To think that there are too many personal insults and attacks on Tory voters

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I’m really sick of it now. I don’t log on here to be called a cunt, told I hate disabled people and want to ruin the NHS.

I’m interested as to whether others feel the same or if it is just me. If it’s just me, I think I’ll piss off.

samcro you don’t have to feel sorry for her.
It just might be nice to accept that calling people names for not having the same politician opinion than you is childish and arrogant.

It’s also self defeating. My putting their fingers in their ears and saying ‘la la- they’re all selfish idiots’ labour massively lost the election, the Brexit vote was lost and I suspect it’s also why Trump won. There is no attempt to engage, only to condemn.

Keep them coming, I've had a great time seeing all the socialist tears that have been shed on here over the last week and a bit, fantastic. Have a good Christmas

Smileyaxolotl1 i haven't called anyone names. but I can see why some people are so upset.
I have seen a lot of really nasty posts on both sides. yet its a nc tory voter who is complaining.

If I was a labour voter I would be more annoyed that they could not do enough to win the election
The last PM to win an election for labour was Tony Blair b4 that you have to go back to the 70s So labour not being popular is nothing new
If the electorate really thought Labour were that amazing they would have won a landslide

I accept that people chose to vote differently to me though I was disappointed with the outcome.

Posts goading and gloating like the one from @Saddler seem unnecessary and unpleasant to me.

I'd have no issue telling your father that he voted for a racist party who have systematically dismantled the education and health systems as well as kill off the sick and weak and that he won't be around long enough to see it

Hysterical statements like this is why people didn't vote labour.

ilovesooty yes I agree. Posts like that are immature and do the poster no credit but they are a response to the vitriol from the left. I am really against playground politics but it’s hard when many members are throwing their toys out of the park to rise above it.

The right to vote for who you like doesn't come with the right to absolution for the consequences of that vote. If you vote for complete and utter bastards then take responsibility for the devastation you enable them to unleash.

Posts like that are immature and do the poster no credit but they are a response to the vitriol from the left.

“Corbyn made us do it!” Come on, I thought the Conservatives were big on personal responsibility?

You can just say “posts like that are immature and do the poster no credit”. It really stands up fine by itself.

@Baaaahhhhh

Unfortunately those of us who live it can only dream if it being hysterical. And yes, a man in his 80s will be dead so soon that he shouldn't have a vote in my book.

People like @Saddler post stuff like that quite deliberately to be malicious. Why do it when the outcome is what you wanted?

53rdway I don’t think it’s unreasonable for people to get frustrated at the constant barrage of foulness from these people and hit back though. That’s just not the way to do it.

So lovely of you to talk about my kind, caring dad being dead soon. And you say the tories are the nasty ones!

“Hysterical statements like this is why people didn't vote labour.”

Really?

Because deciding not to vote for a party because a random member of the public said something online that you think is hysterical seems a bit, well... irrational tbh.

And people? A significant amount? It seems unlikely...

I don’t think it’s unreasonable for people to get frustrated at the constant barrage of foulness from these people and hit back though.

“Look what you made me do!”

@GailCindy I expect still to be a socialist when I reach my 80s. Will it be ok with you for me to retain the right to vote?

gailcindy so people who don’t agree with you shouldn’t have a vote. He could easily live another 20 years. You are actually disgusting .

I agree Sooty, Saddler is a Arse hole.
She was on another thread gloating about the poor.

The thing that I love is that I've always been broke so I'm used to it. What I love is to watch the faces and tears of the working poor who voted these people in and now see their life crashing round them because something unexpected has happened or the government taxed the working poor instead of the rich. I laughed my arse off at that women who confronted David Cameron or the rich parents of disabled children who were made to rely on a stripped NHS because benefits were cut. For them it shook their whole world.

Of course 80-year-olds should be able to vote. My grandfather voted when he was 99! (Dunno who for though.)

I wouldn’t call anyone a cunt for how they voted, even if they voted for the utter batshit extremist independents in my constituency.

Honestly I don't care, people like your dad voted against my son having a proper education. No the elderly shouldn't vote. I think 70 is the age it should stop. 16-70 should be voting age. We can see that the elderly cannot even vote in their own favour as even the richer ones cannot afford their own social or health care for 20 years. They shouldn't have a voice in this.

Fortunately I only know 2 Tory voters. I try not to mix with people who only care about themselves.

I think they are too old and born into times where it was okay to be racist and sexist and disabled people were put into homes to have any proper opinion that is worth anything to any decent society. That's including those who agree with me politically.

@GailCindy the Conservative and Brexit voters I know are almost without exception much younger than I am.

I don't agree with disenfranchising a whole section of the community on age grounds.