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Thread #162855   Message #3906736
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
19-Feb-18 - 02:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 12:42 PM
So, according to polls, a pretty sizeable majority of people who voted Labour in the election voted remain the year before. It's what pollsters ask people, Nigel. If you have a problem with that I'd suggest that you are being downright unreasonable.


Not unreasonable. How often recently have polls failed to predict the correct outcome.
It may be that polls have some inbuilt fallibility, or just that people give pollsters the answer they think the pollsters want, but then go on to vote in line with their true beliefs.