Political Compass

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Invictus_88

BNP voters hold an economic position almost opposite to that of the BNP?

That's very odd.

Some BNP voters. It seems to be quite spread out over the economic spectrum - but because of the low numbers of voters, a few at each extreme equates to a relatively significant (3 or 4) percentage (when compared to the mainstream parties, who have more normal (in both senses of the word) distributions).

The BNP economic policies have far less draw to the BNP voters than their policies on the other axis, so they'll put up with economic policies almost opposed to their economic instincts as long as the other axis marches well with their desires. Plus, there's a significant chunk of BNP supporters who neither know nor care what their economic policies are, as the importance of this axis dwindles into insignificance for them.

Most of the smaller parties with a single core raison d'etre have similar issues. Green voters would still support their party whether it be socialist or free-market, as long as the environment is promoted. SNP can swing between hard "left" and hard "right" on the economic axis - as long as Scottish Independence is at the core of their manifesto. And so on.  

[A Lost Iguana]

That is the problem with so-called "single issue" parties. There is not a cohesive philosophy that underpins the party at large — or two, in the case of the LibDems — but a polarising issue that attracts many of differing views. That and you have the sampling error: attempting to identify the core underlying structure of BNP support with very few people leading to high 'variances' and large errors on the extracted 'means'.  

[Prince Starchild]

Did the political compass test there and came out:

Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.74

Strange, that. For pragmatic purposes I'd put myself as a anarcho-capitalist rather than an anarcho-communist. Still, I guess that just means I'm an idealist.