Shocking news from the Daily Mail about left-wingers!

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Apparently they're more intelligent than right wingers

Never thought I'd see the day

No claig they didn't win the election alas, three terms of Labour, financial meltdown, war in Iraq etc. etc. and the Piglets still couldn't win a majority.

Gove is definitely majestic, as the Royal Yacht episode proved, and it is not right to mock majesty; that is progressive travesty

claig are you Gove??

'the Piglets still couldn't win a majority.'

It was deliberate. They needed a Coalition to have a mandate to push through the cuts agenda.

'claig are you Gove??'

Alas, not

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The Conservatives deliberately failed to win a majority? Dave was only acting a bit stupid during the leadership debate? The whole "I agree with Nick" stuff was part of a cunning plan? Really? I'm very very impressed with their electioneering skills if that's true.

Strange things happen in politics. They needed to marginalise Tory Eurosceptics by bring in teh pro-Europe LibDems to avoid any chance of a referendum. They also knew that teh cuts would create hostility and they didn't want two parties to be able to unite against them. They need a broad, stable coalition in order to implement the changes and in order to win the next election. Just as Ed Miliband has not led an effective opposition against them and did not support the strikes, they too did not run an effective election campaign and didn't even mention the open goal of Gordon Brown and Mrs Duffy. All three parties are "in it together".

And the Guardian played a part in boosting the LibDems by ditching New Labour and "enthusiastically" backing Nick Clegg.

Okaaay, so, popping massive all-encompassing conspiracy theories on the back burner for now....

So, big study, fair enough, longitudinal, very good... mostly talking about social conservatism, I'm not seeing questions on fiscal policy...

Actually, you know what, I am going to need another source for this, I can't be trying to get useful information from the DM. I'll go a-googling.

Oh, the original article pdf is available free. Sweet.

Yes, boulevard, it does all rather depend on what they mean by right-wing. Would be interesting to know if the principle applies to issues that most divide right and left currently eg tolerance of income inequality and attitudes to public services.

It is rather prejudiced, smallwhitecat, you are right. But that's the Daily Mail for you.

It's probably an employee who's been done over by the Mail and has sworn guerrilla revenge.

It's all true, of course.

There's an AIBU about this too, but;

They asked about social conservatism only, not fiscal; 'Stiffer sentences for criminals', 'mums shouldn't go out to work' etc.

They found this was associated with low childhood IQ, and with racism; 'I would mind if someone of a different race moved in next door to me' etc.

I'm not sure how strong the association is as I don't speak social science.

'my dh is a firm advocate of stiffer sentences for criminals'

sounds like perfect commonsense, only a progressive could possibly disagree.

It seems that this 'study' has not taken into account the revered Tory MP known as David 'Two Brains' Willetts. The only references to "two" with respect to Labour MPs seem to be of them having "two left feet" (note not right feet) and of being "two sandwiches short of a picnic".

Individual examples do now disprove the findings. It's akin to saying that you knew a lady who lived to 100 and smoked 100 a day so that means smoking is harmless

Yes but when the entire Conservative Parliamentary Party has an average IQ equivalent to that of 'Two Brains' Willetts, then there seems to be something awry with this 'study'.

All I am saying is that it might benefit this 'study' to go back to the drawing board, recrunch the numbers (both longitudinally and latitudinally), until it produces results that are more recognisable to concerned Daily Mail readers.

There are Daily Mail readers in drawing rooms up and down the land, scratching their heads at this 'study'. Day in day out they watch left-wingers on the TV - Bob Croweet al. - and they compare them to 'Two Brains' Willetts et al. and the results of this 'study' don't seem to compute.

First they were told that they have only '50 days left to save the planet' and now this bombshell, is it any wonder that scientists are starting to lose their repute?

The only conclusion that millions of Daily Mail readers, in drawing rooms up and down the land, have come to is:
"It's political correctness gorn mad".