The Guardian's "Fruitcake test"

The Guardian has what is meant to be a humorous take here called "Would you pass UKIP's fruitcake test?" on rumours that UKIP is subjecting would be candidates for the European parliament to a so-called "fruitcake test."

It's quite funny but certainly reveals far more about the mindset at the Guardian than it does about UKIP.

There are ten multiple choice questions with three possble answers to each and I would imagine (and hope) that 90% of Conservatives would not be able to find a single one of the thirty possible answers that we agreed with. I couldn't find a single response that I came very close to agreeing with.

In each case your choices consisted of one hopelessly left wing or "progressive" guardianista reply, one reply which is a parody of what many fairly right wing or Conservative people would think but usually with some little touch designed to make anyone who selects it sound like a refugee from the 1950s, and a third reply which is completely barmy.

If you select all ten left wing replies, the Guardian gives you a score of 0% and the response "No thanks. Perhaps your right-on views would be more fitted to a career in Whitehall or the BBC."

If you select all ten "refugee from the 50s" replies, the Guardian gives you a score of 50% and congratulates you on being selected as a UKIP candidate for the 2014 European elections.

If you select all the ten clinically insane replies, the Guardian gives you a score of 100% and says

"I regret to say that the British public are not yet ready for your far-sighted opinions. Please reapply for 2019."

An amusing article but definately says a lot more about the Guardian than anyone else ...

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