To ask whether anyone who voted Conservative regrets it now?

[Lifestyleinlondon88]

I would very curious to see if anyone would have voted differently, or if they had the chance to change their vote now would you?

Conservative voters I’ve found have less capacity for critical reasoning, so likely wouldn’t regret anything

I’ve found the opposite.

You can't compare though because different countries are testing at different rates, recording deaths differently etc.

Funny how it was ok to compare countries when we didn’t have one of the highest death rates in the world, if not the highest. You’ve fallen hard for the propaganda machine. Our actual death rate is estimated to be 61,200 which takes us to 913 per million people, but you’re right, if we told everyone that it would look really bad so we should probably just keep it covered up and hope no one notices.

FFS, why do people keep bringing up Corbyn? We can’t compare his response as he never won. It’s like when people criticise Trump and his loyal fans respond with ‘what about Hillary’s emails?!’ It’s so stupid and I couldn’t stand Corbyn.

Why would they?

Posted too early, that was meant to say I’ve found the opposite.

The conservative voters are the only ones I can see who immediately don’t seem to be swayed be political purity, and ‘wrong think’.
The fact that so many labour voters switched to Tory doesn’t support the accusation either tbh.

FFS, why do people keep bringing up Corbyn?

Because he’s the one who would be in power right now if the Conservatives hadn’t won the election? It’s pretty elementary.

Let's be honest the choices were vote for a pile of poo or a different coloured pile of poo.

Or if you really wanted to shake it up, vote for the woman who dares to stand up to the middle aged men. How dare she. She must be a witch.

No option was palatable. You can roll it in glitter, but it's still a pile of shit.

Fair point, they had a plan. I meant a plan that wasn’t utter shit.

You're having a laugh OP!

Every day I thank the Lord we done have Corbyn running the show. Can you imagine?

I’m not what I’d ever consider a floating voter, but I do understand that some people are and there is never any point in haranguing them for their most recent floating pit stop. It’s how it works.

If we didn’t have fixating voters we would be in constant political gridlock. There have to be some moving parts in the middle.

It’s more constructive to discuss policy,

Floating, not fixating ^

As much as I don’t like Corbyn and am glad he is no longer Labour leader I genuinely believe he would’ve handled this crisis better. This is because Labour believe in the state and would’ve used the states power much faster.

I think they would’ve implemented lockdown and government support measures faster which would’ve resulted in a lower death tally and our ability to leave lockdown sooner. He would’ve been dragged over the coals for it all for taking away freedoms and spending money though.

The Tories, especially the libertarian wing despise big government so acted far slower. Found the magic money forest in the end though.

No

Roarfeckingroar Agreed and as my cousin said ,if JC had been voted in and had been taken ill ,we would have been left with dear old DA in charge! A sobering thought .I think BJ has done a cracking job under the circumstances.I am not saying he is perfect ,but only yesterday said that we would not be undergoing any more austerity measures, and we would possibly be treating Covid 19 like a "war debt" to be paid off over some decades.

No I don’t regret it...

Yeah like Diane Abbott is soooooo much worse than Priti Patel

I do find all the "all tory posts are Conservative bots" and "all tories are just stupid" to be especially unhelpful here. That's playground bollocks right there.

There are solid reasons why people voted for them, including lack of a decent opposition - and insulting them does nothing.

I certainly don't see it representing anything like critical thinking which now apparently only Labour voters are capable of.

I agree that it was a vote between pile of shit 1 and pile of shit 2 though.

Imagine if Corbyn had been temporarily indisposed by the virus and Abbott was leading the briefings. "The numbers are twenty three squiddly doughnuts". No thanks. Especially anticipating the state the economy is going to be in already through necessary help given to people. If Labour had already began decimating our economy, we'd be in an even worse situation. The NHS could never have been prepared for this, and in fact they've, coped. That Nightingale hospital was kno ked together in a matter of weeks and ended up not being needed.

I didn’t vote for either of them but I think that regardless of who was in charge people would be saying that it was being handled badly.

Most countries are accusing their governments of handling this crisis badly, be that because they feel that lockdown wasn’t harsh enough or because they feel that lockdown is too harsh. There are no winners here.

Incidentally, I note that Corbyn’s brother was arrested in an anti lockdown protest yesterday.So it seems there would be family disharmony on both sides then? Johnson’s brother quit because of his views and Corbyn’s brother is apparently opposite to his brother’s view who was shouting for lockdown at the earliest opportunity.

Nope. No regrets.

Yeah like Diane Abbott is soooooo much worse than Priti Patel I'm not a Labour supporter but I believe DA's heart in the right place. Unfortunately I think she's suffering from ill health and her son has just gone through the courts due to an assault on police officers. She would probably have resigned anyway.

A cracking job under the circumstances, really? We have some of the worst excess deaths in the world. Why have Germany and Japan fared so much better? What the government have allowed to happen in care homes is criminal. Allowing suspected COVID patients to be transferred there from home settings when they know care homes were not equipped to isolate these patients leading to massive spread and then allowing them to die without palliative care despite doctors repeatedly asking the government to temporarily relax the rules on end of life drugs condemning them to a truly horrific death.

This thread is so infuriating and is making me start to come around to DHs idea of relocating back to his country - Australia, because for the life of me, I can’t see how people think this government is doing a good job. The rest of the world puts us in the same basket as America. We are a scary joke.

After the Brexit vote and now this it seems there is nothing some people won’t do to destroy this country. I fear they won’t learn and will inflict more damage via the ballot due to wilful ignorance. I don’t want my kids to suffer the consequences.

DH and I are in well paid safe jobs, we actually have more money since Covid kicked off and know any measures which exacerbate inequality in order to pay back this debt are unlikely to negatively impact us as we can afford to pay for private healthcare and school. However, it saddens me that people are embracing a government who don’t care about our union, the vulnerable people on our country and want to sell us out to America.

There will be areas of the country like those in Americas south where nobody has jobs and half the town are addicted to meth but yet they still vote Republican because of media negativity, the belief that one day the American dream will happen for them and the fact the Republicans kick down on minorities makes them feel better about themselves.

Didn't vote Labour or Conservative but honestly don't think either would have done a good job with this. My trusts in UK government is low so I believe covid-19 is and always will have been a massive clusterfuck, regardless of which party was leading the country.

Have been a consistent Lab voter all my life but couldn't get on board with their frankly appalling "opposition" and their BS manifesto. The ignorance shown by Corbyn et al to not engage on the Brexit question was a total and utter failure to read and react to the electorate - it was shameful. I actually felt hugely let down by Labour in the last election and would be lying if I said I dont feel still. I honestly believe if Starmer was in for the election instead of Corbyn (who we all knew was a risk due to his marmite politics and far leftisms) Labour would have walked it and we wouldn't be sat with BoJo and pals at the helm through this.

Having said that. Cons have pleasantly surprised me in some ways. Rishi's furlough scheme was far more generous than I ever imagined and he seems a reasonable person so far.

Absolutely not.