The Political Compass- Test

[Bex Bissell]

Light hearted bit of where do you sit on the big political map scale thingy.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

Tip. Dont dwell thinking about your answer as it will skew the result, just quick Aye's, no's, no way or thats for bloody sure.

[AlanM]

Light hearted bit of where do you sit on the big political map scale thingy.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

Tip. Dont dwell thinking about your answer as it will skew the result, just quick Aye's, no's, no way or thats for bloody sure.

I came out as a fairly liberal-leftie , similar scores to Ghandi and Nelson Mandella

Alan

Just noticed I got a stripe woo-hoo!!!

[Bex Bissell]

Myself, just left of centre and above Ghandi, in fact in the postage stamp of the bottom left box, most like.......Charles Kennedy, probably.
Funny, out of my mates that done this everyone of them said, "Oh i'm quite near Ghandi, not one has came out and said I knew Thatcher was spineless.
I wonder how they managed to get Mugabe to take the test, he's generally quite a busy person sneaking up and shaking the hands of Royalty.

[Azrael]

It seems I AM the Dalai Lama. How nice.

[crusty_bint]

Excuse me... Taken from the Political Compass:

Socialists like Mahatma Gandhi and Robert Mugabe...

I think thats the first time I have ever seen Ganghi and Mugabe in the same sentence!
I got the Dalai Lama too

[AlanM]

Excuse me... Taken from the Political Compass:

Socialists like Mahatma Gandhi and Robert Mugabe...

I think thats the first time I have ever seen Ganghi and Mugabe in the same sentence!
I got the Dalai Lama too

Maybe the author had been on the ganja

[Jazza]

Economic Left/Right: -4.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.77

I am Gandhi.

[Vladimir]

If everybody is so left wing, why is Scotland one of the most right-wing countries in Europe

[The_Clincher]

Economic Left/Right: -3.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.31

Whatever that means?!

ps...vote for me

[Ghostwriter]

I've taken this before, and I got the same results this time; A Social Libertarian like Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama.

[job78989]

Dalai Lama 5

[Sir Roger DeLodgerley]

If everybody is so left wing, why is Scotland one of the most right-wing countries in Europe

Examples?

[Ally Doll]

Examples?

People supporting New Labour* in by elections could be considered an example...

*that'll be the party that thinks that elderly conference delegates should be huckled and held under terrorism legislation

[Vladimir]

Examples?

Of people being Left-wing or Scotland being Right-wing?

In the case of Scotland being right-wing, examples are all around us. All of our public transport has been privatised, as has 'public' housing, hospitals are going that way, and the levels of consumerist dependance in this country are obscene. Thatcher started it and New Labour is going to finish it. Now we are back to 'Victorian Values'

[Sir Roger DeLodgerley]

I was looking for examples of Scotland being the most right wing country in Europe (I thought that was Austria ). What you've quoted applies throughout the UK and so doesn't make Scotland any more right wing than England or Wales. If fact, given the fact that the Labour party has been the effective party of Governemnt here since the year dot, I'd say that Scotland was considerably more left leaning than the other parts of the UK. Two random examples - student tuition fees and long term care costs for the elderly.