Crewe and Nantwich campaign turns Labour into the ‘nasty party’
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Dear Labour idiots in C&N,
I almost take it as a compliment that you idiots have been so desperate to prevent a Conservative victory in C&N that you have tried to reignite visions of ‘Tory toffs’ in an attempt to turn voters away from delivering a crushing defeat to Labour. Amazingly, the Lib Dems have also taken a few shots at the Conservative candidate on the grounds of his upbringing, making them look like idiots too. Sadly for you, this stunt has backfired because it has highlighted the inability of the Labour Party to compete on policy, making them resort to this idiocy instead. Furthermore, if you dig a little deeper, you find that Labour and the Lib Dems are hardly in a position to accuse the Conservatives of being privileged….
After doing some research on the main party websites, I found some rather revealing statistics. Many people whinge and moan about David Cameron and George Osborne going to Oxford and therefore being toffs, but they are not the only ones who have enjoyed this level of education. In the Conservative Party, you will find that 14 out of the 25 Shadow Cabinet members went to either Oxford or Cambridge. However, if you look at the Lib Dems and Labour you find that 12 people in their Cabinets also went to Oxford or Cambridge - and as all parties had two or three ministers that did not disclose their university on the party website, you have to conclude that there is sod all difference in terms of the educational background of the Cabinet members in each party. In short, if the Conservatives are toffs, Labour and Lib Dems deserve exactly the same label. To make you lot look even more idiotic, more Labour Cabinet ministers have been to Oxford than their Conservative counterparts, and more Lib Dem Shadow Cabinet ministers have been to Cambridge than the Conservatives.
I know how hard it must be for you Labour idiots to come to terms with this, but the accusation that the Conservatives are toffs is already consigned to the history books – in the same way that the Labour government will be consigned to the history books in two years time. By all means continue campaigning in C&N because every time you try to stereotype the Conservatives, the powerful messages we are sending out to the electorate keep getting stronger.
Yours sincerely,
A.Tory
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I’ve been studying Edward Timpson, and I admire him. Naturally I want him to lose to the Lib Dems, but he’s an all right sort of person.
Labour are clearly barking up the wrong tree. He’s done lots of charity work, he works in family law (which is not well paid) and his family has fostered lots and lots of children over many years which is a huge undertaking and deserves a huge amount of respect.
And no, the Lib Dems can’t have him.
Yes, that is what I mean by saying I admire him. To be honest, I wouldn’t shed any tears if he won.
The best sign of toffness is not which university was attended but whether the politician was educated privately. Whilst in an ideal world our political class would not be as dominated by Oxbridge as it is, at least you have to enter Oxford and Cambridge on academic merit these days. Private education, on the other hand, is a matter of ‘who pays gets in’. This is a much better means of measuring toffness. Comparing levels of private education amongst the Tory frontbench team and the Labour Cabinet will confirm that the Tories still are the poshest party.
“at least you have to enter Oxford and Cambridge on academic merit these days”
Remind me which planet you are living on?! The exam system is so fundamentally flawed that your statement is laughable. Furthermore, the application system at Oxford and Cambridge is abused every year by ‘old boy’ connections between school teachers and admissions tutors which biases the whole system.
Posh as an idea has changed these days. Intelligence and richness might soon be opposite ends of the spectrum. To exercise intelligence oftn means a huge pay cut but should you be able to kick a ball and be unable to spell your own name you will get millions!
So technically these footballers are the new elite and where will they be sending their children – well private school of course! But can they really be termed Posh?