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People talk about #CentristDads as if we are a species of gently apologetic marsupials.
But we are not.
The centre, as conceived as a position between left and right, no longer exists.
The extremes today are truth and untruth and I am an extremist for truth.
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And like many extremists, my extremism is fuelled by anger.
I am angry at the abandonment of even the pretence that politicians are driven by anything other than the rankest self-interest and lust for power.
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I am furious that the Labour Party I have voted for all my life has offered no opposition to a pitiful government on the one great issue of state of our time.
I am betrayed by the cowardice of men and women who speak for nothing but the cause of their own re-election.
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I despair of the thuggish, weaselly, whining opposition of Corbyn and McDonnell as much as I do of the rapacious, venal, wilfully destructive government of May and Fox, and the bullying krypto-fascists Rees-Mogg, Redwood and their cohorts lurking behind them.
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I am ashamed that the BBC no longer holds power to account but pursues a fraudulent balance which equates lies and truth and elevates opinion over fact.
I am sick of being preached at, patronised and told that the will of the people must be honoured.
I am one of the people.
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