XPost: uk.radio.amateur, uk.politics.misc, uk.d-i-y 
 From: roger@hayter.org 
  
 Dave Plowman (News)  wrote: 
  
 > In article , 
 >    abelard  wrote: 
 > > On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 13:59:01 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)" 
 > >  wrote: 
 > 
 > > >In article , nightjar 
 > > >    wrote: 
 > > >> As the population ages, it tends to get more right wing, so the ones 
 > > >> that die off are replaced by others and the balance due to age 
 > > >> remains much the same over time. OTOH, there is a generational 
 > > >> effect, with each generation currently tending to be slightly more 
 > > >> left wing than the one before. That means that, although the older a 
 > > >> generation gets the more right wing, on average, it becomes, it 
 > > >> doesn't become quite as right wing as the one before it. 
 > > > 
 > > >Except, of course. for the Tory party. Remember the Heath days? When it 
 > > >was simply right of centre. 
 > 
 > > i fear you don't know your right from your left...or vice versa 
 > 
 > Go on, then. Tell me where I've got it wrong. I take it you think Heath 
 > extreme, then? 
 > 
 > 
 > > wings are not about whether you approve of nationalism 
 > >      or otherwise..that is just  local fad among cult socialists 
 > 
 > Did you actually read Colin's post that I was replying to? 
 > 
 > Nationalism isn't unique to any one party anyway. But the extreme right 
 > tends to attract the nutty side of it. 
  
 Socialism is by defiinition internationalist.  That is not to say that 
 socialists shouldn't be patriotic and back there own country  in a 
 genuine dispute.  But, whatever it calls itself, a nationalist party is 
 *not* socialist but something else entirely. 
  
  
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