XPost: uk.radio.amateur, uk.politics.misc, uk.d-i-y
From: roger@hayter.org
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 13/10/2019 16:45, Roger Hayter wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> Rubbish
You say that because you use a crass, simplistic economic definition
socialism that would apply equally to a benevolent absolute monarchy or
even a caliphate.
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Roger Hayter
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