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Whose Parents voted for Thatcher?

Trout_Mask [Edit] [Delete] 50 replies 11:42, 8 May '14

Found out my Dad did. All my childhood memories sullied somewhat.

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  • Not mine, and hardly anyone from home in South Wales

    In fact I have Primary School memories of my mam telling me not to bother with Melanie Carter because her parents were Tories.*

    *Thatcher was out by then.

    marilyninthesky | 8 May '14, 11:44 | X
    • Melanie's a ledge

      Raanraals @marilyninthesky | 8 May '14, 11:48 | X
      ma0sm this'd this
      • with a hairy hedge

        marilyninthesky @Raanraals | 8 May '14, 11:54 | X
        • that could do with a dredge

          ma0sm @marilyninthesky | 8 May '14, 11:56 | X
  • You're being a silly baby

    Unless you were of voting age during the 70s and lived through that era, you can't possibly say how you would have voted. Lots of decent ordinary working people voted for her- that's exactly how she came to power and is part of teh conundrum about her (since many of her policies had teh pratcial efect of disenfranhising those very same people). So give him a break.

    PickledOeuf | 8 May '14, 11:45 | X
    • Depends how many times he voted for her really

      Royter-Hatfood @PickledOeuf | 8 May '14, 11:47 | X
      • Not really

        She had an amazing knack of getting peopel top vote against their own economic interests and in getting people to turn their back on solidarity in favour of upward mobility. she promised people a life they never thought they would have been able to have, premised on greed essentially. She was extremely powerful in how she warped the mind of the conuntry (not in the north admittedly, but certainly in the south, midlands and rural areas.)

        PickledOeuf @Royter-Hatfood | 8 May '14, 11:49 | X
        • Fair enough

          You were of voting age in the 70s I suppose.

          Royter-Hatfood @PickledOeuf | 8 May '14, 12:01 | X
          • 1/10, weak

            PickledOeuf @Royter-Hatfood | 8 May '14, 12:05 | X
          • http://tinyurl.com/l5h3zmc

            ElthamsmateOwen @Royter-Hatfood | 8 May '14, 12:07 | X
            • nah

              not low, just not very original or funny. Just Royter really.

              PickledOeuf @ElthamsmateOwen | 8 May '14, 12:21 | X
              japes and Royter-Hatfood this'd this
              • I don't like to mess with the brand

                Royter-Hatfood @PickledOeuf | 8 May '14, 12:30 | X
                • Talking of THE BRAND

                  Lovely Russelll has donated the substantial damages that he won fomr The sun to the Hillsborough justice campaign. What a dude. And he's not a lying spineless cheat either, it seems (well, not whilst with Jemima Khan anyway.)
                  (I've started reading the Mirror as my 'go-to' news source. Great Critters.)

                  PickledOeuf @Royter-Hatfood | 8 May '14, 12:34 | X
        • We should never forget how afraid people were of the USSR

          and how Kinnock and the Labour Party were painted strongly as being about to let the red menace in, too.

          I mean, it's hard to really know but I can imagine when people came to vote, the sort of stuff being suggested, about how Kinnock would be swept aside by the commies in the unions and replaced by a Russian puppet, would weigh very heavily on some people. Just read The Fourth Protocol to see the sort of ideas people were dealing with.

          TheoGB @PickledOeuf | 8 May '14, 12:43 | X
    • Unless you were of voting age during the 70s and lived through that era,

      you can't possibly say how you would have voted

      don't agree with this. you can look at how your voting patterns are influenced by reaction to society, how your parents influenced your voting patterns and extrapolate what it would've done then. probably

      "You're being a silly baby"

      agree with this.

      brusma @PickledOeuf | 8 May '14, 11:50 | X
      • yeah i guess with empathy you can

        Good point. However I don't think the OP was even trying to empathise.

        PickledOeuf @brusma | 8 May '14, 11:52 | X
      • Depends whether you believe that you can truly know the past or not though.

        Hello_Sadness @brusma | 8 May '14, 11:52 | X
        • I need to know the past.

          brusma @Hello_Sadness | 8 May '14, 11:54 | X
          Hello_Sadness and ma0sm this'd this
          • ask your historical boyfriend

            fitzcarraldo @brusma | 8 May '14, 12:07 | X
            Hello_Sadness this'd this
    • I was mostly joking really

      I don't think any less of him at all, but he just never seemed the type of person that I would have associated with voting Conservative, let alone Thatcher thrice.

      Trout_Mask @PickledOeuf | 8 May '14, 12:36 | X
      • ah, fair enough

        It was a different poltical ladnscape back then. I'm pretty sure my dad voted for Thatcher, and from a constiuency that is a shipbuilding town in the west of scotland. He's still THE BEST person I know.

        PickledOeuf @Trout_Mask | 8 May '14, 12:39 | X
  • There's a chance my great grandparents voted Hitler

    so chill out.

    Balonz | 8 May '14, 11:46 | X
    • "a chance"

      Royter-Hatfood @Balonz | 8 May '14, 12:02 | X
      ma0sm, Smee, and Raanraals this'd this
  • Don't judge yourself by your parents.

    meths | 8 May '14, 11:47 | X
    • cos they're obviously bellends

      ma0sm @meths | 8 May '14, 11:57 | X
  • Both my mum and dad at least once

    my Dad probably at every opportunity.

    Don't think it's something to call someone out on specifically.

    Hello_Sadness | 8 May '14, 11:49 | X
  • Probably worse to vote UKIP now than Thatcher then

    Especially her first time around.
    Still, no they didn't. Dogmatic Labourites.

    RFWare | 8 May '14, 11:53 | X
  • we didnt live in uk for any elections where thatcher was

    leader of the conservatives. but boy oh golly would my dad have loved to have voted for her. got all dressed up and sad to go to her funeral and all

    alcxxk | 8 May '14, 11:57 | X
  • my dad used to go out collecting money for the miners

    DarwinDude | 8 May '14, 11:57 | X
    • Wow, he sounds great!

      Balonz @DarwinDude | 8 May '14, 11:58 | X
      • nah he's a dick

        DarwinDude @Balonz | 8 May '14, 12:01 | X
        • and a tory

          DarwinDude @DarwinDude | 8 May '14, 12:01 | X
          • like eltham

            DarwinDude @DarwinDude | 8 May '14, 12:02 | X
            • :D

              ElthamsmateOwen @DarwinDude | 8 May '14, 12:07 | X
              georgiabeth this'd this
    • trying to think of a joke

      about collecting minors but my brain's not having it today.

      PickledOeuf @DarwinDude | 8 May '14, 12:02 | X
      japes this'd this
  • Yeah my Dad voted Thatcher at every opportunity.

    Don't know if he regrets it - but I know the long term legacies of her policies aren't sitting favourably with him.

    GetOffMyLawn | 8 May '14, 12:04 | X
  • My mum did, my Dad certainly did not

    He never said who he voted for but he hated Thatcher like Damon Albarn hates smiling.

    moker | 8 May '14, 12:13 | X
  • Her Parents voted for Thatcher.

    Verbal | 8 May '14, 12:14 | X
    japes this'd this
  • no mine didn't but pretty sure my aunt and uncle did

    and probably would again, even though they really are the best kind of people. strange.

    Smee | 8 May '14, 12:33 | X
    • It doesn't automatically make them bad people

      I can't stand the leftie hysteria that tries to conflate, without concession, the fact that tory voters are evil.
      (also, aren't lefties supposed to be opposed to the concept of inherent evil anyway?)
      I like saying leftie.

      PickledOeuf @Smee | 8 May '14, 12:40 | X
      • we don't think that tory voters are evil!

        just that voting tory is an evil act. simple!

        brusma @PickledOeuf | 8 May '14, 12:45 | X
      • what brusma said

        and like i said they are the best kind of people so i find it strange they do something I think is immoral at a very basic level - doesn't mean I also can't understand why it happens or that I think "less" of them as such.

        Smee @PickledOeuf | 8 May '14, 12:53 | X
        • i wasn't being entirely serious...

          brusma @Smee | 8 May '14, 13:01 | X
    • nah, I doubt they did.

      meths @Smee | 8 May '14, 12:54 | X
      • apparently they did

        Smee @meths | 8 May '14, 12:57 | X
  • My dad voted for her

    Loved her. Working class boy turned entrepreneur/ small businessman. Textbook Thatcherite.

    Si_Badvibes | 8 May '14, 12:41 | X
    PickledOeuf this'd this
    • yeah same with my uncle as above

      Smee @Si_Badvibes | 8 May '14, 12:53 | X
    • being a small businessman/entrepreneur doesn't automatically make you a conservative.

      meths @Si_Badvibes | 8 May '14, 12:56 | X
      • I wasn't suggesting it did, but your statement is correct.

        Si_Badvibes @meths | 8 May '14, 13:01 | X
  • Your only option is to make him an unperson

    the_ravens | 8 May '14, 12:51 | X
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