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Labour are the most left leaning, but still kinda centrist. Liberal Democrats are relatively centrist for the major parties but still quite right: This sums it
by buro9 12y ago
Labour are the most left leaning, but still kinda centrist. Liberal Democrats are relatively centrist for the major parties but still quite right:
This sums it up best... the UK is mostly a right leaning authoritarian country, we vote on the relative differences between parties rather than the overall thing.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2015 http://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2015
- thomasfoster96 12y agoIs it just me or does politicalcompass.org seem to skew everything towards right wing authoritarianism?
- buro9 12y agoI think it's just the world we live in. The left and more liberal options exist but none of them are mainstream and we mentally re-draw the extents of the political compass to cover the politics we experience (the major parties).
- thomasfoster96 12y agoHaving had a look through political compass's past predictions (primarily Australian, since I'm Australian) their analysis is very odd. I mean, there is no way that you can seriously put three quarters of the parties on the top right 16th of the chart.
- petercooper 12y agoThat should be how the political compass is drawn since it is based on human experience, no? I think that chart is crazy though. The Conservatives are far from a far right party. Christ, if you dropped the Conservatives in America, they'd be considered a right bunch of commies - even the Democrats would be off the scale to the right by that chart.
- masklinn 12y ago> That should be how the political compass is drawn since it is based on human experience, no? AFAIK, the political compass attempts to assess an absolute scale across world politics, not local choices.
- thomasfoster96 12y agoStill a bit odd the concentration of western political parties in the right-wing authoritarian section of the graph - unless there's a whole lot of countries with extreme left-wing governments which are very pro-choice, which I highly doubt.
- masklinn 12y ago> Still a bit odd the concentration of western political parties in the right-wing authoritarian section of the graph Dunno, if you consider that much of the anglosphere is patterning itself more and more after US politics which lives solely in the top-right corner of the top-right quadrant it makes sense that they would coalesce there. And "labour" parties have definitely been shifting their stances towards US dem inspiration.
- thomasfoster96 12y agoI'd still say the UK and Australia are a fair way away from the American parties (particularly the republicans).
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- masklinn 12y agoSeem about right to me. The NZ[0] or German[1] compasses cover much more of the spectrum, especially towards left-libertarianism. It's not politicalcompass's fault that US politics live entirely in the right-authoritarian corner and English politics have significantly shifted towards it with New Labour's realignment on US democrats. [0] http://www.politicalcompass.org/nz2014 http://www.politicalcompass.org/nz2014 [1] http://www.politicalcompass.org/germany2013 http://www.politicalcompass.org/germany2013
- thomasfoster96 12y agoYes those NZ and German charts look a bit more balanced - but being from Australia, their 2013 Aussie election chart is just a bit silly to be honest - two of the parties listed had no chance of even getting any seats, and despite most parties being fairly centrist in their economic policy they all seem to be bunched up in the top right corner. My only guess is that the analysis was done using a small sample of international media.