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Fun With Numbers

Posted on the 09 July 2019 by Markwadsworth @Mark_Wadsworth

The two articles are unremarkable, given their source. What amused me is that they are one day apart:
Polly Toynbee in The Guardian 25 June 2019:
Out in the real world, only a quarter of voters want a no-deal Brexit. For more than 18 months YouGov founder Peter Kellner has recorded a majority who now think the referendum result was wrong. For a year there has been an eight-point lead for remain, among all polls.
This has become a remain-majority country. This seminal fact – mostly due to Labour voters changing their minds, plus the older, more pro-Brexit voters dying, and the young, more remain, entering the register – is missing from most public discussion.

The Sun, 26 June 2019:
MORE voters want Britain to quit the EU now than at the time of Brexit referendum, a fresh poll has revealed. 57 per cent said they thought we should still leave the EU in some way, three years after Brits originally voted for Brexit in 2016.
43 per cent want Britain to Remain, and 16 per cent wanted a softer Brexit, the YouGov research for The Times showed. Just 13 per cent wanted us to quit the bloc with Theresa May's dead deal, compared to 28 per cent who stressed Britain should leave with no deal at all.

The common ground appears to be that about a quarter support No Deal, so that's probably true. The rest of either article is probably made up.


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