The fall of the Tory party

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Stonehedge in reply to @hugo7

Genuinely?

For me it's a few things namely;

tendency to consider other view points/factors - aka "boths-sides" in modern parlance
not holding extreme and unrealistic opinions/considering the practical
failure to put all the things in binary opposition

I think your bullet points are more related to my personality (or lack of) rather than political views. I have an autism disorder,a massive data nerd and also earn a living, at least in part, from analysing things as objectively as I can. It doesn't help that I'm also the world's largest pedant. Its possible to be left wing but know that the left wing aren't a realistic immediate solution to the problems in front of the country right now.

For what its worth, I left the SWP just after the Iraq war protests in 2003 and remained party-less until I joined Labour after the referendum. 8 years a union rep in the NHS.

Anyway, its no big deal....was genuinely flabbergasted to be called a centerist. Its the first time in my life I haven't been mocked for being a hopeless leftie!

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mmccarthy in reply to @Stonehedge

I for one very much appreciate your consistently objective input on matters. I wish I had the patience required to constantly bat away the responses you get from folks who assume that because you're not blindly agreeing with them, then you must be on "the other side".

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Stonehedge in reply to @mmccarthy

Thanks Mick, kind words. As long as we're clear that I'm fully aware i'm wrong a lot of the time and depend on people calling me out when I am. I'm well aware that I come across as over confident sometimes.

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