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I would be interested to know whether SS members "Clump" anywhere on the chart and whether "Pro" and "Anti" camera members "Clump" in diferent areas (IYSWIM)

To get the ball rolling I appear to be (Interetingly, since I had always thought of myself as "Libertarian right");

Economic L/R -3.25
Social L/A 2.26

Oh, and I am anti-camera



(Edited to include link! )

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"The road to a police state is paved with public safety legislation"

I got:

Economic Left/Right: 1.63 (right leaning)
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.62 (defo libertarian)

Scrap all speed cameras! But on the basis of evidence, not faith.

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Paul Smith
Our scrap speed cameras petition got over 28,000 sigs
The Safe Speed campaign demands a return to intelligent road safety

I think the reason for my result is because though I am a big believer in personal freedom and personal responsibility I also believe the State should play a rather more "Pro-active" role in economic issues "Of national importance" (EG leaving such thigs as energy supplies to the vaguries of the "Free market" is a big mistake!) Unfortunatly neither Quizes of this nature (Nor the electoral process for that matter) can handle these fine nuances terribly well.

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"The road to a police state is paved with public safety legislation"

When I last did this, my results were:

Economic Left/Right: +2.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.72

There aren't any questions on transport, though, nor really on "lifestyle freedom" issues.

I think people with that combination of views aren't at all properly represented by contemporary British political parties.

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"Show me someone who says that they have never exceeded a speed limit, and I'll show you a liar, or a menace." (Austin Williams - Director, Transport Research Group)

Any views expressed in this post are personal opinions and may not represent the views of Safe Speed

Well so far, on the basis of a sample of three! (Cmmon, more please ) all we can reliably say is that *nobody* is in the top right corner where the "Establishment" wants us to be!

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"The road to a police state is paved with public safety legislation"

It's worth adding this has been raised before here:

http://www.safespeed.org.uk/forum/viewt ... 2459#42459

although well worth coming back to

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"Show me someone who says that they have never exceeded a speed limit, and I'll show you a liar, or a menace." (Austin Williams - Director, Transport Research Group)

Any views expressed in this post are personal opinions and may not represent the views of Safe Speed

That would have been before I joind. Thanx for the link though. Ill go and read through it.

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"The road to a police state is paved with public safety legislation"

Economic Left/Right: -4.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.05


Regards

Andrew

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It's a scam........or possibly a scamola


Homer Simpson

I appear to have become even more libertarian and left!

Last year:

Economic Left/Right: -6.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23

This year:

Economic Left/Right: -8.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.38

Ah well, come the revolution...

(I note the questions have changed since Sept 05 by the way!)

My results!

Economic Left/Right: 1.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.23

I thought I might have been a little more to the right on the Economic scale and a little less Authoritarian but there you have it.

Apparently the leading figure I most resemble is Jaques Chirac

Economic 3.63
Social - 1.38

Economic -4.88
Social -0.31

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Malcolm Cooper

Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.33

pretty much spot on the same place as Gandih

Was anyone else slight disturbed by the lack of a 'don't care / neutral / neither agree nor disagree' option to the answers? There were at least 8 questions where my personal answer was, 'well, it depends'.

I don't remember it being so difficult last time...

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Paul Smith
Our scrap speed cameras petition got over 28,000 sigs
The Safe Speed campaign demands a return to intelligent road safety

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Q. Are you a stupid fascist with limited reading skills or are you just a retard?

Economic Left/Right: -3.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.64

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Useless laws weaken necessary laws.

I find myself "Yes butting" quite a lot in these things!

Ill have to give a list of "Yes Buts, No Buts" later (Shesh. This is getiing a bit "Little Britainish" isnt it)

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"The road to a police state is paved with public safety legislation"

Economic -5
Social Lib / Auth -0.62

I agree with Paul. There is no "agnostic" option for each question. There were a few where I really genuinely didn't agree or disagree!

Made me laugh though! I've had people tell me in the past that I'm slightly right of Atilla the Hun so I was quite surprised by the results. As a Catholic, however, I was quite pleased to have ended up nearer John Paul II than Hitler so there's maybe some hope for me after all!

I wonder whether (and I don't exclude myself from this!) people tend to fill in these questionnaires with answers that are influenced by what they believe to be right and worng - i.e. reflect the values they were brought up with. Then in real life, when an issue is going to have a negative effect on them personally, they sometimes vote a bit differently?

I felt the questions were posed by someone more sympathetic with the left than the right, in that the leftist statements had a genuine feel to them, where a lot of the rightist statements such as



left me with impression that someone who didn't believe them had thought them up with a deadline in mind.




For the record I was slightly right liberal.

I think the questions were written by a "pinko-liberal" rather than a leftist