WELL over ten years ago I first came upon the website www.politcalcompass.org. It was very interesting.

You answer a series of questions and then you get a marking on a graph, showing whether you are more authoritarian/libertarian, left/right and so forth. You get to answer in four ways, strongly agree, agree, strongly disagree, disagree.

You then discover your spot on the table and can see where people like Gandhi, Hitler, Mao Tse Tung and other leading historical figures were placed.

By answering honestly, what it told me, was although I had certain views that would be described by some as possibly right wing, as many others would be described as left wing.

I tried the test a few years later and compared my graphs and saw that I had changed.

I just did the test again and although I have not got the original results to compare to, I know it’s moved again.

I am neither right nor left wing by any form of identity and reckon that is where the majority of people will be, with more of a humanitarian viewpoint.

Perhaps generations ago, it was about rich versus poor or class voting.

When you watch one MP in Parliment verbally attack another for nothing more than trying to get an upper hand for their “tribe” it brings despondency to witness it.

Out of all this political mess that is going on at the moment, I truly hope politics will be reborn, that we will learn not to “label” ourselves as left or right wing, that we will recognise our opinions can change and are variable.

It’s not comfortable to be living through the uncertainty of Brexit, but often the old saying comes true.

But let’s not get tribal over this and feel one is right and the other is not. Different viewpoints are normal and mostly helpful.

Times are changing, let us go with the flow and keep positive.

Gordon White, Benfield Way, Portslade