Craig Murray writes approvingly of the zany survey of political opinions run by Political Compass. But it was posted at 0200 hrs, so maybe baby Cameron Murray was stopping him getting a much needed rest.

Read the Political Compass FAQs. They are a hoot.

See eg this description of why Hitler was Right-wing (their exclamation mark):

Under the Reich, corporations were largely left to govern themselves, with the incentive that if they kept prices under control, they would be rewarded with government contracts. Hardly a socialist economic agenda !

Er, wrong. It is a blatant socialist economic agenda – one which makes private economic activity hostage to collectivist manipulation. It’s just not an all-out communist agenda.

And isn’t it the way some of the current Democrat policies are heading? Liberal Fascism and all that?

What attracted me to Craig’s posting was this passage:

… right wing libertarians, though a theoretical possibility, do not actually exist in any significant number.

I think the reasons probably come down to the psychological motivation of most right wingers; they are just really nasty people. Right wingers tend to be psychologically incapable of not wishing power over others in what they view as the lifelong struggle for personal economic advantage.

Paul Staines is a good example. Paul and Charles Crawford are two of the better known alleged right wing libertarian bloggers who in fact, should they answer the questions honestly, would fall in the George Bush quadrant.

Wo!

First I find myself joined in a single sentence with Camille Paglia.

And now with Guido Fawkes (although we libertarian purists might have some doubts about the theoretical soundness of his idea of using spare piano wire to string up wayward MPs from passing lamp-posts).

So I did the silly survey and, yes, Craig’s bold prediction as to where I would end up was just wrong.

I have posted a comment on Craig’s site, concluding thus:

So, yet again, you’re talking rot.

Is a Nutter someone who talks rot inadvertently? Or someone who knows he’s talking rot but just carries on doing so?

Craig’s asserts that right wing libertarians … do not actually exist in any significant number.

This bestseller?