Which political tribe are you?

SummerRain

SummerRain

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Pollsters Populus have devised a test to categorise voters. The technique has been "perfected in the US" (BBC article):

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Take the test here.(I'm not sure this link works, but there is one on the BBC page linked above...)

I was 100% "cosmopolitan critics" : Are generally younger, more secular & single, urban-based voters. Usually highly educated, this group worries about growing inequality & the general direction the country is going in. More likely than other groups to be working in the public sector.

That's pretty accurate, to be fair to them (the only bit that is completely wrong, I'm not single!).
 
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I was 100% "cosmopolitan critics" : Are generally younger, more secular & single, urban-based voters. Usually highly educated, this group worries about growing inequality & the general direction the country is going in. More likely than other groups to be working in the public sector.

That's pretty accurate, to be fair to them (the only bit that is completely wrong, I'm not single!).
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Exactly the same for me.
 
I fixed the link for you (or tried at least!) :)

Good lord, the test put me squarely in the calm persistence category (92%):

"Tend to be coping rather than comfortable. They hope rather than expect things to get better. They believe in strong political leadership & look to the Government to help with economic growth. This group contains the greatest number of BME voters."
 
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Comfortable Nostalgia = 0%
Hard-pressed Anxiety = 0%
Cosmopolitan Critics = 94%
Calm Persistence = 6%
Optimistic Contentment = 1%
Long-term Despair = 0%
 
None of the above. I can't any political party with which I agree; UKIP being just Eurosceptic Tories whose opposition to the EU has nothing to do with the latter being undemocratic, but because they want to protect 'The City' from any regulation. I also don't support the continuation of the 'United Kingdom' (such as it is) any longer than is necessary.
 
Oh, if we're talking political parties, then yes. If I had the right to vote in the UK, it would probably go to the Greens. I'm not sure I agree with everything in their programme, but overall I think they're way ahead of the competition.
 
I always end up voting Labour as the lesser of two evils as there isn't much of a choice.
 
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I always end up voting Labour as the lesser of two evils as there isn't much of a choice.
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Completely random, but I'm on of the few in the US who can vote for a "mainstream" candidate and vote for a party with "labor" in it's name.

It's an artifact of the US system and how it operates in each state.
 
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Comfortable Nostalgia = 0%
Hard-pressed Anxiety = 0%
Cosmopolitan Critics = 99%
Calm Persistence = 1%
Optimistic Contentment = 0%
Long-term Despair = 0%

I'm from the U.S. and answered most of the questions for where I live (the few totally U.K. centered questions I just answered with a 5 - neither good or bad) I don't know how much that slanted my final scores.
 
I think these categories are silly, so here is my counter-proposal - and I've included my presumed scores for each:

Comfortably Numb - 25%
Cuckoo's Nest - 10%
Starbucks Revolutionaries - 50%
Status Quo Soccer Moms - 5%
Happy-Campers for Jesus - 10%
Desperate Housewives - 0%

What would be your tribe and score, do you think?
 
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