Am I the only Tory on Answerbank?

[number8]

Well, am I?

[cheyenne]

we on answerbank will always welcome any minority party.we are very open minded???

[Ewood27]

No, you're not.

[derbyram]

I'm a floater - can't get the turd connotation to that statement out of my mind

[OBonio]

Nope, I'm with ya!

[Quizmonster]

As Vinny's response suggests, we must do our best to protect all threatened species!

[bernardo]

I have voted for eight different political parties, including the Conservative Party twice

[Brugel]

No, I am as well. We're few in number because we're so clever. It's a well-known fact that Tories are more intelligent than liberals or socialists.

[marchantino]

i think i might be one,in light of recent events.

[secretspirit]

Nope, I'm one too.

[Quizmonster]

Dear Brugel, John Stuart Mill - one of the greatest thinkers of the day - described the Tories in the 1860s as "the stupidest party". This has hung about their necks like an albatross ever since, mainly because there is little evidence that they have become any brighter in the intervening century and a half!

[smudge]

You are most certainly not - having said that no-one will ever be as good as Maggie Thatcher! Here comes the flak!!!!

[smudge]

Ouch!

[Quizmonster]

Dear Smudge, even the Tories - eventually - wised up to the fact that she had to go!

[Brugel]

Dear Quizmonster, My remark about socialists and liberals was meant as a joke and I'm surprised that it didn't produce more comment than it did. I hope I would never be so arrogant as to presume that one group of people are more intelligent than another. And I do have a fair amount of regard for JS Mill-who was a real liberal (unlike many nowadays who use this description but often have a tendency to be fairly intolerant).