To wonder where the normal people are?

The normal people are struggling to pay their bills and raise their kids whilst politicians pander to the weird ideologies of fringe groups. Normal people are so disillusioned that you only really hear from them around election time, when pundits are 'surprised' by voting trends.

I’m with you, OP. Could blather on for paragraphs but will just say that it’s horrible when people seem to lose their basic humanity over political issues.

Vicious, cruel, angry, vengeful people are terrifying and unfortunately social media now gives them a powerful platform to.

We're over in Feminism: Sex and gender discussions - come on in.

I'm a normal left winger. I'm not what people would call an extreme lefty, I'm not sure how those who are could even fall in to the category of left. For me, it means being tolerant and respectful of others views and being anti-violence and terror. That's not what I see with those being labelled extreme left, those align more with the extreme right in my eyes.

Politics has always attracted its fair share of fringe types who are drawn as much to the opportunity for exhibitionism as they are to the actual cause.

Historically there were enough people who were centrist and pragmatic to keep a lid on this. Our hyper polarised political climate has forced a lot of these “normal” people out or to the extremes. People are far more tolerant of this extremism than they were 20 odd years ago.

I don’t think the left has a monopoly on extreme politics though. There are plenty of extreme views on the left and the right.

I suppose I meet your “normal”.

I cannot stand Tommy Robinson, Katie Hopkins, Rupert Lowe etc. I would never ever vote Reform UK, Restore Britain and those type of parties.

I probably swing more towards the left. However I don’t believe trans women are women. I do not want to be called a “Cis woman”, I’m just a woman. People celebrating the death of Anne Widdecombe are abhorrent (I’ve seen them on twitter/X).

I hate the whole far left vs far right tit for tat, it isn’t productive. Hopefully most sensible people do too.

I have always considered myself left wing, the problem is the extremes have shifted so much that I now find myself slightly right of centre even though my political views haven’t really changed!

Not at the event, probably. You will always get more extreme people at events like that.

Wind 'em up and watch them go.

I'm normal!