This is an interesting poll except it draws the correct conclusion ('members' does not equal 'voters') to misdirect. Tories are a 'breed apart'. Simple answer from a democrat: Yes They Are - Thank God. Isn't that a good thing? Now what are they up to in this guff? Well if they were actually trying to do anything worthy for our democracy. First tell readers what the total 'membership' of each party is, that your 1,000 member survey is drawn from. If your party membership falls below 100,000 members then the views of the Praetorian are going to be pretty marked are they not? None of that serious discussion of course. It seems to me that the data is being used to show that 'eveybody' holds a certain view of Brexit in counter point to the Tories. So add in the SNP figures and it is another: Corbyn 'look mate', Labour must either: ignore, rerun, just pretend Brexit VOTE didn't happen. So the researcher says: 'even Labour, which under Jeremy Corbyn is occupying the middle ground
over Brexit. Among Labour members, 87% want the UK to remain in the
single market, 85% in the customs union, and 78% support a new
referendum'. Is the 90,000 Tory, Praetorian membership more reflective of the Tory vote generally than the 500,000 Labour: Praetorian, Guards and 'members of the line' are of Labour's? I hope politics, economics and sociology students at the professor's University start with that question and what the serious answers mean for our democracy. Not how we discredit it.