Calling all Tories. Why do you Tory?

[Tb1981]

My view is let the best man win at the ballot and may the loser accept the result.

Well that’s gone well for the last few years!

 

[urban genie]

I 100% agree with that, as much as I despise Thatcher she never did anything approaching what this shower of cunts have done. What she did though mate was change the mindset from One Nation Conservatism (which i quite admire) to the neo-liberal Toryism we see today, Cameron, May and Johnson are all children of Thatcher who have taken her vision further. Blair had the majority and the support to reverse Thatcherism, but he failed as well in that regard and helped lay the foundations for what we are witnessing today.

Its not just on here though that there are people who will not condemn the callousness and irresponsibility of this Government, they are still polling above Labour. Its why i started this thread, I really want to understand why and how people can support Johnson, he has been comfortably the worst PM i have ever known and that includes Thatcher.

I watched a thing last night with Peter Oborne, the right wing newspaper columnist and at least he is scathing about Johnson and the lies he tells, so maybe the worm is starting to turn. I fucking hope because this country is going to hell in a handcart under this shower of cunts.

Disreali one nation conservatism, was porbably the closest they every came to having some empathy with their citizens daily grind, though it was still very much a heirarchy where you knew your place.

As for that witch, the only thing I can credit her for is that she actually believed in her ideolodlgy and stuck to it, none of this changing with wind and popular choice, a politician that stood by their (to me warped) principal, but.
She destroyed the postwar dream that Britain could be one that used capitalism in principle to grow while maintaining a socialist ideas and compassion for those not lucky enough to be in the power and resources-owning elite. In other words, she made Britain look a lot more like the US while fawning over ubercunt Reagan.
We are still suffering from this america-lite, neo-liberal approach, as societally we are not in tune with it, we have a heirarchy system and as much as any politician says they want to make us classless, that can only start at the top with removal of symbols of class such as a monarch, house of lords etc.
Blair & cameron, are products of the shift and if the inevitable crash hadn't happened we would still be enthralled with this ideology

But what we have seen more recently is a semi retrun to one nation conservatism, for someone like johnson it makes sense, give the lower classes some scraps some reforms and support as it keeps them sedated, while re-arfirming the patriacal need of an establishment to look after them. I do though believe unlike Disreali who thought it a duty to be PM, johnson saw his old rival cameron do it and became a goal rather than a conviction.

On a seperate note the last few years conseravatism leading up to and getting through brexit leaned heavily on their WDU campaign in the early 20th century playing upon nationalosm and fear of Britians soveriegnty, that campaign, at the time also became popular amongst the working class, so to assume it could happen again isn't calling anyone thick or easily impressionable, but just concerned with the future and being given a idealistcised and enticing answer to it.

 

[Ban-jani]

Christ, this is like pulling teeth. In the 2019 GE the Tories had approx 48% of the working class vote, and approx 43% of the middle/upper class vote. However, the working class accounted for a smaller proportion of the electorate than the other demographic, so 48% of a smaller group is not a greater amount of voters than 43% of a larger group, in terms of actual numbers. Hence why I disputed your claim that “the majority of people who voted Tory in 2019 were working class”. Surely this isn’t that difficult to comprehend?

Where did you get those statistics from?

It is like pulling teeth I am only going to give it one more go and then I am leaving it...

The study said the Tories have more votes from lower incomes than they do higher, so the people voting for them in lower income groups is the biggest group voting for them.

I have sent it 3 times now, hopefully you’ve slept on it and the beers have worn off ;-)

 

[SWP's back]

He’s decided on his opinion. It doesn’t matter what you think. He is right.

This is why we are where we are. “Intelligent” people run with a trend of thought and can “justify” it.

Social media is a curse on us all and isn’t going away.

Stretching it a bit.

 

[Ban-jani]

As per usual the forum bullies have shown up.

Utter saddos that follow people around the forum making snide comments because they cannot actually argue the point.

All of them have told me I’m on ignore to them but it’s obvious they cannot help but just read my posts, weirdos.

The reason I am right is because the study literally says this:

The Conservatives are now more popular with people on low incomes than high incomes.

 

[urban genie]

As per usual the forum bullies have shown up.

Utter saddos that follow people around the forum making snide comments because they cannot actually argue the point.

All of them have told me I’m on ignore to them but it’s obvious they cannot help but just read my posts, weirdos.

The reason I am right is because the study literally says this:

Only thing I could disagree with is you seem to be, and if you are not then appologise for my error.

But you seem to be equating C2DE as being only the working class, where 25% of those the NRS put into that catagory are considered middle class .

While 41% of ABC1 consider themselves working class



These stats are also from Yougov survey done just before the election.

So as can be seen bothe NRS and Yougovs own stats, though a good guide are not diffinative proof of anything.

One thing we do know is many in working class traditional areas voted to "get brexit done" I doubt the party who promised that would have mattered in Dec 2019.

Using usual means to measure the GE 2019 tory/lab political loyalty is pointless.

 

[Ban-jani]

Only thing I could disagree with is you seem to be, and if you are not then appologise for my error.

But you seem to be equating C2DE as being only the working class, where 25% of those the NRS put into that catagory are considered middle class .

While 41% of ABC1 consider themselves working class

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These stats are also from Yougov survey done just before the election.

So as can be seen bothe NRS and Yougovs own stats, though a good guide are not diffinative proof of anything.

One thing we do know is many in working class traditional areas voted to "get brexit done" I doubt the party who promised that would have mattered in Dec 2019.

Using usual means to measure the GE 2019 tory/lab political loyalty is pointless.

You make a very good point and I said on the other page it does depend on how we measure the working class, I have made my point via income group rather than self identification, as you could have someone from a working class area, who has moved to leafy Cheshire and is in the top 2% of income earners, still identifying as working class.

But then again, could CDE’s be the sons and daughters of an A and therefore be classed as middle class.

I do appreciate it’s complex but I feel the only real way we can do it is by judging higher income vs lower, because that gives us a decent idea of who’s voting what based on their current situation.

Anyway I appreciate the reply, maybe the forum bullies could read it and learn how to post like adults.

 

[Chris in London]

That is utter nonsense that says you mustn't have been around at the
time, and you are simply telling us what your political views are, and
reinforcing that with dreamt up scenarios that are far from the truth.
I'm not going into a discussion about Thatcher, but if you were a family
at the early part of her tenure, the social security rates were far lower, pro
rata than today, the rates were the same as when Labour left.
You really struggled then, todays social security rates are far above those, it's very easy to go to you gov, type in a typical family, and the rates
are clearly displayed. I agree that the Universal Credit caused. and still
is in some cases. problems, but it's a far more efficient system than before.

Bore off you utter twerp.

I was replying to Rascal.

I said if YOU were to write a post about what was wrong with Thatchers government. Ie if RASCAL was. Upset you did it, that some people don’t see your idol the way you do? Bless.

Social security rates have always been low, for obvious reasons, but whatever other criticisms can be made of Thatcher’s government, and whatever else she privatised, she never privatised the obligation to feed the people who couldn’t feed themselves.

Your world view seems to be that sending people to the charitable sector so they can feed themselves is a good thing. Do tell me if I’m wrong about that. And do explain why it is acceptable for the government to fail in that most basic duty.

 

[Chris in London]

I already did.

The Tory’s 2020 January budget was the biggest investment in public spending since about 2005.

Their furlough scheme is the most left wing economic policy in the lives of anyone on this forum, obviously in an emergency.

That’s twice in two nights that you posted some utter bollocks after posting some sensible stuff throughout the day. Maybe it’s time to step away from the keyboard when you’ve had a drink.

I’m sure in the cold light of day you appreciate that nothing that you posted, and nothing you could ever post, justifies the government of the day in not feeding its people.

 

[Ban-jani]

That’s twice in two nights that you posted some utter bollocks after posting some sensible stuff throughout the day. Maybe it’s time to step away from the keyboard when you’ve had a drink.

I’m sure in the cold light of day you appreciate that nothing that you posted, and nothing you could ever post, justifies the government of the day in not feeding its people.

Rather than deploying the tactics of the bullies on here, why don’t you actually say what’s wrong with my post and try and counter it?

The early 2020 budget, before Covid was the highest increase in public spending since Blair’s government. It’s not a controversial statement at all, it’s the truth.

Rishi Sunak ditched a decade of Conservative economic orthodoxy on Wednesday and claimed the Tories were now “the party of public services,” as he turned on the spending taps with a £30bn package that leaves Britain on course to have a bigger state than under Tony Blair’s Labour governments.

Budget 2020: Rishi Sunak turns on taps with £30bn splurge

Chancellor announces £12bn to fight coronavirus and £18bn on ‘levelling up’ in reversal of Tory orthodoxy

www.google.co.uk

Your problem is you’ve convinced yourself the Tories want to starve people to death and you cannot look beyond that. So when I give you facts that show there’s a difference between Cameron’s government and this one, you can’t see beyond your own red mist.

For the record I had a drink last night but I wasn’t really pissed. You’ve got no excuse to post the above at this time.

Now do you want to try and tell me why it’s bollocks and I am wrong, or do you want to continue shouting at me?