""Not being in the UK, a lot of this talk needs a program to understand.""

Please don't take this the wrong way SRS, but this why we are now adding UK to our thread titles, so you don't have to bother with them, as we were asked to do.

Having said that, the table you refer to is vastly overcomplicated, but essentially close to the truth.

The Labour group 1972 and 1982 in the bottom left quadrant is Old Labour, and that in the upper right is New (Blairite) Labour.

Hope that helps a little, but you should definitely treat with extreme suspicion any claim that UK Tory (Conservative) is anything like your Republicans, or that Labour and Liberal Democrats are anything like your Democrats. Such comparisons are absolute nonsense, designed to attach Good Guy/Bad Guy labels, a tactic much beloved of certain anti Tory posters.

Don T.