Lefties: What are you going to do on May 7 if the Tories get in?

[allegrageller]

because I think I am going to organise a mass black-clad march of teachers, nurses, mental health workers and all other good low-paid people of this earth to Downing Street chanting 'we who are about to be sacked salute you'

either that or I shall just follow my original plan as per the depressed lefties thread which was to tar and feather myself and go around the streets of SE London in a cart with a bell shouting 'bring out your dead public sector workers'.

Which do you prefer? Any ideas of your own?

I shall be wearing the badge I got shortly after 1992 saying "Don't blame me I didn't vote Tory" then I'll hope and bloody pray my DD doesn't leave school and face the shit I did in the 80's that worries me greatly with who ever gets into power.

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Lenin, if it all gets bad by 11pm I'm just going to take a bottle of something strong (hemlock??) to bed and pray for temporary oblivion.

Magenta we need someone to make some more badges don't we...

I'll be hiding all the unbearably smug threads from unbearably smug political trolls and weeping into my pillow.

I'm going to be sick. Physically sick. I feel ill already especially after seeing my local twat Tory candidate strut to my front door and tell me that there was only one way to vote.

well, i amd fortunate enough to be in a win win situation.

if tories lose - i am over the moon

if tories win, they make poor people poorer for a decade, which guarentees me a job pretty much for the rest of life

poor old dh though works for a council - he is convinced they will get rid of middle management first - so i worry for him. but on balance tories screw over poor people = custy keeping job.

I will be sad and will avoid this place as it will be overrun with smug tories.

Cry. And sort out my CV...

I think I'm just going to cry for about a month and then move abroad.

cry a lot
then find some small comfort in the idea that

1. getting elected this time is a poisoned chalice and whoever wins is likely to be booted out unceremoniously next GE
2. it will give Labour the chance to regroup

am pretty sure it will be a hung parliament tbh, but that may be just delaying the inevitable.

I will weep and despair. I seriously don't know what we will do. I will probably have to work, against doctors orders, then I'll get ill. No idea where the kids will go while I work as they are abolishing the free nursery hours. No idea where I would work. I live in the NE, still suffering from the last Tory government. So, I stay at home, we can't afford the rent with less tax credits, minimum wage and so on, where do we go then?

I am SERIOUSLY worried.

I'll be very sorry for the UK. Sadly, I'm in a much worse situation.

Um OP I'm not sure I would class teachers as low paid workers any more... and I am one so I should know.

cry here too... and another one who will need to sort out her cv and put ttc on hold even longer (I'm 33 so not much longer left!)

custardo, but surely all the people who work to help the poor will be sacked anyway due to it being the poor's responsibility to look after themselves and feed their starving dependents, etc. Unless you're a prison warder- I reckon the prisons will be filling up under DC

yeah possibly patience...am not a secondary school teacher, am in higher ed and we get paid less....
guess teachers may enter ranks of the low(er) paid under DC tho. Labour's education focus, utterly flawed though it was, at least guaranteed that schools and thus teachers got budgeted for.

i agree that the prisons will be filling up under DC - far easier to lock them all up than try to solve the problem at the root!

they can't get in ......nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Come on folks! We musn't give up yet. It's not over. We can make a difference. Please, please, please - get on the phone, email or over the hedge and SPEAK to people. No-one trusts the media but they do trust friends and family. Make sure they are voting. Every vote and every seat will count. Make sure they know how AWFUL it will be if those Tories get in. Some of us remember the 80s and 90s. Aaaaaagh!

dh works in a really successful open prison. Really successful in terms of reducing reoffending rates. There have been hints from the Tories that open prisons will become closed and of course the inevitability of the complete privatisation of the prison system. God it's depressing

cry......then possibly get drunk

They won't get overall control of parliament. So really regrouping and preparing for an autumn battle is the way to go.

Allegra, you can stop in at my house in Catford. I will be weeping and whimpering faintly in the corner, muttering 'it's the return of the Evil Toffs'.