Consider this.....please???......I'm worried for our future

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It appears most people have the view that all parties are pretty much the same and lets face it we don?t really trust any of them that much.

However there does seem to be an overriding difference between the three parties that stands out a mile and that has a huge impact on us all i.e. it appears that only the Conservatives believes that we should have freedom and that the state should not control our lives, for example:

1. That the state should not take more and more of our hard earned money and decide how it is spent (and very often spend it far less efficiently than us)
2. That the state should not be allowed to tell us what we can or cannot do every minute of the day (and then ironically not deal very well with crime).
3. That the state should not tie us all up in ever increasing red tape and legislation whether you are a business, a teacher, a medical professional, a Police officer etc. etc.
4. That the state should not take it upon themselves to give away our sovereignty and rights to Europe without asking us first (and lets not forget the many who died in wars fighting for our rights and sovereignty).
5. The list goes on and on.

If the above is important to us it appears that the Conservatives are the only choice.
We know what Labour are about in terms of the state (we have seen it in practice for 13 years) and it looks like the Liberals are no different (just hopefully a lot nicer, cleaner and charming about it). PS I am not a troll btw just in case you were wondering

All the best of Albion eh?

Not wild pictland North of the Border.

(GB is not all the best of pictland, just in case you were wondering!)

Fick?
Greedy?
Both?

Tick The Blue Box!!!!

Weegie, I don't think anyone really cares much about tartanland, do you? Or those other odd bits stuck on the edges of our fine land.

Of course not!

We should all be English really, shouldn't we??

But you have your own little parliament now, don't you?

Ah yes we do that. Its very sweet. Just don't ever give us responsibility for anything important now, will you?

You didn't look after Mary Queen of Scots very well, did you? Or that one in the cave with the spider.

I do wonder why we have half devolution....SMPs can vote on English stuff...

Scottish MPs shouldn't be voting on English issues IMO. There should be devolution for England too!

It just seems all too 'front' and not enough power for both the Scottish and WEslh parliaments.

My God, I don't want to get embroiled in this 'thread' but just wanted to say that 'Weegie', I sincerely hope you are not a typical example of todays teachers , lots of sarcasm and even a threat of violence, I trust you wouldn't tolerate this behaviour from your charges???

I think one of the reasons that the Conservatives don't do too well up here is due to the fact that they seem too "English".

That and Thatcher and the Poll Tax of course!

Charges....I hate that word.

Weegie(sorry to defend you as I'm sure you're more than capable) is a person first and then a teacher. Her humourous Glaswegian smile was a written joke on the internet, not a physical threat. Good God Shea find something to worry about.

Sheas are you serious?

The threat of violence was a joke - I think Hully knew that (and if she didn't I'm sorry, but I thought we were having a bit of light-hearted banter).

I wasn't aware that teachers had to behave at all times and in all places as if they were in front of a class. You clearly don't know many teachers socially.

LOL at the OP pretending to be someone else AGAIN. It's the three question marks that did it, if you were wondering.

Re: sensible Tories; I'd like to give an honourable mention to smallwhitecat. Despite the fact she and i would struggle to agree which way is up, she always presents her arguments in a sensible, fact-based, and above all grammatical way...

Fliight wow you're good.

Actually I am quite a typical example, when I come to think of it.

Its hard to survive in today's secondary schools without a wee bit of sarcasm and a lot of healthy scepticism.

(I currently teach adults anyway, and we have a lot of banter!)

.... and you probably don't want to know what doctors are like off duty .....

They're filthy, i tell you! All that anatomical knowledge.

It has its upsides

Same part of the country, too...I wonder which came first.

I'm pretty impressed Fliight. I can never spot it.

I have phoned the police on you, Weegie. And victim support.

I'll just have to send the boys roond then.

We know where youse live!