mrcat1990 Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 My Mum was the first openly Yes Labour councillor in Scotland, then she left them. My Dad was a big Yes man long before most. Both ken the score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsimButtHitsASix Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 I know this was a big issue during the referendum, but I can only assume that in 20 years or so the death toll in Scotland will have taken a larger chunk of Labour and Tory than any other group proportionately. As my mate Dario so succinctly put it: "we were one bad winter away from Independence" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 I don't know. I haven't spoken to any of the c***s for years, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 As my mate Dario so succinctly put it: "we were one bad winter away from Independence" Dario? Seriously? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 My cousin works for Ed Miliband. How sad as Two Kitchens is even worse than the thick Welsh Windbag who advises him. Kinnockio sold out to Brussels for a huge salary and a cushy European job for his son - now married to the Danish PM and selected for a safe Labour seat. What a bunch of parasitic and hypocritical scumbags.! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MassiveFanDan Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Quite surprised by the number of young people voting Tory. On my facebook feed it's all Green/Labour with bits of the SNP mixed in but when I asked some mates when we studied together over the last few days a lot of them are voting Tory. Mind you I'm at Edinburgh uni and a load of my mates were private schooled so maybe it's not all that surprising. Young folk nowadays (at least the ones who are interested in politics) seem to fall into two distinct camps - either they're ultra-radical anti-establishment smash-the-system types (usually with a huge dollop of bleeding heart authoritarian social-justice-policing thrown in, and they always end up voting Labour) or they're baby-faced rightist-libertarian Pinochet-admirers of the most extreme stripe. The ones on the right sometimes seem even more like self-parodies than the ones on the left. It's like they've decided to do a life-long impression of Katie Hopkins (that'll probably end abruptly when they hit their mid-twenties). Not saying your mates are like that Mr. Bairn - the extremes are probably just more visible to me - but there's a lot of them about. The website Torysay, which collected the wit and wisdom of Young Conservatives from social media, was a blast back in it's heyday. Chock full of uni-age Sebastians and Oberons and Petronellas stoating about in starched evening wear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Always wish I'd joined the Young Conservatives when I was at University. Utter banter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 All my immediate family SNP. My Mums sister was a lib dem councillor many moons ago, so her family all voted lib dems. However she was thoroughly embarrassed with Clegg post last election so nae idea what she will do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsimButtHitsASix Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Dario? Seriously? seriously... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 My mum once went to one of Willie Rennie's surgeries and told him "I've voted Conservative in the past but thanks to you I'll now vote Labour". Part of me definitely died when she told me what she'd done, on various levels. Kind of wish I was there to see Rennie's face before he got her telt though. That said, I suppose if she was a Labour voter then I would also be a Labour voter because, erm, that's just the way it works, isn't it? Eta: The other half's dad is planning on voting UKIP in protest because "it'll give the government the shake up it'll need". Aye, cause that'll be a useful vote in Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowboy Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 My Mum has said twice 'that UKIP guy talks a lot of sense' My Dad is a quiet RedRob One sister will almost certainly vote Tory as she's pig-headed and rich which ukip guy? farage or surely not Coburn? my 86 year old dad is a lifelong tory and no voter, I never talk to the rest of the family about politics as if they were on the dark side I may never forgive them. tho my old tory auntie told me she was voting yes last year as her 14 year old grand son had persuaded her, so she can live for ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Bairn Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 which ukip guy? farage or surely not Coburn? my 86 year old dad is a lifelong tory and no voter, I never talk to the rest of the family about politics as if they were on the dark side I may never forgive them. tho my old tory auntie told me she was voting yes last year as her 14 year old grand son had persuaded her, so she can live for ever Don't tell Oaksoft about that, he might literally puke at the thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collins Out! Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Not spoke to my brother since the referendum. I suspect him to be a secret unionist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jute Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 My Mother is sadly a firm No voter and was going to vote for unionist candidate that was most likely to give SNP a run in her constituency. However she fucked her postal vote application and missed the deadline so cannot vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 My mum and dad vote SNP. No shame there. My younger brother lives in California, but is a big SNP supporter, SNP member and donates. My youngest brother lives in Aberdeenshire, works in the oil industry, voted No in the referendum and will undoubtedly be backing some form of unionist party. Not so much shame, as disappointment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzyAffro Posted May 6, 2015 Author Share Posted May 6, 2015 which ukip guy? farage or surely not Coburn? my 86 year old dad is a lifelong tory and no voter, I never talk to the rest of the family about politics as if they were on the dark side I may never forgive them. tho my old tory auntie told me she was voting yes last year as her 14 year old grand son had persuaded her, so she can live for ever Aye Farage, she's no that stupid. Close like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 My Mother is sadly a firm No voter... I visited my step-grandparents last weekend and within a minute of conversation, I discovered that they think independence is stupid and that the "Darwin theory where we all came out of the water" is a load of nonsense too. How I miss the joyful days of hide and seek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuctifano Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 My dad voted labour all his working life but switched to SNP around 2005 after he retired. Still voted No, mind. I've never heard my mum talking about voting for anyone, or almost any party politics at all, for all I know she could be a BNP voter. She told me she voted Yes but I suspect that may have been to shut me up after me going on at her for ages and could well be a lie. Most of my cousins that I have on Facebook voted Yes and a couple have linked to pro SNP stuff. There's one who was the opposite but he lives in England so IDGAF what he does tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzyAffro Posted May 6, 2015 Author Share Posted May 6, 2015 Folk that pretend they voted yes are the worst. I work with a couple, one late 50's, baby boomer, decent house paid off etc. Just an I'm alright jack ignorant knobend. Likes to join in with the chat and pretend he's one of the good guys but he's as staunch a no as you could find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donj Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Best laugh of the lot is Kezias dad is a card carrying SNP voter. Most I know are either Tory or Labour but at least my wife likes Nicola. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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