Well I hate "the Tories" with all my strength, but I regard people who vote Tory who are other than very rich to be severely misguided, and not to be hated. Senoufou is a Tory supporter - God knows why when she's seen in life all those things she's told us about - but she and I are more than capable of enjoying many a friendly banter here. It's my experience on this forum that many people (by no means all) who express views that would be considered right-wing do not express them in a clear-headed or honest fashion. There are several posters here, for example, who twisted and turned so much over the Johnson bus lie, instead of accepting very early on, when confronted with the facts, that it was a blatant piece of dishonesty. I can't think of a single leftie here who didn't freely admit that the remain campaign was just as dishonest, but we still endured wrong-headed assertions from our resident Tories that the campaign was somehow fair and democratic. They seemed to cling to that because "they'd won." The same people accuse us lefties of tribalism...ironic or what. Taking stances like that invites ridicule (whether that ridicule should be articulated here is another matter). Then there's the matter of automatic ridicule because the person posting on the receiving end is who he is. This kind of tribalism here is far more pronounced on the right.

But I'm not bothered. A lot of my posts are a bit like this one. For all I know, every single point I've made could be wrong. But the feeling that there's a Tory behind every lamp-post ready to pounce, no matter what you've said, is repressive.

Not going to go down well, this, is it? :-)