Oli and I...

[Sylvester 15]

Perhaps why Oli and I often have the odd tiff every now and again, is because we are from two totally different backgrounds and we see the same things from two very different perpectives.

Oli being the middle class one from Lancashire (it was Lancashire wasn't it?), who goes to a grammar school, and fox hunting, probably with prospects of being a business man of some kind...

Versus.

Sylvester, from a working class background (very working class!), brought up in a city once famous for industry but now moreso for its crumble into decay... having gone to a bog standard comprehensive, and gone to a college in an even more renound place, Barnsley. (Ah sunny Barnsley)

It's the typical Yorkshire versus Lancashire, Middle versus Working... argument. Politically you'd think Oli and I would be opposed but we are surprisingly on the same side, because we is both snobs and with regards to the political spectrum, oli is just a bit further to the right and more conservative than me.

Admittely politically my opinions are often a contradiction in terms, this is what happens when you are ingrained as a child with ideals and doctrines but then rebel against them and form your own opinions against much of your further education. You pick up a bit of this, a bit of that and before you know it if you're as open minded as me you can be on both sides of an argument at once and agree with neither. That's the joy of looking at everything from a philosophical removed from context point of view!

[Emperor Oli 0]

Yes I am from Lancashire, Sylvester. My family owned a cotton mill in Blackburn (Durbah Mill) a while back.

I'm glad we have been able to work this out!

P.S - If you are wondering where you lie in the political spectrum, visit http://www.politicalcompass.org/ to find out!

[Sylvester 15]

Authoritarian Left, very slightly authoritarian (one block up) slighly left (two blocks left from the centre).

Although i think it's wrong...

The religion questions are what threw it they always do, firstly i have no problems with aborition, secondly there was a question about whether religion and morality are closely linked, i voted that i strongly disagree... how many jihad supporters are religious? How many are moral?

I think the religion should not be involved in politics it only creates hatred, think Ireland.

Indeed the Irish problem is one that created problems for me, is there a right side to support? Firstly from nationalistic point of view i'd support Northern Ireland, but from a religious doctrine point of view the Republicans win hands down. Created a difficult situation for me there, hence why religion and politics should be separated, it causes too much trouble if they are together.

I'm also a bit dubious about free trade, i'm not sure how i'd like that solved, either the government keep the hell out and go minimalist, or the government should have full control over the trade agreements, and have a closed market. Smells of feudalism to me.

With a slighly feudalist point of view regarding trade it is impossible to come ouit right wing on that politics test.

[Emperor Oli 0]

Authoritarian (3 up) Right (6 across).

As for the Irish Question, it should remain part of the UK. The Northern Irelanders want it and the UK wants it to remain.

[Aethelred 0]

Neat test, I am 4 up and 4 to the right.

[Aethelred 0]

Put another way, I fall just about where Tony Blair does on that test!

[kuhli 0]

Put another way, I fall just about where Tony Blair does on that test!

I landed somewhere just left of Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Libertarian left?? Since I am not into politics, I don't know if that is good or bad.

[Sylvester 15]

Authoritarian is where you want a strong government, a government that keeps control and stability. (I like the discipline aspect of this).

Libertarian is where you dislike the idea of a strong powerful government, you don't trust them and you think they are liars. (i'm inclined to agree with this).

Right is the conservative/Aristocratic/Capitalistic/Republican in the US sense side.

Left the opposite.

I think this test is engineered from a more New Right perspective, i'm a great believer in 'if it ain't broke don't fix it', ideologies cannot fit onto society so why bother trying, you can't put a blueprint idea like Thatcherism, Socialism or Communism on society, it won't work.

And Charity is not the best method of helping the unfortunate poor because people like me refuse to donate anything to charity ever. So the state should do something. (In case i ever fall in that kind of position).

I think i'm either at the liberal end of the old right, or i'm a classic liberal.

With regards to Ireland, we should give it back to the South and wash our hands of it, it'll be less hastle in the long run. We should never have got involved, Edward I should have turned a blind eye to Ireland and forgot it. What has Ireland ever actually done for us? Admittedly it did build us the Titanic... India was more productive we should have kept that instead.