poltics

[druiaghtagh]

Dont know if this is correct category, but her goes, how do you know if your politics are left or right wing please, e.g, if you were a Tony Benn admirer, what wouod you be please?

[calleach]

Tony benn was left wing ,

[Scarlett]

http://www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com/

This is a really excellent quiz! Just answer your feelings on various subjects and it will tell you where you stand, politically.

[Loosehead]

This is good too, read the explanation and then tackle the statements, it is not as simple as Right/left.

www.politicalcompass.org

[flaming]

Loosehead and Scarlett: Thanks for the fun.  Very good sites.  Some surprises for everyone, I''ll wager.

[brionon]

calleach ''Tony Benn'' WAS left-wing ?

Is he dead or changed sides ?

[acw]

http://www.answers.com/topic/political-spectrum

 

Some people believe in a circle.  That if you go so far right you reach totalitarianism, which is a point you can also reach by going so far left!!  This site should help you though. 

[flaming]

IA  sub-thread:  have not always liked Tony Benn (the RETIRED left of centre Labour politician).  By the way do some posters remember when the Post Office Tower now the BT Tower ) was dubbed  'Benn's erection'  by Private Eye, when Benn was Minister for Posts (before BT came into being, Post Office Telephones  having been hived off from the GPO).   I grew to love him like one does an old treasure.  Those who remember the BT Tower being built  will remember Tony Benn as Viscount Anthony Wedgwood-Bennm who had an Act of Parliament passed to let him off his inheritance, so that he could go on being an MP.   I always had at the back of my mind that a toff could afford to be a  Socialist with the money in the bank.  As I grew up politically I realised that he did really care about some things (animals being one of those things, making him dear to my heart);  and in later years he'd grown up politically too, talking a great deal of sense, often transcending Party politics.  Maybe a person needs to have a bit of money so that he/she is above the fray, can think and develop without having to resort to the spiv tactics displayed by so many of our politicians who have shinned up the greasy pole, feet on heads of others as they go, on both sides of the Chamber of Commons.  He can put his point of view eloquently and elegantly, but can demolish the arguments of political foes so beautifully, in such a way that I think 'good old Benn, that was marvellous, wish I'd said that',  I am sorry he has retired as even though people mightn't support everything he said, he commanded great respect.  So, Wedgie is a special case. 

[jake-the-peg]

I'd agree but isn't it ironic that Tony Benn who stood so strongly against inherited power and influence should be part of the only British family to have 3 (4?) sucessive generations of cabinet ministers!

[flaming]

Yes, but they had to be elected as an MP first, by their respective constituents. I am much happier about any form of elected person even though going back tin time there wasn't full suffrage. Of course those previous generations would have had more money than most at the time, when perhaps people who didn't have to work could stand for Parliament but it could be looked at that it was a good job there were some privileged families who believed in democracy, rather than sitting on their backsides as they could have done. Wish that Lords were elected (as we were promised!) and that EU Commissioners were....