He is far more left than any green, comrade

campaign talking points:
1. tackling racism head on
2. pragmatic and fair immigration policy implementation
3. expropriation of the means of production from the bourgeois to the proletariat
4. NHS funding increase

That can't be true. Dro was only telling me the other day how only right wingers have the courage to bring up the subject of immigration.

1. What racism?
2. He has no pragmatic immigration policy. His policy is keeping the floodgates open as it stands.
3. Are you referring to people's QE? Because it's a dumbass populist policy with no economic credibility.
4. With money we don't have

He wants to scrap Trident and negotiate with the Argentinians over the Falkland islands too... The only thing I agree with him on is a non interventionist foreign policy and the rich taking higher taxes (although not to the extent he proposes)

alright you didn't get the joke. all good my man

I'm pretty sure my spot is considered 'right' because the left party is pretty far left atm =/

This post was edited by ChrisKz on Sep 28 2015 11:19am

We have the same score, my response on social issues probably pushed me left.

I don't really know how the test is weighted, it seemed to me to be very superficial so I never gave it much thought.

In my case my economic views tend to grade out as more liberal than my social and foreign policy views simply because I'm fully against corporate welfare and trickle-down nonsense. When you reach that point you can't be considered anything other than an economic liberal given the imporance of those two positions on virtually every economic policy. The way the parties have shifted I'm probably now effectively a moderate Democrat on social issues, whereas up until a decade ago I would have been considered a conservative Democrat. I imagine once the GOP catches up to the 21st century views on things like equal marriage/adoption rights and equal pay etc. I'll be right back where I was.

It really isn't. The right is extreme right at the moment. Obama, who by this scale is right wing, is considered to be a liberal. That should show you how far right shit is swinging nowadays.

Exactly, I was looking at the UK Election chart - and they had the Liberal Democrat's smack dab in the middle of the blue on the right. It just goes to show you how people are more left than they think and that they opinions are not of their mind, but clearly of right wing propaganda by either their "friends" or the political party they want to associate with.