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Originally Posted by Verbal
Its what they've always done. Its just that there has been a big enough generation gap between Cameron and Thatcher for young people voting to not fully realise what they are like. I'd be very suprised to meet anybody who was working class and over 40 that voted for these bastards.
Actually nobody voted for them did they. The sooner this lot **** off the better.
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Not even just working class people, they screwed the lower-middle class (which makes up the largest percentage of the population, I think?) In the 80s too and are doing the same now. Especially younger people who werent lucky enough to be in a financially secure position before the recession hit.
They hoodwinked people into voting for them last time, it's that simple. They said "look at the mess Labour has made! But don't worry, we'll fix it!" And millions of people who didn't have a clue about politics outside of their own back yard fell for it. I actually worked with a girl, definitely working class with two young children, who was banging on about voting Conservative and how they would fix things and how their pledges all sounded great, and I said several times before giving up, "they will screw you and your family to the wall". She wasnt listening, and now she's all over facebook moaning about the ConDems constantly.
Though I think that says a lot. Even after the questionable ethics of Blair and the political vacuum of Brown that followed, the Conservatives still only managed to scrape into power by annexing the LibDems. If you think of it in terms of a "clean slate", that vote should have been a landslide, but it wasn't even enough for a majority government.
I saw someone in another thread claim that "labour get in and spend all the money and then the conservatives get back in and fix it", a never ending pendulum. I agree about the pendulum but... Look at it from the other perspective. The Conservatives get in and BREAK every piece of infrastructure we have, and then once they're out it costs a fortune to try to fix it. Then they get back in by bleating on about excessive spending, and proceed to smash it all to pieces again.
The voting percentages last time show that most people definitely hadn't forgotten Thatcher, and little Dave has handily refreshed the memories of those who had.