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Thing is, Rebekah Send a noteboard - 13/05/2010 11:55:17 PM
(and this is what has been annoying me about loads of usually intelligent people): it is unfair to judge a modern party based on what the party with the same name did in the past. 13 years mightn't seem like a long time, but it is these days, and the Conservatives are currently lead by a chap who is only 43. Young(er) people tend to be more ... liberal.

Mrs Thatcher was very much her own person - so much so, in fact, that she was ultimately brought down by a party rebellion. There's therefore no reason to suppose that the modern Tories will follow her footsteps. And I've seen that pundits are calling some of the younger chaps Thatcherites: based on what? They've not had any power at all. Comparisons are ridiculous at this point.

I'd be perfectly fine with you being this negative etc if they had given you reason to be recently. They haven't. They've been in Opposition. You actually cannot accurately gauge a party's policies and standards on their Opposition years because their job is to Oppose. That doesn't necessarily show their true colours.

Give it a year and come back to me then.
*MySmiley*

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
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How to live with the Tories - 13/05/2010 12:33:49 PM 960 Views
Her 101 reasons to love our Tory government was even better. - 13/05/2010 12:42:39 PM 624 Views
That was excellent - 13/05/2010 12:48:34 PM 567 Views
That has been used a few times now - 13/05/2010 01:27:50 PM 521 Views
Oh, well, it was new to me. - 13/05/2010 01:36:13 PM 555 Views
I do like one of the comments especially - 13/05/2010 07:03:15 PM 517 Views
I agree. - 13/05/2010 07:11:40 PM 588 Views
What an even-handed, stereotype-free, and balanced piece of journalism. *NM* - 13/05/2010 02:07:35 PM 294 Views
Yup. *NM* - 13/05/2010 02:09:35 PM 275 Views
Oh, come on. It's a humourous column. - 13/05/2010 02:23:16 PM 605 Views
Re: Oh, come on. It's a humourous column. - 13/05/2010 02:30:41 PM 646 Views
Just politely ask them to leave. - 13/05/2010 02:16:53 PM 515 Views
You'll survive - 13/05/2010 02:54:20 PM 571 Views
Your partisanship is getting annoying, actually. - 13/05/2010 06:55:28 PM 695 Views
I'm Rebekah and I endorse this comment. - 13/05/2010 08:10:03 PM 592 Views
While everyone is entitled to their opinion - 13/05/2010 08:28:59 PM 651 Views
Re: While everyone is entitled to their opinion - 13/05/2010 09:28:36 PM 583 Views
I'm sorry I care about politics. - 13/05/2010 08:45:26 PM 636 Views
It's easy to complain. Actually doing something is rather more difficult. *NM* - 13/05/2010 10:17:47 PM 261 Views
What do you suggest I do, pray tell? *NM* - 13/05/2010 10:19:30 PM 245 Views
Learn how to live with people who disagree with you. - 13/05/2010 10:21:08 PM 537 Views
Oh, come on. - 13/05/2010 10:29:38 PM 654 Views
Do you really spell it "superiour" in Britain? That's wonderful. - 13/05/2010 10:37:21 PM 682 Views
Pretty please with sugar on top - 13/05/2010 10:50:48 PM 608 Views
Meh. That wasn't meant to be condescending. I never expected the ou to enter that word, is all. - 13/05/2010 11:02:11 PM 584 Views
Re: Meh. That wasn't meant to be condescending. I never expected the ou to enter that word, is all. - 13/05/2010 11:03:42 PM 535 Views
Yeah, um, that wasn't me. - 13/05/2010 11:08:48 PM 569 Views
Re: Yeah, um, that wasn't me. - 13/05/2010 11:11:04 PM 575 Views
I don't mind transference of anger, but let's keep my quotes accurate at least. - 13/05/2010 11:15:37 PM 575 Views
See, this is what I find offensive - 13/05/2010 11:21:28 PM 567 Views
Fair enough. It was unfair of me to use "learn." - 13/05/2010 11:30:34 PM 561 Views
Re: Fair enough. It was unfair of me to use "learn." - 13/05/2010 11:32:29 PM 554 Views
That's kind of my point, though. - 13/05/2010 11:33:51 PM 521 Views
Two posts in three days about a new Government in the country? - 13/05/2010 11:18:06 PM 577 Views
This is so true - 13/05/2010 11:29:30 PM 556 Views
Re: This is so true - 13/05/2010 11:36:44 PM 561 Views
I could be Tory enough for both of us, if you like. - 13/05/2010 11:45:41 PM 568 Views
Sorry. But I can't bring myself to vote for 'that bloody party' - 13/05/2010 11:48:26 PM 543 Views
Re: Sorry. But I can't bring myself to vote for 'that bloody party' - 13/05/2010 11:54:10 PM 565 Views
I hereby invite myself to the said discussion. *NM* - 14/05/2010 12:13:34 PM 235 Views
I certainly wouldn't go that far. Nowhere near. *NM* - 13/05/2010 11:43:20 PM 287 Views
On the comparison or on you people's spelling? *NM* - 14/05/2010 12:13:42 AM 259 Views
On the comparison. - 14/05/2010 01:08:17 PM 596 Views
Re: On the comparison. - 14/05/2010 01:56:00 PM 566 Views
Not for a good few centuries. *NM* - 14/05/2010 12:19:36 PM 290 Views
They were not delivered condescendingly. I am sorry you took it as such. - 13/05/2010 11:50:23 PM 523 Views
Re: They were not delivered condescendingly. I am sorry you took it as such. - 13/05/2010 11:53:08 PM 566 Views
Eh, another time then. - 13/05/2010 11:56:21 PM 593 Views
Re: Eh, another time then. - 14/05/2010 12:04:12 AM 581 Views
Oh well. - 14/05/2010 02:48:51 AM 611 Views
I'm sorry you care more about your own political agenda than about trying to see a party in power - 13/05/2010 11:44:32 PM 495 Views
You think Tories won't go proto-Orwellian on you? - 13/05/2010 11:46:45 PM 516 Views
If both, theoretically, will abuse power, then - 13/05/2010 11:54:53 PM 586 Views
Re: If both, theoretically, will abuse power, then - 13/05/2010 11:58:17 PM 573 Views
If not a fan of Labour and not a fan of Tory, then - 14/05/2010 12:01:37 AM 604 Views
Re: If not a fan of Labour and not a fan of Tory, then - 14/05/2010 12:06:56 AM 602 Views
Thing is, - 13/05/2010 11:55:17 PM 562 Views
Re: Thing is, - 13/05/2010 11:59:58 PM 664 Views
- 14/05/2010 12:01:42 AM 606 Views
Re: - 14/05/2010 12:05:15 AM 607 Views
Lets be honest - 14/05/2010 12:11:44 AM 601 Views
True fact. *NM* - 14/05/2010 12:12:36 AM 284 Views
Very true, however - 14/05/2010 03:54:21 PM 634 Views
Surely a good part of that is just humour, though? - 14/05/2010 12:25:21 AM 509 Views
Part of it, yes. - 14/05/2010 08:43:12 AM 593 Views
People are saying it because those with a good knowledge of the party are telling them that. - 14/05/2010 11:40:25 AM 627 Views
Re: People are saying it because those with a good knowledge of the party are telling them that. - 14/05/2010 01:05:44 PM 567 Views
Re: People are saying it because those with a good knowledge of the party are telling them that. - 14/05/2010 01:28:38 PM 677 Views
Well. - 14/05/2010 01:47:29 PM 1014 Views
Re: Well. - 14/05/2010 02:58:57 PM 948 Views
It's the only way to judge a political party - 14/05/2010 04:10:26 PM 521 Views

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