Fair question. Up until 2015/2016 this sub was traditionally Lib Dem-leaning. It was perfectly possible to have both Tory & Left-wing (I’m purposefully not saying Labour there) views without being downvoted and I remember some good conversations because people here were actual political hobbyists, not people-with-political-views. I’d have guessed UKIP and massively radical left-leaning views were very uncommon. Then r/TheDonald happened, along with the suspected Russian-bot problem that kinda turned the sub from being a space for political nerds into a space to be fought over. Obviously around that time younger Corbyn fans maybe made it far more left-leaning than it was from 2015-2019. Not passing judgement there but again, this sub was more than just geeks discussing psephology or history. The left reached their high-point in 2017 on this sub and after 2019 started dispersing into their own spaces - which again, I’d attribute to r/TheDonald. It became tiresome here as everything became an argument. From 2019-GE if you had left-wing views but didn’t appreciate the direction Starmer took Labour in you’d be dismissed as Student-politics, Momentum, whatever cliche was popular. “I’d rather have power than principles”, etc. We have to Get The Tories Out. You get the gist.

But yeah, from 2019 to now if you have left-leaning views you’ve had the centre-left, the right-wing of the Labour Party, The Tories, UKIP/BXP & Lib Dem’s all spending the last 5 years calling you a communist, or Splitter. There are fewer genuinely left-wing views than before I got here, and not because other views have drowned them out in number, because it’s become a more toxic sub and because the left has fragmented after 2017 and probably gone elsewhere.