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

[Dumbledoresgirl]

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?

I think some posters would be very proud to say I am a vocal rightie.

Isn't the problem with the Grauniad that so many of us are pedants that we simple can't stand the misspellings for which its always been famed?

I liked to play "spot the spellers" in the Grauniad. It was fun.

I think you can't actually generalise about MN - there are lots of different views, some mild, some extreme - some R wing, some L. I have more sympathy with some of the lefties, I think - but then sometimes I am more of a rightie, having been to private school myself (so I can't get all aerated about them, I think it was a good thing for me).

Guess that makes me a splinterbum then...

I am a vocal rightie.

I don't think private schol ed means 'right' - look at how many labour ministers are from the big name private schools!

I do think

1. Mumsnet is not representative of the population in general, for one thing because we are mostly mums and women tend to be more conservative, and for another because we are all net-enabled in some form.
2. though there are plenty of threads about benefits etc, these generally end with a deluge of posts condemning the person espousing the anti-benefits as a hate-peddling DM reader.
3. i have noticed people admitting to SWP membership, but no-one admitting to BMP membership.

maybe if we all did one of those political compass things, and posted our results here, we'd get an idea of the general MUmsnet positioning (we'd have to be honest though, and use the UK one, rather than the USA one, which would make most of us lefties.)

Very few of us are either left or right wing on everything though. I am known at work for being a leftie luvvie, (You have to be a hardcore leftie for your leftiedom to be commented on amongst Guardianista teachers ) but am very pro setting ( in contrast with most of my colleagues) and on the fence on grammar schools.

My dp is a leftie but is pro private schools and much right wing on the welfare state and immigration.

There is a website isn't there where you can plot yourself not only on left and right wing principles but also on matters of freedom.

X-post - great minds and all!*

here it is
though it is the same wherever you are in the world.

i came out -0.25 lefty and -5.08 libertatian

i might add i vote conservative/ liberal!

*though, as my brother is want to observe, fools seldom differ.

well it all depends on what your RL is like doesn't it?

I don't know any righties in RL- all my friends read the Guardian although a few have gravitated to the Independent now we're reaching middle age (i know it is unbearably sad but there you are) and I very, very rarely have to argue politics with people who lean radically opposite to me.

So (apart from making me sound like a rather narrow minded person...) MN sometimes feels rabidly right wing to me!

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.10

I am a labour/ lib dem/ green voter.

I come out at
Economic Left/Right: -4.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.08

Voting has varied lib, con or green, DD is currently in a private school.

Thus far no-ones admitted to not being in the same corner of the graph as Ghandi

Guardianishly wet leftie (to my annoyance).

ooh that was fun!
I came out as Economic L/R: -7.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.36
More left wing than I thought then - and oddly similar to Nelson Mandela's position on the chart!

Voting has varied here too - used to be always Liberal/ LibDem (family loyalty); voted Con once for personal reasons in local election; labour BEFORE this shower got in and never since; Green party a few times and UKIP in the Europeans. I am a political tart, obviously

I am quite surprised I wasn't more on the Authoritarian side though - I thought I would be...

the real eye opener is how far both major political parties are into the authoritarian/ free market sector. Not much to choose from really (and i wonder how recently they graphed that)

That was interesting - I had to really think about some of the questions.
I am -5.00/Economic left
-5.95/Social libertarian.

I did snurk at Thatcher being so close to Hitler.

I've tended to vote Liberal though
Mainly because of Evan Harris (it was him or a Tory and he's a great MP)

I'd say middle class liberal

My perception is that it is fairly mixed but predominantly liberal in a BBC sort of way. Clearly those of us who like to waste time doing political compass questionnaires tend to be on the left though. I came out a bit to the left of Gandhi.