I think this country is really suffering from this mentality of Tory = bad. They are no worse than another party really but this skepticism does not help. You need to take every idea on it's merits. Otherwise it's equivalent to political racism.
FWIW I am not a Tory voter I just don't think an instant dislike or negative feeling about an idea just because it comes from one particular party is helpful.
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I'm (just) old enough to remember quite how shit they were in the 80s and early 90s and how much my parents and other adults I respected hated them (and these were not people generally prone to hatred). When 1997 rolled around I could vote for the first time and was delighted to vote Labour. The last eleven years have been... disappointing to say the least, but if nothing else they've taught me that the "party A good, party B bad" view of politics is a non-starter.
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I'm (just) old enough to remember quite how shit they were in the 80s and early 90s and how much my parents and other adults I respected hated them (and these were not people generally prone to hatred). When 1997 rolled around I could vote for the first time and was delighted to vote Labour. The last eleven years have been... disappointing to say the least, but if nothing else they've taught me that the "party A good, party B bad" view of politics is a non-starter.