So What? The Vote Has Already Taken Place And We Are Coming Out.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5186797/Britons-Remain-Leave-10-points.html

[pixie374]

Ok, thanks Jim x

[jno]

you could always have a second vote that produced a different result, aog. Didn't May do that this very year?

[DSJ]

I voted to leave and so did my husband.

If another referendum comes along, God help us, we will both vote the same way again.

[woofgang]

that depends on how you choose the half.....if you ask the richest half or the poorest half or the female half or the ale half and so on...then yes you are likely to get a skewed result....which is why people who run polls choose their demographic spread.

[pixie374]

Woof, that stil makes a lot of presumptions that people think in "groups". I could ask a yes or no question to the next 50 people I randomly see- and that gives no clue to what the 51st might say. I guess the prejudices of the compilers skew it as well then.

[Khandro]

What would be the purpose of holding such a poll now, if it wasn't to produce a result somebody wants? 'Leavers' wouldn't be interested in a poll now the referendum is done and dusted, but there is a lot of power and money behind the remain lobby, (Soros to name but one).
It looks to me as if this poll is far from being unbiased and scientific.

[jim360]

I don't see how any of that follows from anything. At best, it's reasoning backwards from a result to assume a motive -- and at worst it's rampant paranoia.

There isn't going to be a second referendum, at least not on the same question, so I shouldn't worry too much.

[Khandro]

jim; //There isn't going to be a second referendum, at least not on the same question, so I shouldn't worry too much.//

True! so why conduct a poll? and how 'scientific' do you think it was? and are we told what questions were asked and to whom?

[Old_Geezer]

As the thread title suggests, it's totally irrelevant even if a few have gotten cold feet from the fear stories put about. The leave decision has been made, and at the time folk were courageous enough to vote for what is right.

The issue now is whether the UK "negotiating" team will suddenly wake up and get a good deal, or continue capitulating on everything, come back with a fudged worded speech hiding reality, and go on about how well they'd done, and cause parliament to reject it to go for hard Brexit instead.

After all "no deal is better than a bad deal". And it's off to a bad start so far.

[jim360]

I don't see why we should stop caring what the people think just because we aren't likely to officially ask them. It might, at the very least, inform policy to an extent.

As to the poll and details, you can find them here:

http://www.bmgresearch.co.uk/independent-poll-shift-toward-remain-at-height-of-brexit-negotiation-tensions/

[jim360]

Also, it's worth noting this point, from my link:

"This poll shares the same methodology as BMG’s pre-Referendum polling, which consistently reported Leave ahead in the run-up to the EU referendum in 2016, and also called the correct outcome."

Just saying.

[Khandro]

".......BMG’s latest poll for the Independent......."
So, the Independent (a misnomer if ever there was one) a wildly remain journal, pays big money to BMG to conduct this poll. I think I smell Rattus rattus, but maybe that's just my "paranoia" showing.

[Peter Pedant]

AOG is talking ***
tomorrow he will talk more bnboooloux

and then a bit more ( bouloux )

and no Aber will notice a damn thing

[jim360]

Well yes, it maybe is. Especially given what I pointed out about the company, ie that it's one of the pollsters that got the 2016 referendum correct.

I know it's hard to believe, but sometimes people can disagree with you without being part of a massive international conspiracy.

[anotheoldgit]

Peter Pedant

/// and no Aber will notice a damn thing ///

And that is because they all haven't a strange and twisted mind such as yours.