🇬🇧 United Kingdom In power: LEFT
CURRENT MONTH — OCTOBER 2026
LEFT
20
Labour / Progressive
Governing side
RIGHT
35
Conservatives / Reform
Governing side
Higher scores indicate more violent speech
Factions scoped to United Kingdom political spectrum
Political compass
public mood vs who governs
Authoritarian
Libertarian
Left
Right
Leaning security
Leaning liberty
Leaning left
Leaning right
People
+38 / +46
Politicians
-17 / +26
24-MONTH HISTORY • LEFT VS RIGHT
● LEFT
● RIGHT
│ MAJOR EVENTS
MAJOR EVENTS
July 2024
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Labour Party general election victory
August 2024
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Southport riots and far-right unrest
May 2025
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Local elections / Reform UK surge debates
August 2025
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Heightened migration protest clashes
November 2025
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Autumn budget and austerity protest rhetoric
January 2026
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Grooming-gang inquiry and street-protest rhetoric
April 2026
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Budget and austerity protest spikes
August 2026
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Summer asylum-hotel protest clashes and Southport-anniversary rhetoric
September 2026
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Channel protests at Dover and a suspected Yom Kippur terror plot in Manchester
October 2026
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Reform floats lethal force against small boats as far-right Channel protests spread
PUBLIC vs GOVERNMENT
Lines (left axis): public mood (Spectrum) and who held the state that month on the same left–right axis.
Bars (right axis): gap (public − government), autoscaled.
How to read this
Scores (0–100) estimate how often each side’s public discourse calls for violence or issues threats. Left and Right are that country’s own camps, not US parties transplanted abroad. In power is who holds the state that month. Public mood is where people sit left–right and liberty–order; who governs is the office-holders’ ideology (slow-moving). Higher violent-speech scores mean more violent rhetoric. Scores are for entertainment and experimental purposes. Full methodology