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"right"
Posted: 08 May 2008, 10:28
by clv101
If there?s one thing that?s change under the Brown government it?s that everything is "right". You can?t listen to a minister talking for more than a minute these days without them saying they are doing the "right" thing, making the "right" decision etc. It?s pathetic. Saying something is "right" doesn?t make it so.
Anyone else noticed this?
Posted: 08 May 2008, 10:46
by Blue Peter
And from a party of the left too!
Peter.
Posted: 08 May 2008, 11:07
by WolfattheDoor
Blue Peter wrote:And from a party of the left too!
Peter.
That's traditionally the left. Have a look at:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/extremeright
Posted: 08 May 2008, 11:21
by emordnilap
Has anyone here done the
test?
My political compass:
Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.59
The site sort of illustrates why I detest most politics.
Posted: 08 May 2008, 11:33
by WolfattheDoor
I always end up around about where the Greens are. And, with our crappy voting system, voting for a small party is usually a waste of time.
You could describe voting as a good walk wasted.
Posted: 08 May 2008, 11:37
by emordnilap
WolfattheDoor wrote:I always end up around about where the Greens are. And, with our crappy voting system, voting for a small party is usually a waste of time.
You could describe voting as a good walk wasted.
Yeah. If it did any good, they'd have banned it.
Posted: 08 May 2008, 11:55
by danza
The corporal wrote
You could describe voting as a good walk wasted.
Precisly sir (salute)
Posted: 08 May 2008, 12:15
by eatyourveg
emordnilap wrote:
Has anyone here done the
test?
My political compass:
Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.59
The site sort of illustrates why I detest most politics.
Economic Left/Right: -6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.13
Whatever that means.
Posted: 08 May 2008, 12:42
by Joules
emordnilap wrote:
Has anyone here done the
test?
My political compass:
Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.59
Golly, I'm dull:
Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.13
Posted: 08 May 2008, 13:04
by emordnilap
emordnilap wrote:
Has anyone here done the
test?
My political compass:
Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.59
The site sort of illustrates why I detest most politics.
It maybe also explains why I tick all the 'other' or 'none' boxes in multiple choice questionnaires.
Posted: 08 May 2008, 13:16
by fifthcolumn
emordnilap wrote:done the
test?
My political compass:
Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.59
The site sort of illustrates why I detest most politics.
Here's mine:
Economic Left/Right: 5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.36
Ha that's hilarious. Apparently I'm closest to a "liberal democrat" according to this graph.
Posted: 08 May 2008, 13:19
by emordnilap
Ooops...hijacked the thread.
Posted: 08 May 2008, 18:26
by Adam1
Mine is:
Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.41
If I'd been asked to guess, I would have put myself here:
Economic Left/Right: -1.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.41
I didn't really see myself in the same camp as Gandhi, even though I admire him greatly.
Posted: 08 May 2008, 18:30
by Adam1
Going back to Chris's original point. Yes, our government's justification seems to be I'm right because I say I'm right - the kind of argument my four year old godson would use when pressed.
Posted: 08 May 2008, 18:59
by Neily at the peak
I'm somewhat surprisingly between Nelson Nandela and The Dalai Lama, I was expecting to be nearer to the top right of the graph. But that is only today it will be interesting to do it again another day. Anyway today it is the "Right" place for me and I am happy with that. It would be interesting to go back to my political compass in January 2005 before peak oil infiltrated my being.
Neil