
It was the Labour Party which introduced university tuition fees, went to war in Iraq, introduced the Human Rights Act which now curtails our ability to deal with the worst people in society( it was Cherie Blair's pet project - who elected her?) and butchered legal aid & our justice system. They also sold massive chunks of the gold reserve undermining our ability to stabilise the economy. And do you really not remember the infamous 'there's no money left' note. For once a Labour politician was telling the truth.

Anybody that says they vote any other way than Labour and the sainted JC immediately gets told they are a living breathing child eating, kitten murdering vile excuse of a cunt.

🙌🙌🙌

nicslacke
Your username was a pretty good indication of your stance silverysurfer! You make my point perfectly ie you will come crawling out of the woodwork to vote and subsequently gloat but until then keep your heads down. The question was where are you now? The OP was curious about the lack of presence as part of the election campaign? Out of interest, care to address any of my questions as opposed to just summing up the whole of MN as a leftie luvvie bubble

I chose this name because I am silvery (ie haired, ie old) and like to surf the internet. No idea what you think it means.

I have not just come 'crawling out of the woodwork', I have posted on pretty much every political thread on MN, expressing my views as a Tory.

I have zero interest in answering any of your questions.

DownstairsMixUp
Silvery surfer sounds super proud that she votes for a party that has made the most vulnerable suffer for ten years. Do you want a medal? hmm

I am super proud, the Conservatives are the only viable party, the rest are a joke of varying proportions. I am severely disabled, am not well off, I paid zero tax last year and still think the Conservatives are the best party.

A medal would be very nice, thank you.

Kit30

Exactly. Not forgetting food banks were introduced under Labour and it was war criminal Blair who brought private companies into the NHS.

Hope all the leftie luvvies have their hankies ready for when the Conservatives win on the 12th.

No sign of any Conservative support regarding placards or canvassing here but the Tories won the local seat the first time round and have never lost it, so they probably feel quite confident.

Nicslake Your unbridled hostility and knee jerk reaction to Silver's comments is exactly what I was talking about. I am not your enemy I simply take issue with the left's assumption that anyone who doesn't unquestioningly agree with them is evil, whereas the right's assumption is that they're misguided. I'd rather be treated as misguided and be able to engage in debate, and have my ideas challenged than face a lot of shouty people with their fingers in their ears shouting at me that I'm evil. Might isn't right (something that the self aggrandising Tony Blair should have reflected on a bit more)

Nothing here either (Midlands) but then it’s been a Tory strong hold for decades so they know its a sure thing.

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Thank you for bringing some sanity back to the posts ListeningQuietly