Not by a hair of my chiny chin chin....

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

North Korea is a left win authoritarian state

Yes. Still left-wing.

The Soviet Union had rampant underemployment with people going to work and doing nothing useful.

"As long as they pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work."

I don't suppose anyone taking part in this "enlightening" discussion would like to "enlighten" me as to the point of said exercise?

To answer the question "is Labour on the left?"

IA pointed out some reasons, and I believe he is generally correct. It is true that the far-right and the extreme-right also carry some of these traits, but the moderate right generally do not, and the moderate left often do. Of course, there are exceptions.