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In your opinion, is Mumsnet predominantly left wing, right wing, or finely balanced in the middle?

67 replies

Dumbledoresgirl · 05/09/2009 16:48

You don't have to say whether you think it is a good thing or not, just where do you think the predominant view lies?

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Dumbledoresgirl · 05/09/2009 18:57

No you didn't. Herrrumph!

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TheDMshouldbeRivened · 05/09/2009 18:58

Will send you a long rambly one tomorrow and bore you with my doings

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Dumbledoresgirl · 05/09/2009 19:03

Whatcha doing tonight?

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southeastastra · 05/09/2009 19:04

education right wing, everything else left or in the middle

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Dumbledoresgirl · 05/09/2009 19:06

I think style is fairly right wing too. Also, most comments under recipes.

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southeastastra · 05/09/2009 19:10

ha yes you're right there

ABetaDad · 05/09/2009 21:57

Seems a quite liberal leftie champagne socialist litterati Guardian reading place on MN to me - but then I am a liberal one nation soft Tory so it takes all sorts.

Mind you I 'share' a Sarah Palin obsession with UnquietDad. I dont know which to be more ashamed of, sharing a male midlife crisis with a Guardian reader, or admiring a right wing Republican politician.

GonetotheDogs · 05/09/2009 22:17

How dull would Mumsnet be if it was of one voice.

Poster1 I am a Green-voting, vegetarian, extended breasfeeding, co-sleeping, hairy woman who is passionate about Abel & Cole's swedes and turnips. AIBU?

poster2 YANBU

Poster3 YANBU

Poster4 YANBU - I am also a vegetarian. Do you mind telling me where you get your swedes and turnips from?

Poster1 Abel & Cole

Poster 4 Thank you, you have changed my life.

StripeySuit · 05/09/2009 22:54

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preciouslillywhite · 05/09/2009 23:03

Definitely more lovely liberal lefties on here than at our school gates...

which is prob why I spend a lot more time on ere than I do out there

GrimmaTheNome · 05/09/2009 23:04

Here's a thought experiment. If we had to choose one of the minor parties - not Lab or Con - then would you be Lib, Green, UKIP or BNP (have I missed anyone)? My guess is the first two would come way ahead of UKIP in this forum and BNP nowhere.

GonetotheDogs · 05/09/2009 23:04

Stripeysuit - You are mixing me up with someone else.

GrimmaTheNome · 05/09/2009 23:06

Referring back to the thread title, sometimes I just think MNers are plain unbalanced

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WebDude · 06/09/2009 10:28

kittywise - seems the vocal left are pretty equally matched with a fair number of centre or right, given the poll re DM column was at 517 'OK' vs 508 'no way' about half an hour ago

From the 'Hell NO' comments I'd seen I thought it was a 90:10 split towards Guardian reading Daily-Mail-is-Evil participants.

Maybe it's the subset who 'give a damn' and have been vocal I've been seeing posts from, vs the quiet types not posting here who voted the DM column as "OK" (mostly wanting MNHQ editorial control).

WebDude · 06/09/2009 10:31

As for links to DM articles, surely part of the reason would be to comment on not just good content, but bad, too.

StripeySuit · 06/09/2009 10:53

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Heathcliffscathy · 06/09/2009 11:54

sadly i think you're probably right dumbledoresgirl...

kittywise · 06/09/2009 14:00

webdude interesting indeed, perhaps it is just that I remember most the tussles I've had with the lefties.

I am not far right by any means and I hate, hate the likes of the DM, but I think I am becoming less tolerant the older I get, especially of the 'wooly liberals'!

SomeGuy · 06/09/2009 14:14

has there been a voting intention poll?

Posters with Daily Mail-type right wing views, which are quite acceptable in the real world in certain circles, tend to get beaten to a pulp on here. I assume there are more who share those views but know that it's not safe to express them because 1000 replies will ensue accusing them of fascism.

There are other sites I've seen where people expressing strident DM-type views are less t risk than here, so on that basis I would say that the mood is on the whole is Guardian-reading right-on, left-of-centre.

WebDude · 06/09/2009 16:36

Don't think it was anything very recent, SG, but thread that filled up yesterday included Justine pointing out 20% of MNetters (who expressed a preference ) went for the Daily Mail, and I think it was 18% that went for the Guardian. Would be easy enough to find her posts over past 40 hours.

SomeGuy · 06/09/2009 17:06

The guardian is a very marginal newspaper, the DM has 6 times more readers.

The Daily Mail is also by a distance the most successful newspaper at attracting female reades.

The Daily Mail also has more middle class readers than any other newspaper - and Mumsnet is allegedly very middle class.

18% Guardian readers seems rather ludicrous to me.

notevenamousie · 06/09/2009 17:06

I find myself at home here, as a vocal leftie, much more so than anywhere in real life, despite working for the NHS which is further left and more vocal than 5 or 10 or probably more years ago.

IOnlyReadtheDailyMailinCafes · 06/09/2009 17:15

I am a vocal leftie, it has become increasingly right wing here.

kittywise · 06/09/2009 17:44

I think this is part of the problem with MN. It is ok to say " I am a vocal leftie' but I am pretty sure it wouldn't be ok to say "I am a rightie"(vocal or not).
I reckon I am just right of centre