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Thread #38561   Message #560680
Posted By: Ringer
28-Sep-01 - 09:29 AM
Thread Name: BS: Political Compass
Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass
JH: I believe you're right in supposing that the test is skewed leftwards because it was written by "lefties". I believe that one of the "authors" (or patrons, possibly) of the site is Glenys (sp?) Kinnock. For those unfamiliar with her, she is the left-leaning wife of a left-leaning former leader of the Labour Party (before it was "New Labour"). I believe she's now a Member of the European Parliament, and her husband is certainly an EU Commissioner (unelected, unaccountable, spit, spit) - in charge, I believe, of anti-corruption inside the EU (he's got his work cut out!). Mr K, when leader of the opposition, was known as "The Welsh Windbag" (he's another Celt, slightly different flavour, though) - he was infamous for never using one word when he could get by with 147.