{"id":756,"date":"2019-11-18T14:52:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T14:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/?p=756"},"modified":"2019-11-18T14:52:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T14:52:56","slug":"i-am-not-going-to-vote-tory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/2019\/11\/18\/i-am-not-going-to-vote-tory\/","title":{"rendered":"I am not going to vote Tory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When people tell me &#8220;you must vote for Boris&#8217; party or we will never get Brexit&#8221; I usually respond with &#8220;Because you trust &#038; believe a Tory leader to actually do what he says &#038; are willing to just hand-wave the last 3 years away?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well the Tories may be the only game in town in some areas, but decades of voting for the lesser evil is how we ended up with a &#8216;Conservative&#8217; Party that <a href=\"https:\/\/order-order.com\/2019\/11\/18\/boris-scraps-corporation-tax-cuts\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t conservative<\/a>. If I thought Boris was actually serious about meaningful Brexit, I might hold my nose and vote Tory one last time. But if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/10366658\/dominic-raab-rules-out-no-deal\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;No Deal&#8217; really isn&#8217;t an option even now<\/a>, I just don&#8217;t believe anything Boris says about truly wanting out of the EU.  <\/p>\n<p>Do I want to risk Corbyn getting in?  I would rather he doesn&#8217;t but I am done voting Tory on the basis they are a slower acting poison than the alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people tell me &#8220;you must vote for Boris&#8217; party or we will never get Brexit&#8221; I usually respond with &#8220;Because you trust &#038; believe a Tory leader to actually do what he says &#038; are willing to just hand-wave the last 3 years away?&#8221; Well the Tories may be the only game in town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}