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What's your party? Election quiz (Original Post) shenmue Mar 2015 OP
Interesting. Labour here! NRaleighLiberal Mar 2015 #1
Apparently Labour represents me... mwooldri Mar 2015 #2
I am Labour Skittles Mar 2015 #3
I was Liberal Democrat. Was that wrong? Enthusiast Mar 2015 #4
its crap... Ironing Man Mar 2015 #5
I got Labour.... T_i_B Mar 2015 #6
fox hunting... Ironing Man Mar 2015 #7

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)
2. Apparently Labour represents me...
Mon Mar 30, 2015, 09:28 PM
Mar 2015

... according to the quiz. My wife turned out to be a Lib Dem, so I'm happy to say this house is Tory and UKIP free.

Ironing Man

(164 posts)
5. its crap...
Tue Mar 31, 2015, 05:01 AM
Mar 2015

it doesn't differentiate between big issues and small issues, or between political motivations.

if you are pro-EU, but think the UK should have an EU referendum to lance the boil of Europe in British politics, then it thinks you're UKIP.

you you aren't that fussed about private provision within a free at the point of delivery, regardless of ability to pay NHS, then it thinks you're a raving free-marketeer. which somewhat ignores the point that since the inception of the NHS pretty much every GP surgery in the country has been a private company proividing services to the NHS for a fee, same with dentistry, and pharmacy...

is Fox Hunting an issue on the same scale as Trident successor, or the EU?

T_i_B

(14,740 posts)
6. I got Labour....
Tue Mar 31, 2015, 06:16 AM
Mar 2015

...but I'm sure that before long I'll find another one of these quizzes that says that I'm a Lib Dem, and another that says I'm a Green.

Regarding Fox-hunting, you'd be surprised. It's quite the emotive issue.

Ironing Man

(164 posts)
7. fox hunting...
Tue Mar 31, 2015, 07:17 AM
Mar 2015

i don't doubt that its an emotive issue, but i can't imagine that the number of voters for whom its a swing issue, an issue so important that they'd disregard everything else - economy, defence and foreign policy, welfare 'reform', taxation etc.. can be more than a large handful in any constituancy.

i reckon thats lots of greens or UKIPer's get excited about it - from opposite ends - but i rather doubt that they'd be prepared to move to the other end of the political spectrum in order to get what they want on this one issue. of course, there are mad people everywhere....

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