It appears from reading this thread that our friend
@halfmist thinks this forum is left wing. That has been an aged old argument on here since its inception.
Well then lets think about it, Manchester, the city where our magnificent club play beautiful football is virtually a Tory free zone, it is the home of the Trade Union movement, the city where Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels discussed political philosophy, the home of the co-operative movement, Peterloo, has a statue of Abraham Lincoln. Manchester has always been a radical city unlike our Scouse neighbours whose city was historically Tory.
Therefore one would expect that this forum is left wing leaning even taking into account the fact our clubs fanbase had a dalliance with the far right back in the NF days. Is it left wing now, probably not in the Socialist sense, but it is I believe on the Liberal Left, often attributed to metropolitism. It is certainly not as left wing as it was because a number of prominent Socialist posters left after a protracted dispute over Palestine/Israel. The left you see is intellectually vibrant and it likes to argue minutiae, hence the historical splits on the far left over the ideological positions of Lenin and Trotsky and the modern day splits between us on the left here now over Corbyn and Starmer.
What has happened though is Brexit and its the Supernova that exploded and its created a Black hole that sucks every political discussion into it. Getting back on to the point of the thread, yes the poll I created was slightly tongue in cheek, but interestingly it has shown that Defence fella is the leading light for the Tories on here, whilst those on the left obviously prefer Larry the cat to any Tory, but what is without doubt in mind is that the next Tory leader will have to fully in support of Brexit for them to succeed with the Tory membership.
