Richard Frost wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12 2022 1:35pm
Like the anti vaxers, there are many who live in their own bubble who have very fixed opinions and are unable to see further than the bridge of the glasses upon their noses. Life has ever been such and will continue to be so.
The same could perhaps be said of me. I have always voted Labour apart from one shameful election where I voted Liberal Democrat, many moons ago. But then again despite the differences within the Labour Party. I think it is a kinder party and genuinely has a better feeling for the people than the Conservatives, who in my opinion (apart from a handful) are largely in politics for their own selfish purposes.
Agreed. Unfortunately the "One Nation" Tories, who kept the right-wing in check have now all but disappeared. Now, I agree with your characterization - nothing that a Tory politician does can surprise me (although the fact they seem to get away with it does). Like you, I have always voted Labour, even if it has been between gritted teeth at times. I count myself a Socialist, but I view those further left as a problem to be engaged and not necessarily easy bedfellows - so, had the term not been abused by others, I would count myself a pragmatic Socialist, who doesn't let perfection get in the way of good. Were this not a FPTP system, I might well have loaned my support elsewhere.... but none of the major parties have deserved it in the current situation.
I find it genuinely depressing to see that we are in a situation where the rights and benefits of the common man are being removed or restricted, where the new generation are unlikely to do betterr than their parents and where the move to a better future seems stalled at best. Worse, I cannot see how others seem blind to this, or accepting of it. Unlike the majority of voters, it seems, I have known characters like Johnson all my working life - and have learned to despise them, but not to underestimate the power that their sense of privilege and arrogance lends them. How others can't see through their BS is beyond me.
