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Thread #38561   Message #556290
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
21-Sep-01 - 09:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: Political Compass
Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass
Ken Livingstone is pretty pragmatic. The way he wants to fund the London Underground is based on the New York model, for example.

At the other extreme I suspect that in American terms Iain Duncan Smooth would count as a fairly moderate right-winger in US terms. Things that here count as extreme right wing like favouring capital punishment seem to count as consensus politics in the States. And noone here would dare to propose changes to the health service that would mean we had to pay for treatment (though over the years that gets eroded and will be eroded further by New Labour. The Tories would be gearing up to oppose things like that if they have any sense. If...)

One thing with that quiz, I couldn't really work out how to decide whether to say I opposed or supported strongly or not. I mean, did that mean I'd be out on the streets protesting, or would swearing at the telly be enough to class disagreement as "strongly disagree"?)