Surely we all deserve better than Cameron's Tories?

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I'm not promoting any other party in particular. I just get the feeling that a lot of people are voting Tory because they feel we all have to be punished and pay for the 'crunch'. Surely the future is unknown even to forecasters, as has been proved over and over again in the past. We're all entitled to hope for a better country for everyone to live in and if there's one thing we can all be sure of it's that we're not going to get it from plastic posho and his pals.

I think we do.

If Margaret Thatcher is re-elected as prime minister on Thursday, I warn you.

I warn you that you will have pain?when healing and relief depend upon payment.

I warn you that you will have ignorance?when talents are untended and wits are wasted, when learning is a privilege and not a right.

I warn you that you will have poverty?when pensions slip and benefits are whittled away by a government that won?t pay in an economy that can?t pay.

I warn you that you will be cold?when fuel charges are used as a tax system that the rich don?t notice and the poor can?t afford.

I warn you that you must not expect work?when many cannot spend, more will not be able to earn. When they don?t earn, they don?t spend. When they don?t spend, work dies.

I warn you not to go into the streets alone after dark or into the streets in large crowds of protest in the light.

I warn you that you will be quiet?when the curfew of fear and the gibbet of unemployment make you obedient.

I warn you that you will have defence of a sort?with a risk and at a price that passes all understanding.

I warn you that you will be home-bound?when fares and transport bills kill leisure and lock you up.

I warn you that you will borrow less?when credit, loans, mortgages and easy payments are refused to people on your melting income.

If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday?

• I warn you not to be ordinary

• I warn you not to be young

• I warn you not to fall ill

• I warn you not to get old.

Well said Milady - I was there too and I haven't forgotten how suffocatingly grim it was.

I deserve loreal.

Flicks hair

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Erm Margaret Thatcher????????

Guffaw

Bravo, Milady!

MiLady methinks you are senile and are immagining it's 25 years ago!

Smallwhitecat - your eloquence outshines Milady herself, I bow to you and your flowery rhetoric

this society has consumed and consumed, remortgages and credit cards pay for flat screen tellys, holidays and other shite. we read heat magazine and watch reality tv. we over eat shite food. we want want want and now we can't have so yes we do deserve the tories as they represent our society, greedy, self interested and bloated.

Cameron is nothing like Thatcher though. Milady's quote is history (and not that accurate IIRC - I was 17 when she was first elected and don't remember it being any more grim than the 70s)

But I was trying to make a genuine point

then tell us your point as its been sadly lost in the ether of time

Actually not all of 'this society' Eric, I certainly didn't and Grimma it was the 70's - you really don't remember do you?

well of course not all but in general society is fairly repellent atm

My point was that simply that we shouldn't feel we have to suffer the tories because they know how to make 'savage cuts' - we can still vote according to our principles and our hopes. Probably too airy-fairy for MN but what the hell, it might be my last chance to say it.

Riven - Tony Blair was a bit in love as well tho' wasn't he?

sorry, it was the tail end of the 70s - I meant the preceding years of that decade were pretty dire under whatever government (or was it the unions who were in control? that's how it sometimes seemed).

smallwhitecat -

'Tony Blair was a bit in love as well tho' wasn't he?'

Most of all with himself.

You might well be about to find out how very much worse somebody could be than Gordy. I'm not pushing Labour anyway but if people still believe in them then please get out and vote tomorrow.