| Topic: | Three people who won't be voting Conservative | |
| Posted by: | David Giles | |
| Date/Time: | 02/05/05 17:20:00 |
| I met 3 people who told me that they won't be voting Conservative on '5th May on Hounslow High Street last Saturday. I asked them why and this is what they told me: Young Man No 1: " I have just got out of prison. The Conservatives says they would bring in longer sentences so if they were in power, I would still be inside". Young Man No 2" I will be voting BNP. The Conservatives say they will bring in more police. I don't like the police so I won't be voting Conservative". Young Man No 3 spaced out: " The Conservatives invented parole. I am on parole and it is a pain in the a***. I won't be voting Conservative". But on the plus side most of the people we spoke to said they would be voting Conservative or at least not voting Labour. These included people of all ethnics groups, sexual orientations, sexes, ages and socio-economic groups. There was general dissatisfaction with Ann Keen, the outgoing Labour MP and a distrust of Tony Blair. One young nurse who had trained and worked at the West Mid said she had been out with 16 of her former colleagues from the West Mid the night before and that only 2 of them are now working at the hospital.She said that morale is very low in the NHS because of the way it is being managed and because more priority is being given to meeting targets set by the Labour ministers in the Department of Health than to looking after patients. She will be voting Conservative |