... 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?

[freudianslips]

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?

Oh yes let people buy their houses and leave them in a position where they cannot strike for their rights without the fear of losing their home through non payment of mortgage.

deaddei I also met Arthur Scargill on a train! Or rather, at the train station. King's Cross at the Upper Crust Sandwich place where he played the "don't you know who I am?" line to try and get more prawns on his sandwich and then sauntered into first class

OMG GIBBON I had never even thought of the council house thing in that way- feel really niave now! I'm loving this thread

"... some people are just too clever and honest to be countenanced in politics..."

Yet they're the kind of people that we need in politics.

Oh she had a plan alright

Time for me to make some supper

I am really interested by this thread. I would lean towards being conservatve but I don't really know why. I suspect that (as I never have discussions on politics with friends) that sometimes (myself included) people tend to use stereotypical views/ parents voting habits in viewing themselves as labour/ conservative etc. It's like I have gone; professional parents, don't mind private schools, keep most of the money you earn bingo I'm conservative. Yet sometimes, when I actually listen to a policy or idea, I agree with Labour.

Ive never voted Tory but I remember the state Labour left the country in when Thatcher took over. I can remember nurses chaining themselves to railings, power cuts, rubbish left uncollected and the dead unburied. Labour HAD to be kicked out at the time. That time is coming again but I do not know what the alternative is.

labour do nothing for hard working professional people. We need to be rewarded for being ambitious and trying to better ourself. Don't know if conservative will be better but Im not voting labour again.

oops, too late.

You are not the only Conservative voter on here but you will be expected to keep that to yourself! Even admitting to feeding your baby formula or your toddler Fruitshoots are both more acceptable than admitting to your Tory-voting tendancies.

I'm sure there a re lots of tory voters on mn. Lose the chip.

What about the 40% tax then?!

I've only got to recall John Prescott sitting in the back garden of his huge house enjoying his huge pension moaning about the class system and that just sums up Labour to me...utter hypocrites.

I'm usually a Tory voter but if Vince Cable were leader of the Lib Dems I would vote for them purely on the MPs expenses scandal. They came out better overall... but can't stand Nick Clegg...

Another Tory voter (this time) here. Have always voted Labour before, as has all my family. Never again. They have totally screwed this country and the war just finished whatever faith I had left. The conservatives cannot make any more of a fuck up of running this country.

I'm enjoying this! Thanks for showing me that I'm not alone and that we can have a light-hearted political thread.

Maybe now's the time for me to finally admit that DD LOVES cheesestrings?

Re:
"lol, no. i did have a small titter at the idea of 'i'm just a normal mum and phd student' though.

have you read andrea o'reilly's mothers in the academe stuff? grin am looking forward to the new study lol. "

I'm about to go and google it now. Re-reading what I wrote also gave me a titter too

Tories would NEVER give their children fruit shoots or cheese strings...

Good for you freudianslips, no one should be afraid of expressing their views. I have voted for both labour and conservative in my time, so my vote is up for grabs. But it will probably be conservative next time because Gordon really has had his chips.

I will be voting Tory, FS. Can't wait!

oh lord, what is wrong with cheese strings? I give them to DSD all the time. She loves them but normally turns her nose up at cheese.

Sorry for the threadjack.

My family are ardent blue; dh's family ardent red.

Policemen vs Miners!

Would describe myself as right of the left or left of the right.

Am very disappointed with GB. May well be a conservative voter come next election.

"the 40% doesn't kick in till 40K and only affects 10% of people."

Actually, it kicks in at over £37,400. In my view, it should kick in higher than that - average earnings have increased and the tax thresholds should have increased with them.