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One of my oldest and closest friends, and I was best man at his wedding, is a Tory. I used to be able to tolerate it, but when he was bemoaning the costs of putting his kids through university, I couldn’t hold my tongue any longer and launched into a rant about getting what you voted for. The thing that really gets my goat is the lack of self awareness and how fortunate our generation was, which he benefited from enormously. He’s actively voted to remove those opportunities for his own kids, so he should fucking suck it up.
We’ve not spoken since.
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I commented in whatsapp to a friend of mine that the election will fall on their birthday.
They are a Tory voter with kids in private school.
Their response was "oh great, the day that life gets twenty percent less affordable."
It makes me so angry.
a) It is merely that a luxury service will now (rightly and not by nearly enough in my view) increase in price, due to a tax loophole being removed. If this now prices said friend out of the market, then they will join the vast majority of members of this nation who are not in the wealthy minority. Suck it up.
b) what about all of the Tory policies that have made life so unaffordable for so many?
c) what about all of the Tory mistakes that have made life so unaffordable for so many?
d) the labour manifesto and policy comes with fair warning and sign posting, unlike b and c above,
e) the money raised by charging VAT on private schools, goes to make a decent standard of living possible / affordable for tax payers. Of whom they are one.
I fucking struggle with having a Tory friend. It's so Orwellian to both like and totally disrespect someone simultaneously.