Another Dodgy Poll?

[ichkeria]

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/politics/2016/12/24/why-have-express-star-readers-changed-their-minds-on-brexit/

[Gromit]

You have answered your own question, it is a dodgy poll.

You cannot compare the official referendum, and a voluntary internet poll in a newspaper. For a start, the samples will be very magnitudes different, and secondly, a newspaper will have a political balance, so readers of that newspaper are not a genuine political cross section of that area.

And thirdly, there is nothing to stop anyone from anywhere in the country voting it that poll, and voting multiple times.

[jim360]

The Express has been trumpeting the merits of Brexit though, so that it's their readers who've come out with this result is, perhaps, a slight embarrassment. But no, I wouldn't read too much into it. Possibly was just hijacked by Remain supporters?

[Baldric]

///As I've said before on here, I didn't vote in the referendum///

You had the chance, you didn't take it for whatever reason, I suggest you thought you were above it all. If you now do not like the result you only have yourself and those of a similar mind to blame.

[ichkeria]

It's not "the" Express Jim :-)

I agree that these sorts of polls are hardly scientific, but there does seem to be a bit of a pattern. And is it really only the "Remainers" who are motivated enough to respond in great numbers? Even if that were so, it would in itself be intertesting.

[New Judge]

It doesn't matter who has changed their mind or in what direction.

[jim360]

Ah, dammit. Still, the comment basically remains the same.

[Baldric]

I seriously believe that anyone who had the right to vote and for whatever reason did not has the right to criticise anything occurring afterwards.

[jno]

I don't think these self-seleted polls can be relied on much - though of course the referendum itself was self-selected. None the less, it makes sense for a nwspaper to find out periodically what its readers want, and this appears to have surprised them.

[jim360]

Typo in that post, Balders?

[ichkeria]

It isn't the first newspaper to find this. Maybe respondents happen to be younger ...

[ichkeria]

As the link explains however this paper carried out a similar poll in March which was the first to show people on the Staffordshire area favouring Brexit. And 78% of the return this time were postal respondents.

[david small]

I voted out and would do so again. Polls are a waste of time. Look at the last lot in the USA. Here as well, they try to influence voting, slanted opinions, corruption personified.

[ToraToraTora]

the judge is bang on, who gives a rats plaster about what anyone thinks now? we are down the frog, end of.