Are Tories all evil beasts? Well there are two reasons for voting Tory. First, maybe you don't really understand politics. My Grandad worked in Salford docks all his life, brought up his family in that dirty old town and always voted Tory because the priests from the pulpit told him to. Second, you think that the Tories will be good for you first and the rest can go hang. The Tories will always excuse your inclination to selfishness, greed and looking after Number One. Oh yes, the apologists will tell you that the Tories run the country "more efficiently." Don't believe a word of it. Since the war, the Tories have always presided over the highest inflation, the worst recessions and the highest unemployment, they sold off the nationalised industries for far less than they were worth in order to make us "a share-owning democracy" (in other words, Tory voters for life), they wrecked our manufacturing industry for ideological motives and they let loose the spivs in the City who eventually wrecked the economy at no cost to themselves (thanks for not intervening, Tony Blair). So I'd say that the average sentient Tory does indeed have a streak of evil. Not all evil, not necessarily beasts, but more than happy to excuse that streak in themselves. And to thank the Lord for their good fortune on Sunday mornings as likely as not.