OT: A Nuclear North Korea

[Barnacle Bill]

dogscoff said:
Lol! You americans wouldn't know a lefty if it jumped up and nationalised your public services! <snip>

I fully understand that the political spectrum in the US is rather to the right of Europe. However, my understand of the one in the UK is that relative to each other the Tories are like the GOP, New Labour is like DLC democrats (Bill Clinton, etc...) and "old Labour" & the Liberal party are like the left wing of our Democratic party & our Green party. That's relative to each other. On an absolute scale, and in reference to domestic policy only, I'd compare the Tories to the DLC Democrats, New Labour to the left wing of the Democrats and "old Labour" & the Liberal party would be someplace off to the left of the US maintream.