Ooh a quiz

I am most similar to Bernie Sanders and least similar to Donald Trump.

Most like Macron least like Trump. 

Non - Populist Right.  Sounds about right.

Most like Merkel

Least like Sanders

Most similar to Pablo Iglesias, least similar to Trump

Non populist right.

You're most similar to:

Angela Merkel

German chancellor

Angela Merkel has been leader of the centre-right, conservative CDU since 2000. She has been praised as a consensus-builder and criticised as a technocrat.

You're least similar to:

Pablo Iglesias

Leader of Podemos, a leftwing Spanish party

Non-populist left.

This quiz seems to think that populism is the term for thinking the government is keeping secrets from you. 

Emmanuel Macron non-populist left very close to centre

Same as clubbers

Read the main articles on this in the paper this morning.  Very poor effort to deal with what (as the articles themselves argue) is an incredibly important phenomenon.  They take only five lines to deal with the question of defining populism and basically leave it unanswered.  This quiz is more of the same.  The first few questions are very fluffy (what is a "big interest"?) and after that they have nothing to do with populism, however it is defined (pollution? FFS).  Moreover I take issue with the whole premise of the quiz; only political leaders can be populist, not individuals.  

FYI my score was bang on the horizontal line and about an inch to the right. 

Closest to Macron. Furthest away from Bernie Sanders

also Obama (one hexagon above him).  least like - trump

happy with that cluve

am I the only one who got the Mexican guy?

Strutts, I hope to didn't tick that people with opposite political beliefs to you are evil 

oh I was non-populist left like Obama,  but about five hexagons more left

No, of course not evil.  Simply misguided.

I don't really understand what populism means.  I mean, I get what it's supposed to mean, I just don't know what it is, especially when you get different types of populism.  I'm going to say I'm non-populist left, but that's just what I want to think I am so I reckon I'd give answers that drove me to that outcome anyway.  fooking surveys.

Closest to Angela Merkel for me Clive.

Closest to Angela Merkel for me Clive.

You're most similar to:

Pablo Iglesias

Leader of Podemos, a leftwing Spanish party

Iglesias is a founder member of the anti-corruption, anti-austerity Podemos party, which props up the Spanish socialist minority government.

Humm... I’m sort of due west of Barack Obama on the x axis and below Pablo

I was closest to the Mexican (four letters, I forget them now) and furthest from trump.

I wouldn't have thought myself as populist.  I guess it means I'm cynical, given the answers I gave.

I got Geert Wilders ?

I got the Mexican dude too.

@ronald: I ended up more populist than I think I am, and I think the government is keeping secrets from us all. I also used to work for the government. 

Panda: snap