Where are you on the spectrum?

Makes me wonder why we all have such different opinions when we're all in the same quadrant. Or as greatnan said would anyone dare to admit to being a right wing authoritarian?

Leftie lib too. I answered honestly and thought I would come out nearer the middle. I see Obama and Cameron come out very close together!

Could you be a left-wing authoritarian (like Lenin, for example) according to this test? Or a right-wing libertarian (lots in the current Conservative party support libertarianism)? Does it actually define left and right? (I haven't done it yet.)

It would have been more sensible to do the test before posting the questions above. It would also have been more sensible to check what my answers showed me to be before returning to this page. I don't think I am properly awake yet. [dunce emoticon]

Leftie libertarian.

I don't think a compass is a very good way of mapping political outlook. Extreme right is very close to extreme left. I think a Klein bottle, or even a Klein bagel would be better. It would be about as useful anyway

My result? – bang in the middle of the bottom left quadrant. But I thought the questions were loaded and there were some which didn't have an adequate answer for me. Limited, then.

Leftie Libertarian
"Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.44"

The questions were a bit obvious - fun to do though!

In the middle more authoritarian!

Hopefully the test was reliable and valid but, yes, questionnaires are always limited.

Did wonder if the test was devised with the USA in mind and that might account for the sameness of our positions.

Let's look on the bright side - surely our results are the same because we are all kind, compassionate, intelligent and all-round lovely people!

Was just right of left! In the bottom section, does that make me a slightly right wing libertarian.

Econimic Left/Right: -9.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.3

I love doing these daft quizzes. I've sent it to my youngest daughter to see if we are similar. DH says says talking to my daughter is like talking to me. We can be almost guaranteed to have the same point of view.

Economic - duh

Not just Nelson...hello Sister!

Moomin sorry, post above was address to you!

I've sent it to the family copper to see if he's authoritarian.

A bit humbling to find myself on the chart bewtween Ghandi and the Dalai Lama ...

Amazing! I seem to be marginally libertarian and slightly left wing!
I've always voted Tory?

I am 2.5 left libertarian. Don't know whether that's good, bad or indifferent. Perhaps Bags will enlighten me.

I seem to be an incompetent half wit.

Dead Centre

No, Bags won't enlighten you, soop, because Bags thinks it's just another meaningless labelling exercise which is not very useful for anything except perhaps a bit of fun . Mind you, if you want to call that enlightening, I won't be offended

I'm just a libertarian. It was probably the question on hanging that did it.

The two largest UK political parties are right-wing and authoritarian whereas most of the population, whether Labour or Conservative, seem to be left of centre and libertarian. I don't think I've found anyone I know, including life-long Conservative voters, who sit outside the bottom, left-hand quadrant.

It seems few of us find a party that fit our attitudes snuggly. Maybe, we seek firm leadership more than we know. Or maybe, the results don't mean very much at all.

Gally glad to be in the centre with you!! Cheers!