For those that voted Tory at the last elect what is there to be proud of?

[Derek Hardballs]

SOTV may I suggest that you STFU


No problem with sticking up for the Tories (even though I disagree with almost everything you have said ...) but the way you vilify any public sector worker, or those who work as contractors for the public sector is nothing short of disgraceful.


Not that I need to justify my political position - but I have voted for all 3 of the major parties in my three elections, and so I don't have any particular ties to any party. My primary concern at the moment is stopping Brexit, and I vote for pretty much anybody who had it in their manifesto to do so!

i haven't, stop talking shit.

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SOTV may I suggest that you STFU


No problem with sticking up for the Tories (even though I disagree with almost everything you have said ...) but the way you vilify any public sector worker, or those who work as contractors for the public sector is nothing short of disgraceful.


Not that I need to justify my political position - but I have voted for all 3 of the major parties in my three elections, and so I don't have any particular ties to any party. My primary concern at the moment is stopping Brexit, and I vote for pretty much anybody who had it in their manifesto to do so!

What King Astle never gets is the public and private are intertwined and need each other. 

I’ve done work for the public, private and third sector. I don’t milk anyone I do the very best I can for my clients whoever they are, and produce something tangible for my money. I’m not a huge pharmaceutical company hiking up prices to make vast profits, I’m not a giant corporate organisation that prisons and other front line services are hived off to by successive governments and I’m not an IT company promising the public sector the earth whilst on many occasions failing to deliver. I’m also not a consultant but why let cliches get in the way of right wing rhetoric.

its case of exposoing your political viewpoint as driven by how you earn your living and who ultimately pays your wages. Do you not think it hypocritical to also argue against privatisation of service yet work in self employed capacity taking money from the public sector?

My political viewpoint is centre left. My simple premise is this...no party has all the answers, no ideology has all the answers, but for society to function there needs to be fairness of opportunity, a robust and well funded public sector supported by healthy private sector that does not look to hide / minimise to obsecene levels the tax it pays. The two sectors need each other as our more grown up Scandinavian neighbours regularly show us. 

Your argument is flawed because you seem incapable of seeing the moderate middle ground. If you make thousands of front line staff redundant from jobs in the public sector, the issues they looked to address don’t go away they still need addressing, so who does those jobs? Austerity something you relish like a dog with a big juicy bonee is why the public and private sector rely on each other ever moreso. 

Policy of successive governments creates hypocrisy not the other way around.