Closet Tory

Hello internet.

Someone recently asked me if I was a closet Tory. I am not (obviously), and I would have no problem admitting it if I was a Tory, because most of them probably aren't so bad. People of every political hue have a motive to portray their opponents as stupid or incompetent or selfish or scheming, or even evil. I think that this is usually a mistake. When I have spoken to people from different parties they have tended to have good reasons for believing what they believe, and I usually find I can respect them.

It might not be so much my politics but the company I keep that leads to accusations of my being right wing. A lot of people involved in activism believe strongly in ideologies that mean quite a lot to them. I was in a pub a couple of weeks ago with someone from the Socialist Party, someone from the Socialist Workers' Party and an anarchist. It felt like the beginning of a joke.

Caleb