Mmmm… I'm not a Labour voter, I'm not an Anyone voter, because I'm dreadfully cynical. I vote Green as a protest vote, knowing that FPTP means my vote is & always has been meaningless. I can happily vote Green knowing they will never stand a chance. If I thought they did, I would reconsider because, their environmentalism aside, they esposuse the old-school Socialism that Steve might still believe in, but I never did, and certainly not in the modern global world.

I don't vote LAB, I don't vote CON. If I don't have GRE on the ballot paper, I don't normally vote at all. The best you can hope for from me is that I vote AGAINST someone. And that some voters think that way ought to be a fairly damning condemnation of what we have. All that aside, I can't improve by one word Steve's opening rant, if rant it be. But centre ground? I'm not so sure of that. And the gods help America where the centre ground, seemingly is No Man's Land, a shell-blasted desert where nothing lives, except furtively.

What alarms me, and insofar as I can muster a single shit to give, is not the loss of "centre", it's the polarisation. The UK is nowhere near as bad as, to a Yook, the Yoos seems to be. But we've been drifting that way for the last few decades, and it isn't a pretty vista. The Liberals have been a wasted vote for a century in the UK. They will never form a government again. It may well be the case that centrist politics, whether it be UK-centre or much-further-to-the-right US-centre, no longer appeals to anyone.

But do we really need the "Yah Boo Sucks" infant playground 5 year old mentality of politics that we've had these last years? Of course, we have Trump now. Five year old has been reduced to three year old. How much further can the bar sink...