Well, there's a surprise...

[julesjones]

Don't faint... I indulged in meme sheepage.
I'm not putting the graphic here, because it sears my eyes. But apparently I would be a Democrat if I were a US voter.

You are a Social Liberal (63% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (28% permissive)
You are best described as a: Democrat
You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. loc: (49, -82)
modscore: (17, 38)
raw: (2135)

This is not a huge surprise, since my politics are more or less One Nation Tory, or in other words by UK standards I'm a right-wing liberal. Of course, I do know Americans who would consider this proof that I'm a GodlessCommie(TM) :-)

Comments

[alex-holden.livejournal.com]

I got similar results, albeit somewhat more permissive than you: 71%/30%. I'm not sure why it says "you are best described as a Democrat" but places me squarely in the "Socialist" area of the Political Ideologies graph. On the "famous people" page it's placed me right over Hillary Clinton's breasts (ugh). I'm British and consider myself to be a Liberal Democrat supporter.

[julesjones]

I've been voting LibDem for years, because for years they've been the closest to my own views. I know exactly what Ken Clarke was talking about when he complained that a lot of the young LibDem MPs on the right wing of their party were natural left-wing/liberal Tories who'd been driven out by the Tory Party lurching ever further to the right and to authoritarian policies.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/ has some interesting data on the shift in party positions over the years. Take a look at the graphs at the bottom of the page on the UK 2005 election results:
http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/extremeright.php

The LibDems haven't moved at all, but they *appear* to have moved left and liberal because both the Tories and Labour have moved right and authoritarian.

[alex-holden.livejournal.com]

Interesting. We've somehow wound up with a situation where:
* The two main parties are extremely similar because they're both chasing the same group of voters.
* People don't vote for the third party because they expect it to lose (a self-fulfilling prophesy).
* Vast numbers of people are so disillusioned with the process that they don't bother to vote at all.