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Why is MN pro-labour?

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CanNeverDecide · 04/05/2010 23:19

I'm relatively new here, only posted a couple of times.

Not hard to notice it's all a bit hard core left on here...

Why is that? Genuinely curious to know why this particular cohort of people that have come together are pretty much all left wing.

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animula · 04/05/2010 23:21

Because we're nice people?

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CanNeverDecide · 04/05/2010 23:21

Nah, that can't be it.

Next!

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Spidermama · 04/05/2010 23:23

Hard core left? Labour certainly hasn't been 'hardcore left' for many years now.

I think a left wing bias is inevitable amongst thinking caring women like us. Perhaps there are enough people on here who grew up in the 80s under Thatcher and remember what dark times those were.

I don't know.

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CanNeverDecide · 04/05/2010 23:25

Hardcore left as in if you say anything vaguely pro Tory, you get shot down in flames.

I grew up under Thatcher and don't feel this way.

I think it's very strange and interesting, I really do.

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GrimmaTheNome · 04/05/2010 23:29

I wouldn't say it is, TBH. I suspect parenting forums self-select some non-statistically representative interest groups - MN probably has more parents with SN kids but also more in private schools than the population at large, for instance. So there will be threads where state help is vital and others where it might appear right wing. (I think I'm ballsing this up, too late for coherence, hope you get the drift!)

longfingernails · 04/05/2010 23:29

For some reason much of the Guardian reading chatterati find it incomprehensible that Thatcher was re-elected with stonking majorities three times.

People voted for her for a reason...

longfingernails · 04/05/2010 23:31

And those of us on the centre-right aren't in any doubt about why Tony Blair won so handsomely three times either...

Ewe · 04/05/2010 23:33

It's not pro-labour, last census had almost a dead even split between three main parties. Guess the labour supporters are just more vocal.

Molesworth · 04/05/2010 23:35

I've hidden noticed lots of pro-tory threads on here during the election campaign

GrimmaTheNome · 04/05/2010 23:36

I'm old enough to remember the dark times before Thatcher, though. Literally dark when the power went out. Thatcherism was bad but Old Labour, in thrall to the old unions was worse.

said · 04/05/2010 23:37

Aren't tory voters a bit shy about admitting who they vote for?

gaelicsheep · 04/05/2010 23:38

It's because we all remember the Thatcher years innit? Or our parents do. Or our next door neighbour but one. She ate children don't you know.

(Or you get the occasional ones like me who make up our own minds based on the here and now, and who don't trust GB and his lies as far as they can throw him).

atlantis · 04/05/2010 23:39

"Aren't tory voters a bit shy about admitting who they vote for? "

Thatcher.
Thatcher
Thatcher.

Or sorry, we left the 80's..

Cameron.
Cameron.
Cameron.

I'm not shy.

redbindippurs · 04/05/2010 23:40

It's probably the threads you've been looking at. Spend some time lurking around the "why won't my au pair do what she's told" type discussions.

choosyfloosy · 04/05/2010 23:40

Grimma do you mean the three-day week, under the Heath government? I may be wrong about what you mean because certainly there were other power cuts in the 70s! but I read another post on here a month or so ago ascribing the 3-day week wrongly to a Labour government.

GrimmaTheNome · 04/05/2010 23:41

She didn't eat kids, merely snatched their milk. And remembering 60s warm little milk bottles and the resultant puking, that was one policy I'd have supported

atlantis · 04/05/2010 23:44

Because it was sooooo trendy (cool Britannia and all that) to support labour?

GrimmaTheNome · 04/05/2010 23:44

I was blaming the unions, not labour government as such. They really did need sorting out, and unfortunately it took a Thatcher.

animula · 04/05/2010 23:45

A less flippant response ...

Yes, there are decent folk who are Conservative voters.

And There are lots of mn-ers who are Conservative. They are, generally, less vocal in talking about politics - in the politics section, at least.

Though you might want to try a search for "benefits" and "sterilisation" to find some more home-girls.

Though I'm sure a fair few Conservatives cringe at those.

And I suspect a lot of us here are finding refuge from the mainstream-media onslaught.

But I don't think that was the response you were after, really ... .

Spidermama · 04/05/2010 23:45

LOL @ the 'why won't my au pair do what she's told' threads.

jasper · 04/05/2010 23:45

It's not pro labour , just that the labour voters shout more loudly

Greensleeves · 04/05/2010 23:46

because most people with brainpower equal to or exceeding that of a geranium tend to see the common sense and human decency inherent in socialism?

sadly "left" and "labour" aren't synonymous, but all things are relative...

Spidermama · 04/05/2010 23:47

Exactly Greensleeves and it's my firm belief in socialist values which will lead me to vote Green on Thursday.

If I lived anywhere but Brighton Pav I would be voting Labour.

ooojimaflip · 04/05/2010 23:48

Short answer: It isn't.

animula · 04/05/2010 23:48

Jasper - we do not shout!

I think you'll find we type exquisite, reasoned, and often humorous prose.