To ask Tories what their prize is?

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So many of them are gloating, bollox about 'lefty tears' and 'suck it up buttercup'.

While a friend of mine is shaking she's so scared about what will happen to her disabled child.

So, what's the prize? Now you've won?

I haven’t seen any goady stuff.

I’m sorry your friend is scared.

I didn’t know there was a prize.

My son has autism and I voted Tory. I’m not scared and there is an awful lot of scaremongering and hyperbole going on. She’s reading it and getting worked up. This needs to stop

I'm glad that your son is getting the support he needs.

Nobody's answering the question though.

I can see a lot lost.

I’ve seen nothing but labour people calling tories ‘dirty’ and other disgusting things.

She’s being catastrophic.

I’m not sure what you mean about a prize? You realise what we were voting for right? Majority seats? I guess that’s the prize?

Tell her to stop watching the media and calm down. Panicking is not productive. It won’t make it go away, but not actively engaging in dramatics about it will help her in the immediate term.

The prize is a majority government. But I don’t think you really want an answer, you just wanted to make your own goady post in a thinly veiled attempt to make Tory voters feel guilty.

Oh you mean like us as voters prize?

Well I’m happy my kids won’t have to face the horrific consequences of insane national debt. It’s like taking out a massive credit card to party in your twenties only to live off beans in your thirties to pay it off. That’s my prize

Question time has been interesting this evening on BBC 1.

I'm labour through and through. Also have disabled child. Work in education. Rely on nhs.

This election wasn't about this though.

A decision needed to be made about brexit. We needed a leader who would take charge.

It's not that Boris is necessarily what people want. It's a that they didn't want the other options.

Stephen Kinnock has made some extremely good comments re the Labour Party needing to look at themselves and re connect and gain trust of their working class heartlands and those voters who rely on socialism.

If all goes well the pound will rise, we'll take control of our finances and then a strong leader who will use our capital for the greater good will run the country.

But who is that?

No, she went to school in the 80's and 90's and remembers how shit it was.

As do I.

I have friends/family who are labour, Tory, liberal, green and probably monster raving looney party. However I have not heard any gloating except on mumsnet.
I think most people are sick and tired of politics and just want politicians to get on with their job.

I think a lot of people held their noses and voted Conservative because there was no viable opposition and bought the whole let’s get Brexit done lie.

There should have been another referendum so that the election was about something else other than a single issue of our relationship with the EU.

The prize is that the Tory lies were easier to stomach ..

I'd suggest op both uou and her read the Tory manifesto and stop listening to scare mongering from bad looser labour supporters.

Maybe the prize will be a complete change in the Labour Party. Hopefully they elect a leader fit to govern and reconnect with the Midlands/North.

I've read the manifestos.

They're not shopping lists- they're ideas.

I remember what education was like after a decade and a half of Tory rule. It was utter shit.

The gloating is hideous.

Do none of you read newspapers, local or national? You all should. See what company you're keeping.

I went to school in the 80’s and 90’s and across several schools (due to moving and then actively changing during High School), but I went to 4 different state primary schools across UK and then a state comp, a girls grammar and then a boarding school (then a sixth form).

I don’t remember it being shit at all?!

A decade of crippling austerity cuts.

A 250 percent rise in the number of unsheltered homeless.

A 5,146 percent increase in emergency food parcels being distributed since 2008.

Schools and colleges in England suffering the worst fall in spending since the 1970s.

4 million kids living in poverty in the UK and under a conservative government this is set to reach a 60-year high by 2023-4.

These things don’t make a Tory feel guilty though, so I can’t imagine exactly what would.

My understanding (and I do try to understand) is that lots of Tory voters think it's financially safer for the country.

They play on fear, a very persuasive tactic imo, much more powerful than hope.

Also known as “I’m alright, Jack”.

Well I also.have disabled child and whilst I'm not thrilled with the choice s I think i naieve to think it would be better under Labour.

Where are you getting those figures Paddington?

My prize is that I no longer have an antisemite for an MP.

I’m a Lib Dem. But I live in a Tory-Labour marginal, and the incumbent Labour MP has made disgusting antisemitic comments about Luciana Berger.

I therefore voted tactically for the Tory candidate.

What exactly are you trying to achieve here OP?

Are you trying to change people’s minds? Too late.

Are you trying to chastise grown adults for their voting choices? Tell them off? Lecture them?

What gives you and @Paddingtonthebear the right?

The prize is we won't be forced into Britain back in the 1970's!

I'm sorry about your friend.

The golden prize will be:

Increased hours needed for volunteers at the food bank.
Increased poverty amongst the nmw workers.
Increased poverty for middle income workers.
Increased deaths amongst people claiming PIP and ESA.
Blah, blah, blah.

The hideous negative will be if they do it, my husband's tax bill will go down. He's a higher rate tax payer but we'll pay less potentially. That's a bit shit.

I agree with PP, go on twitter and you’ll see nothing but venom and awful nasty abuse posted about Tory voters. That’s the reason people are saying ‘suck it up’

And to be honest OP most of the hideous comments are coming from labour supporters towards Tory voters

I voted what was right for my family. You voted what was right for your family, as did your friend. That's what happens when a majority vote wins.