I don’t give a damn about how your father voted – political tribalism has had its day

I don’t give a damn about how your father voted – political tribalism has had its day | Suzanne Moore

In between the Tory and Labour die-hards are the great majority – the unsure. And the party that will triumph will be the free-thinkers who can adapt

Is politics genetic? I mean is there some sort of DNA test to show that you think equality is good, but, come off it, it’s never gonna happen? And can it tell you who you really are? I ask because a lot of friends are doing those commercial DNA tests at the moment to find out, what exactly? Scientifically, I don’t think the database is big enough to tell you much, but then I am my own special creation. My mother was adopted and my father American, so I could be anything. I am impure. That’s all I need to know. My ethnicity is not that interesting to me because purity is not that interesting to me.

I feel much the same way about politics and all this talk of tribalism. “I was born Labour,” I hear people say. Emily Thornberry said she would rather die than leave the Labour party at the weekend. That seems a little extreme. Some people in the Labour party already appear half-dead, because they are distressed at the rigor mortis of their leadership.

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