XPost: uk.radio.amateur, uk.politics.misc, uk.d-i-y 
 From: hex@unseen.ac.am 
  
 On 13/10/2019 17:09, nightjar wrote: 
 > 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 and overlaid by the age effect, so it isn't that 
 > simple. 
  
 Right, so it's been many decades, and there's no evidence of it 
 materialising, but you're sure it's going on. 
  
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