Reply to: Conservatives

[minestrone]

What I find annoying si that both the Conservatives and Lib Dems hold many values that I share, but I only get one vote.

Just make up a lodger staying at your place, everyone does it

I think the LDs will be king makers this election but will refuse to officially align themselves to either party. It all turned pear shaped for them in Scotland aligning with Labour and they won't trust the tories.

[BrowneIssue]

If AndyW was standing as a Tory, then...

[Solidec]

What I find annoying si that both the Conservatives and Lib Dems hold many values that I share, but I only get one vote.

I would not dare abstain from voting for fear of letting Labour back in again, so I have to choose between the two.

At present my values and beliefs combined with the royal poo that the British Economy and Society is in pushes me towards the conservatives.

They have the proven track record on the economy and don't pander after Europe or the PC crown anywhere near as much as Labour and the Liberals do.

So they will get my vote both this June and next year. I just hope my faith and trust is not proven ill-placed!

p.s. as an aside, I do wonder what specficially it is about George Osbourne that so many people find repulsive, other than his funny toff nose and the fact he was a Bullingdon Club member (neither of which are reasons to hold him in contempt btw)

[Moscow Mule]

SA wins the brown nose of the day award

Must be the Xenical...

[Ruprect]

Expat, I do genuinely believe you to be the wisest man I have ever come accross.

Everything you say is just pure thought out, considered, sense.



(I wish we had a bowing "we're not worthy" smilie)

SA wins the brown nose of the day award

[Doggy Styles]

didn't i explicitly say NO thatcher and NO socialism on this thread?

entropy, CUK style....

I think they're ignoring you. You-know-who has waded in now.

[expat]

Expat, I do genuinely believe you to be the wisest man I have ever come accross.

Everything you say is just pure thought out, considered, sense.



(I wish we had a bowing "we're not worthy" smilie)

Thank you. But I could still be wrong.....

[SallyAnne]

I am not drawn to them at all. Repelled, more. I am tempted to give them a protest vote, because of my growing distaste for Labour, in particular New Labour. But in my rational moments I do not see how I could ever vote for the Tories, at least not if they don't repudiate Thatcher.

If OTOH they are and remain the party of Thatcher, they can never get my vote.

Edit: I am in favour of libertarianism and democracy; fiscal conservatism and spending where needed; small government but concerned and humane government; business sense and community intervention: I do not see those in CON any more than in LAB.

Expat, I do genuinely believe you to be the wisest man I have ever come accross.

Everything you say is just pure thought out, considered, sense.



(I wish we had a bowing "we're not worthy" smilie)

[gingerjedi]

Splitter.

Don't try and pigeon hole me man.

[Old Greg]

So I'm a Social Anarchist.

Splitter.

[Ruprect]

Fixed your link.

So I'm a Social Anarchist.

Note the conspicuous lack of any successful implementation

[lambrini_socialist]

I was adversely affected by Thatcherite policies (redundancy and a long time out of work in the mid-eighties) but I don't hate them.

I looked further than "me", understood why those policies had to happen, and got on with it. Nobody owed me a living.

As a former Young Socialist, the mid-eighties was when I grew up, and realised what a lot of bollocks and hot air much of socialism is.

didn't i explicitly say NO thatcher and NO socialism on this thread?

entropy, CUK style....

[Doggy Styles]

I wonder if it's only people/families who were adversely affected by Thatcherite policies that hate the conservatives?

I was adversely affected by Thatcherite policies (redundancy and a long time out of work in the mid-eighties) but I don't hate them.

I looked further than "me", understood why those policies had to happen, and got on with it. Nobody owed me a living.

As a former Young Socialist, the mid-eighties was when I grew up, and realised what a lot of bollocks and hot air much of socialism is.

[gingerjedi]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism

Fixed your link.

So I'm a Social Anarchist.

[Old Greg]

Could there be such a thing as a 'libertarian socialist'? I don't mind the idea of everyone being looked after... as long as they're prepared to pull their bloody weight and don't tell me how I should live my life.

http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...rian_socialism