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Is anyone else really scared of the prospect of waking up to a tory administration on May 7th?

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electra · 16/04/2010 20:22

Because I am! i think it will be truly awful. Don't get me wrong, I don't think labour are fabulous but omg surely they are better than another Thatcher style administration?? I have a disabled child who is 8 years old.......I somehow doubt that it will be any easier to get her what she needs as she goes into her teenage years under a conservative government. It's hard enough now!!

Yesterday the blues were campaigning in our town centre - I live in a swing area - traditionally tory but fell to new labour in 1997. They seem so.....backward thinking to me.

Am I overreacting? Is there an upside at all?

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TotalChaos · 16/04/2010 20:24

yep, bricking it as to what it will mean for public sector cuts. mind you bricking it to some extent regardless of the party who gets in.....

Bumperliouzzzzzz · 16/04/2010 20:28

Yep, quaking. DH and I both public sector workers.

DaydreamDolly · 16/04/2010 20:28

Yes, am praying it doesn't happen. Some silly bint that I have on my friends list on FB has as her status update (written after the debate) Go Cameron!
And her husband is a police officer. Oh dear oh dear.
Lib Dem for me this year, best of a bad bunch.

mumblechum · 16/04/2010 20:31

I still can't work out who to vote for, tbh. On the one hand, I think we wouldn't get so heavily taxed under the Cons, but on the other I worry about whether uni places will have completely dried up in 3 yrs time when ds is due to go.

HumphreyCobbler · 16/04/2010 20:31

No I will be glad.

By the way, Thatcher is not running for election.

mumblechum · 16/04/2010 20:32

And I wouldn't want fox hunting to come back in.

HumphreyCobbler · 16/04/2010 20:32

Fox hunting is still here

they bolloxed up getting rid of that too

thirtysomething · 16/04/2010 20:34

Yes, it worries me.

(And I'm beginning to wonder if I'm the only person in the country who thought DC came across as more right-wing than he has hitherto been portrayed on that debate last night?....)

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electra · 16/04/2010 20:34

I know, HC - it may not be Thatcher but you can bet they admire her ideals and all that she stood for...

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southeastastra · 16/04/2010 20:34

yes i don't want to be ruled by a buttock with eyes stapled onto it

HumphreyCobbler · 16/04/2010 20:35

sigh

talk about the policies NOW and we can have a debate

vague mumblings about the last Thatcher argument do not constitute a political argument

you will bring up Eton next

pinkteddy · 16/04/2010 20:35

Yep DC really scares me. He always skirts around what he actually plans to do which scares me even more. He didn't defend himself at all when GB challenged him about education which says to me that schools are in the firing line for some pretty hefty cuts. His summing up last night was awful - actually said nothing - but people were saying how fab he was.

mumblechum · 16/04/2010 20:36
HumphreyCobbler · 16/04/2010 20:37

of course he is right wing, he is a tory

right wing is not the same as fascist or authoritarian

right wing does not mean you read the daily mail

I am right wing and I HATE the daily mail

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electra · 16/04/2010 20:42

I don't give a monkey's arse what school DC went to.....but I don't think anyone can dispute that tories don't care about the disadvantaged and actually don't really believe in society and think it's ok to stamp on those who were not so fortunate to be as successful as themselves.

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HumphreyCobbler · 16/04/2010 20:44

talk about the policies that say so and I may concede you have a point

I can dispute that as I am intending to vote tory this time and I do not believe in any of the things you mentioned

specific policies that you disagree with?

lincstash · 16/04/2010 20:45

No, im shitting bricks were gonna get another five years of the lying Brown and his rotten corrupt incompetant cronies.

The man who let in 3 million immigrants and told us it would be 13,000, taking out society and infrastructure to its limits

The man thats created the largest national debt in history

the man who sold us down the river to the EU, and lied about giving us a a referendum on it.

the man who sold off all our gold reserves at a dirt cheap giveaway price then lied about it to us

the man who robbed 8 Billion out our pension funds.

the man that was part of the massive pack of lies that conned us into an illegal war to please his mates, resulting the deaths of hundreds of our soldiers and costing us billions.

5 more years of this idiot, this total disaster of a PM, will wreck this country for 20 years. Its going to take till my grandchildren can vote to get us out the shit that this two faced brainless cretin is burying us in.

thirtysomething · 16/04/2010 20:46

HC what I meant was right-wing in a kind of fundamental way, rather than just having policies that are right rather than left of centre.

So for example his comments on immigration, law and order etc-there seemed to be an awful lot of "crime is all down to drug abuse" type comments. Crime has existed through the centuries - it's inherent in human nature/economic inequalities. I'm not saying that there aren't some crimes linked to drug abuse. But equally some will be linked to alcohol. Some to sexual abuse in childhood, you name it, all kinds of behaviours lead to crime. So it seemed like a very Daily Mail attitude to me to home in on one cause of crime like drug abuse and place all society's ills at its door.

HumphreyCobbler · 16/04/2010 20:47

he DOES lie at lot

most people of here think he is honest

muminlondon · 16/04/2010 20:47

I woke up to Cameron when they made that pact with right-wing parties in the European parliament and pulled out of the centre-right grouping. The Czech party is headed by Vaclav Klaus who used to just a Thatcherite but is now obsessively denying climate change. The Lithuanians celebrate their part in the SS. The Polish PiS party have tended to homophobia (banning gay pride, etc.) And Daniel Hannan, the MEP behind this, wants to dismantle the NHS. He is Cameron's friend. Scary.

ravenAK · 16/04/2010 20:48

I'd go as far as 'very worried'.

anastaisia · 16/04/2010 20:49

More scared of waking up to find Labour still in and Ed Balls still has any power at all.

SethStarkaddersMum · 16/04/2010 20:49

I'm more scared of waking up to more Labour because I really think it will mean more years of f*cking up the economy and spending money on things (which it would be great if we could carry on spending money on) which we can't afford. We are heading for a deep hole we can't get out of which will have an effect on everyone's quality of life for generations to come, and I think the Tories can see that but Labour are in denial about it.

HumphreyCobbler · 16/04/2010 20:49

I don't really understand your point

drug abuse is a big problem

what does right wing in a kind of fundamental way mean? I think the term right wing has been widely misused and understood

I once heard someone refer to Stalin as right wing

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electra · 16/04/2010 20:49

But lincstash, I don't tend to trust any politicians and I think the war would have been supported by the UK whoever was in power.

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