(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.
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*
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
How to live with the Tories
13/05/2010 12:33:49 PM
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Her 101 reasons to love our Tory government was even better.
13/05/2010 12:42:39 PM
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What an even-handed, stereotype-free, and balanced piece of journalism. *NM*
13/05/2010 02:07:35 PM
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Your partisanship is getting annoying, actually.
13/05/2010 06:55:28 PM
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I'm sorry I care about politics.
13/05/2010 08:45:26 PM
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It's easy to complain. Actually doing something is rather more difficult. *NM*
13/05/2010 10:17:47 PM
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What do you suggest I do, pray tell? *NM*
13/05/2010 10:19:30 PM
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Learn how to live with people who disagree with you.
13/05/2010 10:21:08 PM
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Oh, come on.
13/05/2010 10:29:38 PM
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Do you really spell it "superiour" in Britain? That's wonderful.
13/05/2010 10:37:21 PM
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Pretty please with sugar on top
13/05/2010 10:50:48 PM
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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
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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
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Yeah, um, that wasn't me.
13/05/2010 11:08:48 PM
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Re: Yeah, um, that wasn't me.
13/05/2010 11:11:04 PM
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I don't mind transference of anger, but let's keep my quotes accurate at least.
13/05/2010 11:15:37 PM
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See, this is what I find offensive
13/05/2010 11:21:28 PM
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Fair enough. It was unfair of me to use "learn."
13/05/2010 11:30:34 PM
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Two posts in three days about a new Government in the country?
13/05/2010 11:18:06 PM
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This is so true
13/05/2010 11:29:30 PM
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Re: This is so true
13/05/2010 11:36:44 PM
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Sorry. But I can't bring myself to vote for 'that bloody party'
13/05/2010 11:48:26 PM
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Re: Sorry. But I can't bring myself to vote for 'that bloody party'
13/05/2010 11:54:10 PM
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I certainly wouldn't go that far. Nowhere near. *NM*
13/05/2010 11:43:20 PM
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On the comparison or on you people's spelling? *NM*
14/05/2010 12:13:42 AM
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They were not delivered condescendingly. I am sorry you took it as such.
13/05/2010 11:50:23 PM
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Re: They were not delivered condescendingly. I am sorry you took it as such.
13/05/2010 11:53:08 PM
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Eh, another time then.
13/05/2010 11:56:21 PM
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I was gonna make a post with precisely the same title as Camilla's. So: Oh, come on.
13/05/2010 10:43:12 PM
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Re: I was gonna make a post with precisely the same title as Camilla's. So: Oh, come on.
13/05/2010 10:59:28 PM
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Re: I was gonna make a post with precisely the same title as Camilla's. So: Oh, come on.
13/05/2010 11:16:07 PM
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I dunno. It looks to me that's what Balwer was saying with his flogged horse comment.
13/05/2010 11:18:30 PM
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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
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You think Tories won't go proto-Orwellian on you?
13/05/2010 11:46:45 PM
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If both, theoretically, will abuse power, then
13/05/2010 11:54:53 PM
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Re: If both, theoretically, will abuse power, then
13/05/2010 11:58:17 PM
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Thing is,
13/05/2010 11:55:17 PM
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Re: Thing is,
13/05/2010 11:59:58 PM
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A date "in a year's time" will be easy to remember. We have Scottish elections on 5 May 2011.
14/05/2010 12:12:26 PM
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People are saying it because those with a good knowledge of the party are telling them that.
14/05/2010 11:40:25 AM
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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
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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
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