Threads like this are always strange and you see posters in colours either to your liking or not.
For me? This government is giving the people a referendum on the EU, is letting the electorate decide whether we should stay or go, and for that alone, they deserve great praise. Cameron kept his promise.
Another good thing is that quite simply, as someone who has had no hand-outs in life, as someone who has grafted and taught her children to do their best, I feel Corbyn and company will never represent us, no way. My Dad was a Union man and as a working class family we used to believe Labour represented us.
It doesn't any more and hasn't for a long time.
We aspire to better things, through graft, not inherited wealth and I think the modern Labour party would want to take from us, or make us pay more to support all-comers and those without aspirations who take but have no intentions of ever giving back.
I support a welfare state, the one created for those in need, for the sick, the frail, the weak, the disabled, the elderly and for those who find themselves suffering hard times.
I'll hold my hands up and say our welfare system does need a huge shake up. It's a brave party which will do this and I hope we see more fairness and less waste.
Our NHS and benefits system IS being abused. I am happy to pay my taxes and NI, and have done, all my working life, but I suspect Corbyn's Labour party would allow abuses to continue, no questions asked, and bring on board the hard left who are likely to damn people who do graft, who have aspirations.
This Conservative government has supported working people, those on low incomes and as for the NHS, I was treated wonderfully when seriously ill in 2014, but abominably when similarly ill in 2005 under a Labour government. The NHS delivered under a Conservative government.
I lost my allegiance to the Labour party then, when in a time of great need, physical and financial, I was told I was entitled to nothing, because I'd paid into a private pension over the years. My income fell by three quarters yet Labour left me to rot. I lived on the breadline under Labour, having an income much lower than many who'd never worked.
I and many like me, have become the enemy of Labour today. We are their 'fat cats,' despite having very little, despite a life-time of graft. My family would be penalised under Labour for doing our best. The Conservatives have recognised effort and struggle and given us breaks and in my experience have shown more compassion to the sick, given I have been unwell for more than a decade.
Yup, unashamedly anecdotal and personal, but I fear what would become of our nation under the extremely intolerant left wing and the fervent but politically naive youngsters who are jumping on the Corbyn bandwagon. I can look back now and smile at my idealised view of the world from the perspective of a 6th former or student happy to join in any sit-in, anywhere, for 'justice'.
Labour would be more concerned with propping up those who are able to abuse the system, a system which HAS become unfair and to our cost, supportive of those coming into the country and able to tap into the NHS and the benefits system.
Something has to be done. I believe the Conservative party has taken the poisoned chalice, one no other party has dared to inspect over the years, and is appraising it.
I am aware that is not a popular notion, but I am prepared to stick my head over the parapet and say a shake up is long overdue and those who support a proper functioning welfare state/NHS will get a better, healthier, fairer one.
