I would take the results with a bucketful of salt, because I somehow managed to score 32% BNP despite answering emphatically No to the anti-immigrant questions. AFAIK their policies are basically “kick out non-white people”, mixed with some half-baked 70s-style statism. How I scored above 0% on that is a mystery to me. I also scored 45% UKIP, I guess because I took a EU-sceptical line on a couple of questions. I mean, I am a little sceptical about the EU, but you’d have to hold a gun to my head to make me vote UKIP.
Anyway, for what little it’s worth:
Liberal Democrats 50%, Conservative Party 46%, UKIP 45%, Labour 42%, Green 38%, BNP 32%
72% LibDem, 49% Green, 40% Tory, 33% Labour. I didn’t bother with the UKIP and the racists.
If I still lived in Oxford East, the LibDems would need a 0% swing (sic, rounded down) to beat Labour. Somehow I think they’ll get it without my nonexistent vote.
I don’t think he has a lot of vested interests. He’s a barrister by trade, although not practicing, and his wife has a senior position at the local university so they are reasonably close to “normal middle-class” people. He doesn’t appear to be a career politician - unlikely to get a cabinet job I’d have thought - and isn’t (yet) an indistry whore. Just a normal provincial MP I guess.
He’s part of the whips office, which I guess limits opportunity for rebellion.
I was slightly annoyed by the phrasing of some of the questions. For example, I’m broadly in favor of deporting **non-citizens **who commit felonies. When it’s phrased as “people not born in the UK” it starts to sound like a BNP policy and I’m less willing to sign up to it.
Quite a few people have mentioned that the weighting of the answers is a bit “off”… a lot of moderate Tories have been bounced into the UKIP camp based on exactly that sort of issue: the whole “people not born in the UK” thing.
I have plenty of British friends who happened to be born overseas - army brats, diplomatic corps etc - who wouldn’t fall into this category.
Labour Party:
52%
Liberal Democrats:
52%
Green Party:
38%
Conservative Party:
26%
British National Party:
24%
Hmm, a big help there. I tend to agree with the posters so far who say that they are vexed simply because all the choices seem as bad as each other. In my younger days when I was a bit more wet behind the ears I supported the Lib Dems, but they’re almost an irrelevance, in my constituency they really don’t stand a chance. Conservative I’d never vote for, I simply don’t trust them.
Although, as pointed out above, the whole point of a democracy is to vote for the candidate which most represents the view of the voter in question. On this the Lib Dems seem the most congruent overall with my views (although I think they are naive on defence issues).
The BBC has a handy policy comparison guide on a number of issues and parties.
It explicitly tells you to exclude parties you would never vote for at the results stage, to allow it to match your preferences against the policies of parties you would vote for. So you got some policy matches with the BNP due to non-immigration issues, but you messed up your results in the context of the site, by allowing them as a party you might ever give your X to.
Yeah, I suppose. I actually did it the suggested way first time (still with questionable results), but then got intrigued by people reporting numbers for the BNP and did it again except choosing all parties.
