Is being sarcastic and patronising also a quality of socialism?

You started it with the read slowly bit. I did say respectfully use Google I tried to not patronise you but it has been very difficult not to.
Even your own quote shows you are at best a social democrat which I summed up as a Guradian reading lefty not a socilist at the start defined by wiki as

Social democracy is a political ideology of the left on the classic political spectrum. The contemporary social democratic movement seeks to reform capitalism to align it with the ethical ideals of social justice while maintaining the capitalist mode of production, as opposed to creating an alternative socialist economic system.[1]

WHich pretty much sums up your view

One of the points that comes out of it is that the real competition is between manual labour and automated manufacturing, hence the drive by governments to promoted supposedly higher added-value jobs in e.g. finance; the manual assembly line stuff isn’t compatible with the sort of lifestyle people aspire to in this country.

Strange then that the current government are trying to cripple the creative industries in this country which remain one of our best revenue generators.

Ok, fine, I’m a social democrat, which is a kind of socialism.

Doesn’t matter really.

Meaningless bickering pretty much sums up other people I seem to meet describing themselves as socialists, mind.