How do you identify politically, and what does that mean for you?

[DreamyScroller]

No judgement, just interested if my general assessment of the political environment on MN is accurate.

I would place myself somewhere between 'right of centre' and 'right', leaning more central.

What that means for me is, I have a mostly conservative inclination in that I hold traditional values and ideas, believe in limited and localised government, and so on... but I do believe there should be space, for example for social safety nets for the poor, some restrictions on big corporations to protect smaller ones/the environment, etc.

How do you identify politically, and why?

Right of centre, with an absolute loathing of Reform. A lot of my personal politics was formed by the absolute horror that was the later half of the 70s. A father who worked all hours to give his family the best life he could, worn down by the appalling tax regime at the time leaving him virtually suicidal. "Tax the rich till the pips squeak" said Dennis Healy, unfortunately his definition of rich left a lot to be desired. By an anomaly caused by being employed in a partnership rather than a limited company my late father was paying tax at 97-8% on earned income. Imagine that for a moment.
I will happily be voting Tory up here in Scotland, luckily for me the tactical vote to try and get rid of the dreadful Swinney is a Tory vote in this constituency. It won't work, he will cling on like the useless limpet that he is but a girl can dream! I am pretty liberal in my outlook, pro abortion, pro people in the greatest need being properly looked after, pro NHS though I'd like to see some major reorganisation and efficiency, always been pro gay marriage, equal rights for all. I am also GC though I have respect for those trans people just getting on with their lives and not shouting at everybody who isn't them. That's about it really.

Ive voted conservative all my life until recently. I have always been very much to the right, anti immigration, anti green and anti woke. I believe in low taxes, a small state and people taking responsibility for themselves and not relying on handouts. I now feel politically homeless because the conservatives are way out of the tunning. I do quite like Kemi Badenoch. However we have moved away from a two party state and I feel politically homeless at present.

Very much to the left but, as much as I'd like to see a more radical politics than Starmer's Labour, I do think we have a real productivity crisis and are on the verge of a demographic crisis (e.g., aging population) and I don't think there's a current, radical plan that seems credible.

Push comes to shove, I'd take Starmer's attempts to plug a few of the holes in the sinking ship to keep it buoyant until a viable alternative presents itself.

And I do think that there is a significant problem with antisemitism on the left in the UK, which also puts me off the likes of Corbyn and the Greens.

Left & green, & becoming even more so as I get older. Did the Political Compass test a while ago &, to my delight, landed right on top of Caroline Lucas. (This isn't my result - just an example of the chart pulled from the internet.)

https://www.politicalcompass.org/

The Greens are the new left of Labour. I’m politically homeless and won’t vote in any election. Centre politics has gone and we have left or right factions trying to take over - not what I want but we have a poorly educated electorate.

Politically homeless. The craziness of reform and the greens is what happens when the centre left and right cant get their shit together for decades. The Tories and Labour are to blame. I think the majority are are centre left or right, there is just no representation.

I'm over there in the left but tolerate a bit of centre.

In general elections I vote for the current MP, because they're excellent and do lots for our constituency. They're LibDem and I'm not averse to the LibDems generally. In local elections I vote Green. Neither are a perfect fit but are good enough.

I almost considered voting Labour for the first time when Jeremy Corbyn was leader, since he was the only leader imo for a long time with what I would call real Labour values. However, the Labour candidate lived outside the constituency and that's an absolute no no for me.

I thought some of the questions on that were weird, but it got b=me correct- Left Libertarian. So I was right- there are no current parties that represent my views!

It's quite an interesting exercise though, isn't it?

There's probably no one party for me either (another reason why I support proportional representation). But I will never waste a vote - & as I abhor Reform with a passion & the current Tories almost as much, my vote will be used to keep them out as much as anything else.

It is. I knew about it as DS is doing Politics A Level. His teacher got the class to do it at the start of year 12, then at the end of year 12 and again halfway through yr 13 to see if their views had changed! ( most of the class had!)

Well the current labour government have made me swing a few steps to the right. I'd rather read the telegraph than the guardian these days put it that way.

@IDontHateRainbows I find the Times is better but I could never vote for a party which had Rees Mogg in it and a few others! I feel the same about the Labour left. Plus far too many of them are incompetent. It’s politics over sensible well thought out policies. It’s not appealing and no party has longer term policies because they fear a wipe out if big issues are tackled. So we lurch onwards with poor leadership and poor policies. The future looks even more bleak. Rhetoric and policies of self harm?

Genuinely curious - what's the difference between being a "sex realist" & gender critical?

Thanks everyone who's voted/commented... an interesting set of viewpoints. And as a PP pointed out, it's interesting that the results of the poll don't really reflect the views given in the comments: Almost 40% of people who voted said they were either "right of centre" or "right", while the majority of commenters have expressed left leaning views, although this doesn't necessarily surprise me.