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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to boycott the companies who are actively backing the tories?

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glinda · 07/04/2010 22:06

Well, title says it all. 68 companies (or should I say, wealthy, over priviledged company bosses)have written to the Torygraph to back their old buddies. Fine. They are sticking with their mates but they will not have my business,

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vanitypear · 07/04/2010 23:45

brockyg some of these Labour policies are daft though - record increases in CB, plus child trust fund/health in pregnancy grant - cost billions and fair enough if you need it, but to court the MC vote people who don't need it get it too. Absolutely pointless. Sure Start - same. Publicly funded NCT. So much so that they are withdrawing funding in some areas because it's so full of degree educated middle class breastfeeding mummies. And don't get me started on where the NHS money has gone - largely on the middle management. Great if you are a public sector worker though, there's been a real bonanza under Labour!

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glinda · 07/04/2010 23:46

If...
'It can't have all been bad, however or else she wouldn't have been Prime Minister for 11 years.'
How long have Labour been in gov.?????

CVG - As a Yorkshire woman from mining country I am shocked that you can vote Tory. If you understood what your dad went through you would never support them. It doesn't matter how many years ago the pain cut too deep.

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brockyg · 07/04/2010 23:48

It's not just the memory of Thatcher. It's the thought of Cameron and Osborne and what they might do with our wonderful country.

gaelicsheep · 07/04/2010 23:48

You forget there were several more years of a Tory government following Thatcher. 18 years in total.

13 years of Labour and they (and people like yourself OP) still blame the Tories for all the country's ills. It's pathetic, it really is.

Incidentally my DH suffered very badly in the 1980s recession - his was one of the industries affected. He at least is mature enough to look at the situation now when evaluating the parties.

gaelicsheep · 07/04/2010 23:50

Wonderful country brockyg? You're being ironic right?

I suppose a mention of the current Tory politicians is a slight advancement of the argument.

brockyg · 07/04/2010 23:53

Vanity Pear, think all health workers would agree that the service was underfunded in 1997 and has improved dramatically since. No question that Sure Start has begun to have impacts in some of our most deprived areas, although it's a long term programme and not even one generation of children has benefited yet. You don't believe this, I do, others will make up their own minds based on what they see and hear in the election campaign.

CheekyVimtoGal · 07/04/2010 23:53

i am from Castleford area of Yorkshire so my dad worked for Sharlston Collerey and yes he hated the the tory years but you cannot blame David Cameron for what thatcher did. Cameron is a totally different person, has different aspects of life to what she had and i think for the next 5 years, a tory government is what this country needs to get back on top. Prices are ridiculous at the moment and if Labour carry on in Government then they will continue to rise and nothing will get frozen.

How is your life financially? I am looking at the tory government this time round as a breath of fresh air because right now some of the proposed choices Cameron has chosen seem like the better idea than that of Labour.

CheekyVimtoGal · 07/04/2010 23:55

I am thinking what life will be like if Labour carry on in Government, what will happen to our family as we wont be able to survive on the growing amount of price rises and charges.

gaelicsheep · 07/04/2010 23:56

Perhaps glinda thinks that the only occupants of Yorkshire are sheep.

brockyg · 07/04/2010 23:56

I do think we live in a wonderful country, and full of potential too - think of your own children for starters. Broken Britain is something I don't recognise - pockets of huge deprivation which will need support for many years yes, but people living in these areas would not recognise their communities as broken. This is cheap Tory rhetoric and very patronising. I have huge hope for the future. Sorry but I'm an optimist, can't help it. We can either sink into despair, or do something about the problems around us, and I'd rather do something, get involved, not moan or point fingers.

gaelicsheep · 07/04/2010 23:58

I think the country would be more wonderful without the stifling influence of Gordon Brown.

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glinda · 07/04/2010 23:59

Err where have I blamed Tories for current ills? Really .. ?
I just have no trust in these people to have any power over my future life as they have wrecked it in the past and my family are important to me. If that is "pathetic" in your opinion then we will just have to disagree.

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MillyMollyMoo · 08/04/2010 00:00

brockyg - I can almost hear Jerusalem playing in the background, the country has gone downhill for a lot people in the past 10 years, people labour were meant to help, most single mums don't want bloody sure start centres they want council housing with fair rent so they don't have to move every 6 to 12 months and up root their children for a start.

CheekyVimtoGal · 08/04/2010 00:01

Glinda, its only my opinion and i think that a tory government is what this country needs at the moment. It wont be a re-enactment of the thatcher years as Cameron is not Thatcher and he has VOWED that.

gaelicsheep · 08/04/2010 00:03

But you're judging a future Tory government on what happened in the past aren't you? Even though the climate is so entirely different now, except for one thing. Labour has messed up the economy - again.

gaelicsheep · 08/04/2010 00:04

I've voted for both parties in my time btw. I'm not a dyed in the wool Tory voter. I suppose I'm one of those "floating voter" types that they talk about so much.

CheekyVimtoGal · 08/04/2010 00:06

What i was trying to put across Gaelicsheep. People are making out as if The tories will always have the same expectations of Thatcher.

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glinda · 08/04/2010 00:09

Oh good.. Trouble is I don't believe any MPs when they make that kind of promise.

This really is a case of who scares me most and I am afraid that 'The Lord of the Manor'
DC has OLD TORY written all over him.

Only my experience and opinion but it is as valid as anyone elses.

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CheekyVimtoGal · 08/04/2010 00:11

I know my mum hates the Tories but this year she is voting for them because she is annoyed with how the country is been run by the so called Working Class Government.

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glinda · 08/04/2010 00:15

Off to bed now - we have a few weeks left to argue about this one.
Night all!!

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gaelicsheep · 08/04/2010 00:18

Me too.

CheekyVimtoGal · 08/04/2010 00:30

Yes and me too. Night girls xx

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