Finally - a decent political compass

[Marco Biagi]

http://politicalsurvey2005.com

It actually compares you to Real Numbers. Since all the polling companies now publish their data because of industry standards, this poll actually makes some sense.

If anyone cares, on internationalism, I'm to the left of 90.7% of UK voters. I really am on the left here - about 0.6% of Tory voters have the same views as I do. No party adequately represents my views there, although 34.2% of Green voters are about the same as me. I guess that's what studying IR can do to you. There aren't enough SNP voters yet for a proper sample, but as of now I correspond less with the typical nationalist than the typical Green, Lib Dem or Labour voter (in that order). I'm also more like a Guardian or Independent reader than my actual preferred choice, the Herald.

HOWEVER, on domestics I'm nicely in the centre-left, with 61.1% to my right. I'm also perfect SNP voter, but the Guardian is still (just) more typical than the Herald for my political demographic.

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And hello Mum.

[tintin]

Very interesting. I'm slightly left-of-centre and apparently the Independent is the paper most suited to me. I wonder if this is because I read every other newspaper each day, EXCEPT the Independent?

But it's certainly a good survey.

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[exnihilo]

I too am left of centre, with roughly 50% of the population being to the right of me in everything. I should read The Times and vote Labour apparently, whereas I read The Independent and vote LibDem.

[Ga]

Apparently, 95% of the population are to the right of me.

Score!


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[LonelyPilgrim]

You all that have argued with me or just read what I've had to say may well be shocked by this...

I'm left of center. Ever so slightly.

-0.6 on Crime, Punishment, Internationalism

+0.6 on Economics.

48.7% of the UK population is significantly to my right. So, all you folks who've called me a conservative bastard, go look in the mirror. That's on crime, punishment, internationalism, by the way.


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[Stuart]

I'm a centrist on the first axis. Apparently, I'm in tune with readers of the Daily Star. Hmmmm, don't think I've ever actually read the Star. Thankfully, I'm also fairly in tune with my fellow Scotsman readers. I'm also, as I thought, on the left of the Conservative Party.

THEN, on the second axis, I'm 'very right wing'. Looking back at the answers I gave, I really don't see how they got that answer. 88.1% of Tories are significantly to my left on economic matters. Yikes.

Oh well, better to be right than left, I suppose.

[Stuart]

I\'m a centrist on the first axis. Apparently, I\'m in tune with readers of the Daily Star. Hmmmm, don\'t think I\'ve ever actually read the Star. Thankfully, I\'m also fairly in tune with my fellow Scotsman readers. I\'m also, as I thought, on the left of the Conservative Party.

THEN, on the second axis, I\'m \'very right wing\'. Looking back at the answers I gave, I really don\'t see how they got that answer. 88.1% of Tories are significantly to my left on economic matters. Yikes.

Oh well, better to be right than left, I suppose.

[Zombie Sheep]

I seem to be most left wing of all the SNP voters who have taken it, which is nice.

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[Mr Comedy]

Apparently I am very pro free-market, pro-war, with a punative and isolationist streak.
There are only 0.8% of people in the Tories who are slightly more right wing than I am, with none from Labour, Lib Dems, the BNP and the Greens.
And I agree with all of the following statements:
* Britain's railways should remain in private ownership
* Rich people already pay enough tax
* I am comfortable with the way that genetic engineering is being used in the food industry
* The UK was right to go to war in Iraq
* Most people should take responsibility for saving enough for their retirement, rather than relying on the Government to pay a big enough pension to live on
* This country should try to become more like the United States of America than like France or Germany

Damn straight.

[novium]

as I am not a UK citizen, I was really curious where I'd end up on their graph and everything. It said I was a centrist, although farther right than most people due to my beliefs in the free market.

However, there is no political party for me:(

they're either extremely to my right or extremely to my left.
just look:

to your left About the same to your right
Labour 53.0% 36.5% 10.5%
Conservative 12.7% 33.8% 53.5%
Liberal Democrat 60.5% 28.3% 11.1%
UKIP 4.4% 34.5% 61.1%
BNP 6.9% 21.3% 71.8%
Green 63.3% 13.3% 23.4%

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you'll need them, your boat is at sea;
your anchor is up, you've been swept away & the greatest of teachers won't hesitate to leave you there, by yourself, chained to fate

[Marco Biagi]

Quoting novium from 23:16, 15th Apr 2005
to your left About the same to your right
Labour 53.0% 36.5% 10.5%
Conservative 12.7% 33.8% 53.5%
Liberal Democrat 60.5% 28.3% 11.1%
UKIP 4.4% 34.5% 61.1%
BNP 6.9% 21.3% 71.8%
Green 63.3% 13.3% 23.4%

Sadly, I'd say that would probably make you Blairite - i.e. on the right of the Labour party's vote. Most of the Labour voters to your left are probably those who have an emotional attachment to Labour, while probably agreeing in substance more with the Lib Dem manifesto.

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And hello Mum.

[legohead]

Im fairly left-wing, and the survey showed that Im a socialist anti-war, and particularly internationalist and rehabilitationist, with 98% and 75% of the population to my right on the first and second axis

yet when I looked at the wee chart of parties, 6% of UKIP voters and 4.4% of BNP voters are significantly to the left of me.

er, what?

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[Zombie Sheep]

If you can give the link to your little graph, that'd be cool - we could try and understand what happened!

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http://www.zombiesheep.name

[the racing tortoise]

96.5% of the population are more right than me. hmm. though apperently I am slightly free market when it comes to economics. That I would disagree with.

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ohh well.

there's always alcohol.

[Humphrey]

That thing says I should vote Green, theres no way in hell i'm doing that becuase I believe global warming is a myth propergated by greedy scientists to give the rest of the population the willies and make us give them funding.

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[legohead]

Quoting Zombie Sheep from 02:03, 16th Apr 2005
If you can give the link to your little graph, that'd be cool - we could try and understand what happened!

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http://www.zombiesheep.name

ah, I took the test again this morning with slightly different results- no UKIP people are to the left of me, but still 4.4% of BNP are-

http://www.politicalsurvey2005.com/scri ... BDDEBEDAEC

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This is for all those headless acrobats
faces crushed in the circus dust
all in the name of gravity
and the price of admission

[Rilla]

I am very internationalist and rehabilitationist. I am slightly socialist and anti-war.

There are no conservatives, ukips or bnps significantly to my left.

My best match is the Green party.

I think I would have to agree with that.

It seems I am something of an extremist. Who would have guessed.




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Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

[Ben Reilly]

http://politicalsurvey2005.com/survey/A ... DEBABDBDED

[novium]

the lib dems are farther to my left than labour.
So i thought, hey, what about conservative? and yet they are signifigantly to my right. poor ol' me.

Quoting Marco Biagi from 23:42, 15th Apr 2005

Quoting novium from 23:16, 15th Apr 2005
to your left About the same to your right
Labour 53.0% 36.5% 10.5%
Conservative 12.7% 33.8% 53.5%
Liberal Democrat 60.5% 28.3% 11.1%
UKIP 4.4% 34.5% 61.1%
BNP 6.9% 21.3% 71.8%
Green 63.3% 13.3% 23.4%

Sadly, I'd say that would probably make you Blairite - i.e. on the right of the Labour party's vote. Most of the Labour voters to your left are probably those who have an emotional attachment to Labour, while probably agreeing in substance more with the Lib Dem manifesto.

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No more elections. Except tragically watching this General Election.
And hello Mum.

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I'll read to you here, save your eyes
you'll need them, your boat is at sea;
your anchor is up, you've been swept away & the greatest of teachers won't hesitate to leave you there, by yourself, chained to fate

[bubba]

0% of the population are to my right...

http://politicalsurvey2005.com/survey/B ... CBBDDDBEAB

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