{"id":76069,"date":"2024-06-13T09:16:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T08:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=76069"},"modified":"2024-06-13T09:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T08:16:52","slug":"the-english-parties-are-both-right-wing-and-autoritarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/13\/the-english-parties-are-both-right-wing-and-autoritarian\/","title":{"rendered":"The English parties are both right wing and autoritarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This analysis from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicalcompass.org\/uk2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Political Compass website<\/a> on where the UK's leading political parties might be on their electoral map is interesting:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-76070\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-07.57.02-550x625.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-07.57.02-550x625.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-07.57.02-264x300.png 264w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-07.57.02-768x873.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-07.57.02-352x400.png 352w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-13-at-07.57.02.png 1026w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I suspect that few will be surprised by this finding. That the Greens and nationalists stand so far away from the leading English parties is unsurprising. It is equally unsurprising that all those English parties are both authoritarian and right-wing.<\/p>\n<p>Only the DUP breaks the mould on this issue.<\/p>\n<p>What else would anyone expect?<\/p>\n<p>The analysis is on their website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicalcompass.org\/uk2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This analysis from the Political Compass website on where the UK&#8217;s leading political parties might be on their electoral map is interesting: I suspect that<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/13\/the-english-parties-are-both-right-wing-and-autoritarian\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76071,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76069\/revisions\/76071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}