Political Compass

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Agree that some of the questions are a bit odd, but…

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I'm very similar. Who knew?

 

[Dick Swiveller]

There are some odd ones! I say yes to museums, no to theatres....

This is also a strange question - "A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system" I mean, it would be difficult to strongly disagree with this, it doesn't mean that a one-party state is a good thing.

If anyone posts results on here showing them as quite right wing, we should scream for a policeman. Or give them a link to GB News to apply for a job. I struggle to see how you can get there without wanting to curb all civil liberties, have the plebs in poverty and execute all shoplifters, Basically, be in favour of Sharia Law which would make them rather conflicted.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

There are some odd ones! I say yes to museums, no to theatres....

This is also a strange question - "A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system" I mean, it would be difficult to strongly disagree with this, it doesn't mean that a one-party state is a good thing.

It is about whether having no arguments is an 'advantage'. I would argue that even if our government exactly reflected my views of the moment, it would be dangerous to have no argument about decisions. I'm a scientist so my stock in trade is to find ways of arguing against orthodoxy and then finding ways to test whether I'm right. This is why I like VAR, and it find it odd that others would prefer to not know whether a decision made by some other bastard is correct. The idea that it is better to accept a wrong decision than a method to argue against it is surely a rubric for passive-minded escapists? If there are problems then we should simply try to make VAR better. If we elect a shit government we simply vote the buggers out; we don't say 'f*** democracy, lets have a dictatorship'.

But the poll isn't about the truth. It is about how we feel about things. If you think a question is stupid that's perfectly valid

 

[Insel affe]

I'm very similar. Who knew?

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Same as you just the second square higher

 

[WATFORD zero]

If anyone posts results on here showing them as quite right wing, we should scream for a policeman. Or give them a link to GB News to apply for a job. I struggle to see how you can get there without wanting to curb all civil liberties, have the plebs in poverty and execute all shoplifters, Basically, be in favour of Sharia Law which would make them rather conflicted.

Or the Home Secretary

 

[Live by the sea]

Bang in the middle - bullseye

 

[WATFORD zero]

Bang in the middle - bullseye

Or communist as it's known in America

 

[Comrade Sam]

Pah, nothing I didn't know

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

As expected bang in the middle of the green.

More worryingly though this Ajax business is driving me mad, when the little red dot appeared I tried to click on it and buy it

 

[Chicken Run]

 

[Nixonator]

-1, -3 ish
Think most people on here are going to be in that green square, yet still constant political nitpicking and tit for tat on almost every thread.

 

[Sepulveda]

That would make our current government even harder to explain.

Even if it was true that most of Britain falls into the green quadrant (and I don't know whether it actually is), political votes are swayed by 1) the specific person and personality representing the party and 2) the specific political measures that are pushed by the party in practice in that particular campaign. Their very general ideological alignment matters a bit less to people than those two things.

 

[Marty McFly]

Kinda what I expected!

 

[BadFish]

Not stunned by mine but thought I would be more central

 

[Bakero]

Even if it was true that most of Britain falls into the green quadrant (and I don't know whether it actually is), political votes are swayed by 1) the specific person and personality representing the party and 2) the specific political measures that are pushed by the party in practice in that particular campaign. Their very general ideological alignment matters a bit less to people than those two things.

Also there's the fact that many have been convinced to vote against their own interests and those of society at large. There are surveys that show that the UK public lean to the left on various social and economic issues but the way they vote doesn't always tally with this. Ostensibly, the electorate believe a fairer society isn't workable. Not hard to guess why.

 

[Napper]

Halfway left . Just in red

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

-1, -3 ish
Think most people on here are going to be in that green square, yet still constant political nitpicking and tit for tat on almost every thread.

There is a tiny number from the blue square who spend most of their waking lives trying to blow sand into our vaginas.

 

[shingle]

mmm...

 

[Wellesley]

I think this proves that it's a load of bollocks.

 

[pb21]

Got a bit of an issue with this quiz. The first question is very loaded.