Been a Tory voter all my life...

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  1. Young Nudger

    Young Nudger Well-Known Member

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    Him?
     
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    Conan Troutman Well-Known Member

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    I can only wonder what goes through their minds.

    I'm sure you said you had moved away.
     
    Conan Troutman, Jun 13, 2019
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  3. Young Nudger

    Young Nudger Well-Known Member

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    Me?
     
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  4. Redstar

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    You ought to leave. ******
     
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  5. Donny Red

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    For the life of me, I can't understand how anyone from within a Mining Community who
    remembers Thatchers cruel treatment of the working classes, could have ever voted
    for her or the modern day Conservative Party.

    I worked with one such person who had been involved in the 1984 strike. He had retrained,
    gone to College and got a qualification and secured a well paid job as a Middle manager.

    He genuinely thought he'd " arrived" and sang the praises of Thatcher and her ilk, for his
    " second chance". He was a really nice bloke, but no amount of reasoning could convince
    him that it was his own talent and not the Tories that had got him to where he was.
     
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  6. Con

    Conan Troutman Well-Known Member

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    Well the OP has achieved one thing with this thread. He's finally created one that's made it to two pages. I can see this one getting to nine or ten before being deleted.
     
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  7. Young Nudger

    Young Nudger Well-Known Member

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    Was that Frank?
     
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  8. DusThaNoIII

    DusThaNoIII Well-Known Member

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    This is the crux of it. These people with middling incomes that think they’re in ‘the club’ and stand to gain with Tory power, not understanding the tories couldn’t give a Fck about them save for exploiting their greed for votes. Need a few more 0’s on your income to actually stand to gain anything from them, at the expense of absolutely everyone else.
    Unfathomable mindset to me but hey ho.
     
    DusThaNoIII, Jun 13, 2019
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    "So God was creating man. And his little assistant came up to him and he said: "Hey, we've got all these bodies left, but we're right out of brains, we're right out of hearts and we're right out of vocal chords." And God said: "**** it! Sew 'em up anyway. Smack smiles on the faces and make them talk out of their arses." And lo, God created the Tory Party."
     
    wombwell-red, Jun 13, 2019
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  10. Redstar

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    I’m doing my best to get it deleted

    The BBS is ****
     
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  11. RedStriker

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    Ask some of the other 20,000 that voted Tory in Barnsley east and central in the last election.
     
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  12. Redstar

    Redstar Well-Known Member

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    20k that ought to be slaughtered.

    You know **** all about football. And politics.
     
    Redstar, Jun 13, 2019
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  13. Con

    Conan Troutman Well-Known Member

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    Or maybe you could tell me. Assuming you still live in the area.
     
    Conan Troutman, Jun 13, 2019
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    I’m not sure that’s true. It’s all to do with ethics. My wife and I are high rate tax payers, she’s actually well into the 50% tax bracket and we are both paid up members of the Labour Party and fully back a progressive fairer society.

    Just because someone earns a decent wage doesn’t automatically mean they become a selfish tw4t.

    If someone is though, intrinsically selfish and materialistic they will always revert to type and look after themselves politically and economically, it’s the way of the world.

    There’s lots of people I know though that have become upwardly mobile and built a well paid career that are incredibly left centre who would quite happily pay more taxes to help fund the NHS and local services.

    Not all middle/higher income people are self obsessed thunder Cnuts.
     
    Terry Nutkins, Jun 13, 2019
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    Mr C Well-Known Member

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    & a Barnsley fan. Sorry mate. The 2 don't mix.find thissen another football club. Politely...
     
    Mr C, Jun 13, 2019
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  16. Redstar

    Redstar Well-Known Member

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    Correct

    I’m massively overpaid for a meaningless job but I’m a Socialist
     
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    No Nudger. He was called Lennie and lived in Donny. He'd been a Miner since leaving
    school and had been in the NUM, but you could never reason with him over his political allegiances.

    His son worked with us and was as confused as we were with his Dads attitude. Amazing how a
    modest Semi, wall to wall carpeting, a motor and two weeks in Spain every year skewed his
    thinking.

    He really believed that because he'd been brought up in a deprived pit village and ended up in a
    relatively desirable area of Doncaster, it was all down to the opportunity the Government had given him.
     
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    No
     
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  19. Redstar

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    The truth hurts. Tory *******
     
    Redstar, Jun 13, 2019
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    Not a bit. You believe what you want and I’ll do the same.
    Only without the childish insults.
     
    RedStriker, Jun 13, 2019
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