How do you compare to the British Electorate(In Depth Quiz)

http://www.politicalsurvey2005.com/ ^ | Chris Lightfoot

[JerseyHighlander]

ALL NEW! Political Survey 2005

This is the only internet survey of political views based on real opinion poll data. We can tell you not only where your views lie, but how they compare to the views of the rest of the British population.

Take the test >>>

This is not a "how to vote" site, but we will show you which party's supporters have views most like your own.

(You can read some more information about this survey on my(Chris Lightfoot's) web log.)

[Teflonic]

This is a great quiz which provided quite a bit of interesting detail about my answers at the end. Yeah the British seem to be firmly indoctrinated into the liberal fold unfortunately.

[MadIvan]

How do you think I feel...my results:

• 97.2% are significantly to your left
• 2.8% have views about the same as yours
• 0.0% are significantly to your right

Regards, Ivan

[Cacique]

This test is a ripoff, I should have scored a 100.

Compared to the whole population...

• 98.1% are significantly to your left
• 1.9% have views about the same as yours
• 0.0% are significantly to your right

  

  
  
  
  

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

http://www.politicalsurvey2005.com/scripts/quiz?s=GBKBLACFAFEADEBBAAEEDCCDBAEADBEDBAEAEBCBAE

[BlessedBeGod]

[libertarianben]

Crime and punishment, internationalism

Your position on this axis is 1.8
You are likely to be slightly punitive and isolationist.

Economics, etc

Your position on this axis is 5.2
You are likely to be very free-market and pro-war.

Not a shocker.

[libertarianben]

"According to their stats, if I lived in England I would be to the right of almost everyone."

Yeah me too. That's what we get for believing in this freedom thing.

[McGavin999]

Oh dear, you're just slightly to the right of me. I about died laughing at the analysis.

[McGavin999]

LOL, Ivan I'm still laughing. You belong over here with us. Either that or we all need to move to Jolly Old for a year or so right before the next elections. Can you imagine the shock?

[abigailsmybaby]

Mine looked exactly like that.

[Tulsa Brian]

Same here. I'm thinking this "test" was crafted by a hardcore Lefty. I seriously question the number of people in Britain are that far to the left. In the elites dreams, maybe...

98.1% are significantly to your left
1.9% have views about the same as yours
0.0% are significantly to your right

[Doctor Stochastic]

I didn't consider their important axis as very important. On their unimportant axis:

Compared to the whole population...

* 99.8% are significantly to your left
* 0.2% have views about the same as yours
* 0.0% are significantly to your right

[abigailsmybaby]

I noticed as I was reading all these responses that most of us ended up in the same area. I was surprised by that because I've always thought that I'm quite a bit to the right of most people at FR.

[NZerFromHK]

To this naturalized New Zealander I'm not surprisingly extremely right-wing by this standard as well. My figures look like this (I assume I will probably live in London if I have a chance of living in Britain):

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Compared to other residents of London...

* 93.6% are significantly to your left
* 5.8% have views about the same as yours
* 0.6% are significantly to your right

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Compared to the whole population...

* 88.0% are significantly to your left
* 11.0% have views about the same as yours
* 1.0% are significantly to your right

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In fact, this shows I'm more a grassroot American conservative than I will ever be a British one. No wonder another British FRer (who is a mainstream conservative by their standards) described the situation as:

"Probably they are more liberal. But then your Democrats are probably more right-wing than many British Conservatives.

The joke here is that the American right is just to the left of Genghis Khan. ;-)"

(Thread here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1378279/posts?page=47#47 )

[NZerFromHK]

Remember a British conservative once said of you people: "But then your Democrats are probably more right-wing than many British Conservatives. The joke here is that the American right is just to the left of Genghis Khan. ;-)"

(Thread here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1378279/posts?page=47#47 )

No wonder why we all look rabid right to them.

[NZerFromHK]

God help me ;-) My profile goes like this:

Here we compare your answers to those given by readers of a number of well-known newspapers.

	Significantly to your left	About the same	Significantly to your right
The Sun	99.6%	0.4%	0.0%
The Mirror / Daily Record	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%
The Daily Mail / The Scottish Daily Mail	99.4%	0.6%	0.0%
The Express	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%
The Daily Star / The Daily Star of Scotland	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%
The Guardian	97.4%	1.5%	1.1%
The Independent	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%
The Times	92.1%	7.9%	0.0%
The Daily Telegraph	89.1%	10.0%	0.9%

[Tulsa Brian]

I think the Brits are in desperate need of an alternative media like talk radio or at least a popular conservative forum to get conservatism's true message out.

[NZerFromHK]

Agreed. One of the chief characteristics of British society is that British people are very deferential to the establishment, and the establishment's political orientation is more resistant to change than most countries of the world. This creates an illusion that Britain is a more conservative country and its people have more sense. You can see this among Oxbridge professors - it is still sort of easier to find a non-leftist Humanities (Arts) professor at Oxford than Ivy League, but the gap is rapidly closing not because the Ivy League opens up to non-leftists, but because Oxbridge are becoming more "Ivy League-ized".

Unfortunately I see the reality as this: leftism is always there, but its influence on British establishment is more gradual so there is a "time lag" between the leftist crests of other countries of the world and Britain. Once the establishment "sees the light" then a wholescale migration to the left occurs (I feel that the 1960s cultural leftism only starts to become significant in Britain over the past decade, long after similar ravages on America, New Zealand, Germany, etc) and once this leftist move is complete it will be harder to eradicate leftism from British society than many countries of the world.

[NZerFromHK]

Britain ping! See this article from Steyn:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1394597/posts

[Da_Shrimp]

Hmm, interesting website!