"Ah..another member of the "faith""

An apostate I'm afraid, I align myself with no political party now as they're all as corrupt and idiotic as each other. There's no-one speaks for me at the moment, so I speak and act for myself. However, if caring for people, culture and society makes me a 'lefty', then so be it. It's not my problem if people need to affix labels to others in order to place them in a defunct and largely irrelevant political category. Have you really got to have a label for other people to understand your political stance? Such a lack of imagination.

"All political parties now do so, allbeit that they have been dragged screaming and kicking to that position...."

Well, the LibDumbs, nasty tories and pointless labour have, but that's because they're scrambling for the votes of the aspirational middle class, a demographic that seems so in awe of materialism and the consumerism that the fear of loosing them seems to have smothered their ability to reason. These people are being herded like sheep by vacuous, populist politics into a right-wing society that is intolerant, divisive and utterly lacking compassion, and eventually that leads down a very dark path indeed. The fact the coalition gets away with shafting the NHS is because it knows it can get away with UKIP-lite racist comments that play on people's fear of some mythical foreign enemy in our midst. Complete shite no doubt, and if everyone was so concerned about the very real threat of inequality and the influence of big business on our political class then we might actually get something done in this country.


. . .try telling that to Lee Rigby's folks, or the hundreds of little girls abused and trafficked because they were just "trash".

V. poor. Low hanging-fruit, and a rather distasteful argument that has fuck all to do with multiculturalism and lots to do with easily led thickos and pervs, which are not exclusive to any culture or race.