When I was young and carefree, I supported the Conservative party, mainly because my parents did and they couldn't do wrong, could they? However, some 60 or 70 years ago, I started to think and I came to realise, over time, that there were a number of policies that became stumbling blocks. One of my thoughts was the Labour Party and I realised that, despite the introduction of the National Health Service and National Insurance, which I thought were great, I became aware that there were a number of points that I couldn't agree with. They were too radical. The Social Democratic Party was insufficiently strong to be really influential, as were the Whigs, the two of them merging in the 1980s to form the Lib Dems. This party was still rather on the weak side to be very influential and it seems to exist as a kind of buffer zone between the extremes of the two main parties.
Yes, I am very critical of both the Conservative and Labour parties but I am neither an extreme left winger nor an extreme right-winger and anybody who accuses those who are critical of any UK party as being extreme needs to examine the effect on countries which have been extreme in either direction. I might make a slight exception to this last sentence, regarding the extreme Presbyterians in Northern Ireland.