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Quiz - are you left or right wing?

83 replies

flockwallpaper · 07/01/2010 14:01

With the election coming up, I thought it would be interesting to do this quiz

I come out as slightly right wing, tending towards anarchist

Please post your results - I'm interested to find out how similar, or diverse we are. I'm nothing to do with any political party, just curious

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Bleatblurt · 07/01/2010 16:45

Economic Left/Right: -7.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.82

birdofthenorth · 07/01/2010 16:40

I'm fairly lefty, fairly libertarian... not far off the Dalai Lami!!

Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.97

tetchyTaLcY · 07/01/2010 16:38

I'm sitting with Nelson Mandela and Gandhi.

hocuspontas · 07/01/2010 16:38

Great quiz!

I'm twinned with Nelson Mandela. Hurrah!!

MrsJohnDeere · 07/01/2010 16:38

Right-wing libertarian

mathanxiety · 07/01/2010 16:32

Left libertarian, way left actually.

Heqet · 07/01/2010 16:28

Economic Left/Right: -3.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.56

so what does that make me then?

Prinnie · 07/01/2010 16:26

Another right wing libertarian here we're the best!

GreensElves · 07/01/2010 16:21

I am in the extreme bottom left corner

Original poster
flockwallpaper · 07/01/2010 16:16

partystress, will do if I get time

Off to do some work now, so speak later.

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ClaraDeLaNoche · 07/01/2010 16:16

I am the Dalai Lama.

Good God that was a tough quiz. Need a rest now.

partystress · 07/01/2010 16:12

Great quiz - made me think, which I haven't done for about 3 weeks

Economic Left/Right: -8.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36

Nicely nestled between Mandela and the Dalai Lama

Will you do an analysis and post us a lovely pie chart please??

thighsmadeofcheddar · 07/01/2010 16:10

another leftie libertarian. Very interesting.

BelleDameSansMerci · 07/01/2010 16:10

I'm between Gandhi and the Dalai Lama. As expected!

Original poster
flockwallpaper · 07/01/2010 16:09

So far, we are mostly libertarian, so why are all the main political parties drifting towards being more authoritarian? Is this the gap in politics that could be filled by a new party? Or do the libdems need to get back to where they were 20 odd years ago?

Didn't realise that about Harriet Harman mateykatie...

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mateykatie · 07/01/2010 16:09

I think people who spend a lot of time on the internet are automatically more libertarian than the population at large, whether they are left-wing or right-wing.

The internet by its nature is pretty anarchic, largely free from state interference, and gives much more power and freedom to individuals.

inthesticks · 07/01/2010 16:06

I'm there with Nelson Mandela [Halo].
Must get DH to do this, he will , I suspect be over there with George Bush.

diedandgonetodevon · 07/01/2010 16:06

Unsurprisingly I come out as authoritarian right.

darcymum · 07/01/2010 16:01

Just call me Gandhi.

mateykatie · 07/01/2010 15:56

flockwallpaper

Clegg is obviously the most libertarian of the main party leaders, for example, declassifying a lot of drugs, but I'm not sure where he fits on the left/right axis.

Cameron wants to scrap ID cards, doesn't want 42 days detention without charge for terrorist suspects, and wants to restrict council powers to spy on you. In itself, that is far more libertarian than Brown.

There are Tories who are very authoritarian, like Michael Howard, and Tories who are very libertarian, like David Davis and Daniel Hannan, but who are also far too right-wing for my liking.

Interestingly, Harriet Harman, one of the least libertarian politicians out there, was once the director of Liberty!

ShutUpandDrinkYourGin · 07/01/2010 15:53

am libertarian leftie - same as last time I htink

GrimmaTheNome · 07/01/2010 15:48

I did this a while ago and came out somewhere in the same quarter as Ghandi

Poledra · 07/01/2010 15:43

I'm a bit to the right of Nelson Mandela, which surprised me a bit as I thought I would be more towards the right. Perhaps I subconsciously answered what I thought I should rather than what I really think.

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flockwallpaper · 07/01/2010 15:38

mateyKatie and tis, mine came out similarly to yours.

www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=0.75&soc=-2.26

I wonder why there are no examples of slightly right wing libertarian politicians? They are quite an authoritarian lot aren't they

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paulaplumpbottom · 07/01/2010 15:30

I'm a right Libertarian