What would turn you into a Tory?

[Murphy Jnr 10]

Been thinking about it and I like blue.

[Balpin 12]

If I voted I would vote tory - Labour are crazier than rats in a s***house, too much political correctness and all the nutters who agree with it, besides that I cant stand Ed Millibands voice and his poxyness !

 

Keep on topic please, we are here to slate the tories.

The question does not mention labour at all.

Please keep your prejudices to another thread.

[taxman 12]

Been thinking about it and I like blue.

 

So what are you happy about re the current situation? The VAT hike? The high inflation? The growing unemployment? Which particular policy is rocking your boat?

[janie48 98]

i actually prefer Cameron to Milliband,but i still wouldn't vote Tory.

[Murphy Jnr 10]

So what are you happy about re the current situation? The VAT hike? The high inflation? The growing unemployment? Which particular policy is rocking your boat?

 

I'm not but things are being dealt with and as history has shown, a change in government generally insures a complete turnaround. Continuity in my opinion might be what's needed. I don't have the political insightful minds that some of you have to weigh up all the options so I have to go with what I see as a direction.

[0114owl1867 10]

Keep on topic please, we are here to slate the tories.

The question does not mention labour at all.

Please keep your prejudices to another thread.

 

touchy touchy

[chem1st 10]

I'm not but things are being dealt with and as history has shown, a change in government generally insures a complete turnaround. Continuity in my opinion might be what's needed. I don't have the political insightful minds that some of you have to weigh up all the options so I have to go with what I see as a direction.

 

http://www.purpleparty.com/

[Murphy Jnr 10]

http://www.purpleparty.com/

 

Yeah but purple

[janie48 98]

http://www.purpleparty.com/

 

thats the Party for me.

[manofstrad 10]

What would turn me into a Tory?

 

It's quite straightforward, the thing that would turn me into a Tory is if Tory policies benefitted my ends. By the same token if Labour were in my favour I would vote for them..... Are any of us any different? Be honest:)

[Rich 12]

What would turn me into a Tory?

 

It's quite straightforward, the thing that would turn me into a Tory is if Tory policies benefitted my ends. By the same token if Labour were in my favour I would vote for them..... Are any of us any different? Be honest:)

 

If I could get a job under current Tory Government policies on employment, I'd vote for them in a pinch! FACT! As it is, I can't.

[Rupert_Baehr 10]

Keep on topic please, we are here to slate the tories.

The question does not mention labour at all.

Please keep your prejudices to another thread.

 

The problem is (IMO) that in the UK, you have the choice of voting Tory or voting Labour. (If there is no clear winner and you voted Liberal, you are likely to get [most of] the policies of whichever of the other two parties the Lib Dems manage to join up with.)

 

I suspect that many people vote against a party, rather than for a party.

 

Or they simply do not bother to vote.

 

Each of the parties (and some of the minor parties) has policies I am inclined to support, but none of them would get my wholehearted support.

 

If, of course, I could vote for a representative - as opposed to somebody who will do what the party bosses tell him or her - then I would vote for a representative who would be likely to consider my views and the views of his/her constituents.

 

Andyofborg quoted Edmund Burke in another thread: "...it ought to be the happiness and glory of a Representative, to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgement, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you; to any man,..."

 

Perhaps the words in bold are why we have political parties. In Burke's day it may have been the case that MPs were wise people who held 'unbiassed opnions', were capable of 'mature judgement' and had enlightened consciences' - or than again, it may not.

 

We are all aware (because many of them have told us) that nowadays, MPs aren't particularly bright, are incapable of mature judgement and (though they didn't say so in as many words) lack an 'enlightened conscience.'

 

How many of the people who were supposed to be running the country could not manage to fill in an expense claim form properly? - Not the sharpest tools in the box, are they?