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Fair enough. Although it was more a Moby Dick reference.

Exactly. If you read what I said it's a far more scathing attack on Labour than anything because they're shit at winning elections. Meanwhile it's praise for the Tories who are very good at it. Also with the McDonalds analogy. It's widely considered the food is cheap, crap and not very good for...

Slightly off topic but before we had a public provided fire service they had a competitive marketplace of private enterprises that you could insure yourself with. So if a fire started and you were with a particular fire service there could be another fire service outside who'd do nothing...

Exactly. Even the full-on capitalist countries aren't actually that capitalist. That was an example of what a truly capitalist nation would do - if you couldn't afford it you wouldn't get it. Of course it isn't free, but those who could not afford it themselves have access to it helped by...

Marketing and promotion. Tories do it better. Take one or two things that have some sort of positive effect for people or just would go down well and just repeat it with a catchy slogan. Ignore all the stuff that isn't so palatable. Crucially, make sure you have most of the media on your side to...

But this was a time when teams played 5 up front and 2 at the back. Plus you could practically assault the goalie to score (tho admittedly the defenders could pretty much break you in half)

There are many inept cretins in private healthcare. How many stories in the US have we seen of people hooked on prescription drugs handed out by private doctors like smarties cos they get paid for it? They've got a massive opioid addiction epidemic in the US because they over-prescibe it and...

Well, apart from the fact the NHS is the very epitome of socialist thinking. Healthcare for all regardless of ability to pay. Capitalist thinking would deny any healthcare to anyone that couldn't afford it. Even the most capitalist nation on the planet in America they have a very basic level of...

Or as you say the compass is rubbish and in fact the mean/median point on the left/right axis would be closer to somewhere like -4. If anyone wants to work out the average so far they can.

I sometimes wonder if the complexity of our badge makes it less likely to be embroidered.

If he didn't win he's rubbish and if he had any decency he'd resign. "Call me....a taxi"

Dion's from Leicester too. But then so are Showaddywaddy so I guess it all evens out.

Maybe I'm reading that wrong but isn't performing better above the line, with the best being in the top left? High xGA and a low GA. From that chart Marosi xGA is about 1.77 and his GA is about 1.85.

That's kind of what I was getting at. No way can those party political dots be representative given where everyone is turning up and that for so many people to be that far into the bottom left quadrant they need to reassess what is centrist. A lot of us a further left than even the most left...

I know it's hardly a massive sample and I think some of the questions felt a bit leading but it does seem odd that the results of our little data set don't put anyone, even those more right wing, anywhere near most of the right-wing parties. Even Grendel, who so far has been a bit of an outlier...

The Political Compass Economic -5.63 Society -5.08

But it is natural to take a step forward in that situation. So should a keeper stand behind the line so when he does it he's only on the line? You don't see the rule about player run-ups being applied as vigourously. If you slowed them down for a replay you could definitely say some of those...

Other than being a major player in creating the situation in the first place after the second world war.

This works in the same way that showing support for Israel is showing indirect support for annexation into 'foreign' lands and building of illegal settlements.

I'm sure someone over there wouldn't be averse to reminding people about BSE to put people off and keep the market largely to themselves. Certainly wouldn't get people willing to pay a premium for it at least.