... to wonder if I'm the only Conservative voter on mumsnet? Is there anyone else out there or should I just go and hide my head in shame?

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The title says it all. I'm not a toff. I'm just a normal mum and PhD student. I don't earn much and no-one in my family went to univeristy, let alone Eton. I'm getting the impression I'm in a tiny minority, possibly N=1. I haven't dared post on any of the political threads because I lack time and courage to be a lone voice of dissent. Anyone else out there or should I just accept that I sniff don't belong?

Are you old enough to remember the last Tory government?

I am Spartacus- I mean a Conservative.

Don't worry, am also a Tory voter. Am a very normal mum but I do find that I have to smother my preferences sometimes with my quite leftie though lovely friends!

Riven

Sadly I am old enough to remember...she terrifed me as a child.

lol jc - i can't wait to see what richard dannatt's going to do the idea of dc and rd in a policy stand-off makes me want to be a fly on the wall

At least you have a view. I'm fed-up for all those apathetic people out there who couldn't care less and don't bother voting.

Thatcher Thatcher Milk Snatcher

Brilliant!

I think of myself as a natural Labour voter (working class background, positively scarlet father) and have always voted Labour or LibDem, however on a purely personal and therefore selfish level I think we'd be better under the tories atm because we don't get tax credits, dh will fall into the 50p tax rate & loses the tax break on paying bonuses into pension fund etc from next April.

I may well vote Tory but don't tell my dad

Mumsnet is full of tory voters

I voted Labour but could not, with good conscience, vote for them again after the war. Makes me very sad that I was once a proud Labour voter and those days are gone.

Riven, my father taught me to chant that at nursery. I'm still a Labour party member, wonder why?

i'm going to vote tory and i work in the public sector. I am not greedy, nor rich, nor stupid I just resent funding children to have children whilst I can hardly afford to fund my DD at nursery. They also seem to have been up frount about where they plan to save money which makes me very nervous about where labour plan to save..... Also as much as you can slate Thatcher- she was the first female PM and gave ppl the right to buy their council houses.

boooooooooooo hissssssssssssss shame! shame!

my little sister still uses the milk snatcher line. i remember thinking it was cool to be old enough not to treated like a baby and have to drink milk at break time lol.

but i do see the benefits, honest. it just didn't feel like a particularly big issue to me on a personal level. most of the milk went off and got thrown out anyway, so the money was effectively being poured down the drain in any case lol.

Madwoman - I think RD will be outspoken no matter who's in government. Like the other defence chiefs who've made into the upper chamber, I imagine he'll put the Forces' agenda before any politcal party. He is, first and foremost, a soldier. not a politician.

I'd certainly welcome his appointment in the MOD as junior defence minister with responsibility for Afghanistan - after all, he has experience far beyond that of the usual Whitehall armchair warriors.

I still want to see DC's Forces Families' Manifesto that we were promised way back when the parlous state of defence housing was first shown.

And school milk was horrid- left by the radiators to go warm and burdle...or frozen solid. Yuk.
I voted for the first time in 1979 at Uni and was the only person to do so (well, no one else admitted it)
I come from a working class northern family who all voted Tory. I once met Arthur Scargill on a train and had a very interesting conversation with him.

I hated the free school milk - it was always warm and, as someone who likes their milk ice cold, that was disgusting. So, I was kind of glad to see it go.

I do remember Thatcher and I didn't like all of her policies but I truly loathed TB and his cronies. I liked the old Labour party, as it was under John Smith (who I respected greatly) and I thought Donald Dewar was a honest and decent gentleman.

There are certain labour politicians that I would gladly put up against a wall and shoot - Geoff Hoon, for one - but I'll settle for voting them out of parliament.

i'm too jaded by the system to imagine we'll ever see it lol. although there soes seem to be lots of family-centric work going on behind the scenes - loads of new research in progress... the housing thing i suspect is a step too far - too political a hot potato, hence largely news-blackout lol.

i do like rd, and can't imagine him ever tempering his view to align with any politics on the table. just hope that he is listened to and not shuffled off to a darkened room if he starts to work the system... some people are just too clever and honest to be countenanced in politics...