So are you really a pinko

[prufrock]

After the previous thread on which people proudly proclaimed our left wing liberal tendencies I thought you might enjoy testing whether you really are what you say /link{http://www.politicalcompass.org/here}

For the record I scored -2.88 and -4.82

Another pinko here: -6.25 and -6.21

Hooray, now we really can have an "I'm leftier than you" debate - that'll annoy Coddy.

left-right: -6.75
lib/auth: -5.95

Now I'll see how I compare to everyone else. Then maybe I'll do some work (but would I really be contributing anything? ).

-8.88, -5.85. Keep the red flag flying!

-5.62/-4.31
woolly liberal

i think the questions were phrased to make more ring-wing/authoritarian positions sound morally 'worse', if there is any reality to different morals being worse or better

i actually thought that in my heart i was more right-wing than this. not in my votes tho.

ring-wing?? right-wing?? i'll stick to ring-wing after seeing that documentary on the silver ring thing.

Economic Left/Right: -7.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.56

Down there in the bottom left corner...

Economic Left/Right: -2.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.59

Has no one here scored +ve??

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-4, -2.67

I re-did the test pretending to be a "Right wing conservative". Didn't put "stongly" into any of the responses, but just agreed with the likely "conservative" response - eg agreed wthat bsuinessmen were more important that artists, that abortion was always wrong, disagreed with the legalisation of marijauna etc. Came up with +5.00/+4.72.

No-one has commented on Tony Blair's postion firmly in the Right Wing, Authoritarian camp, alongside Silvio Berlosconi and John Howard! Now there's a surpirse!

I was on Iona in August and went to look at John Smith's grave and thought about "what might have been"!

-5.38
-4.36

am cosying up with the dalai lama and nelson mandela.

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Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.85

-5.12 and -2.31

Am I the only one interested in Tony Blair's relative position?

Is it just that I still haven't got over the disappointment of having a "Labour" Party (or as dh calls it t "The New Tony, I mean Tory" Party) that seems to have sold out ALL its principles -expcet the one being hungry for power - and is now doing/prposing things that the Tory party only ever DREAMT of.

Or should I "get over it" and accept that in our current democratic system we have now morphed in an American system, where there is no Right and Left - just shades of Right. And that, to quote Ken Livingston, "if voting changed anything, they'd abolish it".

pb - don't get over it.

Too many people have, which is why Labour keep getting back in despite not being Labour at all.

Being in Scotland I do have a choice. In addtion to "New Labour", there is the SNP and the Scottish Socialist Party, as well as the LibDems. Unfortunately, at the Scottish Parliament, we don't always (yet?) have the right calibre of politican.

What makes me sad is that (it appears) so many people don't perceive that there is a choice and overlook the LibDems, seeing them as "unelectable" - so that at Westminster we now have the worst possible of worlds in our Two Party, First Past the Post system. Two right wing parties which we are stuck with, because the people don't believe that there is any alternative. No wonder the turnouts at elections are collapsing.