AIBU to think there are more right wing views on MN than left wing?

[Bumsnetter]

I used to think it the other way round but lately there have been a lot more right wing views on threads.

Not sure whereabouts I am with regards to left and right.

I want a nice gentle liberal world, but I realised as I got older that I will only get that if I can have all of those who disagree with me taken out and shot

I'd start with all of the MPs from all of the parties which is nice and even-handed of me I think.

As a rule I find MN fairly left wing, which I like because in the main it reflects my own views, however the threads that turn into real bun fights are always the ones expressing right wing views that are propped up by a vocal (and mostly unpleasant) minority, hence the impression that MN is right wing.

That being said we are all individuals and whilst I describe myself as left wing (pro choice, anti death penalty, pro welfare state, pro immigration et) I send my Dc's to a fee paying school so I guess people could see me on a thread about school fees and assume by my education choices that I am right wing.

There do seem to be a lot of very very middle class posters who are well heeled on here and a hell of a lot from Hampshire area for some reason. Was it formed there? That doesn't necessarilly mean they are Right Wing though.

Your class doesn't always reflect your politics.

Gay was perfectly in order to berate her postman if he was a union member and his union had voted to strike by a democratic majority. His personal circumstances are irrelevant.

I don't give a royal monkey's fart about anyone's political leanings - if the view is supported by fact (vs anecdote vs radical scaremongering) then debate the issue - political bugbears and grudges don't appeal ...

But then, I do believe that the sane few actually do usually use/quote/read the type of media that supports and verifies their thinking - a DM reader would never pick up the Guardian 'for a change' ....

Lefty here, though I was once accused of supporting the BNP because my workplace displayed an England flag during the world cup

Slavetofilofax - let's hope he could afford not to have a job at all. He was a union member, and I advised him to take his mailbag back to the sorting office and go home with a clear conscience.
I'd rather lose a day's pay than my job - let's hope he thought the same.

Ilove & Gay you are right. Expressing an opinion on lack of solidarity in a strike is perfectly reasonable. Dp sealed up our letter box with 'No scab mail here', but he is a proper fanatical Bolshevik lefty, like me. That's why we hate each other. A great socialist tradition.

The majority of mumsnetters are lower middle class right wing Daily Mail readers.

I agree that union members should stick together, even if they don't personally agree with strike action. But I would never be so rude as to go and ask a postman whether or not he was a union member before having a go at him if he said yes.

Being part of union is important, but so is his family. He could have been bankrupt and had a large payback to make each month, he could have a disabled wife or child at home to support, he might have been like Billy Elliots dad! He could have plenty of valid personal reasons for going aginst the strike, and I really think it is unfair to judge someone just because they joined a union.

I didn't think so until we get threads where people want to hit DCs with canes-not their own of course-just other people's DCs.

What view do you consider to be "right wing views" OP?

YABU.... you should try the Politics board :) Full of uber-left-wing blokes!

if i had £10 for every thread that goes like this -

'rarrara bankers rarararra greed rararar debt rararar Cuts! rarrar angry'

then I'd have enough for a very decent pair of shoes & matching handbag.

seeker - >lobs wooden brick in Little White Company sock

slavetofilofax, I couldn't agree more.

Also I think strikes are different now. The first strikes were about desperation, but now you can strike for better tea bags in the canteen I don't feel obliged to support those who do.

YABU - it's way more left-wing, which is fine for me as a stereotypical middle class liberal but if I were a DM-reading tory I wouldn't bother posting what I really thought unless I wanted to start a fight...

I would like the OP to cite an example, because i was accussed of being a DM right winger because i felt that those in the riots should be punished.

On a thread the same day i was called a Marxist.

One person's right wing/left wing is another's perfectly reasonable response to a situation.

On the whole, I think it's more left wing than right here.

However, since this government came to power, I have noticed right wing views being espoused by more people IRL, and I think MN reflects this.

Zeitgeist, innit?

Also, we notice the opposing point of view more than our own. I notice the benefit-claimant vs hardworking-taxpayer threads, and Eggy notices the angry-banker-cuts threads. Neither of us really register the ones we agree with. In fact, Pusporninboots even states that "I can't recall seeing one single post showing political preference being for the tory party". And I immediately think of longfingernails (who I am convinced is actually a deep cover member of the Labour party working hard to discredit the Tories and everything they stand for; but that's another thread ).

nah they are mostly trendy wendy woolly liberals on here arent they :)

deffo a Guardian readers get together on here

sometimes i read people saying 'i HAVE TO WORK AND SO SHOULD YOU-GET A JOB YOU LAZY BASTARD,I'D STACK SHELVES\WAIT TABLES IF I WERE YOU' without realising that these second jobs you think are there for the taking are actually 'plum jobs' that people (like me) who are after,as is everyone else. then you get some mealy mouthed bollocks about someone you know via someones sisters hairdresser who has a free car, free luxury council house and goes on 17 holidays a year all funded by a legit WTC claim obv...not actually based in fact, but quoted as such.

that's what i think is right wing views.

I notice the benefit-claimant vs hardworking-taxpayer threads, ..

there are plenty of these. though i don't really see them as left/right wing, because you will hear stereotypical labour voters complaining about the high tax rate 'punishing the working man' as well as people who just don't like high tax and a state-intervention based economy (and are therefore genuinely right wing)

is 'Tory tint' a farrow & ball shade?
:)

Fine. If people want to work during strike action for which their union has balloted they should leave the union.

Most of the posties who strike break are expressly employed for that purpose as casual workers by management. The practice is endemic in the Royal Mail, and -ridiculously, in my opinion- short-term staff are never recruited into the union.

One of my wings is left. My other wing is right. So I reckon I have quite a balanced outlook.

tethers Longfingernails...i see your logic there.