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[PaulfromYorkshire]

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[ErnstRemarx]

Just thought I'd post regarding family political leanings.

My family are Tories. Every single fucking one of them.

My middle brother was the archetypal angry young man, until he met and married a woman from Sussex whose dad had been a Liberal councillor. Now he's a Tory. My parents and grandparents were always Tories, and the power strikes of the 70s enabled me to hear my parents sounding off about how Scargill should be hanged. Seriously. My eldest brother - unemployed and living on the outskirts f Wythenshawe - is utterly UKIP, since he smokes and wants to do so in the pub. That sums up his entire life. He's a thick as shit and to him politics is down to can he have a tab with his beer, but indoors. He is a solid UKIP supporter, you'll be unsurprised to read, and has persuaded my not that bright mum to follow his lead.

Fine by me: she's in Osborne's constituency....

[rebeccariots2]

Just thought I'd post regarding family political leanings.

My family are Tories. Every single fucking one of them.

My middle brother was the archetypal angry young man, until he met and married a woman from Sussex whose dad had been a Liberal councillor. Now he's a Tory. My parents and grandparents were always Tories, and the power strikes of the 70s enabled me to hear my parents sounding off about how Scargill should be hanged. Seriously. My eldest brother - unemployed and living on the outskirts f Wythenshawe - is utterly UKIP, since he smokes and wants to do so in the pub. That sums up his entire life. He's a thick as shit and to him politics is down to can he have a tab with his beer, but indoors. He is a solid UKIP supporter, you'll be unsurprised to read, and has persuaded my not that bright mum to follow his lead.

Fine by me: she's in Osborne's constituency....

Commiserations Ernst. One of my sisters was Tory for a while - thank the stars that she has reverted to our mainly leftwing family type now. (The other sister has unfortunately been desocialised by living in Oz and the middle east for too long - I don't think there's any hope of 're-education' even if she were to return.)

What do you think made the difference with you? Did you eat something different as a young un?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Sister voted Tory last time. Works in local government so won't this time.

Parents non-voting Tories, but very suspicious of privatisation.

[ErnstRemarx]

Just thought I'd post regarding family political leanings.

My family are Tories. Every single fucking one of them.

My middle brother was the archetypal angry young man, until he met and married a woman from Sussex whose dad had been a Liberal councillor. Now he's a Tory. My parents and grandparents were always Tories, and the power strikes of the 70s enabled me to hear my parents sounding off about how Scargill should be hanged. Seriously. My eldest brother - unemployed and living on the outskirts f Wythenshawe - is utterly UKIP, since he smokes and wants to do so in the pub. That sums up his entire life. He's a thick as shit and to him politics is down to can he have a tab with his beer, but indoors. He is a solid UKIP supporter, you'll be unsurprised to read, and has persuaded my not that bright mum to follow his lead.

Fine by me: she's in Osborne's constituency....

Commiserations Ernst. One of my sisters was Tory for a while - thank the stars that she has reverted to our mainly leftwing family type now. (The other sister has unfortunately been desocialised by living in Oz and the middle east for too long - I don't think there's any hope of 're-education' even if she were to return.)

What do you think made the difference with you? Did you eat something different as a young un?

I really don't know. I didn't even know about political parties until my teens, and even then I didn't know what they actually stood for. I just remember thinking that you'd have to be seriously upset about something to cause a kerfuffle like that (power outages). Why would you do it?

Even at university - I went to Keele, a lefty bastion - the penny didn't entirely drop until a couple of years on and I got the first vote in 1983. By then I was pretty sure that Thatcher was a complete arsehole and her party equally deserving of my wrath and voted accordingly. To no effect. Living in the Tatton constituency did nothing for my blood pressure after graduation, particularly when Neil fucking Hamilton fetched up on our doorstep one evening after my mother had sent Thatch a long and self-pitying letter, to tell her that they weren't voting Tory any more (of course they did, regardless).

And the bastard helped himself to one of my fucking beers. It's the closest I've ever been to decking someone without actually doing it. Smarmy piece of shite.

Anyway, it all presaged a long and continuous leftward slide that I was told I'd get over when I grew up. I guess I never did. I'm now more left wing than I was at 18 or 25, or 30 or 40.

Not a trace of leftism in the family tree, and I end up the white sheep of the family. What's to do, eh?

[rebeccariots2]

Just thought I'd post regarding family political leanings.

My family are Tories. Every single fucking one of them.

My middle brother was the archetypal angry young man, until he met and married a woman from Sussex whose dad had been a Liberal councillor. Now he's a Tory. My parents and grandparents were always Tories, and the power strikes of the 70s enabled me to hear my parents sounding off about how Scargill should be hanged. Seriously. My eldest brother - unemployed and living on the outskirts f Wythenshawe - is utterly UKIP, since he smokes and wants to do so in the pub. That sums up his entire life. He's a thick as shit and to him politics is down to can he have a tab with his beer, but indoors. He is a solid UKIP supporter, you'll be unsurprised to read, and has persuaded my not that bright mum to follow his lead.

Fine by me: she's in Osborne's constituency....

Commiserations Ernst. One of my sisters was Tory for a while - thank the stars that she has reverted to our mainly leftwing family type now. (The other sister has unfortunately been desocialised by living in Oz and the middle east for too long - I don't think there's any hope of 're-education' even if she were to return.)

What do you think made the difference with you? Did you eat something different as a young un?

I really don't know. I didn't even know about political parties until my teens, and even then I didn't know what they actually stood for. I just remember thinking that you'd have to be seriously upset about something to cause a kerfuffle like that (power outages). Why would you do it?

Even at university - I went to Keele, a lefty bastion - the penny didn't entirely drop until a couple of years on and I got the first vote in 1983. By then I was pretty sure that Thatcher was a complete arsehole and her party equally deserving of my wrath and voted accordingly. To no effect. Living in the Tatton constituency did nothing for my blood pressure after graduation, particularly when Neil fucking Hamilton fetched up on our doorstep one evening after my mother had sent Thatch a long and self-pitying letter, to tell her that they weren't voting Tory any more (of course they did, regardless).

And the bastard helped himself to one of my fucking beers. It's the closest I've ever been to decking someone without actually doing it. Smarmy piece of shite.

Anyway, it all presaged a long and continuous leftward slide that I was told I'd get over when I grew up. I guess I never did. I'm now more left wing than I was at 18 or 25, or 30 or 40.

Not a trace of leftism in the family tree, and I end up the white sheep of the family. What's to do, eh?

Drinking your beer - now that really is the final straw. He was obviously predestined for UKIP.