Someone on Twitter linked to this 2019 survey about what political opinions are regarded as "left" or "right" wing. The research is two years old and UK politics has basically imploded since then, but it seemed interesting. Particularly the fact that there is no opinion agreed by more than half of those surveyed to belong on one wing or the other. Pull-quote:
( politics noodling )
I have no idea what this means for the current maelstrom in a shitbucket that calls itself a Conservative government. But anyway.
Even for the very most stereotypically left- and right-wing policies, half of the population do not identify them as such.So the obvious conclusion from this survey, as pointed out by the person on Twitter, is that "left" and "right" are meaningless labels because there is no sensible consensus about which policies are on which side! But I'm also interested in the detail of specific views.
( politics noodling )
I have no idea what this means for the current maelstrom in a shitbucket that calls itself a Conservative government. But anyway.