Reverting To Political Type

[poliphilo]

The closer we draw to the election, the more I find my contempt for the crimes and betrayals of New Labour being washed away by my  visceral dislike of the Tories. I don't suppose I'm alone in this. The thought of the country being run by a bunch of old Etonians and Bullingdonians makes my skin crawl.

Gordon Brown should step aside now (pleading poor eyesight perhaps) and hand over to someone younger and less tainted.  Could David Milliband avert a Tory landslide? Yes, I think he could.  In fact he might even win.

Comments

[jfs.livejournal.com]

I'll never vote Tory. The leopard doesn't change its spots, and they won't stop being treacherous elitists who see that the purpose of society is to give them someone to exploit.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

My feelings exactly.

I couldn't vote Tory and now- as always- a vote for the Lib Dems seems like a waste of paper and graphite.

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

1. I agree with you entirely.

2. I dreamed I went to tea at yours and Ailz's last night, and you were very welcoming. You also had some astonishingly detailed bas-relief stucco on your ceiling, which now I'm awake I'm reasonably sure you've never actually mentioned in your journal. Or have you?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's not real stucco. It's Edwardian paper (with modern additions) that looks like stucco. And it's not highly detailed, but- all things considered- I'd say that was a hit.

Ever thought of tasking up a career in remote viewing?

It would be lovely if you (and la Bias) could come to tea some time. I could try out one of my 1980s Women's Institute cake recipes on you.

I'm sending contact details by email. Let's set something up!

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Whatever the personalities or the policies of the day, I can't help feeling that the Tories are the party for "hang on to what you've got" and Labour are the party for "make the world a better place". I ask myself what people I admire over the centuries might have voted: Jesus, Ghandi, Buddha etc. etc. and I can't see any of them voting Tory, somehow.

But what we actually get these days from both sides is focus group politics. Never mind what we stand for, what we believe in, it's what can we sell to enough people to keep us in power? Ultimately that's why it is all corrupt. I sneakily admire Cameron and Osborne last week for talking about cuts. But I ain't gonna vote for any party with Boris Johnson in it.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Boris Johnson is amusing enough- and pretty smart under all that calculated bumbling- but I don't want to see him- and his highly developed sense of entitlement- anywhere near government.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Sounds just like our own politics over here in the US! We vote Liberal, and get semi-Conservative, half-assed concessions. A plague on ALL their houses!

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

It's a dilemma, isn't it?
I could never vote conservative anywhere I lived. I won't in the US and I won't in Spain (we residents can vote in local elections here). I was brought up by a labour union man, a democrat to the core and I haven't seen anything to improve on what I learned from my dad...and he also taught me to think for myself!
Though I have to agree that there are certain politicians who would do their parties a huge favour stepping aside.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm a class rebel. My parents voted conservative; my grandparents almost certainly did too. Mr Churchill was a figure of veneration in our home. For some reason I went the other way.

Brown wanted the job of prime minister so badly- and has made such a hash of it! He could have gone down to history as a great chancellor. As it is, he will be remembered as one of the most useless prime ministers ever. He could still redeem himself a little by acknowledging the desperate nature of the situation and stepping down.

[(Anonymous)]

Well I agree with most of the above, if not all. I went the other way from our parents and could never, in a million years, vote Tory. 'Visceral disgust' are good words to decribe my feelings about Tories and their policies.
Jenny x