What's Your Political Persuasion?

[Mark Benson]

Find out with the Political Compass.

Answer a few questions and see which politician your opinions on life most match.

I found out my opinions don't match any of the current crop of poloticians, although I'm closest to the Lib Dems, which is worrying.....

[Beano500]

Well I am nearer Red Ken than Maggie or Stalin.

Not sure if that's good or bad!!!

[mannginger]

Closest to Portillo and Clarke - seems about right for me.

[JohnL]

I'm right in there with Charles Kennedy and Simon Hughes! Which is probably reasonable to be honest.

What's quite entertaining, and maybe not surprising, is Tony Blair and Jack Straw as "Authoritarian and Right Wing - right up with the Tories!

[incorrigible]

Thought the questions were a bit odd . I thought in a few cases that I wanted to agree with what they meant but dissagreed because of the way the the questions was worded

Although I came out as a middle of the road libertarian

Which is probably about right, although I do consider myself a capitalist first and foremost

[JohnL]

It's an interesting way of analysing it, much better than traditional left-right alignments.

I'm a lot happier to be a Lib Dem on this chart than in the "virtually in Blair's pocket" of the traditional left-right axis, and this maybe suggests why.

[mel]

Holy shit I don't like the look of that !! I'm bloody Robin Cook FFS

[apache]

a leftie/libertarian.....Ghandi would have been a good drinking pal apparently

[AndySa]

Well I'm almost the same as Robin Cook was in 1996 whatever that means.

[robkola]

You should be more worried if you start to look like him!

Then again - he is a bit of a ladies' man! (Seen the ladies in question?!!)

mel said: Holy shit I don't like the look of that !! I'm bloody Robin Cook FFS

[granville]

Superb load of old rolloocks!

[swilly]

I came out on the line between L and R, and 4 points in the Libertarian zone.

A well balanced easy going guy me

[Don]

God I was almost dead centre. Leaning slightly towards anarchy and the right (by one point!).

Doesn't sound like me!

Attilla was a wuss etc etc

[AlexH]

mel said: Holy shit I don't like the look of that !! I'm bloody Robin Cook FFS

Bloody ditto! Out of anyone, why Robin Cook? Strange because although I'm definitely a libertarian I've always considered myself more right than left wing. I think quizzes like this always by necessity over-simplify the issues.

For those wanting a quicker quiz: www.self-gov.org/wspq.html

(Its the Worlds Shortest Political Quiz)

Oops actually more like Charles Kennedy...I should have tried looking at today instead of 1996...


>> Edited by AlexH on Thursday 20th February 15:18

[deltaf]

Left of centre, but just below the "authoritarin" line...sums me up....

[456mgt]

Another one bang on the median line with strongly anarchic leanings!
Economic Left/Right: 0.50
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -6.51
Can't work out whether the left/right thing means you're well balanced, or a wuss. The anarchy thing (sorry, libertarianism) rings true though, as would definitely prefer to sort out things with a spanner rather than a solicitor's letter

[CarZee]

I agree with Ben. Some of the questions are very odd & you could jump quite sharply either way depending on context, preconditions etc. It also depends on whether you answer the questions as a prole, a captain of industry, or a genocidal meglomaniac.

Anyway, I ended up being portrayed as closest to Charles Kennedy when in fact Hitler observes me over his right shoulder

It's fairly easy to figure which direction a particular response is going to send your pointer.

[mervynp]

It appears I am actually Ken Livingstone. Now where did I leave my newts.....

[big_treacle]

I'm gandhi.

[Agent006]

Economic Left/Right: -0.75
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -1.28

Taking something like that reminds me what i actually think every now and then. Surprised to discover myself trying to think up a viewpont at times.