Poll on Travellers

[LoftyLottie]

I can agree with and tick three out of the four options. Surely a poll should give you some opposing choices!?

[Goodsoulette]

Sod it lofty, lets burn them all. They after all scum aren;t they, every single last one of them. I have never met a decent traveller.

[LoftyLottie]

I was only questionning the validity of a poll that didn't give any real choices goodsoulette!! How are you today?

[jake-the-peg]

Next AB poll

Do you think the Labour Government is
a) rubbish
b) really rubbish
c) really really rubbish
d) all of the above

You see giving people opposing choices would imply that people might have valid opposing views to the editor.

And that's just silly!

[burnhal]

can all future polls have an option..... I dont know and I really couldn't give a toss one way or the other....then perhaps they might go away!!

[Gromit]

It is a very poorly constructed question.

It is two completely different questions.

It asks 'What do you think of travellers' and then does not offer an opinion (to agree or disagree with) in the first 3 options. The last option is the only one which offers an 'opinion' on travellers, and is negative.

The language used such as 'these sorts of people' displays the bias in the 'poll'. If this was a proper poll, it would be phrased neutrally and real diverse options given.

It is similar to one in the Daily Mail which read:

Do we all dislike Gyp0s?
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes

[Panic Button]

and can we PLEASE get rid of the yank questions on the left?

[Goodsoulette]

Lol, Lofty I am great thanks. My original answer was me being incredibly sarcastic, I have many gypsy friends and know a few Cornish travellers too, some are a bit on the pikey side of things but most are decent people.

[jedimistress]

I came to ask the same question. I've never seen such a crepe poll. There were no options, just "which way do you want to slag a load of people off". AB you are just ignorant and small minded. When people go on about the mess travellers make, have they ever looked at the mess the make themselves? The van driver who sniggers at the travellers camped under the brdige by the river and chucks his MuckDonalds out his van window. Look out our town's streets on a Sunday morning. (or any morning) There are many dirty people in this country, not just travellers, and they are not all the same.