{"id":108,"date":"2005-04-18T13:40:27","date_gmt":"2005-04-18T13:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/18\/108\/"},"modified":"2005-04-19T10:35:43","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T10:35:43","slug":"108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/18\/108\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Should You Vote For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up at <a href=\"http:\/\/strugglingauthor.blogspot.com\/\">struggling author <\/a>and took the test &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Who Should You Vote For?\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com\/wsyvfbutton.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, as a general rule I&#8217;m pretty conservative, although I&#8217;ve found myself on the margins over the last 10 years or so. I like to think of myself as a Capatilist with Social and Moral standards. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not anti the current labour party although there is much about them I disagree with, but that is a problem I have with most political parties nowdays.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the tests suprised me a little as it showed me as 43 conservative and 44 UKip &#8211; now the UKip vote is purely based on my stance on europe I guess and thus not really reliable. I was about 20 green and then somehting like -8 labour and &#8211; 20 liberal democrats; I guess I could never vote Liberal because of their stance on PERSONAL TAX.<\/p>\n<p>I actually expected myself to be more wishy-washy than that and figured my consverative\/ukip numbers were greater than I would have expected. I thought my numbers would have polarised around the centre of the graph more. <\/p>\n<p>Then a colleague of my took the test; We have similar views, however his green was -20 and his labour and liberal democrat were much greater -ve numbers which kind of validated what I thought mine would have been but showed them differently than I expected the graph to represet them.<\/p>\n<p> My green\/labour\/liberal were not as -ve as his and thus I probably agree with more of their policies than he does, which is more how I feel; a mixture of the parties would suit me fine. But my underlying tendency is definately still conservative.<\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up at struggling author and took the test &#8230; Now, as a general rule I&#8217;m pretty conservative, although I&#8217;ve found myself on the margins over the last 10 years or so. I like to think of myself as a Capatilist with Social and Moral standards. I&#8217;m not anti the current labour party &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/18\/108\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who Should You Vote For&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/swn4r-108","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}