to feel furious about Tories canvassing outside dc's school

[tittybangbang]

..... we live in a VERY deprived area. Today the Tories sent in a bunch of grammar school boys, no doubt from their homes in the posh bit of the borough, to hand out leaflets outside the dc's school.

How do they have the gall to send middle-class kids into the 'hood' to encourage the poorest people in society to vote in a government who won't represent their interests?

I wanted to shout - 'when was the last time areas like this benefited under a Tory government?'

But I came over all shy and just marched into school with my head down.

But I feel and

And they'd obviously told them to dress down because they were going into a rough neighbourhood - never seen such a scruffy bunch in my life. Someone should have told them - round here people wear CLEAN trainers and IRONED jeans, not stained plimsolls and jumpers that are unravelling round the hems.

How does one wear whippet? Is it like fox? Around the shoulders?

Ha ha.... there was a knock at the door just now, and it was one of those nice young men from the Tory party.

I asked him if he lived locally. He said he lived in Hampshire. And was an army officer.

So, not schoolboys then.

I asked him what the local Tory candidate's policies on continued funding of children's centres were. I don't think he'd heard of Children's Centres. Said he'd never heard the Tory candidate say anything about them.

titty do you have anything else about how the Tories aren't going to benefit the poorer people?

From what you have said so far, cutting Surestart centres budgets and forcing people to come off benefits and take on work hardly make the Tories the evil party do they?

"Do you think poor people are too thick to work out who to vote for by themselves?"

No, not at all. And if they can't make up their minds, The Sun will always tell them what to do:

tabloidtosh

I don't understand how grammar school boys can be outside another school. They would be in school themselves.

And whilst my sons school is doing a mock election they are not canvassing anywhere - what with imminent AS levels and all that.

This all sounds very odd indeed. And a little improbable.

The if they are smart enough to make up their own minds, it doesn't matter that the Tories are canvassing outside the school, does it, because they will be able to see through it for themselves.

lolol at Tory-boy living in Hampshire. Priceless.

I wonder if they got their 'down with the hood' gear by mugging local winos.
Eyes DS1 bedroom containing various scruffy friends and concludes that the chances of clean plimpsoles and pressed jeans suggests some kind of facility

yabu
And tbh sound snobby

Yet more pathetic, sad, reverse snobbery from Mumsnets whinging left wing.

I thought that in the norf, you got a free whippet every time you bought a flat cap?? Are you saying it is possible to have one without t'other?

Poor people voting tory is like turkeys voting for Christmas?

What a fucking ridiculous statement. Another one of those "you must be rich or stupid to vote Tory". Sick, sick, sick of it. I am neither. Poor, quite intelligent, single Mother living off of benefits, and I still think that the best party is Tories.

Best lock me up.

At what income do you become "poor" anyway?

There were some working class types handing out Labour leaflets at my sons' independent school. I just swung my arms haughtily and encouraged my horse to shit by their feet, in order to counteract the smell of fetid, intellectual undernourishment.

When you can't afford the wide screen telly innit?

longfingernails - she said working class - so can you tell me why you immediately thought they were Northern? It is bigoted attitudes like yours that me want to cry into my pork scratchings

My boys go to a grammar school, but I am certainly not rich!

whatwasthatagain

I think you might have misconstrued my point slightly

Oh for goodness sakes. Is Tory bashing a national sport or something now? And how the hell do we know who they will 'represent' as they havent had chance to do so since the old chestnut we keep hearing about 'the thatcher years'
tsk!

Actually, given the wink at the end of your post, maybe I have misconstrued yours! Apologies!

Erm there was Major after Thatcher. He even won an election in '92...

Yes, YABU.

MN threads have reinforced the whining hypocrisy of the Left more than anything else. A lot of people are incapable of seeing how it would sound in reverse before they sound off. We're all bigots now.

In real life I know some very open-minded democratic Labour supporters and party members. I guess they are too busy handing out leaflets at the local private school to be on MN. How dare these parties attempt to influence people? My God people might try to think for themselves and then there'll be anarchy!

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