@ Jon Bartlett --

Take your point up to a point, Jon. But the Conservatives are pretty-well-universally regarded as being on the right of the political spectrum, the socialist parties [however designated] on the left. Once one comes up (as I take you to have done here) with good old Prof Joad's formula of "it·all·depends·what·you·mean·by", argument becomes fragmented and effete.

I still maintain accordingly that Peter Bellamy & I can well be rubricated under the heading normally and conventionally designated by the thread title.

Regards
≈Michael≈