Tories whose dads are well off.

Vespasian777 said:
Look Naffa mate, I know where you're coming from and everything, but can we get back to whether or not you're a tory, and how well off your parents are please mate.
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Parents are lower-middle class, well off but not rich, I hate the Tories.

I was simply replying to questions asked of me, but I admire your desire to keep the thread on topic. ;)
 
Vespasian777 said:
Look Naffa mate, I know where you're coming from and everything, but can we get back to whether or not you're a tory, and how well off your parents are please mate.
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It was my fault, and the discussion between us has broadly ended. I'm now aware of why I think his posts are sound. I don't agree with him on some/many things, but importantly he has reasoned himself into the position he's in and that's really what matters.
 
As it stands I wouldn't vote for any of the main parties.

My Dad is on benefits and is poor.
My Mum works hard and does alright, but isn't loaded.
 
Like any sensible person I vote for what we need at the time. We are broke, we needed a conservative government last time around. Maybe next time it will be Labour depending on the countrys debt.

My parents are richer than average.
 
My dad was an RAC man until he retired recently, mum a secretary.

Both worked extremely hard and have done well for themselves - they taught me the value of hard work.
 
I'm a Tory and my dad is dead.

Both of my parents worked hard and taught me the value of money and hard work. I was brought up to enjoy what we had. Family came first and the lust to keep up with and envy what others had was not part of that equation. They made me what I am today and I thank them for it. :)
 
I'm not a Tory and my dad is also dead. I'm quite sure he was not a Tory and was comfortable financially.
I voted Lib dem to "prove a point" I still have sleepless nights.
 
I voted Tory at the last general election as I felt they were the lesser of two evils. I wouldn't describe myself as a Tory however.

My dad was relatively well off, but he put the hours in as an electrical and process engineer in the chemical industry to earn it, working long shifts and being on permanent call. He's dead now, exposure to PCB's gave him bladder cancer, then lymphoma which finally killed him.
 
The Funktopus said:
I voted Tory at the last general election as I felt they were the lesser of two evils. I wouldn't describe myself as a Tory however.

My dad was relatively well off, but he put the hours in as an electrical and process engineer in the chemical industry to earn it, working long shifts and being on permanent call. He's dead now, exposure to PCB's gave him bladder cancer, then lymphoma which finally killed him.
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that is awful. My fiancee's brother in law contracted lymphoma last year, after working for many years in an industrial port
 
Parents - One ill parent (one looking after the other full-time) so poor.

Myself - top 5%/10% for my age bracket, so pretty well off.

Parents - Labour

Myself - Pro technocracy, I don't believe in democracy due to fact that the public having a say on matters they have no experience or understanding is counter-productive (no political party fit's my preference).

Hate the Tory's for two significant reasons - firstly they are anti-change - without change things will never get better for the majority, our social evolution will stagnate without it.

Secondly the entire ideology of conservatism is based on a flawed & unscientific view of reality, people are biological predictable machines - responding to external stimuli, blaming people for being the product of a bad environment is not only pointless but exasperates the problems.

Conservative dogma is entrenched with religious concepts of self determination & right/wrong/work ethic etc - when the reality of complex social issues is not so simple - it suits people who wish to take credit for things which objectively they had no control over - as only a truly deluded narcissist would believe themselves to be "self made" knowing what we know now about human development.

Labour is guilty of something quite different, mainly into fooling the working class that they have a champion (when they don't).

Both main party's are far more authoritarian than I'd like, neither have any long term solutions to social problems & both have resided over the gap between the richest & poorest expanding in the UK.
 
Anyone who votes for the same party every election on the basis of partisan tribalism rather than an analysis of the manifestos and situation at the time is an idiot.

Unfortunately, that seems to be 90% of the country. I look forward to the day when people treat political parties more like brands you can choose depending on how you feel at the time rather than football teams which require slavish devotion.
 
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