Comments on: A second opinion

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:44:14 +0000

Sadly, Nick Griffin and Nigel Farage haven’t emerged in the run-up to the European elections — they have hung around like an awful stench for a long time.

Thanks, John, for reminding me about Chris Lightfoot’s political compass. Unfortunately it is now a bit out of date. It’s a shame we can’t see what Chris Lightfoot would have come up today.

My results are:
Crime and punishment, internationalism: -4.6
Economics, etc: 2.9

Or “fairly internationalist and rehabilitationist” and “fairly free-market and pro-war”.

I can’t find my result from 2005 (though admittedly I haven’t looked very hard), but I seem to remember being roughly the same on the x-axis, but more socialist and anti-war.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:10:33 +0000

Hey, turns out I’m a Swedish Pirate too! But it seems I’m slightly more green than LibDem – although I notice there were no questions on science which puts me firmly in the anti-green party. votematch puts as a libdem, which is not suprising I guess

By: john b

john b — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:58:19 +0000

“A couple of tools have emerged in the run-up to the European elections. They aim to help people decide who they should vote for.”

Nick Griffin and Nigel Farage? Oh, *that* sort of tool…

Sorry. Interesting stuff. See also this, from the sadly late Chris Lightfoot – an attempt to build a political compass based on *actual* axes of what people believe, rather than a theoretical “social/economic” framework.