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Who the F**K still thinks voting Tory is a good idea.

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beachcitygirl · 27/02/2022 02:22

Just that really. Sociopathic Patel refusing visas. In a time where we need leadership & empathy & intelligence there's a ducking idiot at the helm & Rees~Mogg making a fortune with insider trading.
Who the hell will admit to being so sociopathically selffish & grabby to still vote Tory?

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topcat2014 · 27/02/2022 21:33

@lakielady do you know for a fact how all your colleagues vote?

Plenty of Tory voters will be on charity boards etc.

HootOwl · 28/02/2022 02:44

The mentally challenged, mainly, OP.

Krabapple · 28/02/2022 03:07

I truly despair how anyone can come in and justify voting Tory. This lot are the worse bunch of vile, self serving, despicable ones we have ever had yet people are still coming on to defend them. Scandal after scandal - almost daily and billions almost given to friends and donors (PPE anyone).
They are not the party of women’s rights either.
Honestly I despair and can only conclude that yes people must be stupid. Where I live we have ex miners voting Tory. That really is like Turkeys voting for Xmas but it happens.

MangyInseam · 28/02/2022 03:18

These threads are so idiotic.

Large numbers of people vote, not because they think who they are voting for are ideal or perfect or have wonderful people, but because in some way they think they will avoid some pitfall that the other side will succumb to.

And while there are certainly stupid voters, or ignorant ones, you will find that quite as many of them vote for Labour, and there are many Tory voters who are not stupid people who don't understand anything.

As for what is going to fall out of the current crises it is probably too early to tell.

Clumsyvolcano · 28/02/2022 03:35

Well, people say it’s ignorant to call the electorate thick, but going by the fact that the average reading age in this country is 9 I would say it’s probably not far wrong. I know nobody is perfect, myself included, and I’m not suggesting every Tory voter is thick, but it’s just a point!

Boris Johnson is a known pathological liar and sociopath and the fact people actually thought he was going to stick to his promises or that someone else would be worse is laughable. We are being laughed at on the world stage and this is probably the worst cabinet we’ve seen, all for precious Brexit - economic suicide.

Tories have always been worse for being disingenuous, out and out lying and not keeping promises all thoughout history, even if they all lie.

In my personal experience, people who vote Tory do so because they feel that everyone is out to scrounge off tax payers money etc and the poor don’t deserve it because they haven’t worked hard enough etc, because that’s the narrative that gets pushed. Blame the less fortunate or the lazy dossers for all the countries woes when it’s the rich that are taking the Mick!

Everyone laughed at free Wifi, yet the pandemic highlighted the need, for example.

LeticiaLeghorn · 28/02/2022 04:00

I don't know how I'll vote but, despite hating the lockdown parties, I think Johnson has handled the Ukraine situation well. Certainly better than the EU who he's been ahead of in his actions whilst pushing them to do more.
So, yeah, I might vote Conservative.

Madisonbridges · 28/02/2022 04:03

Everyone laughed at free Wifi, yet the pandemic highlighted the need, for example.

Nobody laughed at free WiFi. They baulked at the cost. As for the change in working practices now, if people and companies want to WFH, they can pay towards the cost of upgrading the system and their employees wifi.

rwalker · 28/02/2022 06:21

Last time is was the best of a bad job.
The problem with labour is if you are successful support yourself and earn good money through hard work they dispes you for having money .

Billandben444 · 28/02/2022 07:17

@HootOwl
The mentally challenged, mainly, OP.
That's a sensible comment that will persuade me to change my allegiance 👏

lightisnotwhite · 28/02/2022 07:41

@HootOwl

Yep. The recent elections/ the referendum in 2016 show that a large proportion of people are indeed thick/ uneducated/ ignorant/ incapable of rational thought or even reading well-publicised factual information/ critical thinking/ have no grasp of economics, politicis, law, geopolitics, etc. Look how many people are shocked that there is inflation now, after a pandemic and enormous state spending and now a war in countries that export much fuel and food! 🤣 A lot of people ARE thick, sadly.
Ok so how are Labour going to appeal to this lot of dimwits then?
SummerBluez · 28/02/2022 17:28

@hootowl
"The mentally challenged."

Spoken like a true Labour leftie. Vile.

Milsey17 · 05/10/2023 14:22

Are you from the twisty verse? Labor has its faults but I would go back to those times a million times over. This government is 'kulling' us and our children and they are not even doing it very discreetly, They're nothing more than high class criminals . . Plus they're thick as f##k! I mean intellectually inferior 🤨

toconclude · 05/10/2023 16:09

Aderyn21 · 27/02/2022 07:13

Few people think labour are wonderful but they are hugely less dangerous than Tories

In your opinion. Lots of women who are concerned about the future of women's rights are very torn on this.

And it is tricky to vote for alternatives when they are all, bar one, aligned on an issue that the individual voter considers to be crucial!

And you seriously think the Tories are the party of women's rights?

This would be funny if it weren't so fucking tragic

Fightyouforthatpie · 05/10/2023 16:12

MrsPsmalls · 27/02/2022 03:31

I don't vote Tory. But this thread is childish and ridiculous. Half the nation votes Tory more or less. Are you really saying that half the nation are sociopaths? Grabby? Or maybe just a bit thick as they haven't had the insights that you have ?

43.6% at the last election. Maybe Rishi is right about maths after all.

Fightyouforthatpie · 05/10/2023 16:14

rwalker · 28/02/2022 06:21

Last time is was the best of a bad job.
The problem with labour is if you are successful support yourself and earn good money through hard work they dispes you for having money .

Neither of those assertions is true.

Tambatamba · 05/10/2023 20:55

Who thinks it's a good idea?

Either

  1. People so rich that they never use any public services or
  1. People as thick as a plank who refuse to see what damage they did and keep voting them in.
Whatonearth07957 · 06/10/2023 17:15

I'd be more inclined to vote labour if they were less on the left demonizing those with more centralist less regulation views. As it is most just stay silent rather than get bastardized.

labyrinthlaziness · 06/10/2023 17:17

Not even 5% thought it was a good idea to vote Conservative in yesterday's by-election, so they lost their deposit.

Zebedee55 · 06/10/2023 17:25

Some people think the Tories got Brexit done, and that Boris was much misunderstood.

No arguing with stupid, but there never was.

People vote with their wallets - whoever they think will do them most good.

'Twas ever thus.🙄

latetothefisting · 06/10/2023 17:29

Migrainesbythedozen · 27/02/2022 05:50

I don't live in the UK so can't vote there, but despite being a Labor voter in my own country, I could never vote UK Labour. They are stripping women of their rights to safe spaces, their rights to privacy, their rights to dignity. Voting UK Labour would feel like a vote for the ultra far right.

However, I understand it's not compulsory to vote in the UK? (It is compulsory to vote in Australia) So my solution to those like me that would slit their wrists or lay on train tracks before they vote for a woman-hating party in the UK like Labour is simply to not vote at all. If enough ABSTAIN from voting, it will send a message to Labour.

I have not and would not vote Tory but have to say I have more respect for people who do than I do for people who don't vote at all. At least they have some convictions/beliefs even if I don't agree with them. I don't understand people who don't care enough to vote at all, particularly when people literally died for us to do so.

If you can't be bothered to hold your nose and vote for your least awful candidate or at the very least issue a protest vote/deface your paper so at least you're registered as having some care about your own governance then you should forfeit the right to moan about anything related to politics (i.e. almost everything!) imho.

SherbetDips · 06/10/2023 17:30

Me….a conservative government is better then a lefty government.

direbollockal · 06/10/2023 17:31

Butitsnotfunnyisititsserious · 27/02/2022 07:26

@Pyewhacket

You couldn’t pay me enough to vote for Labour.
Agree.

Me too.

HuckleberryJam · 06/10/2023 17:35

People who like losing £40 billion a year in lost trade and tax revenue due to the Tories bumbling out of the single market mainly.

www.itv.com/news/2022-12-20/brexit-costs-government-40-billion-a-year-in-lost-tax-revenue

www.itv.com/news/2022-06-09/brexit-cost-the-uk-billions-in-lost-trade-and-tax-revenues-research-finds

Jumpingthruhoops · 06/10/2023 17:35

Valeriekat · 27/02/2022 05:14

Because the rest of them are even worse.

This!

At this point, I definitely think it's a case of 'better the devil you know'...

mn29 · 06/10/2023 17:36

Rich people and racists, I imagine.

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