Should Tories have the right to vote?

[Lord Bracknell]

Most Tories seem to believe that there are two parties in Britain. They are called "The Labour Party" and "The Government".

Complacency isn't a very attractive characteristic. And it doesn't always win elections.

 

[The Large One]

General Election 2010 Map

England looks predominantly blue to me.

Yup. And...?

That map hardly backs up your argument.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

General Election 2010 Map

England looks predominantly blue to me.

I think this is what is called in statistical terms "specious correlation". I large blue blob in rural cheshire could represent 100,000 voters, while one tiny red blob in inner London could represent 100,000 voters, while one enormous orange blob in the North of Scotland could represent about 3 voters and a couple of Highland cattle.. I am exaggerating, of course, but the map has nothing at all to do with numbers of voters.

 

[The Large One]

This is the political map after the 1997 general election.

Labour won two and a half times as many seats as the Conservatives, and polled 40% more votes. But England looks predominantly blue to me.

Wales and Scotland don't, though.

 

[Camicus]

I think this is what is called in statistical terms "specious correlation". I large blue blob in rural cheshire could represent 100,000 voters, while one tiny red blob in inner London could represent 100,000 voters, while one enormous orange blob in the North of Scotland could represent about 3 voters and a couple of Highland cattle.. I am exaggerating, of course, but the map has nothing at all to do with numbers of voters.

QFT makes me laugh how Tories bang on about winning the last election. They DIDNT win the election they barley scraped a minority goverment and thats inspite of Gordon Brown heading up the labour party

 

[vegster]

My elderly and barking mother has voted Tory ever since about 1963 when my late father told her vote for them. She has no idea about any of the current political issues or understands that voting Tory may lead to.

In fact, about 8 years ago when still more lucid she tried to tell me that the Torys had helped her by giving her the Winter Fuel Allowance,a free bus pass and a free tv licence when she got to 75.....lovely to see the look on her face when I explained it was the labour government that introduced these !

 

[The Ejaculator]

No, they absolutely should not. It really is time to change the democratic parties in this country. Less posturing, more getting work done. It used to be like it, and it's about time this country went back to it.

John Major is the best Prime Minister in my lifetime.

 

[Silk]

General Election 2010 Map

England looks predominantly blue to me.

Are you really that daft?

 

[HovaGirl]

Of course Tories should have the right to vote. Anyone who isn't rich but votes Tory, however, clearly doesn't know what the hell they are doing. It's those people who shouldn't be allowed to vote.

Well, that's most people, because very few Tories are rich. Very few people are rich.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Are you really that daft?

No, neither am I colour blind. I will not be voting Tory at any upcoming elections, but I get pissed off at the idiots on here that seem to have forgotten the disaster that was the last Labour Government. The OP is nothing short of imbecelic.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

No, neither am I colour blind. I will not be voting Tory at any upcoming elections, but I get pissed off at the idiots on here that seem to have forgotten the disaster that was the last Labour Government. The OP is nothing short of imbecelic.

True. I agree completely and on the point about England being more Tory, if Scotland were to gain independence, labor would lose 41mp's whilst conservatives would lose 1. That may just indicate that the conservatives are/were more popular in England than some on this board would care to admit.

 

[Silk]

No, neither am I colour blind. I will not be voting Tory at any upcoming elections, but I get pissed off at the idiots on here that seem to have forgotten the disaster that was the last Labour Government. The OP is nothing short of imbecelic.

Do you mean imbecilic?

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

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