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09/05/2008, 6:07 PM Red Squirrel Joined on 09/05/2008 Posts 40 Are the Tories still 'the nasty party'? Despite the recent electoral upturn in the fortunes of the Tory Party under David Cameron, it seems that hardly a week goes by without hearing of Tory politicians arrested, charged or convicted of various criminal offences. So has anything really changed? Is the sleaze and criminality associated with the Thatcher and Major years still a feature of modern day Conservatism? Within the last month we have read of: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7370642.stm http://www.thisishertfordshire.co.uk/news/stalbans/display.var.2188591.0.child_porn_charges_for_excouncillor.php http://www.thisisslough.com/live/stories/story.php?story_id=3358 http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/I39m-innocent-of-taking-bribes.4000301.jp http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/search/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&itemid=NOED06%20May%202008%2007:33:21:940&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=search http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_headline=cops-quiz-tory-over-child-porn&method=full&objectid=20381195&siteid=93463-name_page.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/7392023.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7336994.stm Why does the Tory Party appear to attract the worst kind of people?       nut cracking nationalism    Report

09/05/2008, 9:43 PM bumpkin Joined on 22/01/2007 Posts 17 Re: Are the Tories still 'the nasty party'? I suspect if you trawl around the web news sites long enough (as you seem to have done looking at the selection of links..) you will dig up dirt on most of the main stream party's.  Which party propaganda site did you copy these links from btw...? (im guessing it wasn't the tory affiliated )    Report

09/05/2008, 9:56 PM Budgie Joined on 16/08/2003 Cromer Posts 1,020 Re: Are the Tories still 'the nasty party'? It seems such a short time, too, since the nation told the Tories that their 18 years of rule would never be forgotten. All political parties are the same: once they get their noses into the Westminster trough they seem to forget what they were elected for. Sleaze, stealth taxes and misuse of public money are just a few of the complaints that can be aimed at all of them. I might look darf but I ain't stuput!    Report

10/05/2008, 9:20 AM Red Squirrel Joined on 09/05/2008 Posts 40 Re: Are the Tories still 'the nasty party'? Forgot this one: http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/2704_baron_hard_up.shtml   nut cracking nationalism    Report

10/05/2008, 9:23 AM keith gerrard Joined on 16/04/2004 Posts 9,489 Re: Are the Tories still 'the nasty party'? Red Squirrel, Red September, Red Ken. Hmmmm I am beginning to see a pattern here. Dream on keithgerrard@gerrard24.freeserve.co.uk    Report

10/05/2008, 9:30 AM Darcy Joined on 15/12/2007 Posts 347 Re: Are the Tories still 'the nasty party'?  keith gerrard wrote: Red Squirrel, Red September, Red Ken. Hmmmm I am beginning to see a pattern here.   Yes but you see Reds in your coco-pops! Laughing.    Report

10/05/2008, 9:35 AM keith gerrard Joined on 16/04/2004 Posts 9,489 Re: Are the Tories still 'the nasty party'? I have seen plenty of reds under my guns when this country was seriously threatened by them. Dream on keithgerrard@gerrard24.freeserve.co.uk    Report

10/05/2008, 9:40 AM Darcy Joined on 15/12/2007 Posts 347 Re: Are the Tories still 'the nasty party'?  keith gerrard wrote: I have seen plenty of reds under my guns when this country was seriously threatened by them. Have one on me... Laughing.    Report

10/05/2008, 10:31 PM Red Squirrel Joined on 09/05/2008 Posts 40 Re: Are the Tories still 'the nasty party'? And another one... http://www.suffolkfreepress.co.uk/news/Benefit-fraud-councillor-back-in.4016321.jp   nut cracking nationalism    Report

10/05/2008, 11:26 PM keith gerrard Joined on 16/04/2004 Posts 9,489 Re: Are the Tories still 'the nasty party'? Go for it comrade. Dream on keithgerrard@gerrard24.freeserve.co.uk    Report

11/05/2008, 11:11 AM snomaes Joined on 30/09/2004 Broome, Norfolk Posts 567 Re: Are the Tories still 'the nasty party'?  Red Squirrel wrote: And another one... http://www.suffolkfreepress.co.uk/news/Benefit-fraud-councillor-back-in.4016321.jp   I could trawl the internet for scandals involving Tory, Labour, Liberal, BNP etc, etc, so your point is what exactly? Each party is made up of human beings and every human being has individual foibles & weaknesses. It doesn't matter what affiliation they have, or do you know better? Snomaes    Report

11/05/2008, 11:19 AM keith gerrard Joined on 16/04/2004 Posts 9,489 Re: Are the Tories still 'the nasty party'? 'I think therefore I am'. I post links therefore 'I am not'. Dream on keithgerrard@gerrard24.freeserve.co.uk    Report

11/05/2008, 12:07 PM ChristopherE Joined on 04/01/2006 Posts 213 Re: Are the Tories still 'the nasty party'? The one liners are best, You are on a roll now! .CJE    Report

11/05/2008, 1:00 PM nevermind Joined on 28/05/2007 Posts 1,316 Re: Are the Tories still 'the nasty party'? Every party has its black sheep, even the Greens and they are all trying to operate a damage limitation system. In the case of councillor mullins, a local Conservative councillor on the racks for sexual attacks on underage females, his story is only available from Archant if you pay for it, three days after it has happened. Why should any politicians be different to your average person, they are only human and subject to all the nastiness in the world, once power is added, the mix becomes volatile. nevermind    Report

12/05/2008, 10:30 AM Alan Hardesty Joined on 15/05/2005 Norwich Posts 1,575 Re: Are the Tories still 'the nasty party'? Heaven help us if people like this ever get elected. http://tinyurl.com/4fnz75 I never stole your flag, I just rescued it from the gutter where you left it. For the truth go to www.bnp.org.uk just a link, like Denise has.    Report

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