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Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 21 Feb 16 12.02pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Originally posted by elgrande

I have voted Tory since I could vote,but this buch I despise with a vengeance.

They are everything the left have always called the Tories.
Public school I'm alright jacks.

I went to a good school and university which was awash with what "Public school" types. My daughter was educated in a private school.There are "All right jacks" in various facets of life NOT just those who have been educated away from the state sector.

 

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The Sash Flag Now residing in Epsom - How Posh 21 Feb 16 1.31pm Send a Private Message to The Sash Add The Sash as a friend

Labour / Conservatives - makes no difference.

Party based dogmatic, ideological, wholly partisan politics is no longer fit for purpose and those who inhabit it, benefit from it or enable it no longer serve the interest of the people it / they purport to represent.

It, along with the entire system it supports is archaic, elitist and need tearing down.

The entire charade is purely there for the corporate interest and to maintain the social status quo and insulate the ruling, corporate, civil, political and judicial elite.

 


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OldFella Flag London 21 Feb 16 2.38pm Send a Private Message to OldFella Add OldFella as a friend

Originally posted by Hoof Hearted

If the nation votes out, then surely it spells the end for Cameron/Osborne?

Someone like Boris can emerge as Tory leader and take us forward?

Or Willo

 


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Forest Hillbilly Flag in a hidey-hole 21 Feb 16 5.07pm Send a Private Message to Forest Hillbilly Add Forest Hillbilly as a friend

Originally posted by Hoof Hearted

If the nation votes out, then surely it spells the end for Cameron/Osborne?

Someone like Boris can emerge as Tory leader and take us forward?

In the event of a predicted 'out' vote for Europe, I would normally agree that the Government would become a lame duck.
However, the opposition parties are such a shower of shlt, I can't even see an 'out' vote shifting Cameron et al.

 


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jamiemartin721 Flag Reading 22 Feb 16 9.52am

Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly

In the event of a predicted 'out' vote for Europe, I would normally agree that the Government would become a lame duck.
However, the opposition parties are such a shower of shlt, I can't even see an 'out' vote shifting Cameron et al.

If there is an out vote, the subsequent attempts to 'remain in' in some form or another will divide the conservative party in the way it did in the 90s. Europe has always been a divisive issue in the Conservative Party.

There is no way they will abide by the referendum unless they absolutely have to.

 


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Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 22 Feb 16 9.58am Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Originally posted by OldFella

Or Willo

Don't turn this into a "WILLO Thread" !!!!

I shall refrain from passing comment on my beloved Conservative Party otherwise it will surely disintegrate into yet another tedious "WILLO Thread" and we have had enough of these already.

So my lack of any comment and response to the barbs and brickbats is for this reason and NOT because I agree with the vitriol directed at the party.

Thank You.

 

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jamiemartin721 Flag Reading 22 Feb 16 10.11am

Originally posted by Willo

I went to a good school and university which was awash with what "Public school" types. My daughter was educated in a private school.There are "All right jacks" in various facets of life NOT just those who have been educated away from the state sector.

In my experience, the 'I'm all right jack / kick away the ladder types' are far more common among people from a working class background who have done well for themselves - such as the upper working classes, and lower middle classes.

I know a lot of people who were privately educated and very few of them have the kind of arrogant disregard than people who have 'moved up the social ladder'.

 


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rob1969 Flag Banstead Surrey 22 Feb 16 5.33pm Send a Private Message to rob1969 Add rob1969 as a friend

Originally posted by jamiemartin721

In my experience, the 'I'm all right jack / kick away the ladder types' are far more common among people from a working class background who have done well for themselves - such as the upper working classes, and lower middle classes.

I know a lot of people who were privately educated and very few of them have the kind of arrogant disregard than people who have 'moved up the social ladder'.

Money can buy most things but definitely not good taste or consideration for others.

 

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-TUX- Flag Alphabettispaghetti 22 Feb 16 7.47pm Send a Private Message to -TUX- Add -TUX- as a friend

Originally posted by We are goin up!

I've been a member of the Conservatives since I was 16, have been on campaign trails, gone to party conference and have obviously always voted Tory. This isn't because I'm in favour of dog-eat-dog and am a racist, heartless b****** as many of us conservatives are portrayed. It's because I believe in conservative values like family, property ownership, decency, sovereignty and defence of the realm.

For the last few months I've been completely and utterly put off this toxic party which I used to support so fervently. The opposition that they have is so weak that they have an opportunity to not sell out their souls and revamp this country and take away dependency on the state.

What I see is nothing of the sort. This government is full of rhetoric and shallow on substance.

I do mortgage advice, and I'm seeing with my own eyes that their over regulation of mortgages and intervention in the market of Buy-to-Let isn't helping first time buyers in the slightest. It sounds good in the Guardian, but like most interventionist policy it doesn't actually work.

Their whole selling point is economic responsibility, and yet the budget deficit is still far, far too high. Far from fixing the roof when the sun is shining, which is what they accused Labour of failing to do, as soon as a positive economic forecast came out (ie in the latest Autumn statement) the Chancellor can go on what can only be called a spending spree. This, coupled with the absolute shambles that was the working tax credit saga, has convinced me that the guy has completely lost the plot. He should be sacked.

And the final straw...

Their "hard line on immigration" is a complete f*cking joke. Conservatives are meant to be against "big ideas" in the state, and free movement of people over borders is absolutely huge. How can they go through this phoney negotiation for EU membership, get NOTHING on immigration and look themselves in the mirror and their membership/country in the eye and say that we should stay? What a disgrace. Cameron has many achievements, but this EU farce will tarnish his reputation. Even if we vote to stay in it will be begrudgingly and IMO will not see the end of resentment towards the EU.

I've gone from not even thinking about who to vote for, to being one more f*ck up away from voting UKIP. F*ck em, if you alienate your core support as much as they are, you'll eventually see them leave for someone else.


They've become the new Blair and Brown, they only ever do things for tactical effect, rather than standing up for what they supposedly believe in.

My question is...

Is this how true Labourites feel about those two? A sense of near shame that they represented them? I'm starting to understand why they voted in Corbyn.


Why commit so much time and effort when any given party doesn't really rule the country? Business does.
You poor blinkered soul.

 


Time to move forward together.

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Nth Kent Eagle Flag Dartford 23 Feb 16 3.08pm Send a Private Message to Nth Kent Eagle Add Nth Kent Eagle as a friend

The referendum will be over by June and there will still be 4 year to the election. By then the focus will have moved on to jobs, housing, taxes and public services. Even if the Tories tear themselves apart in the next few months middlle class pensioners and blue collar Tories and UKIP supporters are still unlikely to switch to a Livingstone/MacDonnell, Corbyn government.

 

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tome Flag Inner Tantalus Time. 24 Feb 16 7.41pm Send a Private Message to tome Add tome as a friend

Originally posted by The Sash

Labour / Conservatives - makes no difference.

Party based dogmatic, ideological, wholly partisan politics is no longer fit for purpose and those who inhabit it, benefit from it or enable it no longer serve the interest of the people it / they purport to represent.

It, along with the entire system it supports is archaic, elitist and need tearing down.

The entire charade is purely there for the corporate interest and to maintain the social status quo and insulate the ruling, corporate, civil, political and judicial elite.

Which is why I found it so predictably depressing when the Lib Dems attempt at a proportional representation model was sunk.

There's always been a difference between what works and what's popular. There is often not much policy debate and instead a lot of mudslinging and gormless PR instead.

 


A one and a two...

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Ray in Houston Flag Houston 24 Feb 16 8.00pm Send a Private Message to Ray in Houston Add Ray in Houston as a friend

Originally posted by We are goin up!

I believe in conservative values like family, property ownership, decency, sovereignty and defence of the realm.


I used to be a conservative, but I no longer identify as such. What's funny is that the "values" you claim as "conservative" are no such thing; they're values held by the vast majority of people of every political stripe.

Right-wingers try to co-opt them in order to put down anyone who disagrees with their over-arching political goals, which have very little to do with any of those values and everything to do with securing and increasing the wealth of the wealthy.

 


We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

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