Labour Voters????

[Svejk]

6% of Labour supporters polled voted for a non-existent candidate for Party Leader. Does this tell us anything about their voters?

[Svejk]

https://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/3588/Labour-leadership-race-tight-as-no-candidate-is-able-to-open-up-a-clear-lead.aspx

[jim360]

Perhaps it tells us that an astonishing 94% of Labour voters haven't learned not to take polls seriously these days?

[Svejk]

It was Stewart Lewis for the benefit of any AB labour supporters.

[-Talbot-]

No.

[Marshwarble]

Which phone box are we holding the next meeting in?

[Tilly2]

We didn't like the other four so we voted for the fishy one.

[Canary42]

It tells us how a "None of the above" option is craved by so many voters when presented with a bum list. I wonder how it would have turned out at the last General Election.

[joggerjayne]

I think Stewart Lewis sounds like an ideal leader.

[Marshwarble]

Walter Plinge not standing?

[Khandro]

Stewart Lewis, - he's my man!

[Svejk]

So nobody thinks it might be because they're thick as two short planks, then. ;)

[Graham-W]

"So nobody thinks it might be because they're thick as two short planks, then."
May I point out that Stephen Hawkins voted Labour in the last election.

[Svejk]

I doubt he was in the 6%.

[sevenOP]

What relevance has this poll to those who actually qualify to vote in the election process?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33098702

[Svejk]

Couldn't tell you, 7up. I didn't commission it, tha knows.

[ichkeria]

Who is Stewart Lewis and why was he included?
What is the point of a 'red herring' ?
And why are you surprised that some people supported him?
If there's an option on a multiple choice form some people will always choose it

[Svejk]

If you say so, ichi. I can assure you that if UKIP were allowed to vote for a leader, we would be sufficiently 'clued up' to remember 4 contenders.

[ichkeria]

It was IPSOS MORI who got the names wrong Svejk
As I said before if you put x options on an official list you can guarantee that they'll all get votes
Now you come to mention UKIP tho I do hope they do employ the same inexplicable tactic with them
Could be amusing :-)

[Svejk]

Ipsos Mori aren't that stupid, ichi, it was a deliberate red herring to gauge the mentality of Labour voters. Worked too.
(I expect whoever commissioned the poll included it. Stewart Lewis's mother perhaps)

[sevenOP]

Svejk, you were the one that posted the question and hinted that some people who were polled by Ipsos MORI - and bear zero relevance to those who will actually be allowed to vote in the election - are stupid because they did not know who were genuine candidates.