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?

Honestly this thread is a rehash of all the fucking pointless threads before the GE.

Seems like some people just can't cope with idea that the Conservatives won by a landslide and have to keep dredging up reasons to insult Tory voters.

It's quite frankly laughable to think that the Labour Party would have done a better job during the current crisis, it would have been an absolute shitshow. Of that I am no doubt.

Well it’s a shitshow anyway so it’s pretty immaterial.

The Tories are prioritising money above all.

Cheapskates with testing, with PPE. Wanting schools to open so they can get people back to work and have to stop bailouts. Funny that Eton isn’t opening until September but it’s ok for the plebs eh.

Then when it’s all done, they’ll hammer the shit out of those who can least afford it.

The Tories have built up a mountain of debt.

ITonyah

Hallelujah!!

A sensible post and fully agree...

They just won't let it drop and it's worse on this site as it's a majority left wing audience, so will always be heavily bias...

Wanting schools to open so they can get people back to work and have to stop bailouts

And there you have it, the key difference.

They aren't stopping the furlough scheme in June

They will stop furlough for anyone deemed able to go to work asap. That will obviously be facilitated by schools reopening @ITonya.

Both parties are a fucking disgrace I've always voted I dont feel I can vote next time unless there are huge changes

The Tories have built up a mountain of debt

So we need to start the economy moving again unless your suggesting if Labour were in charge it would furlough past Oct in which case the mountain of debt gets higher, or would they have not furloughed at all?

[@utterly despairing]

Tory voters, do you still clap for the NHS on a Thursday?

Do Labour voters? Seeing as they were the ones who started privatisation?

Actually it was Major who started PPI. Labour Blair just carried on.
What they did right was a huge investment in children and YP, biggest reduction in child poverty, almost unheard of homelessness.

What was wrong was an unjustifiable war.

However: ''Boris Johnson is stealing so many of Labour’s clothes that the opposition will soon not have many left. As he announced the final go-ahead for the HS2 project which began life under Labour in 2009, I scribbled a list of Johnson’s purloined goodies.
Borrowing for investment”, with £100bn of infrastructure projects in next month’s Budget; more money for “schools and hospitals” (New Labour’s mantra) in the biggest public spending boost for 15 years; billions to improve bus services (under Theresa May, the Tories mocked Jeremy Corbyn when he raised the issue); the nationalisation of Northern Rail; state aid for Flybe; a rise in the national minimum wage (which the Tories opposed when Labour introduced it); reversing planned cuts in corporation tax (Corbyn’s policy); even a hint of tax rises for the rich and adopting Ed Miliband’s proposed mansion tax.''
I am sure that won't be the end of his shopping list

ITonyah

In fact this is just another pointless thread started purely to have a pop, like all the "please try and explain to me why you are considering voting Tory in the GE?" threads before the GE.

Yeah, those endless goady threads had no effect back then, so it’s a mystery why they think they will now...

They will stop furlough for anyone deemed able to go to work asap

That isn't how furlough works.

Its not a hypothesis, all you have to do is look at Labour controlled Wales. Worst NHS stats for the county, worst employment stats, high council tax rates with not much to show for it. Covid 19, is where they've really showed what they can do, given up on targets because they were only doing maximum 750 a day, per head of population thats way below England, rules changed when Minister for Health caught enjoying a leisurely picnic breaking the isolation rules, the list goes on and on. Not being from the UK originally and living in Wales, I have no long standing loyalty for any party and look at what they offer. I personally don't like the Conservatives but lets be real Labour are a complete shit show and given a choice between the two at the moment I'm voting conservative.

Shame other parties haven’t decided to step up and start making a good name for themselves. Have they disbanded, on a break or something?

Once schools are opened the need for furlough will reduce vastly. They’ve already started introducing loopholes to reduce the childcare issues. Once schools open why do you need to stay at home?

Then all that’s left by the start of holidays are those shielding. And that won’t last long as family support will be gone and have to re-enter society. Or financial cut backs will force them and others into work when they shouldn’t be.

Mh figures have already increased. Those services couldn’t cope before this because of all the cuts.

Once schools are opened the need for furlough will reduce vastly. They’ve already started introducing loopholes to reduce the childcare issues. Once schools open why do you need to stay at home?

And again. Employees do not have an automatic right to furlough because they have childcare issues.

How is the health service doing in Wales under Labour control? I take it they have all the PPE in hospitals and no deaths on care homes because they are so wonderful?

nation.cymru/opinion/why-are-welsh-labour-politicians-pretending-they-dont-run-the-nhs-in-wales/

Labour love to pretend that they don't run the NHS in Wales....

I’m sure people can talk about local experiences regardless of the party actually in charge.

Many labour run areas will say the complete opposite.

Many Londoners had first hand experience of BJ. If he was that great don’t you think he would have had more votes here?

@lincslady53 quite right! Has nothing to do with trying to run the NHS in a region of the UK with huge and entrenched socio-economic problems and decades of marginalisation and underfunding. Get the Tories in - they’ll fix it 👍

Comparison of the nhs in wales and england
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'As for political decisions about the way health
services are organised and run, as a report from
the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation
concludes after perusing a raft of performance
data and noting policy differences across the
four UK countries, such as approaches to the
use of competition, “There is . . . no evidence
linking these diverging high-level differences
in policies to a matching divergence in
performance.”
While it’s hard to believe there’s no link
at all between policy and performance, it’s
probably much weaker than policy wonks
and politicians may want to believe. The
policy factors are also heavily mediated
by all the other (often difficult to measure)
things that drive performance—from the
skill and experience of managers and
clinicians, to the epidemiological and other
characteristics of the population'

Oh wow, we got to THREE WHOLE POSTS IN before some said words to the effect of “but Corbyn would have done a worse job”. Amazing. Thank God he wasn’t elected, BoJo and his Cabinet of Brexit Yes Men are doing SUCH a good job.

I know, pathetic isn't it? Mind you, the poor dears who post this are just getting used to not saying, "It's a good job that Neil Kinnock bloke didn't get in". They'll be on the Corbyn mantra for a few more years yet.

They'll be on the Corbyn mantra for a few more years yet.

Maybe Labour could try not putting up a laughable crank as their candidate for the Premiership of the United Kingdom if they don’t want to have the piss taken out of them?

dredging up reasons to insult Tory voters.

'dredging' implies some sort of depth and difficulty.

We had a choice between two parties (realistically) and more people picked the one who they thought would be less bad.

That's how voting works.

Maybe Labour could try not putting up a laughable crank as their candidate for the Premiership of the United Kingdom if they don’t want to have the piss taken out of them?

Nowt to do with me. I haven't voted for them since they eviscerated Clause Four.