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The Tories are gonna get in, it's inevitable do you care? Is there an upside?

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TheDullWitch · 07/10/2009 17:19

Oh why not have the election NOW. Let the buggers get in, show their true colours, become universally loathed, then get kicked out after one term. Come on, let's get on with it!

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atlantis · 07/10/2009 23:34

Squeazy,

Try this;

www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2009/09/George_Osborne_The_Conservative_Strategy_for_the_recover y.aspx

expatinscotland · 07/10/2009 23:34

'Do Lib dems actually have any policies or do they keep sitting on the fence? At least with a tory you know what you are getting.... '

If you're not in line to inherit £20m like some of DC's nearest and dearest, you'll be getting a giant cudgel right up the jacksie with the Tories.

Ewe · 07/10/2009 23:35

I think I would feel more confident voting for them if more than half the cabinet looked like they had actually hit puberty

Donkeyswife · 07/10/2009 23:42

Yes I bloody well do care. Cuts in public services, threatened cuts in child benefit (did I hear right they are going to do away with it all together?). I would never ever vote Tory, they stand for everything I despise - yuk yuk and yuk again.

atlantis · 07/10/2009 23:43

"I think I would feel more confident voting for them if more than half the cabinet looked like they had actually hit puberty"

I'm sure they will age very quickly like Blair did when he got in.

atlantis · 07/10/2009 23:44

"threatened cuts in child benefit (did I hear right they are going to do away with it all together?)."

More labour scaremongering?

No one said anything about child ben from what I heard in the speeches. Link please?

CristinaTheAstonishing · 07/10/2009 23:49

"Greed is good", where's the upside to that?

atlantis · 07/10/2009 23:50

" "Greed is good", where's the upside to that? "

Greed is good has been the labour motto for the last 12 years hasn't it?

SomeGuy · 07/10/2009 23:50

Actually, they have specifically said, during this conference, that they will not, as previously suggested, stop paying child benefit to the highest earners. It will remain a universal benefit.

kneedeepinthedirtylaundry · 07/10/2009 23:52

Does it make any difference who gets in? They are all fucking politicians.

SomeGuy · 07/10/2009 23:53

10 years perhaps "we are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich" - Peter Mandelson 1998

atlantis · 07/10/2009 23:54

"Does it make any difference who gets in? They are all fucking politicians."

I'm guessing that depends on your point of view personally I don't want to see this country go begging to the IMF again, so yes a conservative government would be nice.

kneedeepinthedirtylaundry · 07/10/2009 23:55

Has there ever been a government that hasn't fucked up completely?

atlantis · 07/10/2009 23:57

" Has there ever been a government that hasn't fucked up completely? "

Again it depends on your point of view.

Labour just seem to throw everything they have into it and do it so spectacually well, last time they bankrupted the country and this time...

kneedeepinthedirtylaundry · 07/10/2009 23:58

And how happy we all were to get rid of the tories in 97!

atlantis · 08/10/2009 00:00

I wasn't particually happy but I think everyone was resigned to the fact that they needed a time in opposition because they were tearing themselves apart, just as labour are doing now.

At least in 97 the conservatives left a good set of books for labour to take over and so labour did what they do best.. spend, spend, spend, spend...

SomeGuy · 08/10/2009 00:02

All?

The Tories got more votes in 1997 than Blair did in 2005.

Not really a good definition of 'all'.

kneedeepinthedirtylaundry · 08/10/2009 00:02

A good set of books at what expense? I think I'd enjoy continuing this one, but I'm falling down and have to sleep. Goodnight Atlantis!

kneedeepinthedirtylaundry · 08/10/2009 00:03

hi someguy

Yes, you're right. I'm just in an "it's all bollocks" mood tonight.

Goodnight.

atlantis · 08/10/2009 00:04

..to be continued kneedeep.

honeydew · 08/10/2009 00:04

I never hear about Lib Dem policy!

My DH says well they've done very well in Scotland with a Lib/Lab coalition.

I know they are pro- Europe and that's it.

Ian Paisley- OH my God! I am married to an Irish man though!

I forgot that Labour had brought in Civil Paterniships so a good policy there.

i don't want to go back to the Tory era of the 80's with the extremes of rich and poor. How could I vote Tory, hand on heart if I want a fair, equal society? We are in a mess but I don't think the Tories are best placed to sort it out and perhaps we should give Labour another chance. I think most people are fed up and bored with Labour though and the Tories will win, which means the poorer in society will suffer.

I agree, George Osborne is terribly smarmy. But I do like Ed Balls!

thesecondcoming · 08/10/2009 00:08

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atlantis · 08/10/2009 00:09

The great divide has become even greater under labour, so say the economists, but what do they know...?

GO smarmy? Hmm, I guess we could ask him to have plastic surgery but that's going a bit far.

Ed Balls eyes give away his personality, he looks in two different directions at times and looks shifty and I can never quite get rid of that picture of him with the red eyes.

SomeGuy · 08/10/2009 00:09

ugh,ed balls: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM6plAeFwUs

honeydew · 08/10/2009 00:10

Is there a man this thread? Stone him!

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