BTNG, scroll up a couple of entries, I credited an old friend with it, but I suppose somebody has it in an entry in the book of quotes...

Akenaton, I am not surprised you don't know where I stand. I have not put forward my views one way or the other. I am trying to make sense of a system, yes, but one thing that is not broken is that in this system you can support the system without supporting those running it.

No government has fully been on song with my views, and I doubt any government is in tune with anybody else's. Even cabinet thrash out differing views before promoting a consensus.

Whilst never having been a politician or a member of any party, I have been involved in Westminster politics. I have chaired public sector bodies and was a special advisor to a Minister for a while, so perhaps my appearance of cautious contentment with a system is having seen where and how the brakes are applied, how pragmatism creeps out once the loud mouths and spin doctors have fed the belly of public opinion and how every mainstream party could easily make and push through a key policy of the opposition. (This unholy alliance being a good example.)

In fact, my only vitriol is towards Thatcher and her legacy.

Oh, well done with the final sentence Akenaton, anything less would have disappointed me.