Hilo, whist I agree that the post at 02:54pm on January 8th was intemperate and over the top, its worth noting that the thread title uses the word Conservative with a capital C. Thats not a description of a general philosophy, its the name of a particular political grouping (in the UK). And there are people whose life chances have been damaged quite severely by the said political grouping, and therefore there will on occasion be intemperate responses, and understandably so. I don't know whether the poster is such a person, but it may explain the response a bit.