Someone please explain to me why you would vote Tory.

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by tommygoldy, May 8, 2015.

  1. I'd hope so, having only half an arse would be a bit of a handicap.
     
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  2. Baysearcher

    Baysearcher [secret moderator]

    2 positives in one post!
     
  3. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    Typical labour voters, bad losers
     
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  4. Merlin Cat

    Merlin Cat Moderator

    You have been brainwashed by the media into thinking that all people on benefits are work shy scroungers, that the NHS is poorly run and would be run more efficiently by private business, that city bankers are accountable, that multi national companies who pay v little tax and give zero hours contracts are somehow worth bowing down to lest they go elsewhere, that the working classes will fare better under a govt that rewards greed and selfishness and appears to favour divide and rule :)
     
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  5. This threads going downhill quicker than the support for the Lib Dems.
     
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  6. Cool, what do you want me to do now?
     
  7. Hello - 25% VAT - Twenty.......Five! That's on top of the trillions extra they have borrowed - all this after cutting spending!
     
  8. sANDYbAY

    sANDYbAY On benefits-won't sponsor!

    Hear hear.
     
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  9. Bend over.
     
  10. The NHS is poorly run but moreover it is overworked and that is the main issue.
    Zero hours contracts? It was called casual labour when I was a lad and there was nowt wrong with it back then.
    I'm with you on the Tax dodging coffee makers and the conniving W bankers but the working classes (at least the ones that work for me) WILL now be better off and that is a FACT, not something a bloke told me in the pub or was printed in the Grauniad. (sic)
     
  11. Lack of honesty would be part of the problem. The Blair / Brown Government ran the country, not the banks, and they screwed it up. It hardly inspires confidence to do that and then try and blame someone else. Lack of accountability and lack of willingness to accept that they made mistakes in the past has cost Labour big time. For me, it's not about higher taxes (I voted Lib Dem and their tax policies would cost me personally a lot more than the Tories will for the next 5 years), it's about economic credibility. Labour in its Milliband incarnation does (did) not have economic credibility, so people voted Tory..
     
  12. I saw one he looked like this.
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  13. So, you are clearly in favour of more spending, so where does the more spending money come from? Another reason the Tories won - Labour promised more spending, but was never convincing about how this spending would be paid for apart from by borrowing more). Of course, the Tories had their own economy with the truth in terms of their sums not adding up, but they don't have the economic baggage that Labour have in terms of past mistakes.

    The most honest party in terms of policy were the Lib Dems, who openly said that more spending would have to be paid for by higher taxes to avoid continued borrowing. That went down well with the electorate, as evidenced by the results. Seems we collectively want something for nothing.
     
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  14. Merlin Cat

    Merlin Cat Moderator

    Indeed overworked, but from friends who have worked in the NHS for over 25 yrs they say they could earn more coming back as agency workers. And from ward managers the hospitals would be paying less out for full time employees and hopefully develop continuity and loyalty. Surely employing more NHS staff there would be more staff with less expenditure.

    Casual labour was there when I was younger, student jobs and temp agency work. However, you still tended to get more than day to day, also if it was day to day you knew it before you started and it was via an agency not the actual company.

    I think I will prob be ok under the Tories but I'd sooner not have I'm Alright Jack attitude that society seems to favour these days :)

    I'm worried that there are some sort of invisible thought waves being sent out in the Chipping Norton area :) I shall be phoning my dad tomorrow to check out his thinking :)
     
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  15. Liberals lied about tuition fees & back tracked on all their policies when they got in bed with this shower!
     
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  16. Saw this a week ago. Evasive or what?
     
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  17. Baysearcher

    Baysearcher [secret moderator]

    Political party in breaking promises shocker.

    They're all a shower of sh1te. The blues are just our current shower of sh1te.
     
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  18. CollyP

    CollyP Moderator

    This is what I love about TLB! :)

    Everyone is playing nicely, and there are people from all walks of life, with different opinions on most matters - today / tomorrow / yesterday is about politics - who knows what it will be next week.

    The only things we originally had in common are dodgy old vans from the '70s (and maybe very early '80s)

    It is why my online viewing is as follows; TLB, Facebook and BBC News.
    It really gives a broad spectrum of opinion. For those who think that my facebook is just full of similar people, I was called "a total arse" by my sister earlier for my voting preference :)
     
  19. She was right.
     
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