Great post Joey, you will make a politician yet!
In the time I’ve known you on here, you have stuck to your principles and I for one, think those principles are genuinely based on compassion towards a working class and middle class Britain. Regardless of what fence you sit on though, I’d enjoy debating with you, simply because of the substance you put into what you write.
Most people who vote and especially those who don’t bother turning up to vote, do so (or don’t bother) because whatever is happening in Britain hasn’t infringed on their own personal lives or at least they believe it hasn’t. Most people lean towards the party their regular paper believe in and most people who read the Daily Mail or The Guardian, come from families and hang around with friends who read similar or the same paper; so when people talk about popular opinion, they generally mean popular opinion between their peers and relatives.
I spent years as a LibDem supporter. I was raised with their sort of principles and because both my husband and farther were regular attendees at their old headquarters in Cowley St, I was able to attend some of their functions, which inevitably strengthened my support for them. If they had stayed out of the coalition, I’d likely still be supporting them but what I see now is a party with no point and although I’m told that they are now re-grouping out of the limelight, I don’t believe they will ever re-morph into what they once were.
I had no interest in the Blairite type NL and the Conservative party didn’t overly worry me but I will admit to initially being quite excited at the prospects of coalition government. I have though, always had a fascination with Marxist philosophy (which a lot of people confuse with Russian type communism
) and so when Corbyn came along, my interest in British politics was re-kindled.
By the way…friends and family have tried teasing me by calling me a Marxist. I just smile sweetly and ask them to explain what they mean, which of course they can’t!