worsleyweb said:
Damocles said:
He's one of those UAF far left nutters. Bit of a loon to be honest.
I thought you were the leftist person on the forum? May I ask what is your genuine reaction to the result apart from shock, are you angry, apathetic?
My dad has just been on the phone and called me a judas Tory and put the phone down on me.
I probably am politically but he's one of those "crusading" types he thinks he's saving the world.
My reaction to the result outside of shock is one of excitement. This entire narrative of "good guys vs bad guys" is unbelievably stupid and I've never suggest that the Tories would be anything but good leaders. I said earlier in the thread that the Tories represent economic stability whilst Labour represented public good - the recovery from the economic crisis isn't over but I felt it was now at a point where we were stable enough to pay our debts responsibly whilst looking after the poorest around us. The electorate obviously didn't agree that we were stable enough and voted the Tories in to continue their economic recovery or to stop the SNP going into Government.
The excitement is for 2 reasons - firstly the state of politics in the country has just changed entirely with the resignation and results so there's much fun speculation to come. The bigger excitement for me though is to do with the polling (because I'm nothing if not a maths geek). Many people believe polls to be shite but they really aren't; the idea that statistical sampling doesn't work is somewhat ridiculous and nobody can possibly live their lives based on this. But the results speak for themselves. There's a thing about this "shy voter like in 1992" that people don't really understand - in 1992 the state of British polling was unbelievably poor and the polls were wrong because the polls were badly designed claptrap rather than people didn't want to say they were voting Tory. This election though was very different - every polling agency in the world got this wrong and are now covering themselves as best they can. The polls were reflective, the weighting was unbiased and sensible and the sampling was significant. The idea that people won't admit in advance to voting Tories but then come out and admit in an exit poll to voting Tory doesn't make any sense logically. What this means is that something went wrong, and nobody yet knows what that is so the investigation and post-mortem will be an exciting time.
In terms of the state of the country - personally me and my family will be fine and my business isn't one that will change in any way no matter who is in charge (unless they cut off the internet or absolutely destroy the pound). The other businesses I'm involved in are doing fine and can't imagine that anything will change in that regards. Socially I'm worried about what this means for the NHS but again the narrative of the Tories as these great big evil people coming to snatch away the NHS from the desperate serfs is a fabrication, people don't tend to be James Bond villains, only their presentation in the media is.
The European question is obviously quite important to me and there's a fight to come on that.
