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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RW (very much so). I agree with LW regarding pro-choice.

Left wing but trans women are not women.

I can't see why that is right wing but many of the people I agree with who speak out on it are right wing.

That people buying their council houses is ok.

I'd be building many more though so the overall supply wasn't squeezed.

I agree with most of the points that everyone has raised on here, so maybe it’s too outdated for people to describe themselves as left or right wing nowadays and some alternative descriptions could be developed?

Labour aren’t protecting the environment though. They have a hugely aggressive plan for building millions of new housing developments, much of it on grey or green belt.

RW. Want a stop to mass migration and a deportation system implemented. However, I also believe in high benefits for the genuinely disabled and protecting the most vulnerable in society. I dont think that's a LW belief though.

Yes which is why I said left wing and not Labour.

Is it left wing policy not to build houses? (Goes off to google)

‘Hate fest’ 😂
It is really depressing that people don’t bother to listen to anyone outside their own echo-chamber/cosy bubblr and have closed and unenquiring minds.

What do you think the Tories will do on these issues that will be more palatable to a lefty though? Or will you just not mind because they're Tories and you already dislike them?

I was going to say the same. Labour are going to ruin the countryside and farming forever. Once it's gone, it's gone.

They have now made it impossible to object to any development, anywhere, for any reason. Local democracy is dead.

I think my most right wing view is that there seem to be an awful lot of public sector workers who don't seem to do a lot.

Am LW and don't think belief that sex is real and immutable is RW, although it's the belief that many would probably say makes me RW.

I'm increasingly skeptical about EDI stuff generally though.

Exactly my thoughts. Criminal.

Absolute ranting socialist here, and I will defend grammar schools to the hilt. The sheer relief of moving from a primary where I was massively bullied- mostly by the boys- to a girls' grammar where it was OK to be weird and spoddy and geeky and bright- is forever etched in my memory.

I'm right of centre and my LW view is that excellent, affordable public transport is a true mark of a civilised society. Private car useage should be people's last choice.

I think we need more nuance about the environmental issues. It's utterly farcical that we can have a bat tunnel adding tens of millions to rail projects, and we need to stop idealising a lot of our landscape - round my way it's a pretty dull agridesert, it's hardly concreting over the Peak district.

Very left wing voter. But believe in right to home educate. I also struggle with the concept of comprehensive education, because even though politically it makes sense, the current system doesn't work for everyone.

My autistic son was home educated to GCSE level and went to a selective state Maths 6th form which only offers places to the brightest Maths students. He is now doing a Maths degree at Cambridge university. I don't think he woukd have coped well at all with a regular state education and it is unlikely he would be where he is today, which is what he is capable of, if he had been through that system.

Very left wing here but my heart sank when I saw the other day that the Tories have said they would ban social media for under 16s. It’s already been a hard few years for me when Tories are the only ones who I feel have effectively stood up for women’s rights in the trans rights v women’s rights issue - yet they shaft women in so many other ways, as well as shaft various sections of society - so I’d never vote for them.

But the SM ban…I don’t know…if we don’t see movement from this govt soon on the harms to young people I could feel forced to, instead of spoiling my vote like I have the last few years.

I am left leaning.

My most right wing belief is about family. I dont think a system that doesnt acknowledge that a big motivator for parents is improving thier child's lot is going to succeed. We need safeguards for people with shit families or no families but I dont think the average person wants to work themselves to the bone solely for the greater good, even if they like the greater good. They want to also have thuer chikd in a nice school, go on holiday etc.

I am pretty left wing, but I have a lot of sympathy for people who inherit old school generational wealth - the “landed gentry”, if you will. People view them as tremendously privileged without realising the astronomical costs of running those houses, the huge pressure of something being run by your family for 800 years and not wanting to be the one to fuck it up, and the worry of how many people depend on an estate for their living.

I’m not talking about “owns half of Westminster”, I mean the crumbling pile family seat families. I won a scholarship to a posh boarding school and there were a few people there with “millstone” houses.

It was under the Tories that the whole trans stuff took off - Maria Miller, anyone? And it's been under Labour that the oil tanker has started slowly to turn around. Don't mistake the Tories' gleeful gloaty 'I know what a woman is' for them actually giving a shit about what a woman is or what life is like for them.

Big leftie here. But my view is that we have a serious welfare crisis related to unemployment and more people need to be pushed into work (good quality work). Where I grew up, there are whole generations e.g grandparents, parents and kids who have never worked and that's not sustainable. I don't think this is RW but I also think more disabled people should be working but this is going to take a big culture shift. I'm disabled myself (full time wheelchair user, 24/7 care, only function is my right hand) and work full time. I was lucky to have parents and teachers who equipped me for navigating a career as a severely disabled person but many don't have that and are raised to have little to no aspirations. I'm sad when I look around my peers and see their frustration in not being given the skills needed to go to uni, get a job etc.

The tide of public opinion has shifted over time and political parties have moved to reflect this. Labour stood by the TWAW line for an outrageously long time though (far longer than the Tories) and have a much bigger issue with TRA infiltration than the Tories.

Like many others, left leaning but I don't believe trans women are women. We need single sex spaces, to protect womens sport, and to protect vulnerable children. Also agree with a social media ban for U16s. And I think grammar schools are a good thing. (Another person who was bullied at a mixed comp and then moved with huge relief to a girls grammar). I don't think comprehensive education can cater for all, we need different types of schools for different types of children.

It's not RW. As I mentioned upthread, contributing what you can to society is the bedrock of socialism and even communism. In a way you can argue your stance is more LW than it is RW as RW tends to be more individualistic. The idea that we should just pay people to not work or contribute anything is damaging to society and the individuals themselves. It does a number on people's self esteem, skills base and health outcomes. It's good for people to work but a lot of people will always be reluctant to do it in the same way they don't want to exercise or eat vegetables.