Is mumsnet right wing?

[BrilloPadHairball]

There are so many benefits bashing threads on here I’m really starting to wonder. Do the majority of people posting on mumsnet lean heavily to the right?

I made a thread specifically for suggestions to talk at length about that daft league table thing, so that they would stop derailing every thread with it.

It literally doesn't. Thanks for your useful insight.

So by your definition a ultra rightwinger who believes in one thing left wing becomes left wing by what you have just stated. Or does it only work that way when it's going towards the right wing.

A right winger never turns left wing by showing up at a left wing event.

But a left winger is a literal nazi if they walk down the same road as a right winger.

That's how this works.

I respectfully disagree but hey that's your opinion and I think you are incorrect.

It's interesting because a lot of left wingers are as intolerant as the right.

What the actual fuck is this bollocks? 😂

I think you’re agreeing? I found pp ironic

'Rightwing' isn't used to mean 'rightwing' anymore - many people use it to mean 'bad wrongthinking people'. Most of the people who use it as a slur wouldn't know right from left if Marx bit them on the arse.

This has been a really interesting read. Thanks everyone.

Labour is a fairly right wing party. If you compare it to democratic socialist parties in Europe it has far more in common with the Tory party than with any of them.

Gosh no way.. l have always thought of it more to the left.
( I'm in the middle but vote Tory)

Can you give us one example of where a right wing person has been accused of being left wing for associated with a left winger, or for attending a left wing event, or for being on the same street as a left wing person?

So much hyperbole on this thread from the usual suspects.🙈😬

I find MN rather more left wing than right but agree that these terms seem inadequate these days as there is much blurring between the two.

I have noticed that being labelled right wing on here seems to be the absolute WORST THING to be which is childish and stupid - grown ups know people of all stripes and rub along with them just fine.

The attacks on FWR here are completely unjustified - how is it considered wrong/right wing to want to protect gay and autistic children from harm? Or to want to protect girls' safety and dignity by them having their own sports, changing rooms, loos?
I find it bizarre that there are posters happy to support and promote this as well as all of the regressive, misogynist and homophobic underpinnings of gender ideology (1950's sex stereotypes). And THEN label themselves progressive and anyone who objects as somehow far right.

I do also agree with other posters here who have said that if anyone argues even a slightly right wing point on here or says they vote Tory they are completely vilified. Posters like me who used to vote Labour but now cannot are routinely disbelieved and labelled as Tories also. I can fully see how the 'shy Tory' phenomenon came about.

Yes there is so much truth in this.

Absolutely not , if anything it's very much left leaning .

In the absence of other evidence I'd say that's a right wing viewpoint - but I'd have to learn more about what you think of as a solution - if you are advocating the abolition of benefits, you are right wing and might as well admit it.

I think it is broadly right wing, yes.

Thinking about it, I think that the 'shy Tory' thing may well have a rather large part to play in the forthcoming GE. Starmer should not count his chickens I feel.

Can you quote the hyperbole. Not sure what you’re referring to

Why do you think this? Intrigued as I find it the other way!

Mumsnet is about as left wing as it comes 🤣🤣

Because mumsnet users are (not exclusively, but on average) wealthier compared with the average household income in UK ( £35,000)

I think so many people are unable to see things in anything other than black and white. There are no shades of grey for them when, in reality, life is very rarely black and white. There is also a growing inability to debate and to listen to other people's opinions without name calling if those opinions don't match up to to the ones held by the person calling them out.. If someone has a different opinion to me I want to know why they think that, not just dismiss them out of hand.

I would probably think of myself as centre left but I think that the obsession with categorising people is causing so much division. Why does everyone have to be in a particular box? Everyone is different and I think social media is very much to blame for a lot of this. People feel they have to pick a side and if you deviate in any way fro the accepted views of your "side" you are a bad person.

The world would be so much better if people actually listened. You only have to read some of the threads on here to see that.

How do you know this? Was there a study or something? And why would having a household income of more than £35k make one right wing?

I think overall MN is politically central with slightly more posters centre left.

I do however think the "freedom of speech" policy and reputation of FWR has attracted some very right wing posters and posters with political views that are outside the mainstream. I also think that board is so popular that its a target for marketing posts from various political parties. Finally from what I see there are far far more men posting there than there used to be which is pretty interesting for a "feminist" board.

In general I've noticed more intolerant posts than there used to be on a wide range of issues e.g. benefits, racism, anti-immigration, anti working mums, ability etc. But only held by a minority of noisy posters.

On the whole therefore I'd say YANBU. But I think that's the Internet writ large rather than MN