Saturday, 19 March 2011
A compelling set of reasons
The Guardian has a discussion about working class Tories. The comments beneath are a festival of stupidity and there are far too many of the smug "haha, isn't 'working class Tory' an oxymoron?!?!!?" variety. But one caught my eye:
Sunday, 20 March 2011
My family is working class and usually voted Conservative. They did this because they understood that Labour:
a) is perennially incapable of handling taxpayer's money, and always balls-up the economy, which affects lower-income workers more than others,
b) has a vested interest in keeping poor people in poverty (promises them redistribution from the more well-off to keep their votes),
c) is (now) against rigorous academic education for the lower orders, with its ideological jihad on grammar schools and private schools,
d) has happily screwed working class Britons by importing third world immigrants en masse, decimating communities and undercutting wages - again, in an attempt to maintain a permanent undemocratic power base.
None of this, of course, means the Tories are perfect or even halfway decent (or even a little bit decent). It is, however, a compelling set of reasons why Labour should be kept out of power at all costs, from a working class perspective.
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