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Re: Camilla Send a noteboard - 14/05/2010 12:05:15 AM
(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.


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Deal.

I will order in a case of wine for the occasion.


Your belief in my tolerance for alcohol may be exaggerated.
*MySmiley*
structured procrastinator
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How to live with the Tories - 13/05/2010 12:33:49 PM 959 Views
Her 101 reasons to love our Tory government was even better. - 13/05/2010 12:42:39 PM 622 Views
That was excellent - 13/05/2010 12:48:34 PM 565 Views
That has been used a few times now - 13/05/2010 01:27:50 PM 520 Views
Oh, well, it was new to me. - 13/05/2010 01:36:13 PM 553 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 587 Views
What an even-handed, stereotype-free, and balanced piece of journalism. *NM* - 13/05/2010 02:07:35 PM 293 Views
Yup. *NM* - 13/05/2010 02:09:35 PM 274 Views
Oh, come on. It's a humourous column. - 13/05/2010 02:23:16 PM 604 Views
Re: Oh, come on. It's a humourous column. - 13/05/2010 02:30:41 PM 645 Views
Just politely ask them to leave. - 13/05/2010 02:16:53 PM 511 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 694 Views
I'm Rebekah and I endorse this comment. - 13/05/2010 08:10:03 PM 588 Views
While everyone is entitled to their opinion - 13/05/2010 08:28:59 PM 649 Views
Re: While everyone is entitled to their opinion - 13/05/2010 09:28:36 PM 582 Views
I'm sorry I care about politics. - 13/05/2010 08:45:26 PM 635 Views
It's easy to complain. Actually doing something is rather more difficult. *NM* - 13/05/2010 10:17:47 PM 260 Views
What do you suggest I do, pray tell? *NM* - 13/05/2010 10:19:30 PM 244 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 680 Views
Pretty please with sugar on top - 13/05/2010 10:50:48 PM 607 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 583 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 574 Views
I don't mind transference of anger, but let's keep my quotes accurate at least. - 13/05/2010 11:15:37 PM 573 Views
See, this is what I find offensive - 13/05/2010 11:21:28 PM 566 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 553 Views
That's kind of my point, though. - 13/05/2010 11:33:51 PM 520 Views
Two posts in three days about a new Government in the country? - 13/05/2010 11:18:06 PM 576 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 559 Views
I could be Tory enough for both of us, if you like. - 13/05/2010 11:45:41 PM 567 Views
Sorry. But I can't bring myself to vote for 'that bloody party' - 13/05/2010 11:48:26 PM 541 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 234 Views
I certainly wouldn't go that far. Nowhere near. *NM* - 13/05/2010 11:43:20 PM 286 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 595 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 522 Views
Re: They were not delivered condescendingly. I am sorry you took it as such. - 13/05/2010 11:53:08 PM 565 Views
Eh, another time then. - 13/05/2010 11:56:21 PM 591 Views
Re: Eh, another time then. - 14/05/2010 12:04:12 AM 580 Views
Oh well. - 14/05/2010 02:48:51 AM 609 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 515 Views
If both, theoretically, will abuse power, then - 13/05/2010 11:54:53 PM 583 Views
Re: If both, theoretically, will abuse power, then - 13/05/2010 11:58:17 PM 571 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 561 Views
Re: Thing is, - 13/05/2010 11:59:58 PM 664 Views
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Re: - 14/05/2010 12:05:15 AM 607 Views
Lets be honest - 14/05/2010 12:11:44 AM 600 Views
True fact. *NM* - 14/05/2010 12:12:36 AM 282 Views
Very true, however - 14/05/2010 03:54:21 PM 633 Views
Surely a good part of that is just humour, though? - 14/05/2010 12:25:21 AM 508 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 626 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 565 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 1013 Views
Re: Well. - 14/05/2010 02:58:57 PM 947 Views
It's the only way to judge a political party - 14/05/2010 04:10:26 PM 519 Views

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