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 From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com 
  
 "nightjar"  wrote in message 
 news:9aKdndQuX_Oh0T7AnZ2dnUU78QHNnZ2d@giganews.com... 
 > On 13/10/2019 15:09, Norman Wells wrote: 
 >> On 13/10/2019 12:18, nightjar wrote: 
 >> 
 >>> It is more complicated than that. 
 >>> 
 >>> 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. 
 >> 
 >> Is that why we still have a succession of conservative governments?  You 
 >> might have thought, if what you say is true, that we'd have had an 
 >> endless succession of Labour ones by now.... 
  
 > The trend is a slow one 
  
 Its very far from clear that it€€€s a real trend at all 
 given that Blair was in fact the only Labour PM 
 to get more than one term and with by far the 
 least lef5 wing govt Labour has ever had. 
  
 > and overlaid by the age effect, so it isn't that simple. 
  
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