tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18009508.post1580554745095590094..comments2023-11-05T10:06:05.380+00:00Comments on Clairwil: Has Glasgow City Council Found It's Backbone?Clairwilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10503239355248016287noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18009508.post-62345508536881527992008-05-05T20:01:00.000+01:002008-05-05T20:01:00.000+01:00Well I knew, when we had a Labour government shaft...Well I knew, when we had a Labour government shafting the lowest paid with a tax increase and the tories objecting something very strange had occurred.Clairwilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10503239355248016287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18009508.post-33539231286402882732008-05-05T12:11:00.000+01:002008-05-05T12:11:00.000+01:00My girlfriend still says she couldn't vote for me ...My girlfriend still says she couldn't vote for me simply because I'm a tory!Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03092264892200529590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18009508.post-49105810136581084782008-05-05T09:02:00.000+01:002008-05-05T09:02:00.000+01:00At the moment, on some issues, the Tories are slig...At the moment, on some issues, the Tories are slightly to the left of labour economically - take a look at the political compass analysis of their current position. More importantly, on the social scale, they are less authoritarian. That's how I reconciled myself to voting fro them in the local elections last year.<BR/><BR/>I've no regrets.Longriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15139120804208136012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18009508.post-29677767814705939342008-05-05T02:23:00.000+01:002008-05-05T02:23:00.000+01:00Yeah that is always the problem - if you have left...Yeah that is always the problem - if you have left wing principles, voting Tory does rather stick in the craw.<BR/><BR/>I have a friend who was a shop steward and firm labour man all through the 70's and 80's - and actually still is - but at the local elections a few years a ago he was caught out popping up a roadside signs for the local Tory candidate - he works as a buidlers mate and the buidler he works for was being paid to do it.<BR/><BR/>Of course we all ribbed him about this in the pub - but as he pointed out, he knew the Tory candidate - who lived locally - and the Labour candidate was someone from miles away - in fact three counties away to be precise - who was a solicitor or a social worker or some such and had absolutely no idea about the area.<BR/><BR/>And he also pointed out that all all the years of voting Labour, they had not actually done anything for him, except occasionally the union leaders would shaft his members in various disputes.eeorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02657816556456124166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18009508.post-16715274259868947492008-05-05T01:27:00.000+01:002008-05-05T01:27:00.000+01:00Politicians of honest principal are few and far be...Politicians of honest principal are few and far between, though the nasty wee cynic in me says it doesn't take much to turn them. Cherish such people while you can, regardless of their colours.<BR/><BR/>One small caveat. The true litmus test of honesty is when a ruling party politician goes with his or her conscience. There would be nothing more disconcerting for Labour to have one of their own turning their noses up at the the contents of the trough.iLL Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08107892879700381858noreply@blogger.com