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Post by thomas on Mar 6, 2023 11:11:08 GMT
Why dont labour and tories just become the scottish unionist party and have done with it FFS. 
Former Conservative councillor campaigns for Scottish Labour
A FORMER Conservative councillor and one-time Brexit Party candidate is now campaigning for Scottish Labour, The National can reveal.
Paul Aitken served as a Tory politician in East Renfrewshire for just under a year after he was elected in 2017, and was put forward for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party as the prospective candidate for the area at the 2019 General Election.
He quit the Conservatives in 2018, complaining of a lack of internal party democracy, and faced calls from Labour at the time to resign his seat and stand for re-election to test his mandate.
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Post by Vinny on Mar 6, 2023 12:03:02 GMT
Labour are socialists, the Tories are capitalists.
Big difference.
The Tories believe in small state low tax, socialists believe in big state big tax.
Rather odd that a Tory would cross the floor to a party with nothing ideologically in common.
But, stranger things have happened (like you supporting the anti democratic and extremely capitalistic EU, whilst playing at being a socialist).
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Post by thomas on Mar 6, 2023 12:05:03 GMT
Labour are socialists, the Tories are capitalists. Big difference. The Tories believe in small state low tax, socialists believe in big state big tax. Rather odd that a Tory would cross the floor to a party with nothing ideologically in common. But, stranger things have happened (like you supporting the anti democratic and extremely capitalistic EU, whilst playing at being a socialist). Dear christ vinny , are you locked n the 1970s or something?
I dont think there is barely a proper socialist left in the labour party , and both parties are "capitalist."
If they are so vastly different as you infer , then the tory brexiter shouldnt be campaigning for a party of opposing values should he? GEEEZ!
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Post by Vinny on Mar 8, 2023 21:39:13 GMT
Wrong.
And you're in a cult.
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Post by borchester on Mar 9, 2023 2:03:46 GMT
Why dont labour and tories just become the scottish unionist party and have done with it FFS.
Former Conservative councillor campaigns for Scottish Labour
A FORMER Conservative councillor and one-time Brexit Party candidate is now campaigning for Scottish Labour, The National can reveal.
Paul Aitken served as a Tory politician in East Renfrewshire for just under a year after he was elected in 2017, and was put forward for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party as the prospective candidate for the area at the 2019 General Election.
He quit the Conservatives in 2018, complaining of a lack of internal party democracy, and faced calls from Labour at the time to resign his seat and stand for re-election to test his mandate.
Is this legal?
I thought all Scottish Tories were remainers. Certainly Dougie Ross is, which is probably why Morayloon hates him with a passion
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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 9, 2023 2:17:35 GMT
Wrong. And you're in a cult. A what... |
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Post by thomas on Mar 9, 2023 11:57:11 GMT
Why dont labour and tories just become the scottish unionist party and have done with it FFS.
Former Conservative councillor campaigns for Scottish Labour
A FORMER Conservative councillor and one-time Brexit Party candidate is now campaigning for Scottish Labour, The National can reveal.
Paul Aitken served as a Tory politician in East Renfrewshire for just under a year after he was elected in 2017, and was put forward for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party as the prospective candidate for the area at the 2019 General Election.
He quit the Conservatives in 2018, complaining of a lack of internal party democracy, and faced calls from Labour at the time to resign his seat and stand for re-election to test his mandate.
Is this legal?
I thought all Scottish Tories were remainers. Certainly Dougie Ross is, which is probably why Morayloon hates him with a passion
borkie , i meant to say , was reading this article and it made me think of one of your old "nuggets" of so called tory wisdom about people voting tory as they get older.............. 
Millennials are shattering the oldest rule in politics
Western conservatives are at risk from generations of voters who are no longer moving to the right as they age
“If you are not a liberal at 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at 35 you have no brain.” So said Winston Churchill. Or US president John Adams. Or perhaps King Oscar II of Sweden. Variations of this aphorism have circulated since the 18th century, underscoring the well-established rule that as people grow older, they tend to become more conservative.
The pattern has held remarkably firm. By my calculations, members of Britain’s “silent generation”, born between 1928 and 1945, were five percentage points less conservative than the national average at age 35, but around five points more conservative by age 70. The “baby boomer” generation traced the same path, and “Gen X”, born between 1965 and 1980, are now following suit.
Millennials — born between 1981 and 1996 — started out on the same trajectory, but then something changed. The shift has striking implications for the UK’s Conservatives and US Republicans, who can no longer simply rely on their base being replenished as the years pass.
Similar patterns are evident in Britain, where millennials are more economically leftwing than Gen-Xers and boomers were at the same age, and Brexit has alienated a higher share of former Tory backers among this generation than any other. Even before Truss, two-thirds of millennials who had backed the Conservatives before the EU referendum were no longer planning to vote for the party again, and one in four said they now strongly disliked the Tories.
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