UK Parties 2015 General Election Political Compass

[CJCRANE]

I found this link in one of the comments at the Guardian UK.

It's interesting to see how the various parties stack up against each other.

Labour is shown as center right and Conservative as far right...

This may be the first election in which UKIP is popularly seen in its true colours – not as a protest party, but as a deeply conservative one that largely endorses the neoliberal agenda. Nigel Farage’s recent shift from unequivocal support for health care free at the point of use underlines this reality.

The Lib Dems are now widely — and correctly — viewed as a party of few fixed principles, and their vote this time may haemorrhage more to the Greens than to Labour. Labour has its own problems. Despite hopes from the left, the party leadership remains largely attached to the New Labour agenda that took the party to the centre ground in the late 1990s. At that time, around half the population supported the principle of a certain level of wealth redistribution. These days inequality, though greater, is less of an issue in the general shift to the right. Fewer than a third of the voters now believe in a helping hand to the least well-off.

Traditional Labour voters will largely stick to their old electoral habits, even though the Greens bear a far closer resemblance to the party they supported in the pre–Blairite days.

As we’ve pointed out in earlier charts, the BNP, lazily described as "extreme right", is economically far from neo-liberal. Its extremism is reflected in its reactionary social attitudes.

LINK: https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2015

[craigmatic]

1. This can't be right BNP is fascist but further left than labour?

[CJCRANE]

2. AFAIK the horizontal axis represents economic policies

with the left side being socialist and the right side is laissez faire capitalism.

[craigmatic]

3. Still hard to believe that they're left of labour on anything.

[CJCRANE]

4. It just implies that Labour are more capitalist.

The vertical axis gives the social policy from authoritarian to libertarian.

My take is that the Nazis would be in the top right corner and Stalin in the top left corner.

[T_i_B]

5. There are loads of these tests about

Each giving different results.

I'd rather make my mind up based on what the parties standing are doing (or not doing in some cases) at local and national levels.