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[lolitics_meme]

Questions of any kind can go here!   
This way they don't end up in the prompts post and everything's easier to find.

You are not familiar with something?
You need insight into the British school system?
You are not sure what category your fic belongs to?
...

All those issues and more can be discussed here. There surely will be people around who are

Comments

[abluestocking]

I'll get us started off! I would love to have a list of progressive Tories, for times I need a "good guy/gal". And if you know what is particularly progressive about them, that's great too - i.e. "so-and-so is outspoken in favor of gay rights", etc.

I would also love to have a list of evil Tories, haha, but I think that might get a little long...but if you have any particularly evil ones, shoot them my way!

Neither of these lists will probably show up in Charity, as it's almost done (although I could have used them when I reshuffled the Cabinet!), but I'm sure they will be very helpful to me (and hopefully to others!) in the future. :)

[okmewriting]

When the US election was going on most of the political commentators that I heard on the beeb said that although they two parties link up, the Conservatives were nowhere near as right wing as the Republicans. Apparently they have more in common with the Democrats.

[abluestocking]

Thank you for all of this! I really appreciate it. Damn, I thought there were more progressive baby Tories. xD Good to know!

[secretshipper]

If you're looking for a good guy Tory I'd suggest Alan Duncan.

[abluestocking]

Ai yai, yes! Just reading his Wikipedia entry makes me love him. Tysm!

[abluestocking]

Bercow is technically Tory, although, as the Speaker, he doesn't get a vote. But back before he was Speaker, he voted against the party line on issues like gay rights (he voted for gay couples to have more adoption rights) and immigration (he was pro-immigration). I think he's a Europhile, too. All this is honest-to-god, officially-decided-by-political-commentators down to him marrying a staunch Labour supporter and getting a lot of hot left-wing sex.

Have a look at the members of the Tory Reform Group. The previous MP for my safe-Tory-seat constituency was a member and he was an absolute BRO - sadly he retired, so yeah.