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.)

[JerseyHighlander]

Interesting view on the upcoming British elections, and a good survey with analysis similar to the well known libertatian diamond graph.

[socal_parrot]

I hope this works...

[swilhelm73]

Heh. Not a shocker, I'm significantly more conservative then the average Brit;

89.9% are significantly to your left
9.6% have views about the same as yours
0.5% are significantly to your right

You know what is funny though? I bet you those people taking this survey who are the inverse of me politically are mostly answering "Centre" as their self-proclaimed position.

[MacDorcha]

I was a bit higher, but more to the left.

[JerseyHighlander]

Nothing too shocking from my results, and my own observations from time in the UK.

Comparisons

This table shows an overview of how the rest of the population compares to you:

	More rehabilitationist, internationalist	About the same	More punitive, isolationist
More free-market, pro-war	2.3%	0.7%	0.1%
About the same	17.0%	3.5%	0.5%
More socialist, anti-war	61.1%	13.5%	1.5%

[JerseyHighlander]

I did find the breakdown of which newspapers are read by people of different political striupes interesting:

Compared to the readers of well-known newspapers

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	75.5%	22.8%	1.7%
The Mirror / Daily Record	86.3%	13.3%	0.4%
The Daily Mail / The Scottish Daily Mail	76.1%	22.3%	1.5%
The Express	81.9%	17.9%	0.2%
The Daily Star / The Daily Star of Scotland	63.5%	36.5%	0.0%
The Guardian	80.2%	17.2%	2.6%
The Independent	79.4%	18.2%	2.4%
The Times	53.1%	34.1%	12.8%
The Daily Telegraph	50.7%	33.3%	16.0%

[1066AD]

Hey, we're kindred spirits LOL.

[decal]

Crime and punishment, internationalism
Your position on this axis is 4.1
You are likely to be fairly punitive and isolationist.

Economics, etc
Your position on this axis is 4.9
You are likely to be very free-market and pro-war.

More rehabilitationist, internationalist About the same More punitive, isolationist
More free-market, pro-war 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
About the same 0.8% 0.2% 0.0%
More socialist, anti-war 90.5% 8.1% 0.4%


"Most people who think of themselves as being "left wing" are on the centre on the first axis; those who think of themselves as being "right wing" usually are on the right of this axis.)"

[Clemenza]

I don't think they would want me in the UK:

* 92.7% are significantly to your left * 7.0% have views about the same as yours * 0.3% are significantly to your right

[Clemenza]

Crime and punishment, internationalism:

Your position on this axis is 4.2 You are likely to be fairly punitive and isolationist.

Economics, etc

Your position on this axis is 3.6 You are likely to be very free-market and pro-war.

[Plutarch]

Hmmm...I am not sure I would fit in too well in Britain.

[traviskicks]

Thanks for a great find. Someone should get this webdesigner to set up something like this for the US. I'd love to see the LAtimes readers vs the WAtimes readers.

"The government is mostly interested in helping itself, not ordinary people." My answer: (strongly agree)

This is the question the brits will need to understand to fix their country.


However, on a lighter note, this test enabled me to discovered a potential problem:

Of women...

100.0% are significantly to your left
0.0% have views about the same as yours
0.0% are significantly to your right

LOL!

[rmlew]

England is lost.

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

I scored a 2.8 in Crime and Punishment and Internationalism, which the poll claims means that I am "slightly punitive and isolationist" (funny, I thought that I was a save-the-earth Neo-Con).

Scored a 4.6 in Economics, etc., which means that I am "Very free-market and pro-war" (at least they got that one right).

If the table of how the "rest of the population" compares to me is at all representative of the opinions of the British, then their country is lost (75% are "more socialist"? WTH?).

Page two said that I was "slightly" Right of Center and then the next page told me in graph after graph how much of an "extreme right winger" I am, which will come as a surprise to the guys I was just arguing with on another thread who thought I was a Godless homo-leftie or something...Lol!

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

RE: "England is lost."


My thoughts exactly. Whadda mean 98% of the "overall" British population is significantly to the left of me on Iraq, etc. What is wrong with these people?!

[mhx]

yay! I win!

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

[mhx]

It's looking like the UKIP for me, even though I'm completely to the right of all of them too.

[Winniesboy]

The newspaper rankings - particularly surprising, since The Daily Mail is normally thought of as having the the most right-wing readership of the major dailies. Also the Sun and Express readership appear from this to be relatively further left than one would expect. Closest to you (but not very close) appears to be The Daily Star - a paper which I must confess I've never looked at in my life!

[Redcloak]

It would be nicer if they had the red and blue zones reversed, however...

I wonder if there will be a little cloud of FReepers in the upper right this time tomorrow.

[HowardDeanScream08]

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

Maybe I'd try to gather up some friends and colleagues, charter a few vessels, and try to sail to some other shore where we can enjoy freedom from... oh... nevermind.

[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):

---

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

---

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

---

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!

[Da_Shrimp]

It would be nicer if they had the red and blue zones reversed, however...

Ah, but to us, blue is Conservative and red is Labour.

[papertyger]

Wow!

I'm a freemarket, prowar, hanging/flogging, eurosceptic!

Apparently, there ARE no British women to the right of me... which is fine by me, because that's the hand I "draw" with ;o)

[papertyger]

Sissy!
;o>

[Redcloak]

Traditionally, in the US, blue is the "home team" and red is the opposing team. During the 2004 campaign, states that went for Bush in the Electoral College should have been shaded blue on the map. Perhaps the media had grown to think of blue as representing the "good guys". This, naturally, upset some people in the GOP. Others of us like the idea of being the "bad guys". (Americans have always had a soft spot in their hearts for the outlaw.)

[Right Angler]

They wouldn't want me either. 0% to the right of me, LOL!

[Kashei64]

HA! You're to the left of me, Cacique! http://www.alarmingnews.com/archives/002941.html

K