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  PaulB, Alan Duncan, as a homosexual leading Conservative, in some ways is an example of why you are totally wrong about the Conservative Party.
  
  The Conservative Ladies have always been very powerful in the grass roots organisation. If anything it is among them where the last vestiges of the old fashioned attitudes you refer to exist in so far as it influences them in their choice of candidates. Any candidate has to get the ladies on-side to get through a selection and they are far less likely to support a woman. I do have first hand experience of that.
  
  Male attitudes in the Conservative Party are much more complex. Take me for example. Personally I like these traditional values and believe society would be a lot better off with these. But, I also believe in freedom and any woman who wants a career whether in politics or elsewhere should be able to do so and should expect fair and equal treatment in that career choice. Remember it is the Conservatives who had the first woman Prime Minister, one who is still held in the greatest esteem by Conservatives and many others. Conservative men are far more likely to support a good female candidate entirely on her merits without being influenced by prejudices.
  
  The real difference we are talking about in this thread is in respect of a sense of humour.
  
  The left lost theirs when they adopted political correctness. I have to say I have often found a lot of 'left wingers' to be far too self rightious with their politics, adopting a totally unjustified air of po-faced intellectual superiority.
  
  On the right we still have a sense of humour and can still laugh at blonde jokes, Essex girls and anything else come to that. Long may that continue.

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