September 21, 2005
Clowns to the Left of me jokers to the Right
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to define my place on the left/centre/right scale. You see growing up I was a big Thatcher supporter and, until recent times, always voted Tory. My friends and family always considered me somewhat to the right of Peter Hitchens and I always felt happy with this categorisation. After all I was more often than not right, and they were more often than not wrong. However times have changed:
The Right sees single mothers as immoral and slobby products of bad neighbourhoods.I have never subscribed to this type of thinking. Single mothers are no more than that, single mothers, and to make a judgement about their morality is too imply that one is clairvoyant. I am many things but clairvoyant is not one of them.
Alice Miles makes some interesting points in her article but I simply can’t bring myself to engage with them.
She continues:
I prefer the Right’s look of embarrassment when they find I am a single mother to the Left’s smile of sympathy, but perhaps that’s because I don’t need their money. I want to tell them how much fun it is, and how easy, and how much easier and more fun it is for me than for many married couples, because raising children within a marriage often looks like hell.Well that’s sorted it. I can’t be on the right. I felt not a single tinge of embarrassment when I found out that Alice is a single mother.
Oh my God. I’m a lefty. Where’s the yoghurt?
