""Opinion polls are funny things aren't they, useful when it suits our arguments, denigrated when they don't.""

Only useful if they involve a group properly representative of the total being assessed and sufficiently large for the results to be significant.

2000 out of 67 million?.....Simply nowhere near a statistically significant sample, even if correctly representative of the whole population.

Take 2000 people from Bradford, or Southall and you'll get a very different result than from say Cheltenham, or Bath.

If anybody is seizing on favourable (but suspect) polls to bolster his bias, it is you Jim, and I, as anybody can see by checking my posts in the past, am usually an ally of yours against the likes of Keith and Co.

On this occasion, you have stepped over the line into racial bias against the British and more specifically the English.

BTW, I don't share your distaste for a gentle leg pull about a typo or two, and have fielded more than a few myself with nothing more than a rueful chuckle.

Don T.