Be Excellent To Each Other

Where do you lean on the political compass of life?

http://politicalcompass.org/test

Apparently i'm further left and more libertarian than the Dali Lama, which was a surprise!

http://politicalcompass.org/printablegr ... &soc=-4.46

I pretty much appear to be Trooper.

Blimey.

I'm similar it seems.

How dare you say that, comparatively you are clearly right wing scum...

No big surprise for me.

I think I'm less libertarian than I used to be though.

We're on exacly the same point.

From the bottom left, I'm one across and three up. I just can't be arsed to cut and paste.

This is exciting, we can find out who the Biggest BEEX Fascist is!

Pinko hippy!

I was sure I was in for a shot, but apparently i'm nowhere close!

Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.18

Pretty much as expected.

I didn't come on here for a lecture on communist libertarians!

here we are.

Nobody asked you, Pinochet.

Heh, look how close Obama and Romney are.

Actually, it's worse than that. Here's the political leader I'm closest to:

It seems i'm most aligned with the Green party, which is probably true if you took out their environmental lunacy.

I'm sure we did this before.

Anyway, mine were:


Economic Left/Right: -5.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.51


Which is more lefty hippy than I expected, but equally I think a lot of the questions were phrased terribly.

There were a few double negatives in there and some leading questions but the grid seems to have put mines a little more off the edge than others

And we will keep doing it until you get the right answer.
Consider it like a referendum.

Green parties can have some quite agreeable policies if you look past the ecology stuff.

Anyway, I'm a square or two directly 'south' of where the SDLP is placed on the grid.

Although the questions were bullshit. "It depends" being my actual answer to most of them.

WILL YOU ALL STOP MAKING ME LOOK LIKE SOME KIND OF FACIST.

Or I'll have all your relatives shipped to a Chinny fun camp.

Hang on, BNP further left than UKIP?

And the Tories?

Left/right on the Political Compass scale is solely economic policy.

Basically, the BNP don't need a policy on not giving benefits to immigrants, because they already have a policy on hitting them with sticks.

Further left in terms of capitalism I suspect. Up/Down is state versus individual on social matters, Left/Right is state versus individual on economy, would be my take on it.

Seems I'm one of those infernal hippy types after all.

It'd be interesting to see what loony stuff you have to say you agree to, to be firmly camped in the upper right quadrant.

Attempting to be as loony as possible in all answers gets me...



compare that to the UK party mapping again!

I declare the entire thing to be faulty. It skews towards the bottom left.

I suspect the majority of reasonable people do

Cavey, come take this test!

Not just a Fascist, a bad spelling Fascist THE WORST KIND OF FASCIST! A modern-day Rudolf Squitler or Pussolini!




(sorry, couldn't resist it )

Cavey's not a right-winger in the modern horrible sense of the word, and he's a very liberal chap too.

I suspect he's on hiatus from BEEX at the moment though.

I was only playing. I loved him really.

Cavey is the heart and soul of this forum. He's just a sensitive old sod who takes everything personally. Come back, Raidy!

Organise a benchpress challenge if you want him back so much.

Nah, the old bastard would kick my arse. I have IT arms

We've done this before.

I do not think it is anymore accurate than a Cosmo "what sort of X are you?" test, but still a giggle.

So what I think about Astrology has no bearing on my political leanings? Who'd a thought it!

Librans, clearly.

I appear to be quite the lefty.

That's because most people when answering questions in a reasonable fashion actually skew fairly liberal and socialism-oriented (at least in the UK)—they just don't vote that way. If they did, the Liberal Democrats would have done a whole lot better in the 1990s and the Greens would have more than one seat that they're going to lose in 2015.

My scores typically map around -6 economic and -5 social (I am, apparently, the Dalai Lama—don't tell China) and also tried experimenting with the test. Instead of being purposefully crazily extreme, I went for mainstream conservative and Conservative answers. My answers mapped slightly left of Con/UKIP but about in the right place economically.

The UK parties overview is pretty interesting on the site, note, showing how the three main parties have changed in recent years. The Tories appear to move in a circle around a fairly right-wing, moderately authoritarian centre point, the Labour Party's rather dramatically shifted from a position most people here would have voted for, for one barely different to the Tories (marginally left economically, but more authoritarian) and the Lib Dems are desperately trying to become Tories, from an original position of economic centrists and relative libertarians.

Frankly, I'm only interested in this thread to see how Cavey/Lord Raiden maps out. Where the hell is he?

I entered it how I thought Jesus would answer it. He ended up pretty far to the left, and a little down from the centre line.