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Old May 10th 2014, 11:17 am
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A little quiz that distills your responses and tells you how aligned you are to various UK political parties. In perhaps a little more detail than the average internet quiz.

http://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz

In the interests of transparency, I can tell you that I am 88% Lib Dem (no change in 20 years) and 82% Labour, followed, rather curiously, by 80% SNP and 77% Conservative.
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Originally Posted by Meow
A little quiz that distills your responses and tells you how aligned you are to various UK political parties. In perhaps a little more detail than the average internet quiz.

http://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz

In the interests of transparency, I can tell you that I am 88% Lib Dem (no change in 20 years) and 82% Labour, followed, rather curiously, by 80% SNP and 77% Conservative.
Which goes to show that there's bugger-all difference between the major parties (sorry, included Lib Dem's in that). Either that, or Meow's 3 times the woman she used to be...
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Con 76%
Green 72%
Labour 72%
Lib Dems 69%
Scot Nats 67%
UKIP 64%

Damn.
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Originally Posted by Bahtatboy
Which goes to show that there's bugger-all difference between the major parties (sorry, included Lib Dem's in that). Either that, or Meow's 3 times the woman she used to be...


It shows that the parties say many of the same things and have them in their manifestos, but whether they follow through or just say what they think they should is another issue. I suspect that there are bigger ideological differences at play too.
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It shows that the parties say many of the same things and have them in their manifestos, but whether they follow through or just say what they think they should is another issue...
I was thinking the exact same thing. There should have been a question about how likely you think each party is to follow up on its promises.
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85% Greenie
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Bloody hell! 83% BNP! That's not a good thing, is it?
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90% Conservative :-D 88% LibDem 83% UKIP
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Default Re: Who do you side with politically?

85% Labour (My Granny would be proud)
79% Scottish Nationals (never heard of them)
79% Conservative (My Granny would turn in her grave)
74% Lib dem
73% BNP ( WTF?)
73% UKIP (As BNP comment)
Green 67% ( who I would like to think I would vote for)
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Default Re: Who do you side with politically?

96% UKIP
95% Conservative
65% LibDem
46% Labour
27% Plaid Cymru
26% SNP


Funny. I have no intention of voting UKIP and I thought some of my selections were pretty liberal. I wanted to abolish university fees completely but only for UK residents.

By the way, some of you may not realise but the "choose another stance" brings up a bunch of alternative options which can help refine your decisions.

Edit: I took the quiz again as I noticed there were additional hidden questions and I also weighed each response. New results:

83% UKIP
83% Conservative
60% LibDem
43% Labour

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83% Labour
79% Lib Dem
79% Green
73% Scottish Nat
60% BNP (on economic and education issues apparently)
59% Plaid Cymru
37% Conservatives
23% UKIP
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Default Re: Who do you side with politically?

Con: 90%
UKIP: 89%
BNP:69%
Lib Dem: 61%
Lab: 55%
Green: 19%
SNP: 16%
Plaid Cymru: 11%
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Con: 88%
UKIP: 87%
Lib Dem: 79%
BNP: 66%
Lab: 64%
Plaid Cymru: 55%
SNP: 52%
Green: 39%

Fairly happy with that.
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Default Re: Who do you side with politically?

I have a link to the US version if anyone wants to have a go at that. In a new thread, or here?
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Conservatives 78%
UK IP 74%
Lib Dems 74%
BNP 66%
Labour 63%
Green 44%
SNP 25%
Plaid Cymru 17%
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