I might vote Tory but that doesn't make me a bad person

Did Brand vote in the end do we know?

First it was don't vote, then don't register to vote, then vote Green, then vote Labour , he did more U Turns than the government and look how they were taken the piddle out of.

I think a lot of those who were happy to follow his 'thoughts' were probably very confused by the end of it all. How could they vote Labour if they had not registered to vote. . At least it might have taught them not to follow the crowd in future.

Yes, that's you told, bags!

Sugar free versions often leave a nasty aftertaste.

absent l

Isn't there a sugar free version, ana?

Mind you, that probably rots your brain... <ducks>

On a lighter note, do you suppose there's such a thing as The Russell Brand Effect? Only, his endorsement, or whatever it was, of Labour does seem to have been a disaster

The thought of being 'endorsed' or approved by him makes me shudder.

And I think we all know that Irn Bru is bad for your teeth!

I think we all know what vitriol is.

I think we all know what class warfare is.

That's a great idea, soon.
Some people seem a bit confused about what is vitriol and what is only Irn-Bru. It makes me wonder if some of them should even be allowed to vote at all.

Thanks very much loopylou just had to get that off my chest

soontobe It is.

I have an idea. Not sure if it is a good one or not.
What would happen if political stuff on the political thread was allowed to stand, even if it is incorrect in someone's opinion.
What would happen if everything was left as it stood for say 1 year.
Would anything happen?
Would it make any difference to anything?

Hear! Hear!
Well said Twice
A lot of very red-tinted glasses on here

Funny how graciously (and quickly) their leader bowed out, wasn't going stand up and fight his corner was he?

It has been pointed out endlessly that any member is entitled to post her/his opinion on any topic under discussion. Any other member is also entitled to disagree with that opinion. If someone choses to post a vitriolic comment about David Cameron, HM the Queen or Lassie the Wonder Dog, it is not a personal attack on the original poster. (BTW I'd quite like to see accusations of vitriol confined to genuinely corrosive remarks for a little while at least.)

Well I'm quite happy to say I voted for the conservatives as I have done all my life. I do not earn masses of money but I have enough for my needs. We were poor when I was a child and my father worked really hard but never earned huge amounts of money. I have got what I have by saving and working hard myself. I think the benefit system should be used for the people who really need it, the disabled and the chronically ill who really need help and deserve it not those who have never worked in their lives and are too idle to do so and feel that ordinary hard working people should keep them, the sense of entitlement of the idle is astounding. Margaret Thatcher did a lot for this country and broke the stranglehold of the unions who were happy to get money for themselves whilst their members suffered. Ed Milliband is a joke and deserved to lose.

I'll sit back now and wait to be shot down in flames!

No, GT it was not a joke. Why would you think that?

Perhaps you should do more research, durhamjen. Without your red-tinted spectacles on!

Oh kitty - do tell!

Our children might not be saddled by crippling national debt. That would be a result. They might get real jobs in a working economy. A good start.

'Are you just talking about this site, Tegan? If so, it could be because hardly any Conservative voters dare to out themselves, let alone mention the T word.'

This is a joke right?

I'm trying hard to think of them, but you'll have to remind me of the good things, kitty.

Thatcher certainly saw off the unions. Now we bemoan the fact that people are working for less than the minimum wage and wonder how our children's generation can ever get mortgages with the rise in the numbers of zero hours contracts. Success!!!

This is one Tory who will say Maggie did somethings wrong - she also did some good things! Which is similar to most political leaders!

Tegan, I think that was because Mrs T was a long time ago, in fact we forget how long ago it really was.Later, Labour was in power for so many years.