Snap. I’m apparently a progressive activist too, despite being a fair bit further to the centre (in theory) than you.
Oh no.
Tell me, where do you get your berets?
Well, the politics are a sideshow for most of us, I can only think of a couple of people who only post on political threads, and their agenda is obvious.
It’s the Albion first, and global politics (whatever our beliefs) a distant second.
I agree completely that it was the emergence of Farage that spooked Cameron, he saw the prospect of his vote being reduced by UKIP the same way that the Conservatives have always relied upon opposition votes being split between the Lib Dems and Labour, usually handing the Conservatives the keys...
Have a coffee, and a Snickers if it helps. The centre is exactly as much of a nonsense as “left” and “right” are.
The whole point of having a centre is in trying to achieve balance. Rather than being wedded to an ideology that predisposes a government to use one tool regardless of its...
Absolutely. There’s an attempt to keep making the “centre” further right, and actually we as individuals are not moving right, but many are massively afraid of being seen as on the left, as the media have done a bang up job of painting the left as “bleeding hearts”, “naive” and “against those...
So it turns out that most of Britain falls into the green square, I’d like to see @dsr-burnley have a pop at this. We disagree on lots, but he’s not one of the trolls I’ve got on ignore.
I’m wondering if for Britain, we only need the green quadrant to express our range of views. That would...
I’d describe myself as quite centrist, but this is where I end up when I go through the process.
EDIT: as @Dick Swiveller points out above, the questions seem skewed toward either labelling us as lefties or agreeing with some bloody insane propositions.