Most Tory freshers pretend they’re Labour

[claig]

I knew things were bad, but I never realised just how bad.
I knew we had sunk, but didn't realise to what depths.

Why has no one called for a public inquiry - judicial or otherwise?

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/9714190/Petronella-Wyatt-I-was-bullied-out-of-Oxford-for-being-a-Tory.html

[LittleTyga]

fellatio Its in Paddington, Central London and yes I am absolutely positive. As the maximum a LL can charge in the area is £500 that is what they charge and the irony is its an ex council flat - which was sold off and charged back to the council at an extortionate rate - you couldn't make it up Fellatio!

[ravenAK]

Over a third of the population aren't Tories, though, are they?

36% of a 65% turnout isn't one-third of the population, even in Osbourne-style maths.

& that's if you're identifying 'Tories' as 'people who voted Conservative in one election.'

[Cozy9]

Whichever way you look at it, saying "Tories are all sociopaths" is ridiculous. It's like saying "all Labour people are psychopathic control freaks". They aren't. Most Labour voters are decent people with misguided beliefs. Most people in this country, regardless of who they vote for, are good people.

[FellatioBellsOn]

OK, fair enough but there is such a shortage of houses where the owners/landlords are allowed or willing to take DSS tenants, due to either restrictions on their mortgage or horrendous experiences in the past that the LAs are forced to pay through the nose. I would dispute that the other much nicer flats in that area go for as little as 200 quid a week though. I doubt the difference is as much as you think it is.

Frankly it's ridiculous that one woman and one child are costing the public purse in excess of 2k a month in rent alone. I own a very spacious three bed flat in comfortable commuting distance of London, in a nice safe area and the rental value is around 700-800 a month.

[flatpackhamster]

DorisIsWaiting

Slug- I think you hit the nail on the head.

Rather than bleating on about bullying (Ha!) maybe the Tories need to think why they are SO unpopular.

Just going to tweak that a bit.

Rather than bleating on about bullying (Ha!) maybe the Tories Jews need to think why they are SO unpopular.

Straight out of 1930s Germany, that sort of thinking.

I have no natural affliation with any party but I can honestly say the Tories make me feel they want to turn back the clock, sadly to a time when the rich were richer and the pooor were well and truly sunk.

Turning back the clock all the way to the last Labour government then?

With regard to the reason so many are on benefits of one form or another is because emoplyers (small and large, and Government itself DO NOT PAY a living wage). If work was renumerated at a level able to support a family I.e. companies prioritising workers over shareholders. The country could lose a whole tier of benefits

Oh, well you solved that problem pretty simply. All employers can simply increase the pay they give their staff, because they're all sitting on immense piles of cash, trying to decide what to do with it.

[slug]

See, this argument fails at the first hurdle. While being a Tory is something you can actively choose, being Jewish is something you inherently are.

You can't choose not to be Jewish. You can certainly examine your conscience and possibly choose not to be Tory.

[LDNmummy]

Claig posts bizarre and 'intended to start a bunfight' threads in other MN forums frequently.

[ttosca]

flatpack-

Rather than bleating on about bullying (Ha!) maybe the Tories need to think why they are SO unpopular.

Just going to tweak that a bit.

Rather than bleating on about bullying (Ha!) maybe the Tories Jews need to think why they are SO unpopular.

Straight out of 1930s Germany, that sort of thinking.

As pointed out several times now, being a Tory describes a set of behaviours, which is a legitimate area of criticism. It is not comparable to being black, or Jewish, or disabled, or anything else which is beyond people's control.

Let me use your own argument:

"Rather than bleating about bullying (Ha!) maybe people who set off explosives in Tube carriages need to think about why they are SO unpopular"

Does that make sense to you now? Is it clearer?

The Tories are hated because of their sociopathic behaviour, which is doing harm to millions of people in societhy, making them homeless and destitute, and sometimes killing them. It is perfectly legitimate to hate a group which engages in such behaviour.

I have no natural affliation with any party but I can honestly say the Tories make me feel they want to turn back the clock, sadly to a time when the rich were richer and the pooor were well and truly sunk.

Turning back the clock all the way to the last Labour government then?

No, turning back the clock to Victorian times, before the welfare state, and before organised labour. When men were the breadwinners, women stayed in the kitchen, and children worked up chimneys. That sort of thing.

With regard to the reason so many are on benefits of one form or another is because emoplyers (small and large, and Government itself DO NOT PAY a living wage). If work was renumerated at a level able to support a family I.e. companies prioritising workers over shareholders. The country could lose a whole tier of benefits

Oh, well you solved that problem pretty simply. All employers can simply increase the pay they give their staff, because they're all sitting on immense piles of cash, trying to decide what to do with it.

In some cases they most certainly are. Many larger corporates are making record profits. At the same time, the difference between pay at the top and pay at the bottom has never been greater in history. If the CEO and top executives were paid less, then the people at the bottom could be paid a living wage.

[Cozy9]

If you owned a company, would you pay the CEO and top execs less so you could pay the people at the bottom more? How much less, and how much more?

[ttosca]

Do you realise what an absurd question that is?

How could I possibly answer that without knowing anything about the company, or how much any of the employees are paid?

I can say, though, that 30 years of neo-liberalism has resulted in an enormous increase in the pay gap even within companies between the lowest and highest paid:


Wage Gap Between C.E.O.s and Workers Continues to Grow


The New York Times reported yesterday on a new study, which revealed that the U.S.?s top 200 C.E.O.s made an average of $14.5 million in 2011 ? an average pay raise of 5 percent. The study also found that, for the first time, more than one C.E.O. ? two ? had nine-figure paydays.

Meanwhile, the average worker in the United States saw a pay increase of only 2.8 percent. C.E.O. salary has increased 127 times faster over the last thirty years than worker salary. To put this in perspective, the average Fortune 500 chief executive is paid 380 times more than the average worker.

www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/988597/wage_gap_between_c.e.o.s_and_workers_continues_to_grow

[MrJudgeyPants]

Still quoting American statistics whilst talking about how evil/useless/sociopathic the Tories are I see Ttosca.

Wake me up when you stop copying and pasting irrelevant bollocks.

[BoulevardOfBrokenSleep]

MrJudgeypants, I'm sure you're aware the situation is v similar in the UK.

Mail link:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2070099/Pay-gap-growing-faster-UK-worlds-richest-countries.html

Guardian on same stats:

www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/nov/09/wage-gap-rich-poor-widens-25-years-data

[ttosca]

MrJudgeypants, I'm sure you're aware the situation is v similar in the UK.

Of course it is. I've told him that many times. The US and UK have similar ideologies, and since 1980 have transformed their economies in the neo-liberal mold of privatization, wage suppresion, growing pay gap, growing wealth inequality, etc.

[EldritchCleavage]

All my experiences of the Union suggested to me that it was a nasty pit of vipers: people stabbing each other in the back, clawing their way to the top. Most normal students despised the 'hacks' there. I wouldn't vote for anyone who'd come up through that system

I completely agree. My Uni was one where it certainly was ok to be Tory. And very horrible most of them were too. But so were the Labour hacks. We even had an SDP cabal (that's how long ago it was) who were smugly nasty as well.

What was so striking is that even in those 80s days of deep political division the politicos had more in common with each other (strident bullying, intellectual dishonesty, ego, rigidity) than they did with any of the less politically active students on their own side. It gave me an abiding distrust of politicians that I still have.