It appears the Kathy Staff appeared in Open All Hours and Summer Wine at the same time. Am I correct?
Yes, but it was a smaller part in "Open all Hours".
Through all of the dialogue I get lost a little bit here and there. Some dialogue was politic driven. Not to get into that taboo topic, but it appears that Clegg is “left wing” and Blamire is “right wing”. Am I correct?
Blamire appears to me to have characteristics of Foggy and Seymour. He makes military references, such as saying to Compo, “I wish I had you under me in the military” (paraphrasing) and he brings up a social class divide as would Seymour. He does this by making comments about not wanting to be seen with people of Compo’s class.
I would concur that Blamire was "right wing". I seem to recall references to his membership of the Conservative Party. Do not agree on Clegg, however. He was apolitical, I suggest. Compo could be described as unemployed working class with left wing tendencies. He never suggested any form of organised left wing politics (trade unionism, etc.). After Blamire the political aspect reduced. I suggest Foggy and Seymour would be refer to themselves as middle class rather than "right wing" (though Foggy's military stance might be considered to the right of centre).
Blamire appears to me to have characteristics of Foggy and Seymour. He makes military references, such as saying to Compo, “I wish I had you under me in the military” (paraphrasing) and he brings up a social class divide as would Seymour. He does this by making comments about not wanting to be seen with people of Compo’s class.
Oh, by the way. It took me a while to really figure out what you meant by redundant. I always knew it as “excessive or repetitive”. I had to check with dictionary .com and got the same meaning. It wasn’t until I used the Webster dictionary website where they give the same definitions and at the bottom of the screen they included that a specifically British definition meaning out of work.
We're in terminology here. Wikipedia suggests UK "redundant" is equivalent to US "lay-ed off":
"Layoff (in British[1] and American English), also called redundancy in the UK, is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or (more commonly) a group of employees for business reasons, such as when certain positions are no longer necessary or when a business slow-down occurs. Originally the term layoff referred exclusively to a temporary interruption in work, as when factory work cyclically falls off. The term however nowadays usually means the permanent elimination of a position, requiring the addition of "temporary" to specify the original meaning."
Maybe important to note that "redundant" and "out of work" are not always synonymous. Yes, one can be out of work because of redundancy but there can be other reasons - fired, ill-health, never worked for example.
