Not by a hair of my chiny chin chin....

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

What labour is now is a big mess of left right and centerist policys.

I can deal with that.

I disagree entirely, the whole security appeal of labours anti terror packages is defense from the enemy, which is something right wing voters buy into far more than left wing voters... so in the case of labours authoratarinism it is actually because of moderate right reasons they are doing it...

Personally i have always put down authoritarianism down as a trait that tends to show up more in conservatives...

I must respectfully disagree with this. In Germany, we have Die Linke and the SPD (though the CDU isn't to my liking in that respect either, I must admit) as authoritarians, and what I would classify as the primary "freedom" party (if you can even find one in Germany these days...) is the centre-right/free market centrist FDP.

Considering that right wingers are arguing thats its a trait of the left and lefts arguing the reverse, maybe we both have to accept its eqaully a trait of both, im willing to accept that perhaps through my own bias i have come to my conclusion as everyone else debating this issue seems to be on the side thier bias would put them on....

Deal. Perhaps we can compromise and say that the extreme left, extreme right, and the muddled centrists are the most likely to slide to authoritarianism?

An interesting debate is state control, of course (not necessarily authoritarianism), in which case I would say that the moderate left is more likely to enjoy state control of things.