What's Your two dimensional political compass?

AndyGuil

The questions were worded poorly. They did tend to favour left responses.

Loughton_Monkey

vivatifosi wrote: »

One of the big issues in the news here today Gen is whether or not parents should be allowed to smack their children. It's the whole 'well we know it isn't right, we don't do it, but is it nanny state to ban it?' thing.

It's already banned in schools.

It is indeed yet another 'excellent' example of the Nanny State and pure baggage we are building. They forget that perfectly adequate 'child abuse' laws exist to cater for anything more than the occasional 'clip round the ear'. It's just that they get tired of using existing laws, and want something simpler and 'more wholesome' or 'civilised'.


We want fewer rather than more 'laws'. A good example is the recent ban on mobile phones in cars [except hands free]. What could be more simple than declaring [via judges rules] that using a mobile phone would be considered as "Driving Without Due Care and Attention"? But the brainless government adds this new law regardless, at great expense. Now they are going to have to follow the same recipe for everthing else.... e.g...

• Reading your Kindle while driving?
• Flicking through the pages of your A to Z whilst driving?
• Having your girlfriend's head on your lap whilst driving?
• Reading a paperback while driving [millions of Americans do this].
• Sipping away at your double-shot Latte from Starbucks while driving.
• Playing I spy with your kids on a long journey.
• Replying to a text message on your laptop on the front seat.
• Jotting down a 'good point' raised by Paul Lewis on Money Box while driving.
• ...................

I can guarantee the result of a strict ban. Many parents will still do it. Kids will tolerate it, because it's 'normal' in such a household. Then they will wait until they are grown up - say age 35 - and they fall out with their parents and want some 'reprisal'.... what better than take them to court 20 years after the event, and the police will be forced to take them on in the same way [but admittedly more serious offenses] as underage sex by DJ's and celebrities....

Moby

lvader

I came out near dead centre, more lefty than Ed the red, who would have thought!

chucknorris

Economic Left/Right: 0.25 (I think in reality I am more to the right)
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.62

Linton

Test says -5/-5. Cant argue too much about that.

Loughton_Monkey

My conclusion so far, from the scores given, is that we have too big a bunch of namby-pamby, socialist, libertarian, laissez-faire, leninist, egalitarian, Trotskyite, commie, spineless, wet pinkos around here.

Where is the right-thinking, Thatcherite, capitalist, bring-back-hanging lobby skulking?

This board needs a few more backbones!