Yep, the Tories introduced gay marriage and gay adoption with little grass roots support. It's under the Tories that the LGBT 'relationships' stuff now gets taught to children as a 'British value'.....with families not allowed to pull their children out of those classes.

It was the Tories who allowed one million immigrants into the country in a year, significantly topping anything Blair did when he decided to rub the British right noses in diversity.

Despite opposing it in opposition the Tories haven't overturned any of the free speech restrictions and 'protected classes' definitions the left imposed onto the country.

Indeed, it's under the Tories that new free speech restrictions are being imposed. The Tories are all about talking tough to their base and then implementing much of Labour's social programmes when they are actually in power.

At this point anyone who thinks the Tories are anymore than the left ten or twenty years ago is deluding themselves.

We don't have a popular right wing party in this country. Indeed, on social issues we have two main parties that pretend to be different but in reality represent a 'uniparty'.

Their arguments are entirely financial....The Tories only really care about house prices....You could call it the 'house price' party and be more accurate than 'Conservative'.

Still, I don't regard the Tories as financially responsible anymore considering what they did on Covid and this Ukraine war.....something that only a few of us on here recognise as putting this country in danger.....That emergency phone alarm wasn't done for no reason. We now live under higher risk from several directions. Personally, I can say I never supported the decisions that led here.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

If anybody does not believe that Sunak is setting the Tories on a path to utter destruction come the next election then please educate me otherwise?

Because this is beyond f***ed up...

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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Agree with much of the above - neither party are representing their bases currently. The whole system is in desperate need of reform and I don't see myself voting for either party any time soon.

I hate this Tory party and should be a bloody easy vote for Labour to win, but they are offering nothing but 'more of the same, we'll just do it slightly more competently'.

It's not surprising the greens performed well in the local elections - people are desperate for any sort of alternative.

Back to Tory bashing...

JRM all but admitting that the new Voter ID requirements were an attempt at voter suppression (he called it Gerrymandering, but it's not really that);

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I'm sure all the free speech champions will be outraged by this.

I wouldn't call Dianne Abbott a 'monster' plus it's not her party she is just a representative of it.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Greens doing well and would be a good choice in my view.

As an intro the party's ideology combines environmentalism with left-wing economic policies, including well-funded and locally controlled public services. It advocates a steady-state economy with the regulation of capitalism, and supports proportional representation.

You may even be able to go for a swim.