Why I hate Tories - with examples

[Idaho]

Didn't life expectancy take a dip during the first industrial revolution?

Also, on the leisure time, "primitive" societies only work for 10-15 hours per week. Plenty of leisure time there...

Life expectancy rose before industrialisation due to the agricultural revolution. It then took a steep dip in the early industrial phase.

There is also a seesaw effect on the relative life expectancy of rural and urban people. Pre industrialisation, urban dwellers outlive their rural counterparts. This is reversed in the first 50 years of industrialisation, and then once again tips back in favour of urban people later on.

[LittleGrizzly]

I don't even know where to begin with this. I tell you what, you put up the deposit, and I will run.
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I will promise you at least one vote if your willing to run for my seat. In fairness my mum has had interaction with our local MP and he is apparently a good MP in her view but I cannot bring myself to vote Labour, in fact in the other thread I was complaining about my lack of voting options.

An independent I could believe in with no chance to win is the perfect solution.

[Idaho]

I don't even know where to begin with this. I tell you what, you put up the deposit, and I will run.
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I will promise you at least one vote if your willing to run for my seat. In fairness my mum has had interaction with our local MP and he is apparently a good MP in her view but I cannot bring myself to vote Labour, in fact in the other thread I was complaining about my lack of voting options.

An independent I could believe in with no chance to win is the perfect solution.

Our process is heavily weighted against independents. The only ones who succeed are those with a very strong popular agenda, national news exposure and a very unpopular incumbent.

By definition you would need to be a popularist and not be about the kind of measured, long term structural approach that I am interested in.

[LittleGrizzly]

There is only one or two that I can think off, Galloway and I cannot even remember the other guys name who was the standing Labour candidate and had health problems.

Can't help but thinking the political parties are a terrible part of our democracy, if every MP was beholden to no party and amongst them elected a leader. You could still have groupings but based on an issue to issue basis rather than a party line... just some random thinking.

On the original topic I always had the impression when I was younger that the tory's were more prone to simplistic emotional response.