Election Fever
Apr. 7th, 2010 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI'm angry with Labour over the Iraq War, but the Conservatives voted for it too.
As for the economy, Labour may have cosied up to the bankers, but the Conservatives are the bankers- if you see what I mean.
Cameron is a rich boy who has never questioned his privilege. If he had questioned his privilege he wouldn't be a Tory. He will govern in the interests of his class because his class is all he knows.
There's not all that much you can say in favour of Gordon Brown, but at least he never belonged to the Bullingdon Club.
And he's a survivor. I looked at him and his ministers, drawn up in battle order in front of No 10 for their photo-call- and I found myself admiring them for simply being there. Mandelson has been counted out twice- but there he still is. That's got to be worth something.
Actually, I chose my team a long, long time ago. My parents were Tories so I wasn't.
Sorry, but this is tribal.
New Labour are bastards, but they're my bastards. I'm backing my bastards to trample your bastards into the mud.
As for the economy, Labour may have cosied up to the bankers, but the Conservatives are the bankers- if you see what I mean.
Cameron is a rich boy who has never questioned his privilege. If he had questioned his privilege he wouldn't be a Tory. He will govern in the interests of his class because his class is all he knows.
There's not all that much you can say in favour of Gordon Brown, but at least he never belonged to the Bullingdon Club.
And he's a survivor. I looked at him and his ministers, drawn up in battle order in front of No 10 for their photo-call- and I found myself admiring them for simply being there. Mandelson has been counted out twice- but there he still is. That's got to be worth something.
Actually, I chose my team a long, long time ago. My parents were Tories so I wasn't.
Sorry, but this is tribal.
New Labour are bastards, but they're my bastards. I'm backing my bastards to trample your bastards into the mud.
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Date: 2010-04-10 08:53 am (UTC)Also, how interesting about your parents. My dad was also a Tory, and I have never once voted for them. I would vote liberal, if I didn't loathe our local lib MP. So Labour or Monster Raving Loonie if we have one here. To me there's not much difference these days. ;-)
Did you ever see the episode of One Foot in the Grave where Margaret was filmed on her doorstep talking to a local candidate in a Bee costume? So funny!
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Date: 2010-04-10 12:01 pm (UTC)I'm not entirely sure why I turned against my parents' politics. There was no sudden Road to Damascus conversion- or if there was I've forgotten it. I suppose it was initially part of the whole teenage rebellion thing.