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... 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?

344 replies

freudianslips · 07/10/2009 17:13

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?

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BobbingForPeachys · 07/10/2009 20:50

Ah freeloaders- lovre that phrase

TheGreatScootini · 07/10/2009 20:56

Im undecided.But I abhor Gordon Brown and didnt like Tony Blair.I dont like the illegal wars, Im not happy with the financial mess, I dont like the budget cuts to social care that have been done by stealth over the last 10 years...so am coming roud to voting Conservative.

Also (and I may get laughed off MN for this),>>whispers

OrmIrian · 07/10/2009 21:09

I was brought up a tory. Voted tory in my first election. Then learned to think for myself [wink. But the tories that my parents beleived in were pre-Thatcher and a bit less shark-like and predatory.

Would still cut my hand off before I put an X next to a Tory name. Probably vote lib-dem as New Labour makes me want to puke

spicybingowings · 07/10/2009 21:19

I wish the Monster Raving Loony party was still an option.

But do people really think that Labour are to blame for the current recession?? As far as I understand it's worldwide and not caused by the Labour government and the 11 years prior to this last year have been particularly good financially.

Doodledoo if you only earn £10k and have children and no partner earning then you should get Tax Credits - so don't understand why you think the gov think you should survive 'without handouts'.

I remember paying 15.5% interest on my first mortgage - it was crippling and that was courtesy of the Tories financial management.

I'm also from Yorkshire and remember vividly what Maggie did to the miners and to the related communities. Although agree that Mr Scargill was partly to blame too, but it doesn't justify the lengths she went to.

thesecondcoming · 07/10/2009 21:19

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spicybingowings · 07/10/2009 21:22

And I have never and would never be swayed by the clothes that a party leaders wife wears...

Doodleydoo · 07/10/2009 21:36

I see all of your points but will still be voting Conservative as they are New conservative rather than the Maggie days, we all got excited about new labour and they took us to a war that we didn't want and where my friends have died.

Am not going to get into the tax credit thing as my DP earns a little more than that so tax credits not an option but still get pissed off (and rightly so IMO) about the Jeremy Kyle lot - surely you all do to. I am not going to deprive those who really can't work but just turn on ITV in the morning and look at who is spending your hard earned cash.

Re clothes comeon those shoes were great and easily affordable for us commoners - am not going to deprive her of spending on clothes - wish i had the cash and the figure!

But lets just look at those politicians, they are all pants and am just choosing the pants that fit me best. It worked for good old Tony didn't it all that spin. And would you really vote for someone whose wife wore m and s from 5 years ago? It would mean there would be no prosperity for the rest of us.

Lets think people, Labour have had their go - no the recession isn't entirely their fault but our country is in debt is Gordon Browns and that is fact and he is now in charge! I am not saying it wouldn't be the same with the conservatives as no one is perfect! BUT would like to point out that GB made it much easier for the small people to think they could live like the stars and get themselves to a point of crisis with credit and thereby affecting the rest of us who have always been on time and done the right thing.

TBH just want a change - and still only one person has answered my shag, marry and push off a cliff!

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Crazycatlady · 07/10/2009 21:42

I may possibly vote Conservative in the next general election, but only after very careful scrutiny of their manifesto.

To be honest I'm pretty disillusioned with party politics in general, but I won't vote the current Labour government back in and I don't feel the other options are capable of leading the country either.

Doodleydoo · 07/10/2009 21:42

BTW anyone else want Jezza Clarkson or Terry Christian to have a go - even Esther - lets start a celebs party and see if they can do any better - BTW would possibly shag jezza and would marry James and hurts me to say might have to push the small man off the cliff

spicybingowings · 07/10/2009 21:43

How did GB encourage 'small people' to get into debt? I was 'encouraged' into debt when I reached 18 and got offered credit cards - that was 1986 - no Gordon Brown around then.

The current recession was triggered by toxic debt in the US - not the current gov.

Vote for who you want, but please get the facts right.

GhostWriter · 07/10/2009 21:46

Scoot, first Twilight, now Cameron seems like a nice man. FGS woman, shake a leg. He's a spin doctor and he's well and truly spun you.

And it is relevant to bring up Thatcher. That's the party that attracted Cameron in the first place. Worrying to the nth degree.

The economic crisis would have happened anyway and I know exactly how a Conservative government would have handled it. Bye bye Northern Rock, crash, bang, wallop...

Doodleydoo · 07/10/2009 21:51

OK so I might not have all the facts correctly but lets face it someone made it easier to declare yourself bankrupt and the conservatives were not in gov at the time.

Spicybingowings you are obviously not my target audience but lets both admit that most of us on here would vote for the MN party opposed to all of the above.

If I am correct this thread started as OP wondering if it was unreasonable for her to be the only Conservative out there - by the rest of thread plainly not.
would also like to point back to change could be a good thing and is likely to happen as the last recession we had Labour had a go.

Am now thinking the green party is an option but have no idea who their leader is but I could just be a bit daft.

Doodleydoo · 07/10/2009 21:53

Would have been good to say goodbye to Northern Rock - fuckers screwed us over big time

GhostWriter · 07/10/2009 21:53

Doodleydoo, why do we have to shag, marry or push anybody off a cliff?

Doodleydoo · 07/10/2009 21:55

Ghostwriter - its a daft american game and truly the only reason i came on the thread! Come on give it a go - its fun!

Takver · 07/10/2009 21:58

I doubt I could vote Tory if you held a gun to my head due to heavy indoctrination as a child .
Having said that, until yesterday I was much of the opinion that they probably wouldn't be that much worse for our family personally, given that we are neither old, nor disabled, nor poor.
Now that I've heard their budget plans I'm scared shitless. I just want to hop up & down & shout "FFS does no-one remember the thirties ". I reckon if they get in and cut spending the way they're planning, we'll be headed for full on depression. And worrying about interest rates being pushed up - FGS the main worry at the moment is real rates going negative, not high rates - there's patently no problem in the govt selling bonds, we haven't been devalued. Yes we have a crap economy based on financial services, and yes, trashing manufacturing was stupid - but who the hell did that in the first place - not Labour, even if they didn't make things any better.

GhostWriter · 07/10/2009 21:58

I don't shag. I'm a pinko leftie liberal hippy. I make psychedelic love. I am already married. I do not push people from precipices.

I don't think I qualify for this game.

Doodleydoo · 07/10/2009 22:00

Just on the Cameron went C because of maggie, why did Brown etc choose labour - not that great at the time either so lets give all the guys a chance to show us how they have moved on.

V po with GB purely because none of us were given the opp to vote him in, he voted himself if you all remember and any opponents were buggered (not literally or they would have gone to Eton!)

bronze · 07/10/2009 22:01

I'm just fed up of people using the word toff in a derogatory tone and the fact that someone went to public/private school as a reason to slate them. Noone can help their upbringing, its the bit of your life you have less choice in. Are only the working classes allowed to be fair minded honest people now?

Doodleydoo · 07/10/2009 22:03

GhostWrier - fair enough! Loving teh psychedlic love option, also already married but there are a few exceptions out there HMM none politicians. Might start a new thread with Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Danny Devito as my shag,marry, push off a cliff. Lets face it girls (and boys!) there are some hot men out in the public eye and none are in politics!

Basically I am nice and don't want to offend!!!!

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worley · 07/10/2009 22:08

my parents have always been labour, as have i,but have been undecided who to vote for next, but after tories announcing their intention to freeze pay for nhs staff on £18k and over i wont be voting for them. i know its selfish to say this but why do we have to suffer pay cuts because of our choice of profession and others who dont work in the public sector dont have to have a pay freeze. i have worked hard to get up to my band and for it to then be frozen to help the government out (when they havnt done that much for me that i can speak of) is to be honest pissing me off that they even are considering it.
after hearing today that brown intends to stop the childcare vouchers in 2011 (?i think they said 2011) is also grating me.
Will prob vote green next time just to use the vote.

FuriousGeorge · 07/10/2009 22:15

Tory voter here too.Our area is true blue and has never had a Labour MP that I know of.

Doodleydoo · 07/10/2009 22:25

Ooh worley hadn't heard those two - bastards the lot of them! Lets face it the majority of the NHS do a fab job you included no doubt. All our bambino's would not have come into the world without them as my DH would have fainted at the thought of having to do it himself, couldn't afford to do it privately, and I and DC would be dead so i salute the majority of you.

BUT there are some weird little bits out there who possibly might put stats together and nothing medical or really that helpful to us everyday users of the NHS that could do with a pay freeze. Also get slightly wound up when it states GP's get X and yet find it impossible to go to see mine when required so have to use our of hours. V nice people but none of them are a regular DR. ( as in see everytime or so when you go - might as well go to a and e and chance your luck with new person each tme. Also Nurses are underatted and sometimes do come across as pissed off = which I would be!

Childcare vouchers keep the majority of us WM in businss so how do they get off on that one. That would mean more unemployed because they can't afford childcare and so the govt would have to pay.

Honestly this country needs Mumsnetter as a leader, because mothers are always right.