Do some Tory voters now regret their decision?

Well said, merlot!

POGS You have made your bed and you will live in it? Does that make you one of those benefit scroungers that the cancellor had promised to get shut of?

there are now so many threads with the same feeling it's getting confusing.
it's also only a couple of days on and there are already 'you'll regret it!' Posts on here, Of course we may regret it, like the Labour voters in Tony Blair's time when he took us into a war in Iraq.Who knows what will happen, we can't foresee the future, but failing another war that was not needed, no I don't think I will regret it.If we leave the EU then that is the British people having their say, if Scotland want to leave the UK, and by that I mean the people not the SNP, then fair enough.

All GN members who are claiming state pension are 'on benefits. Having worked all our lives and paid tax, NI etc. we can hardly be classed as 'scroungers' and if POGS wants to live in her bed she's perfectly entitled to do so!

I wonder if Conservatives voters are more hawkish than Labour or Lib Dem?

Question: what about the very poor, mentally ill, disabled etc.?
Answer: get over it!

Certainly in my experience you couldn't accuse them of being bleeding hearts!

Regardless of how anyone voted, it's insulting to suggest people are too thick to know who for and why they placed the vote of their choice

Enough nitpicking. It's done!

Ana I recently read somewhere that we are the first generation who will be taking out more than they paid in.

Blimey, judging from the threads on here I'd say the left-leaners' posts are way more 'hawkish' than the Conservatives'.

Yes, but none of them are actually being 'hawkish' with regards to themselves but for people less fortunate than themselves, which is why they're not prepared to just 'get over it'.

What do you want then? Another election? Until you get the result you want?

there is a thread entitled what now for Labour and the Lib Dems, this is all that's needed for genuine political debate.All the threads started up to whinge about the Conservative win just look a bit silly.

Funny how some benefits are fine but others are not, a bit like the Victorian distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor. Also, I thought the post in question should have read, "I've made my bed and I'll lie in it," not "live in it." A slightly ironic error which made me smile, in the present electoral climate. No offence was intended. If she is really lying in her bed for any reason either health or choice, then I stand corrected .

Certainly in my experience you couldn't accuse them of being bleeding hearts!
Surely a bit of a generalisation petallus ?
You must know some very hard-hearted Tory voters!


And all the people I know who vote Labour are sweet, kind and lovely with generous bleeding hearts!

(I will never understand how a Labour Prime Minister got into such cahoots with such a hawkish right wing President)

I would stand corrected if I were you, mumster

Funny how some benefits are fine but others are not
I don't find it funny, I find it disturbing that the few who live on benefits as a life-style choice give a bad name to all those who deserve them, along with our compassion.

And I'm sure we all knew POGS meant to say 'lie'....

And as if it matters anyway, just a typo, what a fuss over nothing.

I agree rosequartz - benefit recipients cover a wide spectrum most have a good reason why they need them. Unfortunately it is a fact that a few do give a bad name to the majority. I know several former female class mates of my older son late 20s who went straight from school to unsupported motherhood. We live in an affluent area and there were other options for these girls at the time they left school. One I know of had an apprenticeship at a well thought of hairdressers where after a short period admitted "she was trying for a baby because she couldn't be arsed doing this job anymore". My son has shown me her Facebook page several times, where she displays pictures of fairly expensive shoes, nights out and holidays she has been on - Europe and Mexico - third child on the way now, never worked, no supporting partner.

Can I just say I'm not lumping all benefit recipients into that category or single mothers. I just want point that some people could make better choices.

It's done. Whatever we voted, we now have to get on with it. I don't see the point in looking back and regretting or not regretting one's vote. Lady Macbeth got a lot of things wrong, but not "What's done is done, and cannot be undone."

If we don't like the outcome, we should fight against the government at every opportunity. If we do like it, the we support them.

(BTW, as I have often said before ,on threads about religion and about politics, doesn't the effect it has on Gransnetters show just how divisive and unpleasant hard held views can be?)

My sentiments precisely Ariadne

I'm surprised by the tone of a number of GNs on all the political threads, highly intolerant of anyone not sharing their opinions.

I think that everyone - including David Cameron! and the queen! - was surprised by the result.

While you are getting all fired up on the benefit theme, what about non-doms, tax avoiders and evaders? Sorry, they don't matter do they? They are Tory donors.

Here we go again...

Oh yea, ana! Sighs...

I think it's fair to assume that most people would want tax evaders brought to account along with bankers and anyone else who deserves the book being thrown at them.

On non doms, people such as Lakshmi Mittal, Labour donor, have brought parts of their business to this country and have employed people here. If non doms were to have disappeared under a Labour government due to being taxed on their world wide earnings then they would have gone somewhere else and we wouldn't get anything off them.

Hollande had to retract the 75% tax rate for higher earners, again they just disappeared abroad, better to get something off them than nothing at all.

I have voted in General Elections in various constituencies since 1974. No-one I have ever voted for in GEs has ever got a seat in Parliament. S'how it rolls. Spot kn, agus. Time to wait and see just get on with life.