The Origins Of Your Political Affiliation

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My parents are sort of 'poor Tories'. I guess my more progressive stance on politics comes from seeing my Dad being totally broken by an ideology that he supported and still supports. He's fully down the GB News rabbit hole now which is weird to me because I can remember him correcting me when I was very young and parroting things I'd heard but didn't understand, racist things or nationalistic things or whatever.

When I first started taking serious notice of politics and started reading a newspaper it was The Times which had a right wing bias but not rabidly so. I still think it's the best of the right leaning papers.

I went to quite a posh college and there were plenty of fairly privileged kids there who were bound for oxbridge universities. I can remember getting into some political arguments with them and finding their views difficult to accept. That was my introduction to the way that money can seriously distort your perception of fairness.

Generally I'm not tribal. There are aspects of Conservatism I can get behind, and aspects of progressive politics that make much more sense to me.

I like pragmatism and fairness in my politics.