Aren't you glad you voted Tory?

[10ClarionSt]

Wot?! You didn't vote Tory? I thought not. Trying to find a Tory voter is like trying to find a Nazi in Germany. They're all there but no-one wants to admit it. Naughty, naughty Labour weren't they? Wasted money bailing out the banks. Saving all those job losses. Guaranteeing peoples savings. Making sure lots of companies accounts didn't go down the pan at the same time. Reducing mortgage payments for house buyers. Setting up starter payments for new-born children. Then, the new government said things were worse than they thought. They never mentioned this possibility on the campaign trail did they? What you are seeing now is Thatcherism by any other name. But this lot don't have a large majority like she did. You voted Tory. And you is gonna pay!!!!

[craft1948]

Amazing how many Noo Labour ex-politicians are now millionaires......look at Blair who owns about 5 homes......where has Mandelson got all his money from?

[cazzz1975]

they care about the people earning less than 100k craft, mansions aside..

[craft1948]

I am working class and all I know is that my circumstances improved more under Thatcher than they ever did under Blair.....................I must be an anomaly!

[welshlibranr]

I know craft, they are all there to feather their own nests, but the Tories are people who have always had the lifestyle! And they will make sure they keep it for themselves and their kind!..............................

[askyourgran]

I don't think the Labour party ever had an agenda. apart from feathering their own nest and knocking off their researchers, How could they sack Mandelson and then bring him back They've done nothing to show for 13 long years.of power. They couldn't give a toss, mansions aside.

[cazzz1975]

labour did have an agenda, sell the gold then spend spend spend baby!!

[mightyWBA]

http://www.guardian.c...t-peer-house-of-lords
Here's a Labour bloke for you Clarion.
I voted Conservative and always have done. The "Labour" party doesn't exist anymore, freeloading pigs with their snouts in a trough the lot of them.
Ruined the country which wasn't in debt when they took power 13 years ago.
At least the Tories realise the country is in a mess and will try and do something about it.
I've been in manufacturing for 26 years and the last 13 years have been hell.
You can't spend money you haven't got.
I was far better off in 1997 than 2010 and I haven't stopped working.

[cazzz1975]

we have no manufacturing left..so much for caring about the workers..

[JMR27]

I voted Tory too and proud of it :o) I've never voted Labour in my life and never will. Labour encouraged unchecked immigration and created unnecessary public sector jobs in an attempt to increase their voter base. They've wasted so much money. Just before the election they were still chucking money away in the hope of re-election.

[zita-green]

Not one economist of note supports this plan of massive cuts; it will end in a double dip recession. Why are so many of you having a go at Gordon Brown instead of the bankers who got us into this mess?

[mike11111]

Whoever got us into this mess is neither here nor there - it is history. What matters is getting out of the mess. I have to say that I think that there is more chance of that under the present government than the previous one, although I am prepared to be proved wrong.

[askyourgran]

The Labour party were the Viv Nicholson of the day, they just spent spent and spent, what would you or economists of note suggest to get us out of the hole that they got us into, We have no gold reserves, it was sold off at a time when it was going cheap by all accounts. We are also saddled with innumerable immigrants, that are a drain on our resources, (I actually directed one plus wife and 4 kids to the dole office yesterday instead of the airport), I worry about my family, the pensions pot is almost empty and there is no-where to invest safely.. It wasn't like this 13 years ago.

[bobjugs12]

Let me think about this, who would be better suited to returning this country to a financial balance. A party of devoted capitalists, who believe in money. Or a party of champagne socialists, who believe that communisim works, and that all problems can be sorted by a hug and spouting ***.

I know who i'd rather have at the helm...

[naomi24]

Yes.

[TTG]

I didn't vote Labour because:-
Labour have compromised the security of the country by taking us into two wars.
Labour signed us up to the "human rights" act.
Labour introduced uncontrolled immigration.
Labour introduced 24 hour drinking.
Labour spent until they could spend no more.
Tony Blair should be arrested.

[zita-green]

Definitions: capitalist: one who believes in the importance of profit. Socialist: one who believes in the importance of people.

[craft1948]

I think there should be another enquiry into David Kelly's death.

[craft1948]

Russia seems to have a lot of poor people.............and some extremely rich ones.

[mike11111]

Good Lord! Someone remembers Viv Nicholson! For the benefit of younger viewers, she won something like £70,000 on the pools in the late 50s/early 60s (hell of a lot of dosh in those days) and vowed to 'spend, spend, spend.' Didn't do her much good, if I remember rightly.