I'm a tactical voter - I tend not to belong anywhere, but when I do vote, it's after carefully weighing sometimes awful alternatives.
A few years ago, I remember listening to Keir Starmer as the incumbent leader of the opposition at PMQs - and was so fucking disappointed at his lack of coherence and charisma. All of his arguments disintegrated, felt insubstantial - and that had nothing to do with the PM at the time, and everything to do with the unforced rhetorical errors that Starmer committed over and over as he stood there. My heart sank. And then I got angry. How the hell did this man get to the position he was? It is a question I continue to ask myself. I still don't know the answer. I cannot believe that we have settled for such mediocrity, even with - especially with - a party that has vocally positioned itself as being superior.
Superior my arse. Honestly, I am furious.