Have you ever voted Tory?
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untethered
For industry & decency
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
That's not the question I asked! I asked how did you, a person younger than me, get got for Poll Tax when the Poll Tax was abolished before I was old enough to be on the register!
Lea
Well-Known Member
Oh is that what their latest stance is? I'm a bit out of date then. I just had a look on their website and it doesn't say anything about their policy on Europe.
Yup, first time I was eligible, 1979, Thatcher.
But never voted Tory since and if I’m asked ‘But WHY???!!!’, I can’t even remember. Maybe I was into the Jam or something and got the Union Jack message all wrong. I know my folks were horrified. Maybe another reason.
Sorry.
But never voted Tory since and if I’m asked ‘But WHY???!!!’, I can’t even remember. Maybe I was into the Jam or something and got the Union Jack message all wrong. I know my folks were horrified. Maybe another reason.
Sorry.
untethered
For industry & decency
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
I've never voted for either Tory or New Labour (fell for Blair at first and would've if I'd been old enough in '97)
I've never voted for either of them. I never bought into Blair and always saw what he was about from the start, tbh. I can remember predicting what would likely happen under a Blair govt and few people wtning to know. Most either suported his rightwing agenda or deluded themselves into thinking he couldn't possibly mean it and would be different once in office.
Fisher_Gate
Active Member
Never. Labour x c.35 times, Respect x 3, Green x 2. Labour this year.
Only missed voting once in over 30 years - thought polling station was open until 10pm 30 years ago. Tory got elected. Never made that mistake again.
Only missed voting once in over 30 years - thought polling station was open until 10pm 30 years ago. Tory got elected. Never made that mistake again.
In terms of national leaders my general election votes have been
Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, Neil Kinnock, Tony Blair, William Hague, Tony Blair.
Apart from Neil they all look like slightly mad choices in retrospect. Why Tory that time - a confused protest against the Yugoslav war and general irritation at the governments political correctness and tobacco tax hikes and this and that and the other....
All local authority elections and GLC and GLA elections have been Labour.
London Mayor has been Liberal Democrat with no second pref then UKIP-Labour. It will be Boris this time with no second preference. GLA is undecided.
Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, Neil Kinnock, Tony Blair, William Hague, Tony Blair.
Apart from Neil they all look like slightly mad choices in retrospect. Why Tory that time - a confused protest against the Yugoslav war and general irritation at the governments political correctness and tobacco tax hikes and this and that and the other....
All local authority elections and GLC and GLA elections have been Labour.
London Mayor has been Liberal Democrat with no second pref then UKIP-Labour. It will be Boris this time with no second preference. GLA is undecided.
Das Uberdog
remembers the alamo
You're frickin' old.
I only ever voted once and that was for Labour when they last got in. I had a load of rows with a friend who told me I was wrong because there was more chance of a revolution if the tories got in again. He was so right I can't believe it but I'll never forget when Neil Kinnock blew the previous election with his incredibly stupid 'Well alright' hollerin at some dozy televised conference when they were sure to win.
I was on the Bromley Road the next morning and you had all these Rolls Royces and Bentleys etc honking their horns at each other and waving out their windows at each other .. fuckin sickening.
I was on the Bromley Road the next morning and you had all these Rolls Royces and Bentleys etc honking their horns at each other and waving out their windows at each other .. fuckin sickening.
frogwoman
Let them eat newts
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I'm embarassed to say that voting "Labour" in '97 was an uninformed impulse on the way to the polling station. I'd consistently voted Liberal over the past 20 years as a quasi-Green option. While the Tories were solidly in power I'd felt my vote was not going to make a difference anyway...
I voted "Labour" a second time in 2001 because it seemed "the right thing to do."
Then 9/11 happened, followed by two wars I hadn't voted for ... took much too long for the penny to drop. I was ill in bed and appropriately feverish with a kidney infection while CNN were covering the Iraq invasion and I remember waiting for them to find the chemical weapons ..... I spent so much time fighting my own demons over the past 30 years that even the Thatcher era and the Falklands had been a meaningless blur...
So the shit represented by the changeling Blair didn't get my vote in 2005.
(Am I the only one to notice that the inner circle of this government all have a peculiar way of speaking ?)
I wish I wasn't living in a safe "Labour" seat with a parachuted MP, so the party reps would come knocking and I could tell them all to fuck off - and why.
From now on I won't worry about voting for people who truly represent my priorities, but have absolutely no chance of winning, because it appears to make no difference whether it's Labour or Tory who are in power.
Fisher_Gate
Active Member
So what?
I'm amazed that with your limited brain power you were able to work that out by the way.
Maybe one day you'll grow up and post something sensible.Yes, but I didn't inhale.
goneforlunch
Member
I've voted Tory (and Labour) but I'm a lot wiser now, and I was never foolish enough to vote Lib Dem.
If the choices are limited to those three and the BNP, I'll spoil my ballot paper. It'll be an independent or a minor party as a protest vote for me.
If the choices are limited to those three and the BNP, I'll spoil my ballot paper. It'll be an independent or a minor party as a protest vote for me.
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
Yes, in local elections before Maggie Thatcher came to power and centralised everything.
In British elections I've never voted Tory, Labour or Liberal.
Always I gave my vote to the SNP.
Always I gave my vote to the SNP.
Das Uberdog
remembers the alamo
*repeat post*.
Das Uberdog
remembers the alamo
So what?
I'm amazed that with your limited brain power you were able to work that out by the way.
You mean, maybe one day I'll grow up to be just as old as you?
And the answer is 'no', I won't. I'll kill myself first.
Youth > Maturity
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Can we get a signed doc?
Das Uberdog
remembers the alamo
The point is, you still have a long-ass wait. I mean, I know you don't have much to do with your life Mr. Keyboard Warrior, but I seriously didn't think everything was so bad you'd be willing to just sit around waiting for me to die.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I was hoping that you'd kill yourself frankly. But you edited somethng in about that. Still, a career in the professions awaits you - and your family will be proud. Good luck on your future ideological domination of the proles.
Nice!
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Soulman's weekend weepy - check the theory forum later, around 1am.
You've made a death threat and told someone that you hoped they'd killed themself.
And to think I get accused of being a twat...
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Das Uberdog
remembers the alamo
Yeah soulman, pinny and I have a complicated relationship. Basically, he is an intellectual peon, completely intimidated by my superior cognitive capabilities. In such a situation, the occasional hormonal outbursts ("I wish you would just die!") though ungracious, are understandable. He does, after all, have to justify to himself his existence in a world alongside myself and other less 'rationally challenged' individuals.
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