In your opinion, is Mumsnet predominantly left wing, right wing, or finely balanced in the middle?

As for links to DM articles, surely part of the reason would be to comment on not just good content, but bad, too.

kittywise - seems the vocal left are pretty equally matched with a fair number of centre or right, given the poll re DM column was at 517 'OK' vs 508 'no way' about half an hour ago

From the 'Hell NO' comments I'd seen I thought it was a 90:10 split towards Guardian reading Daily-Mail-is-Evil participants.

Maybe it's the subset who 'give a damn' and have been vocal I've been seeing posts from, vs the quiet types not posting here who voted the DM column as "OK" (mostly wanting MNHQ editorial control).

Referring back to the thread title, sometimes I just think MNers are plain unbalanced

Stripeysuit - You are mixing me up with someone else.

Here's a thought experiment. If we had to choose one of the minor parties - not Lab or Con - then would you be Lib, Green, UKIP or BNP (have I missed anyone)? My guess is the first two would come way ahead of UKIP in this forum and BNP nowhere.

Definitely more lovely liberal lefties on here than at our school gates...

which is prob why I spend a lot more time on ere than I do out there

How dull would Mumsnet be if it was of one voice.

Poster1 I am a Green-voting, vegetarian, extended breasfeeding, co-sleeping, hairy woman who is passionate about Abel & Cole's swedes and turnips. AIBU?

poster2 YANBU

Poster3 YANBU

Poster4 YANBU - I am also a vegetarian. Do you mind telling me where you get your swedes and turnips from?

Poster1 Abel & Cole

Poster 4 Thank you, you have changed my life.

Seems a quite liberal leftie champagne socialist litterati Guardian reading place on MN to me - but then I am a liberal one nation soft Tory so it takes all sorts.

Mind you I 'share' a Sarah Palin obsession with UnquietDad. I dont know which to be more ashamed of, sharing a male midlife crisis with a Guardian reader, or admiring a right wing Republican politician.

ha yes you're right there

education right wing, everything else left or in the middle

Will send you a long rambly one tomorrow and bore you with my doings

dontchoo dare leave. Did I remember to eamil you? Brain like a seive.

A perfect example is the private schools thing. People who have no "choice", or no meaningful one, will think the endless debates about which one to "choose" are a little spurious, and may have to stop themselves answering threads which start "How do I choose a prep school?" with the line "Start by having a shitload of money." (Whistles innocently...)

Also there will always be people who think you are dangerously left-wing if you don't work in the City or holiday in Klosters, and people who think you are dangerously right-wing if you own a house bigger than a box and go on holiday at all.

Some US Republicans would be quite happy to call you Communist for supporting the NHS.

I assume this is part of Dumbledoresgirl's point in asking the question.

I've always thought of MN as generally left-of-centre with some very clued-up posters who are left-er but well able to hold their own (rather than rabid lefties like my grandfather, for whom there was no other option). And a few strong right-wing voices who seem to have gorn.

Over the past couple of years, the sheer number of articles being linked to from the Mail has made me think, ah well, it's not as broadly left as all that. But I haven't noticed any more shrill right-wing posting (mind you I haven't been around much).

Mostly centre left/woolly liberal, I think. Those with more right wing views tend to stand out more than those with leftie leanings.

Good point@UQD. A woman at work once called me 'an awful lefty' (behind my back, to another colleague who grassed her up ). I had always thought of myself as a bit of a centre-left type (in those days I was a Blair supporter). Woman in question was your stereotypical Horse & Hounds Sloane, though, and probably thought Thatcher was soft Right.

No worries DG. I worked for the Green party this year and they get fed up with being pigeon holed in a wing. I think the perception of the old/current political landscape hinders real progress and stops people from believing there can be new ideas.

IMO there simply MUST be new ideas.