tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post332988072525767190..comments2024-03-19T13:01:14.062+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: Why Have The Right Sat Tight ?CityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-47907111560353174232010-05-14T12:37:41.013+01:002010-05-14T12:37:41.013+01:00Among several reasons for grassroots disappointmen...Among several reasons for grassroots disappointment is that Conservatives expect and look forward to clarity, precision and decisiveness from Tory policy-making.<br /><br />Cameron certainly 'grabbed the reins' but there's someone else pulling on them too. But I acknowledge there was little alternative.Jeremy Stanfordhttp://pol-e-tics.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-75175571959319182442010-05-14T10:50:28.335+01:002010-05-14T10:50:28.335+01:00"Any other views on why Tory discipline is ho..."Any other views on why Tory discipline is holding so well in the face of a disappointing result?"<br /><br />Basically, while Tony Blair's governments were all about Tony Blair, and nobody's quite sure what Gordon Brown was about, the Conservatives are sure where their focus lies: it's all about the people.Frugal Dougalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07459572116047155640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-1063596188282793512010-05-14T07:23:53.711+01:002010-05-14T07:23:53.711+01:00""The Tories have only been in power for...""The Tories have only been in power for fifteen minutes and a Scotsman has been made unemployed and his family made homeless."<br /><br />Ermmm - didn't that Scotsman recently have TWO or THREE homes, mostly at public expense ?<br /><br />Was he really as careless with personal finances as with the nation's ?<br /><br />Alan Douglas<br /><br />PS, Yes, I know it was a joke, so is mine.Alan Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16071898364060640779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-28904082990988160262010-05-13T08:48:14.216+01:002010-05-13T08:48:14.216+01:00Scan, Laban - I am with you, see my comment on BQ&...<b>Scan, Laban</b> - I am with you, see my comment on BQ's more recent post<br /><br />actually my own reading of the activists I have talked to after the election - and that's dozens & dozens - is that there is plenty of goodwill for this new venture, in the Tory party at least<br /><br /><i>already unemployment has gone up</i> - like it, <b>Budgie</b> !Nick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-30346156114780319972010-05-13T01:50:59.135+01:002010-05-13T01:50:59.135+01:00I've never voted for any of the main three par...I've never voted for any of the main three parties but am (naively?) hopeful that they will keep each other in check.<br /><br />In that vain, I'm really disappointed at the short-sighted activists who are really putting party before the country:<br /><br />Yes, we may have been better off financially with a Conservative Majority, but it didn't happen; BUT! Done right (which I agree is wishful thinking) the "grass-root" Lib supporters can keep the Tory economics palatable to the electorate, and the Tory grass-roots can keep the loony Liberal social policies in check too.<br /><br />ANYTHING is better than Neo Labour still being in power.<br /><br />Just for once...go with it for a while! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-12908560791775608022010-05-12T19:33:53.868+01:002010-05-12T19:33:53.868+01:00The Tories have been in power less than 24 hours a...The Tories have been in power less than 24 hours and already unemployment has gone up. (Just thought I would get that in before a Labour groupie did).Budgienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-14222347986112711132010-05-12T18:52:28.711+01:002010-05-12T18:52:28.711+01:00To be fair, as a Peter-Hitchens style sceptic, the...To be fair, as a Peter-Hitchens style sceptic, they've only been in power 5 minutes. I can't argue with their adoption of the higher basic tax band, abolition of ID and the chopping of Heathrow 3, and I appreciate the reasons for the coming increases in VAT and CGT, and the non-change to inheritance bands, much as I'll hate paying them.<br /><br />Give them a chance. Events, dear boy, will as ever be the cause of the doubtless inevitable disenchantment.<br /><br />But if they let Mervyn King print any more money I swear I'll move to Germany.Labanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-30356920321673479862010-05-12T18:14:38.191+01:002010-05-12T18:14:38.191+01:00No, the grassroots don't want discipline - the...No, the grassroots don't want discipline - they want principle - it's a conservative word which has been forgotten.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-88809986264013835202010-05-12T12:44:32.823+01:002010-05-12T12:44:32.823+01:00Just heard on R2.
From a Scots voter..
"The ...Just heard on R2.<br /><br />From a Scots voter..<br />"The Tories have only been in power for fifteen minutes and a Scotsman has been made unemployed and his family made homeless."<br /><br />Lib Dems activists not too pleased. But they do sound like tactical voters rather than Liberals. They are Labour people really. <br />An odd bloke just on Vine saying he feels betrayed by Cameron over this deal and cam should have stuck it out in a minority government..<br />"So you voted conservative then?"<br />"No..I didn't vote for anyone"<br /><br />Then he can't really complain can he?Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-13179662764742823052010-05-12T12:35:01.202+01:002010-05-12T12:35:01.202+01:00Cameroons taking heavy cabinet level hits too - no...Cameroons taking heavy cabinet level hits too - no Gove or vaizey so far. Osborne having to work with Cable.<br /><br />But it is only day one....CityUnslickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-14839878285069187782010-05-12T11:31:53.793+01:002010-05-12T11:31:53.793+01:00Yes, I know; you should never start a sentence wit...Yes, I know; you should never start a sentence with "because". Apologies. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-19440213541099288402010-05-12T11:31:04.252+01:002010-05-12T11:31:04.252+01:00Because they're in power with a (coalition-hel...Because they're in power with a (coalition-helped) majority. They wouldn't have survived 6 months in a minority government; their inability to cut and reform where needed would have been seen as the reason behind us getting deeper in the mire, Labour would have pounced on that and got straight back into No. 10.<br /><br />Although Cameron has conceded a lot in order to get the Lib Dems on-board, I think the dissenters are quietly pleased that they have a real chance to be in government for a decent amount of time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-21068073230398835702010-05-12T11:05:12.330+01:002010-05-12T11:05:12.330+01:00"Any other views on why Tory discipline is ho..."Any other views on why Tory discipline is holding so well in the face of a disappointing result?"<br /><br />Because they're all (well, mostly) short termist, europhile troughers?Budgienoreply@blogger.com