Maybe I'm a bit late on the draw here - seeing as the election actually happened last week, and these surveys are usually only in vogue during a run-up to an election - but I figured I'd post my results on one of those "what's your ideology"-type surveys. Now normally, I think these things are rather useless. However, the one pollsters YouGuv run is a different story, primarily for two reasons. First, that your answers are measured against the answers provided by real people (from Britain's most accurate pollster). Secondly, YouGuv gives you a wonderful visual "map" of where you fall in terms of British public opinion (as measured by YouGuv), along two axis: one spanning from an "internationalist/rehabilitationist" left to a "eurosceptic/hanging and flogging" poll on the right. Then, a second axis, ranging from a "socialist/antiwar" poll on the bottom to a "free market/prowar" axis at the top. Interestingly (and perhaps not surprisingly considering the many years I have spent in the US), I rank well to the left of the general population in terms of internationalism/rehabilitationism (basically, social and cultural liberalism) and substantially to the right in terms of the free market vs. socialism axis (perhaps a lesson for Mr. Blair and his band of ultras). But, whats more, the YouGuv folks define the first civil libertarian/authoritarian axis as being the primary determinant of how one votes and how one positions themself politically. Anyway, here a my results from the three quizzes I took over about a three week period (blue dots represent Conservative voters from YouGuv's survey; red dots, Labour voters; yellow dots, Lib Dem voters; grey dots, other parties (UKIP, the Greens, etc.):
Here's the first one:
Here's the second one:
And here's the third:
Seems like I'm detecting a pattern. Go take this quiz for yourself.
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