What a refresh ing sensible post.
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General Election 2017
- Thread starter Giraffe
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What a refresh ing sensible post.
GT49er
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A fairly predictable response.....but the answer is still yes.
Have you ever voted for a political party because you agree with all of their policies? I very much doubt it - we vote for the party which supports most of the policies we would like to see implemented, or those that are most important.
Once we are safely disentangled from the EU, I fully expect to go back to voting Labour (although I do hope they will have got their house in order by then!)
- Apr 13, 2015
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The challenges that face all those and more, have existed long before Brexit process started, and of course did long before the Conservatives came back into govt.... so I am unsure what your point is.
Education, education, education, I remember the Labour statement in their 13 years in power. Just got large companies to build and refurbish schools and then rent them back at extortionate rates over 30 years.
Left the country in massive debt after doing the same with hospitals. In other words borrow up to the max.
Mr Banana
Tedious chump
studio150
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I think the United Kingdom Irrelevant Party is probably more apt.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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you can trot out tired old memes like this, fact is that 11million people voted Tory in the last election, and about 8-10m in the previous few. most of those millions of people are neither "rich", nor "dont care about other people", and don't recognise the left's caricature of Conservative voters. this is is why the current polling shows Labour so far behind, because more people are connecting with the message from May than the message from Corbyn.
JC Footy Genius
Bringer of TRUTH
- Jun 9, 2015
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mikeyjh
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It's even simpler, you can probably remove the 'Are you rich?', it all comes down to whether you care about the less fortunate. Got bollocked at work in my younger days for the statement that if you vote tory you're either selfish, or stupid, still stands true today though.
Jeeeeez, are you telling me you are no longer young, yet you still wrote that drivel ........
I don't understand how someone's opinion is drivel no matter what that opinion is or how it is expressed. It's simply one person's opinion and that is all.
Really, so my opinion that his opinion is drivel, what then ??
Where did I say your opinion was drivel. I stated his opinion was NOT drivel!!!
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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When do manifestos usually get published?
Perhaps this is unfashionable but I'll probably decide based on party policies.....
Perhaps this is unfashionable but I'll probably decide based on party policies.....
mikeyjh
Well-known member
It's true though isn't it, if you vote for the Tories out of self interest, I respect that. That's why we have shy tories though isn't it, because they are embarrassed about their self interested position. Then you have Tories who think that society as a whole is better off under them (I really don't they're are many of those), they're the stupid ones.
That kind of assumes the party that wins stands by their manifesto pledges though.