Consider it default mode I suppose. :shrug:
Understandable, even when we all know default mode isn't always correct.
Hence Ken Clarke is a Tory and Tony Blair led the Labour party.
To be fair Buzzer, Ken Clarke isn't your average Tory. Aside from his not nearly so nasty politics, he's a proper Jazz aficionado for starters, so he can't be all bad.
Michael Howard he certainly is not.