To feel sorry for the Tories?

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The Conservative Party are a British institution. The most successful political party in the democratic world. They're going through a bad time at the moment and have been dealt a bad hand. They inherited a global financial crash which the western world is still to recover from and then a once in a lifetime pandemic which has further crippled the economy. Now there's wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Really unfortunate circumstances for them to operate in.

It looks like they're going to get a really bloody nose in the next election. Starmer has taken the centre ground and now Reform are starting to steal their MPs as well as voters. Now even their biggest donor is caught up in a scandal. When it rains it pours.

How can they recover from this? Can they recover from this?

The Tories are the great survivors but it's hard to see how they can win the next election, or maybe even the one after that.

If this is true, I really hope Jeremy Hunt is one of them.

Save your words. What you're saying is "I'm alright Jack". Let's hope you never need society to step in for you in your hour of need.

The reason they’re so successful is that they have rigged the voting system so they can get in with a third of the countries votes! It’s not a proper democracy!

The majority are sociopathic rich people who don’t care about the average person and will let us all die on hospital trolleys to make a quick buck for themselves and their donors. Cockroaches in suits.

Their handling of things like the pandemic cost human lives and they go on living in their second homes on expenses and getting silly money for their second jobs which they do at the same time they’re being paid to work for the country with tax payers money. You are ridiculous.

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Incidentally the very word Tory was an insult (derived from the Middle Irish word tóraidhe, modern Irish tóraí, meaning "outlaw", "robber", from the Irish word tóir, meaning "pursuit" since outlaws were "pursued men")!

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It'll be pulled soon!

We need electoral reform and to get rid of First Past the Post. We need to stop having large parties that try and accommodate too large a range of views and just end up fighting within themselves.

Everyone's vote should matter; and there shouldn't be 'safe' seats.

They aren't owed anything by anyone. If they want people to respect them, they should behave in ways that earn respect.

Those with more money than they could possible need have got richer.

Can't wait to see the back of them. I'd like to see them absolutely decimated and not in power again for many decades. They don't care about you so don't waste your sympathy. What they have done to this country and the poor, vulnerable and disabled, is unforgivable.

FUCK THE TORIES!!!

Isn't that the point (although it sounds like HMRC have got it wrong really).

Is that where Tory Island comes from?

The evidence shows very clearly that Tory governments put the country into far more debt than any Labour government ever has.

With a pointed stick!

I would like to point out that your assertion that the Tories are the world's most successful political party is distinctly questionable.
For example the PAP has ruled its country for the entirety of the countries existence.

I’ve voted Tory since 18. I pay a shed load in tax and all the new tax rules they’ve brought in since they got into power after that last Labour government, have just shafted me and my family.

Honestly feel like they are sticking two fingers up at me as my career progresses, earnings have increased, whilst trying to squirrel some away in investments for when I’m older so I’m not a burden on the state.

Their stupid tax on landlords has screwed two of my siblings, who can only rent as they ruined their credit history years ago. Rents shooting up because of section 24. (Yes, their landlords have mortgages, they’re not friends with George Osbourne whose mates do not have mortgages on the multiple properties that they let out).

They are totally out of touch with the working people.

Her "ideas" were unmitigated shite.

Your mistake is in ever thinking they were "in touch" with anyone who isn't Sir Bufton Fucking Tufton.

Why would I feel sorry for a bunch of lying, callous psychopaths who only care about their own bank accounts.

No compassion or real concern for the most vulnerable in society. Children and pensioners going hungry and cold, epidemic of homeless people, public services destroyed.

You are being very unreasonable.

Hahahaa... well the 'nasty party' certainly don't feel sorry for you!!

I am voting for a Labour government to right the wrongs of the tories. Give it a couple of years and we will have a fully functioning NHS, no more sewage in our waters (the EU used to monitor this but now it is awful), no more phoning your doctor and waiting weeks for an appointment and no pot holes.

Keir will talk to the EU and get the red tape removed for small businesses who complain they are bogged down with paperwork and he will do a deal to stop the small boats. No more unwanted immigration.

The poor and sick will be looked after instead of cast out and looked down on.

There's so much to look forward to if we can only come together and vote Labour.

Honestly, I couldn't care less if they have "screwed you over". Frankly, you deserve it for voting Tory all those years.

It isn't as if you cared about all the other people that you must have known that they were going to screw over when you voted for them...the poor, the disabled and the vulnerable etc.

If those who have traditionally voted selfishly are now regretting their choices, that's on them.

Wow, OP. Sorry for them? Reeeeeally??????

They instigated Brexit - which I think we can all agree has been like chucking a grenade into our economy - thank you David Cameron et al.

The 'let the bodies pile up' attitude during Covid and Partygate - that alone should be enough to tell you that they don't give a shiny shit about any of the human beings that make up the electorate - because to them we aren't human, we are numbers.

They also fucked over my DH and his colleagues in the Met by ripping up his pension plan (which they had to change the law in order to be able to do) and forced a new one which basically meant he would have to work an additional 11 years, on top of the 30 years he signed up to, in order to collect a pension of the same value as he was originally supposed to get. That was Teresa May.

Councils are going bankrupt, the roads are one massive pothole like the surface of the moon, nobody can get a doctors appointment. Staff are leaving the NHS in droves and the same goes for teaching. They have made public services so miserable to work in that they are falling apart. Remember back in the 90s when you could phone the doctor at any time of day, get an appointment straight away at a date and time convenient to you without having to do the 8am mad scramble with 100s of other people and not have to hear 'You are Number 70 in the Queue'???

I will never never never vote Tory for the rest of my life and there is nothing they could possibly do that would change my mind.

You consider Brexit an achievement? 🥴