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Tories need less ‘hate’ to win election, says minister (UK)
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^
| 12:20PM GMT 21 Jan 2014
| Georgia Graham
Posted on 01/21/2014 12:39:30 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Conservatives can only win the next election if they do not use the language of “hate” and win back “aspirational” voters who turned to Labour under Tony Blair, a minister has suggested.
Nicky Morgan, a Treasury minister, warned against spending too much time using negative language rather than sending out a “positive” message to the electorate.
The Conservative Party can be seen as being focused on what it is against and risks “not talking about what we like and how we want to help people”, Miss Morgan indicated.
Miss Morgan is considered to be a rising star in the Conservative Party and is one of the most talented female members of the 2010 intake of MPs. …
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: davidcameron; fakeconservatives; liberalagenda; tories
The Tories are wrecked by the same kind of people that wrecked the GOP.
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posted on
01/21/2014 12:39:30 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
They have wrecked their own party by not being conservative enough. Not US style conservative either.
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posted on
01/21/2014 12:41:54 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
BS.
If anything we need a little more of “what I am against”
Being wishy washy does not win elections.
Stand up and don’t be afraid to say NO! What you are doing is WRONG!
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posted on
01/21/2014 12:44:42 PM PST
by
icwhatudo
(Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
To: Olog-hai
Labour needs less greed and envy if they want to hold power.
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posted on
01/21/2014 12:46:25 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
To: Olog-hai
LONDON: In a sharp jump in just one year, Muhammad has emerged as the most common first name given to baby boys born in London in 2012. The name was also second most common among new born male babies across UK and Wales the same year..."...what difference does it make!"
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posted on
01/21/2014 12:47:10 PM PST
by
RckyRaCoCo
(Shall Not Be Infringed)
To: Olog-hai
Maybe the Tories need to actually become “conservative” again.
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posted on
01/21/2014 12:47:56 PM PST
by
JSDude1
(Defeat Hagan, elect a Constutional Conservative: Dr. Greg Brannon!)
To: Olog-hai
Stop taking "advice" from your opponents would be a good start.
There is plenty of hate speech from the left but for some reason they are rarely called on it.
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posted on
01/21/2014 12:57:30 PM PST
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Olog-hai
Oh boy. They got backstabbing RINOs in the UK too.
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:00:48 PM PST
by
lowbridge
To: Berlin_Freeper
All You Need Is Hate Proverbs 8:13 -- The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:05:48 PM PST
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Olog-hai
What the Tories need is this guy:
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:29:51 PM PST
by
DemforBush
(Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!)
To: Olog-hai
UKIP is going to stomp the Tories and Labor.
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:30:34 PM PST
by
struggle
To: OneWingedShark
The working definition of “hate” that I’m gathering is
“rejecting the works of Satan”.
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:31:32 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: MrB
The working definition of “hate” that I’m gathering is
“rejecting the works of Satan”.
(((
You are exactly correct, sir. Applies for this country’s left, as well.
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posted on
01/21/2014 2:47:50 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Ps 8)
To: Olog-hai; BillyBoy
Uh-huh, they are losing votes on the right to UKIP so this genius advises the party to go further left. Brilliant.
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posted on
01/21/2014 11:48:25 PM PST
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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