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Comment on Why I’ll Never Vote Conservative at a General Election by David.

No worries, you misunderstood the threading, had I said what you thought I’d said about your comment would have been a fair response.

Anyway, at your age (18) I voted Conservative, but at the time was thinking quite selfishly. Expected I’d be making a lot of money one day and didn’t want to pay any of it out as tax. I grew up, got a conscience and decent education and voted Labour.

If you’ve read my comments on this site (it’s my site BTW) you’ll know I’m not impressed with the current Labour government and if a better alternative to Labour was available who could win I’d vote for them. I see the Conservatives a heck of a lot worse than Labour, I just don’t like what Conservatives stand for, it’s selfishness, hence why I’d never vote for them.

Regarding merit based success and taxation.

The Conservatives approach is based on EVERYONE can do well if they work hard and if you aren’t doing well, it’s probably your own fault, so tough. Not everyone in life even has the option to do well in life, we can all say if you work hard, get on your bike sort of thing you’ll succeed etc… but there’s always going to be a large number of people (the majority IMO) who don’t do exceptionally well in life (well enough to have saved for old age or even to pay for their children to go to University without government help for example) and despite working hard are just getting by, that’s the nature of life in a society like ours: a relatively small number of people do exceptionally well and the rest don’t.

I don’t have a problem with people doing exceptionally well, one day I plan to be one of them, but government should represent the majority and I don’t see that as describing the Conservatives. I’m in a position where I can afford to pay for my kids to go to University and have financial plans for old age.

Where I stand is those who deserve help should be helped and those that don’t deserve help, well tough. That would result in less help than Labour gives, (there are those that get help that IMO shouldn’t) but more than the Conservatives give. I’m closer to Labour than Conservatives and to be honest would rather have a government that helps too many people rather than not enough.

I don’t have an issue with the level of taxation, I’m more concerned at quality of life for the majority of hard working people. If I had control of government I’d probably keep the same level of taxation, but use it in different areas to help those that deserve help and not waste tax payers money on people who for whatever reason refuse to help themselves. How many kids from deprived backgrounds with a gift (music, science, art…) who have never done anything wrong could have a great start in life AND aid society in the future with the money wasted on idiots who take drugs and destroy their lives!

David