Hat tip to Councillor Bob, who took the latest Election quiz and responded:
Only 1.7% of the population have the same political views as me… and only 2.5% of Labour voters! I hope the 2.5% bother to vote!
It only takes a few minutes and produces vast amounts of statistics, so I just had to give it a go. Here are my archived results if you’re curious.
Note the “you are here” on Page 1. I’m pretty much where I expected to be on the horizontal axis (Left-Right), though far higher up the vertical axis (Free Markets) than I’d have expected.
Anyway, when it comes to crime and punishment, Europe, and other transnational issues including immigration and international law:
- 0.9% are significantly to your left
- 5.5% have views about the same as yours
- 93.6% are significantly to your right
Apparently, only 8.2% of Labour voters are in the same boat as me here, and I have more in common with Greens (except for the whole dreadlocks and hemp clothes thing).
Not so happy with being described as “Very right-wing” on “public and private involvement in the economy, international trade, redistributive taxation… and Iraq”, as you can imagine.
Though I don’t support renationalisation of the railways, don’t believe the existing state pension is viable in the future (likewise France and Germany), support Free Trade (a good old Labour position), and (rather late in the day) came round to the need for the Iraq war, I’m also in favour of stronger trade unions and higher personal taxes.
But it seems 92% of the population are to my “left” on this position and I might as well just go off and buy the Daily Telegraph. Wonder what my new friends in the Tory party would think about my position on the unions…
More discussion of this at Eric’s.