Why shouldn't I vote for the Tories?

[Lord Bracknell]

They majority of both of them are private schoolboys who are in it to keep themselves in power and rich. Tell me how can they represent the people in Britain if they are from a very select section of British society? They may go about the details differently but the outcome will be the same: the rich get richer, the rest get poorer and the next set of public schoolboys will take over the baton to oppress, sorry govern, the next generation.
What we need is a party which consists of people from all areas of British society so that it can actually speak for the people they represent!

At least Miliband went to a comprehensive school.

 

[ThePompousPaladin]

I get that the big parties are losing support, so how the hell did AV not get the go ahead? The electorate talks the talk but is not prepared to accept willingly a coalition government.

Fear of change.
Better the devil you know etc.

 

[Don Quixote]

Vote for whoever you want. I doubt anyone on an internet message board will be able to convince you either way.

 

[Beach Hut]

I'm sure the top 500 richeet in the UK alone could fix a few things.

I doubt that as a lot of those people are not UK nationals

 

[yxee]

Tell me how can they represent the people in Britain if they are from a very select section of British society?

Tell me why does their school mean that they cannot represent people? What lesson do private schools miss out that leaves people unprepared to represent people?

Did any of us chose our secondary school? Why can a person not be judged on the outcome from the school rather than the school itself?

The problem is not the party leaders' educations, it is your own bigotry.

 

[Bladders]

Vote Labour, get the SNP.

shudder ....

 

[Mr Bridger]

I do chuckle when the blame game kicks in, Tories blaming labour for the financial crash, the left blaming everything on the rich and then ultimately right back to Thatcher , who apparently started the whole thing!
In modern day football terms it's like an " assist", when you can eventually trace all those passes back to the "lad" Thatcher who kicked off.
I'd like to see the day when on PMQ's an opposition leader stands up and agrees with the opposite party about a policy that is for the good of the people of this country and not the polar opposite for the sake of votes and just for the sake of opposition.

 

[The Birdman]

How is the NHS in Wales i Believe it run by Labour ! We will need to continue to keep putting money into the NHS as we discovery new cures and increasing population and increasing ageing population ( WSU ) But it's not just money it's how we organise this massive organisation its not easy . I salute our workers in the NHS.

 

[Ludensian Gull]

Could you really bear to look at Ed Milliband's mouth as he contorts his lips around the English language

No different than looking at the smug face of Cameron

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Tell me why does their school mean that they cannot represent people? What lesson do private schools miss out that leaves people unprepared to represent people?

Did any of us chose our secondary school? Why can a person not be judged on the outcome from the school rather than the school itself?

The problem is not the party leaders' educations, it is your own bigotry.

Errr .... yes, I did. That said I agree with your point entirely.

 

[Deleted member 22389]

Get on my nerves with the current political parties, if we get in we will do this. Not one political party has made a single effort to promote manufacturing in this country for so many years. How about turning the focus to building industrial estates and helping manufacturing companies get on their feet, re-invest in mechanical engineers and our young people, and bring the focus to buying our own goods.

Makes me sick when I see them celebrating the fact that the largest container ship arrives in the UK stacked high of electronic and electric goods, shame we are not celebrating the fact this container ship is going to other way full of our own goods.

Don't care how much they go on about this so called great economy, great economy in what? Someone please tell me. Our economy is just about buying things, not making things. I know we can't turn the clock back to old days but we can certainly do a lot better than what we are doing.

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

..because you're not a part of the richest 1% in the country that the Tories look out for?

Because the last Labour government made everyone so much better off financially!!!!. They inherited a strong economy from the Tories in 1997 and then handed it back in 2010 with the county on the brink of economic collapse. Labour have demonstrated that they can't be trusted with the British economy. I can't think of one time when they have been in power in the last 50 years that there has not been huge financial problems cause by there economic mismanagement.

 

[drew]

Because the last Labour government made everyone so much better off financially!!!!. They inherited a strong economy from the Tories in 1997 and then handed it back in 2010 with the county on the brink of economic collapse. Labour have demonstrated that they can't be trusted with the British economy. I can't think of one time when they have been in power in the last 50 years that there has not been huge financial problems cause by there economic mismanagement.

You seem to have forgotten that right up to the global meltdown, the deficit was, as a percentage of GDP, relatively stable and below 40%, less than during Major's government. Furthermore, can you explain exactly what the Tories would have done to a) prevent Global meltdown of economies and, failing that, b) how they would have handled the crisis differently and what the repercussions of that would have been. If you want to isolate facts without looking at the bigger picture, we can argue that national debt has risen from £0.76 Trillion in 2010 to an expected £1.36 Trillion in 2015.

In 2010, the Tories inherited an economy that was in recovery but they successfully turned that around.



I think your opening line pretty much sums it up. It seems to you it is all about you being better of financially rather than society as a whole.

 

[Common as Mook]

Tell me why does their school mean that they cannot represent people? What lesson do private schools miss out that leaves people unprepared to represent people?

Did any of us chose our secondary school? Why can a person not be judged on the outcome from the school rather than the school itself?

The problem is not the party leaders' educations, it is your own bigotry.

Absolutely right.

 

[drew]

I do chuckle when the blame game kicks in, Tories blaming labour for the financial crash, the left blaming everything on the rich and then ultimately right back to Thatcher , who apparently started the whole thing!
In modern day football terms it's like an " assist", when you can eventually trace all those passes back to the "lad" Thatcher who kicked off.
I'd like to see the day when on PMQ's an opposition leader stands up and agrees with the opposite party about a policy that is for the good of the people of this country and not the polar opposite for the sake of votes and just for the sake of opposition.

Or a Prime Minister that answers a question from the opposition without resorting to personal abuse.

 

[Soulman]

Because the last Labour government made everyone so much better off financially!!!!. They inherited a strong economy from the Tories in 1997 and then handed it back in 2010 with the county on the brink of economic collapse. Labour have demonstrated that they can't be trusted with the British economy. I can't think of one time when they have been in power in the last 50 years that there has not been huge financial problems cause by there economic mismanagement.

Seems about right.

 

[BLOCK F]

I would like to ask all the potential Labour voters if they can honestly see Milliband as Prime Minister of this country.

 

[Clive Walker]

Torres has been poor all year. Having said that Ronaldo has already won the Ballon D'or and I don;t think the general public could have voted anyway.

 

[Ernest]

Seems about right.

Under whose government did we have 'Black Wednesday' ?

 

[chimneys]

I would like to ask all the potential Labour voters if they can honestly see Milliband as Prime Minister of this country.

Milliband with Salmond as deputy PM. OMG!