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[Moscow Mule]

This worries me most...

Voter turnout is highest when ideological differences are most significant. This helps explain why the voter turnout is lower in the US than in all other western democracies , most of which have a multiplicity of parties and proportional representation. In the UK, voter turnout may continue to fall to US levels. Lowering the voting age isn't likely to excite participation in elections when the choice is less and less to do with a clash of visions than mere managerial competence. And without those traditionally big choices, one might well wonder where this is going to ultimately leave democracy.

[RichardCranium]

Good to see him getting £2m consultancy fees from the bank that directly profited from his illegal war in Iraq. The lying c***.

It says something about how Bliar is viewed that the above is the only post expressing any kind of surprise or outrage that the illegal war-for-oil was initiated by bribery.

And I bet if Bliar suddenly returned as Labour leader the bastards would win the general election.

[hyperD]

Already done this but thought I'd check again, just to make sure:

Economic Left/Right: 7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15

Libertarian free marketeer, me! Phew!

It's interesting how our views have been slowly coerced with the constant stream of authoritarian "big state knows best" messages from education all the way to state broadcast adverts.

The statement:

"from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is a fundamentally good idea.

had me reaching for the Ayn Rand's bottle of emergency vodka to settle the nerves.

[minestrone]

I'm shocked that for a bunch of contractors the left/right scores are so low.

I get


Economic Left/Right: 3.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.41

So I am more right-wing than Hitler but not as much as Thatcher while I am more Libertarian than Gandhi.

You will be down the local synagogue launching home spun mills at the windows tonight.

[Coalman]

Economic -0.62
Social -4.31


Best vote Lib Dem then!

[Gonzo]

Bunch of lefties on this site.

I'm shocked that for a bunch of contractors the left/right scores are so low.

I get


Economic Left/Right: 3.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.41

So I am more right-wing than Hitler but not as much as Thatcher while I am more Libertarian than Gandhi.

[TheEagle]

Economic Left/Right: -1.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.10

[minestrone]

Economic Left/Right: 0.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.77

Conservatism mixed with catholic guilt.

[vetran]

Oh loved this from FAQ :

When are you guys gonna learn to spell ?

This grievance comes from pernikety people who have leapt into attack without checking the FAQs ..and without even the remotest realisation that British and American words are sometimes spelt differently.They should have travelled more! We've been at the centre of some rancour, but we're not going to take offence or harbour any grievances. The catalogue of their ill-informed certainties won't colour this organisation's programme. It's a grey area anyway. And we don't want to labour the point. Except to add that most of these cavillous correspondents seem to feel that they have a licence or a blank cheque for a level of rudeness that more civilised souls wouldn't have dreamt of. In response, we nevertheless practise polite dialogue, enabling them to recognise that the error is entirely their own. (We manoeuvre them towards the Oxford English Reference Dictionary, which is also an encyclopaedia.) This leaves them quite defenceless, which may account for the fact that these less than honourable individuals virtually never apologise.

[swamp]

Economic Left/Right: 2.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.38

Bunch of lefties on this site.

[xoggoth]

Economic right, social anarchist me.

[vetran]

Interesting fact?

Who described the UK's decision to join the US invasion of Iraq as in the British national economic interest ?

Gordon Brown in The Scotsman, 4 May 2005 p.4

[vetran]

Economic Left/Right: -2.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.54

strange for a Daily Mail reader.

However the questions deal with multiple not necessarily linked things, Religion, sex, immigration and regulation.

[doodab]

There is no right or left. According to that site anyway. But their argument carries weight.

Sorry, I was referring to the orientation on the diagram. Up-down = individual liberty, left-right = economic liberty.

Bollocks, the Conservatives have gone to the left.

Between 1972 and 2008 every party has moved up (i.e. less individual liberty) and to the right (i.e. greater corporate / economic liberty i.e. less government regulation). Labour more than anyone else.

Also notable is the convergence of tories and liberals in the last five years and the clear movement of labour from the bottom left quadrant in the 70s and 80s to the top right (traditionally tory) quadrant in the 90s.

It's a shame this hasn't been picked up on by mainstream political commentators. It's been knocking around for a while. The 'left-right' divide is more convenient I suppose.

FWIW, I am Economic Left/Right: -4.75, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.69, so down with Ghandi, The Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and slightly more commie than labour in the 70s.

Anyone else want to post their scores?

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

[Boudica]

Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret: Former PM's deals are revealed as his earnings since 2007 reach £20million

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/...54_964x884.jpg


Champagne socialism at it's best.

You don't really work, do you Mr Prawn?