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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I dont want this to be come a tirade of insults as some of these threads quite often do, but i was just wondering wether peoples political party alliance is a direct result of their parents....I know mine is. I have looked at all options and am sticking with my decision..... |
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I think my early views were, both my parents were dyed-in-the-wool Tories. But I think all of our views have changed time.
I think also the public perception of politicians as less trust-worthy has also caused a change in the way people view them. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I don't feel like I have a party political allegiance...I have a set of political beliefs and priorities and that doesn't quite map exactly onto any of the major parties. So come election time I go with whatever is the best fit.
My views aren't the same as my parents' views though, and they don't have the same views as each other most of the time either. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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All depends how much parents believe they should influence their children as opposed to guiding them?
I think personal circumstances and the environment you live in and witness greatly influences us, and political views change as we mature or sadly in some cases, get bitter. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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my dad always voted labour and my husband so I did too only now we vote UKIP, my son was always talking about nigel farage that's what got me interested. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My parents always voted Tory and in my late teens I expect I'd have voted the same. However my views have changed dramatically as I've got older and I'm very left wing now. |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
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My grandfather was a labour mayor also stood for parliament three time my mum and dad met whilst campaigning for him and are staunchly labour but never stopped us voting lib dem tactically when required to keep the Tories out locally . Would consider my self to be of the left but nearer john smith than Blair & brown whom I consider to be torieslight if anything |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"My parents always voted Tory and in my late teens I expect I'd have voted the same. However my views have changed dramatically as I've got older and I'm very left wing now."
My parents always voted Tory. My dad was an anomaly as he was bought up in a staunch labour area of the northeast.. I have always tended to vote tory, but did vote lib dem in the last election purely as he was i thought the best man for the town and is very much wanting the best for his constituency...
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By (user no longer on site)
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My parents were both Tories.
I voted Tory when I was 18 because I didn't really have an interest in it and that's what they told me to vote.
As the years passed I voted labour and unusually as I've got older I've gone much more left wing and have voted green party for the last 15 years or so.
Although to be honest I'd be willing to vote any party that offered radical change and not the usual offering of blandness |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
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"I dont want this to be come a tirade of insults as some of these threads quite often do, but i was just wondering wether peoples political party alliance is a direct result of their parents....I know mine is. I have looked at all options and am sticking with my decision....."
Heavens no, we are different sides of the political spectrum.
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Fairly similar views to my parents, totally opposite to my in laws..
though my own views would have perhaps influenced our children we've always encouraged them to look at things from their own perspective.. |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
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"Parents and grandparents all labour... they are obviously fools! 
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why come on why would my grand father who fought and was injured on the Somme who saw all the horrors of the First World War the squall we and depravation during the early 1920s not want to fight for better for him and his kind the fact that my father and my self continue this doesent make us fools maybe the Labour Party has moved more to the right of us |
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"Parents and grandparents all labour... they are obviously fools!
why come on why would my grand father who fought and was injured on the Somme who saw all the horrors of the First World War the squall we and depravation during the early 1920s not want to fight for better for him and his kind the fact that my father and my self continue this doesent make us fools maybe the Labour Party has moved more to the right of us "
its a good point, my grandfather's also were in that war though not at the Somme..
one joined the police after but after the 26 general strike left to become a docker..
different times totally from today.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think like many i was influenced by my parents when i was first able to vote, both were staunch labour all their lives, however after all the miners strikes, red robbo at leyland etc, i was totally anti labour and hated the tories so didnt bother to vote for years.
Nowadays both tories and labour objective is not about policies its just about winning the next general election so they get yet another chance to bollox the country up.
I am so pissed off with all the east european invasion of our country that i am going to vote UKIP and bollox to them not having anything else to offer |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I voted Labour when it was Kinnock then Smith. I voted Blair in, but only once. I voted Lib Dem once, but tactically. I know vote for who I feel has the most important subjects at heart and what is best for the country, though I never voted out of a sense of what it could do just for me.
I have voted green in all national and local elections for the last few years. Its not a wasted vote. The main 3 parties are wasted votes to my mind. The status quo is not a good thing. |
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