Mike - you are the one who has expressed support for Thatcher, described a desire for equal opportunity for all as "envy", has defended what is happening as the best on offer and has dismissed argument as 'leftie' without bothering to respond to it.
You even ounted a mini-campaign to find out my politics.
Entitles you to life membership of 'your lot' as far as I'm concerned.
I too have not voted for decades and am hardly likely to now and hold no brief for any particular political philosophy.
I think I recognise what's right and wrong in society today, but that's more to do with my humanist upbringing (with a small "H"), than it has with my politics.
Doesn't stop you from referring to ma as a "leftie" - though I don't condider it "rude"
Drivving licences as far removed from electronic strips containing detailed information from political leanings to which hand you use to wipe your bum - if you don't know this, perhaps it's time you did - Brave New World, and all that.
Jim Carroll