Ok.

Let's start with 'DMcG'. My full name is Dave McGlade (and not Dave NA Mcglade as one company thinks, nor Dave McGlad E* as the National Trust keeps calling me.) I use 'DMcG' because the first computer with user accounts I used only had four character user names, and that was (almost) mine - it ignored case, so strictly speaking it was DMCG. So the first occasion I used the Internet was with that user name and I have kept it ever since.

I don't really have a local, because I rarely drink. The pub I go to most often is after choir practice, and I have non-alcoholic drinks because I have to drive to get home. The choir is based in a place called Hamble-le-Rice, which is certainly up-market: several in the choir own substantial boats, for example. Hamble is that sort of place. This is a fairly formal choir, SATB style.

I live on the outskirts of Southampton, and have never owned a boat!

I haven't discussed Brexit at all with these people, so I can't tell you their views.

Then I am effectively choirmaster of a church choir. This is far less ambitious - splitting into male and female is about as complicated as we get. In this group we have spoken about Brexit sometimes, and I would say it is perhaps 10% leave, 15% remain, all the rest not prepared to say or otherwise get into it.

For the folk club I go to most often, it is almost universally remain, but there are three strong leave supporters.


I would consider myself centre-left, rather than strongly left. The distinction is, for example, I would not think nationalisation of the rail services desirable simply on the grounds of ideology, but could on the basis of economic assessments. I could live - reluctantly but tolerably - with a true One Nation Tory leadership, but not with one driven by a free market ideology (or should I say, like most people with ideologies, driven by it when it suits them but not when it doesn't. I don't see them applying the free market principles to wages for nurses or teachers for example, which would indicate the wages should rise until the vacancies are filled.)