so is there anyone with the guts to admit they were wrong when they voted tory at the last election??

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or are you all proud of yourselves now???

the country is going to hell, except for the well off, thanks to this government

so is anyone going to admit they were wrong?

there was one gal on here, a working poor no less, who voted Tory and admitted it.

i think she changed her name, though :o.

you'll only get the non=lab voters asking if you're proud of yourself voting for the party responsible for the financial crisis and an illegal war

Maybe if you replaced the word wrong with misguided...

But, no i'm not sorry (yet)

I did. I don't regret it.

I also voted for the last labour government, that was REALLY a mistake.

I am going to bed now, so I won't hear about what a twat I am till morning

People who voted Tory knew exactly what they were voting for.

My main qualms about the government so far are that they have not tough enough on quangos, they have given away too many powers to the EU, they have not gotten rid of all state funding of public sector unions, they show no signs of getting rid of the 50p top rate of tax, their immigration policy of restricting high-skilled workers is misguided, and above all, they have not blamed Labour enough for the state of the economy.

However, apart from the immigration issue, all those criticisms are from the right. Broadly I am really happy with what the government is doing.

I was wrong for voting Lib Dem. i doubt that Tories think they were wrong really.

I have always voted Lib Dem.

I shake my head in disbelief every morning.

I regret they haven't turned out to be any better than the previous Tory government, nor learned any lessons from their mistakes.

But I wouldn't have the Labour government back either.

What I'm the most sorry about is that my hopes that coalition with the Lib Dems would temper any overly-right-wing Tory ideas with some left-wing sympathies. But the Lib Dems have done nothing but roll right over and let the Tories walk all over them.

Please don't fool yourself that the country was going anywhere better with the Labour government.

Mostly I'm just sorry that no political party in this country seems to be able to do anything useful. But as my friends at work pointed out, it's all relative, and at least we don't have a government like Zimbabwe or North Korea.

Nope not wrong.
I want to cry when I think of the piles of shite the Labour party left behind.

I give the present gov 2 years and then see where we are.
I might say I was wrong then. We will see.

LFN says people who voted Tory knew exactly what they were voting for.

What about people who voted Tory because they believed that:

• front-line public services would be protected
• the vulnerable would be protected from public spending cuts.

Both are things that Cameron said during the election campaign and which clearly aren't going to happen.

Nope, and I'd vote the same again.

We NEED cuts. I work in the public sector and the waste is fucking shameful.

If any govt could get rid of this attitude of clock-in-clock-out, final salary pension, it's this one.

I did. I also told all of you before they came into power that no matter who took over there would be cuts. The country has had it too good for too long and cuts had to be made. I also said the cuts would hurt but they were needed as the party was over and it's time for the clean up. I'd vote conservative again.

Tory voters admitting they were wrong - doesn't happen does it? Not unless they have a personality transplant........

I'm glad the Royal Mail is being privatised. Maybe efficiency will now be a word in their vocabularly. (not attacking the posties or the sorters, but the higher ups)

...and the country was going to hell beforehand, it's not changing much and just has a different (and less gurning) label.

I'm in a safe seat so it didn't matter who I voted for.

I'd vote Tory again. The cuts need to happen, they would have happened under Labour eventually but not before even more money was poured down the drain.

What I do regret, is ever voting for the previous Labour government, I really really do.

They could put a monkey in a blue suit around here and it would still get voted in. Oh wait a minute that's what they did do

I voted Lib Dem.

Margaret Thatcher was enough to put me off the Tories for life. Ditto Tony Blair with Labour.

I honestly though that the Lib Dems offered a real alternative. How wrong I was!

domestic - me too!!

Disclaimer before I say this, I'm not a Tory supporter.

I've see this kind of post on MN before - So, Tory voters, are you proud of yourselves? Tories hate your average working Joe, we'll all starve, and it's your fault for voting for them!".

But you never see posts along the lines of, "Labour voters, are you proud of your party and the way you voted last time? They've managed public funds appallingly, run us into the ground and made us the biggest nanny-state in the world where common sense has completely gone out of the window. And it's all your fault!"

Both parties, it seems to me, are total brainless wankers. Unfortunately, in this broadly democratic system, we have to choose the party we perceive to the lesser of the two evils when it comes to election time.

Perhaps you'd be better saving your ire for the politicians who are screwing our country up and screwing us all over (and I mean pretty much all politicians in whatever party) and not for us poor sods who had to vote for somebody and just chose as best we could.

I'm really pleased with the government's performance at the moment. I was fed up of everything the Labour party did - waging wars, infighting (Blair and Brown didn't speak...), lying, taxing us to the max, government meddling in every part of life, banning everything that moved, lobbing benefits at everything that didn't - and a change of philosophy was long overdue. Labour are now saying that they'd have kept spending at the same rate but, truth is, that Darling was already warning about spending cuts worse than the Thatcher era pre-election.... so all credibility gone there.

No regrets whatsoever.

The country was going to hell long before last May.

The cuts haven;t actually happened yet. I think this needs to be revisited next year TBH once it has all kicked in.

And the alternative would have been?

"LFN says people who voted Tory knew exactly what they were voting for.

What about people who voted Tory because they believed that:

• front-line public services would be protected
• the vulnerable would be protected from public spending cuts.

Both are things that Cameron said during the election campaign and which clearly aren't going to happen."

Oh come on, nobody with an IQ of two figures or above actually believed this. Seriously, you would really have to be pretty thick to believe that coming from a Tory.

If you voted Tory, you either voted to screw the poor or you misunderstand the political landscape of the UK.