I've drifted towards the left but in a conservative direction, if that makes sense.
I get this and I think that it summarises my position as well. Back home you've got a (Westminster) government that wants to dramatically change the country in ways that I find really rather troubling (the creeping privatisation of the NHS and schoolds south of the border and the governments rather dismissive attitude towards doctors, a government that's willing to talk about expanding selection in secondary education breaking down the general "lets not talk about grammar schools" consensus that existed up until recently; although they've walked back on it lots of the worse stuff from it but there was lots of just awful stuff announced at the last Tory conference that was just so foreign to me - hell, even Brexit although I'm a little biased there) and honestly I think a lot of the arguments against that are rather conservative in that we're fighting to protect victories from the past. Sure its not really something that you could really describe as "conservative" in the political sense but I think that it makes sense...
I actually think that its a problem that the left have: as long as we're having to fight for the status quo and our victories of the past (which all are very important mind: we shouldn't let them go to waste just so we can get into power against quicker) it makes it harder for us to sound radical and offering solutions that actually work since we're having to spend a lot of time defending the status quo. Its sad really, and something that I don't have an answer for...
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