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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Yes, John...that was then, and life back then was different...politics was different.
And to some people, supporting a political party is done blindly without asking yourself any questions.
The people I am talking about do not see that the political parties have changed beyond all recognition....the lines that separated the parties have become blurred, so that voting for one of the main parties is really no different from voting for the other main party.
These people think that the ideologies followed by the parties, are the same as they were in the fifties and sixties...which anyone with half a brain cell can see quite clearly, it is not the case.
They think that socialism...real socialism exists.
They think that one party will care for and look after the old, the vulnerable and the sick.......it is all an illusion....there is no red, there is no blue...there are just different shades of mauve now.
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Socialism died long ago when it was proved it didn't work, I worked tirelessly for the Tory Party most of my life because I though it was a better overall than anything Labour could offer me. I always liked to think I could make the judgement on which way I wanted my life to go, where as with Labour you weren't allowed to think for yourself always having to toe the party line. I site George Slynn as an example, who, after devoting his life to the Labour movement ended his political career standing as a Lib/dem candidate, after being deselected from his county seat for opposing the party line on the sale of a home for the elderly in Gt Harwood.