Left-wing voters, what is your most right wing belief, and right wing voters what is your most left wing belief?

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I consider myself to the right of centre.

My most left wing belief is I staunchly believe in protecting the environment and wildlife as much as possible. Am against any destruction of habitat or further building in the UK, for profit or new houses or anything else.

I also believe in climate change, and would like to see huge investment in renewable energy.

I am pretty much a Communist 😂 but my most conservative opinion is that mass childcare in its current form - babies and young children doing long hours in institutional settings of very variable quality - is a ticking time bomb.

LW. That sex is real and immutable, and that there is more nuance to the situation in the Middle East than simply unilaterally being pro-Palestine.

Also slightly right of centre. I agree with lifting the two child cap on benefits, I don't care if it's not a magic wand, I'm for anything at all that will lift even a single child from poverty. Same goes for free school meals etc. Tax me to the hilt, don't care, the thought of a single child going hungry, being cold, not provided for.. sickens me.

Very lefty but don’t think it’s helping children who feel distressed in their bodies if you tell them they can change sex. Don’t think we keep women or children safe by allowing men into women’s spaces. Don’t think men should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. Outside of these caveats, I believe in letting adults live the life they want, if it doesn’t harm anyone else, including trans women.

I see it the same way.

And, I don't believe that those are fundamentally left wing positions, it feels like some weird appendices to me.

LW. I do think some benefits are rather generous (based on people I know who really could do some work rather than none and living off what they can claim while not working).

I'm left wing my most rw view is that immigration is treated more robustly and have time limits if asylum isn't granted.
But done in a humane manner with correct procedures and not the hate fest that Farage and Tommy the prick spout.

I’m very LW but I think (out of work) people on benefits who can work (ie not PIP) should be employed by local councils to do the jobs which over the years have been cut - keeping parks tidy and clean, manning public restrooms, cleaning road signs etc. this would give them the opportunity to learn skills, they should have the ability to take on additional responsibilities in supervision etc to help re-engage in the workplace.

I know that’s unpopular and right wing, but to me it’s a sensible way of ensuring people can earn a reasonable living, improve the conditions of our country which have been lost to cuts and impact the general wellbeing of society and i believe going to work (having a routine, having a purpose, interacting with other people, getting out of the house) is essential to most people’s general mental health.

Left of centre.

It’s not a set of political beliefs, but I’m a teacher and I believe that children require (kind, loving) authority figures in their lives, who are prepared to maintain respectful boundaries and retain perspective in situations. School is non-negotiable, friendship fallouts are inevitable and result from lagging skills and poor boundaries (rarely ‘bullying’), and parents argue too much with their children (therefore teaching kids how to argue back).

Children haven’t got the skills to cope with social media and shouldn’t have access to it. Ditto vulnerable adults. Autistic children are being groomed online to believe that they can change sex (they can’t), I’m incredulous that adults accept/condone this.

I am right of centre and share this view but I don't necessarily agree that it's a RW policy. 'From each according to their ability, to each according to his need' fundamentally relies on people contributing whatever work they can to society in order to have their needs met. That is socialism. Even in it's most radical form I.e. communism, the idea is that people will volunteer their skills and time freely to get their needs met. In a LW utopia it was never intended for people just be written off as being unable to contribute anything and paid to stay at home.

Same here. I wish, unrealistically, that if the conservatives imploded that they would reinvent themselves as a green conservative party. At the moment I'm politically homeless.

Probably that single sex spaces are a necessity and that self-identification without follow through has a lot to answer for. I also have my doubts about the idea of being gender fluid etc because to me it just reinforces stereotypes.

I don’t have a problem with countries trying to control immigration, I have a problem with the dehumanising way it’s often done.

And finally, I don’t think realistically the world can accommodate every quirk ever and people need to build up resilience. I also have doubts about the amount of self diagnosing that happens nowadays. Not every little quirk in the world is diagnose worthy.

LW. I think the NHS isn’t sustainable in its current form and we should have a system of personal insurance/co-payments. My family (extended family, not me personally) has paid nearly £50k out of savings for three private surgeries in the last four years. I’m grateful we could afford to do it, and grateful we’re living better lives as a result, and I am mindful that most people couldn’t afford to do that. But it does feel like a stealth tax on people with higher incomes/more savings, and all the profits have gone into private wealth funds. I wish we’d been able to just give it to the government and give the NHS a bigger source of income.

I’m left of centre, I think. Part of the problem for me is that I don’t seem to put the same things to the left and right that other people do. My most RW view is probably that local /small businesses should be protected and supported over globalised corporations, and that foreign countries shouldn’t be able to own controlling shares in nationally important infrastructure or services. I also believe that people don’t change sex and that this is one of the pillars of feminism, but that to me is a LW view.

I am staunchly left wing but as well as believing that nobody can change sex I think that of all the religions (I’m an atheist and think they are all awful) islam is the worst and the culture clash it causes here is the root of so many people turning to the right.
I also think the situation with Israel and Gaza is far more complex than those waving flags belief and deplore the way the horrors of Hamas have been glossed over.
Sorry, that’s three things.

Was left of centre, became more apparently left as the Overton window moved, now not a fan of some of Labour’s rhetoric/policies, which I guess could make me further left depending where you’d put Labour on the scale perhaps. Generally through my life I’ve liked the ideals of left more than right but then I don’t think the practicality/reality of some of them would work.
My most RW is based on what I see as reality, get the welfare bill down and more people working, but I do think more support/services are needed to get there, and there should also be a push for employers to pay better, so a right wing view with left wing ones built in perhaps.
I think Palestine is nuanced and complex so whilst I’ll March alongside against hotel protestors, I don’t join solo demos or chant etc. Both sides there often chant KS is a banker, or similar, so neither left or right appear to like him - I like his boringness and serious approach, some achievements if not all actions, so I don’t agree with this - maybe I am centrist after all.
I counter protest at hotels in the first place as I don’t like hatred and dehumanisation of those seeking asylum (nor the poor information) - in fact I hate all this - does not mean I necessarily believe in open borders though - it’s not always you’re there so you support a-b-c.
You used to be able to have a range of views/ideals and whilst choosing your preferred model or preferred belief of capabilities in delivering on that model you could also debate and be less partisan than recently - but in parliament even we have little cross party consensus on anything at all - it’s all ‘I’m right, you’re rubbish’ - I don’t think this is helpful to smooth governance, or a settled country.

A really good example of the potential for cross-party consensus over the past few days is (to return to one of my points) banning social media for U-16s. It’s not political, it’s safeguarding.

Definitely- despite the way of the parties now I am very surprised, and very disappointed, they don’t all agree on this basic necessity of protecting our children.

I am incredibly right wing but I will also always defend our right to choose. I feel it is a natural right-wing position tho ….

I’d agree with that Ringo, or at least I agree that it’s very possible to approach abortion rights from either end of the political spectrum and agree on the outcome.

I am LW in most issues. I don’t think being GC is necessarily a RW view, so won’t include that. My most RW view is I am increasingly anti immigration and particularly worried about the culture clash with large Muslim communities who I think won’t integrate with our more liberal values.

Yes, you are right in that it can be both defended or attacked from either side of the political spectrum.

I just feel the way pro-lifers talk about abortion (and being on the American right, I hear about it A LOT) codes very left-wing to me.

At 61 and always unwaveringly left wing, for the first time in my life I’ll be voting conservative in future elections. This pains me…but I just cannot agree with so many of Labour’s policies anymore.

Immigration
Foreign policies
Sex v a gender (I’m a staunch GC woman)
Wes Bloody Streeting!
Benefits

To name a few.

Lefty here.

Stop the boats: welfare migrants take the piss.

If you cared at all about minority ethnic people, the poor, or refugees, you’d be slashing dinghies like a good ‘un.