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Global Greens and UK Conservative Party
Measured distance across six axes
Opposed programmes with little shared ground. They agree within three points on SC, CH. They diverge by eight points or more on EC, CU, AU, ID.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Global Greens | Tories | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | −05 | +06 | 11 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | −09 | +05 | 14 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| AU · Organisation of power | −06 | +02 | 8 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| SC · Scale of decision | 00 | +03 | 3 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| ID · Rule of membership | −08 | +03 | 11 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CH · Method and tempo | −04 | −05 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
Each axis runs from −10 to +10; the distance is the straight-line separation across all six at once, out of a maximum of 49.0. How the scoring works →
The evidence behind the widest gaps
A distance figure is worth nothing unless the scores behind it can be checked. These are the artefacts supporting the axes that separate these two most.
Global Greens · EC −05
Coded −5: ecological regulation and public investment rather than public ownership.
- Programme textThe 2001 Charter commits to markets constrained by ecological limits rather than to their abolition.
Tories · EC +06
Coded +6 today. The same party in 1975 supported nationalised rail, coal, steel and utilities and would have been coded near −2.
- Documented act or statutePrivatisation of telecoms, gas, water, electricity and rail between 1984 and 1996.
- Programme textThe 1970 and February 1974 manifestos accepted the nationalised industries as settled.
Global Greens · CU −09
Coded −9: respect for diversity is one of the six founding principles.
- Programme textThe Charter commits to gender equity, indigenous rights and cultural diversity as core rather than adjacent.
Tories · CU +05
Coded +5: socially liberal legislation from the party's own governments alongside a traditionalist base.
- Documented act or statuteSame-sex marriage was legislated by a Conservative government in 2013 against a majority of its own MPs.
What this comparison does not establish
Proximity means similarity of stated position. It carries no claim about competence, circumstance, scale of operation, or what either organisation actually did to the people under it. Two organisations can sit close together and produce entirely different histories, because those things are not on any axis and could not be.
Global Greens
2001– · Worldwide
Ecological wisdom, social justice, participatory democracy, non-violence, sustainability, respect for diversity.
UK Conservative Party
1834– · Britain
Fiscal restraint, national sovereignty, property ownership, controlled migration, gradualism.
Distance is not the whole answer. Two organisations can sit the same distance apart for entirely different reasons, and the reason is the content of any claim about them. Open the comparison in the atlas to weight the axes yourself.
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