Thinking of joining the Tory Party - worth it?
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I've been a life long Tory voter (well since 18 anyway) but have no desire to go out dropping leaflets or wave blue flags. However, just recently I have this desire to 'do my bit' and thought I might join the party. For £25 is it likely I will get anything out of it other than a feeling of 'belonging'?
Tyre Smoke said:
I've been a life long Tory voter (well since 18 anyway) but have no desire to go out dropping leaflets or wave blue flags. However, just recently I have this desire to 'do my bit' and thought I might join the party. For £25 is it likely I will get anything out of it other than a feeling of 'belonging'?
What do you want, exactly?You'll get to go to conference, if that's your thing; it is quite good fun!
As a grass-roots activist, there is little you can do other than canvass and deliver leaflets...sorry!
Actually, I don't want to do anything!
I think I just want to be a card carrying member of the party I have long supported.
I think what I'm asking is am I going to get hassled by the local blue rinse brigade to get involved on a local level, because if that is the case then I won't join.
I think I just want to be a card carrying member of the party I have long supported.
I think what I'm asking is am I going to get hassled by the local blue rinse brigade to get involved on a local level, because if that is the case then I won't join.
Tyre Smoke said:
Actually, I don't want to do anything!
I think I just want to be a card carrying member of the party I have long supported.
I think what I'm asking is am I going to get hassled by the local blue rinse brigade to get involved on a local level, because if that is the case then I won't join.
No hassle.I think I just want to be a card carrying member of the party I have long supported.
I think what I'm asking is am I going to get hassled by the local blue rinse brigade to get involved on a local level, because if that is the case then I won't join.
They're too disorganised, if my local branch is anything to go by.
Very cliquey also!
Plus, all the younger members are really rather wierd. I don't really fit in with my lot tbh. Still help out though.
Tyre Smoke said:
I think what I'm asking is am I going to get hassled by the local blue rinse brigade to get involved on a local level, because if that is the case then I won't join.
Your joining an organisation, that organisation wants people to stuff leaflets through doors, who do you think there going to ask to help out?I think you should consider becoming a donor rather than a member of the party.
Edited by Fittster on Monday 1st February 11:29
Well, you will get lots of nice emails from Eric Pickles, and invites to a few functions to meet local dignitaries, but apart from that, other than having registered your support, you don't get anything out of it unless you are going to get stuck in and volunteer, or make it a part of your social life. If your local Conservative Club is a nice alternative to the pub, it's probably worth it for that.
Tyre Smoke said:
don4l said:
If you are a real Tory, then you should join UKIP.
If you liked Tony Blair, then join the Conservatives.
Don
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UKIP? The BNP in blazers.If you liked Tony Blair, then join the Conservatives.
Don
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Bliar was certainly no Tory.
You are most definitely a cretin though.
Fittster said:
Tyre Smoke said:
don4l said:
If you are a real Tory, then you should join UKIP.
If you liked Tony Blair, then join the Conservatives.
Don
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UKIP? The BNP in blazers.If you liked Tony Blair, then join the Conservatives.
Don
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Bliar was certainly no Tory.
You are most definitely a cretin though.
Tyre Smoke said:
I've been a life long Tory voter (well since 18 anyway) but have no desire to go out dropping leaflets or wave blue flags. However, just recently I have this desire to 'do my bit' and thought I might join the party. For £25 is it likely I will get anything out of it other than a feeling of 'belonging'?
Your £25 will probably go towards a 'Dave and Zac - fighting climate change and saving the planet' billboard poster.But if you really want to help the Conservatives find a marginal seat with a proper conservative (with a small 'c') candidate and donate towards his/her election fund.
PS - good luck trying to find one though.
Edited by 5unny on Monday 1st February 20:29
I used to be a member and helped out in 2001 and 2005. What I saw and the people I met ranged from the mildly inspiring to the downright ludicrous. There are some truly nice, honest and committed people who see it as a duty to support the party they believe in through thinck and thin, a fair few of them are the now dwindling old guard whose hay-day was in the 1980s (they helped win 4 elections in a row). But the newer generation made me shudder, a bunch of venal, b
hing, back-stabbing petty nobodies, some prone to histrionics (the girl who broke down in tears at a meeting because she couldn't get her way and thought she should because she was shagging the local council leader and soon-to-be MP), others about as dull as doorknob. I encountered people who were plainly looking to gain influence to further their local business interests, others whose poltical ambitions were simply not matched by any form of charisma or charm. Eventually I got fed up watching them all bh about each other and rarely turning on the matter-at-hand - namely destroying the grip of the Labour Party onthe electorate and proving to people that the Tories were electable.
The nail in the coffin has been Dave, Dave waffles on about climate change, while he's just reassured the vast Labour client-state that their hideously expensive non-jobs with their unaffordable taxpayer-backed pensions are safe in order to garner a few more votes - sod trying to appeal to the mass of people who just see another spin-obsessed PR spiv out to emulate Bliar's third way - and sod bothering to actually win over the electorate through decent arguments put forward with conviction, oblivious to the shrieking of our utterly moronic mainstream media. Most of all the Conservative Party is confused - run ragged by left-leaning media who pick apart their arguments with unparallelled zeal, a party unable to express itself properly and scared of shadows - the shadows of the past, the shadow of the socialism that has enslaved Britain and the ominous shadow of a claque of trendy urbanites and old f@rts who have their own agendas and reputations to protect, applying their own dogmas as policy whilst claiming their expenses. By all means pay your £25 - but you'd be better of donating it to Help for Heroes or Cancer Research.
hing, back-stabbing petty nobodies, some prone to histrionics (the girl who broke down in tears at a meeting because she couldn't get her way and thought she should because she was shagging the local council leader and soon-to-be MP), others about as dull as doorknob. I encountered people who were plainly looking to gain influence to further their local business interests, others whose poltical ambitions were simply not matched by any form of charisma or charm. Eventually I got fed up watching them all bh about each other and rarely turning on the matter-at-hand - namely destroying the grip of the Labour Party onthe electorate and proving to people that the Tories were electable. The nail in the coffin has been Dave, Dave waffles on about climate change, while he's just reassured the vast Labour client-state that their hideously expensive non-jobs with their unaffordable taxpayer-backed pensions are safe in order to garner a few more votes - sod trying to appeal to the mass of people who just see another spin-obsessed PR spiv out to emulate Bliar's third way - and sod bothering to actually win over the electorate through decent arguments put forward with conviction, oblivious to the shrieking of our utterly moronic mainstream media. Most of all the Conservative Party is confused - run ragged by left-leaning media who pick apart their arguments with unparallelled zeal, a party unable to express itself properly and scared of shadows - the shadows of the past, the shadow of the socialism that has enslaved Britain and the ominous shadow of a claque of trendy urbanites and old f@rts who have their own agendas and reputations to protect, applying their own dogmas as policy whilst claiming their expenses. By all means pay your £25 - but you'd be better of donating it to Help for Heroes or Cancer Research.
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