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National Rally and Scottish National Party
Measured distance across six axes
Opposed programmes with little shared ground. They agree within three points on EC. They diverge by eight points or more on CU, AU, SC, ID.
Axis by axis
| Axis | RN, Front National | SNP | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | −01 | −04 | 3 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +08 | −06 | 14 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +04 | −04 | 8 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +03 | −07 | 10 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +07 | −03 | 10 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CH · Method and tempo | −01 | −05 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
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.
RN, Front National · CU +08
Coded +8 on national identity, secularism as applied to Islam, and opposition to expanded gender recognition.
- Programme textProgramme commitments to ban the headscarf in public spaces and to restrict legal recognition of gender transition.
SNP · CU −06
Coded −6: liberal social legislation ahead of the rest of the UK.
- Documented act or statuteLegislated same-sex marriage in 2014 and made period products free by law in 2020.
RN, Front National · AU +04
Coded +4: fully electoral in method, with programme commitments that would override constitutional constraints.
- Programme textProposals to entrench national preference by referendum, bypassing the constitutional council's review.
- Documented act or statuteHas contested every election since 1973 and accepted every result, which holds the score below the hybrid cases.
SNP · AU −04
Coded −4: devolved parliament under proportional representation, and a referendum it agreed to lose.
- Documented act or statuteThe Edinburgh Agreement of 2012 committed both governments to respect the result.
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.
National Rally
1972– · France
National priority for French citizens, sharp restriction of immigration, sovereignty against the EU, protection of purchasing power.
Scottish National Party
1934– · Scotland, Britain
Independence for Scotland pursued entirely by referendum, combined with social democratic policy and an explicitly civic definition of the nation.
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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