(not satire – it’s Nigel Farage!)
Nigel Farage reckons 80% of the British public want to leave the EU:
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Nigel got his dubious figure from the Daily Express:
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The Daily Express in turn got their dubious figure from two Eurosceptic Tory MPs who came up with their own dubious figure after putting leaflets through doors in their constituencies in a small part of Northamptonshire.
Needless to say, the statistics are credible only to idiots (take a bow Mr Farage).
Genuine statistics currently show around 40% of UK respondents think Britain should leave the EU.
Is it too much to ask for a few more facts and lot less b*ll*cks from our politicians and the press when it comes to discussions about important things such as immigration and EU membership?
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
Conducting polls properly is quite a complex art, and polling organisations have to be very careful about possible bias within the questions, and making sure the sample questioned is really representative of the general population as a whole. I was also taught on a sociology course I once attended two decades ago that postal polls have a maximum response rate of about !5%. And this is the maximum, usually the response rate is actually something like 5%. It’s why I’m always sceptical about dubious statistics claiming that according to surveys, the British people, or some section thereof, do x. It merely means that a certain percentage of the small percentage, who actually answered a questionnaire, rather than throwing it in the bin, say they do X. These niceties obviously don’t matter to either Farage or the Express, who long ago abandoned any pretence of scientific accuracy, and started spewing such biased, dodgy stats as supported their own, highly right-wing agenda.
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80% of 5% (Beastrabban) shows that statistics, official or otherwise, are useless. As a statistician I know only too well that how a questionaire is worded can influence the resulting answers.
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After the Greek elections, it could be all change in Europe
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Your link does not work maybe you thought everyone would I just believe what you are claiming without examining the truth.
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ah well in that case this will do then… http://wingsoverscotland.com/dividing-lines/
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The flat rate pension leaves people with forecasts for retiring next year of as little as £55 per week with no other top ups, when this is for the poor their sole food and fuel money in old age.
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
The money wasted on the useless Brussells government was shown by the socialist party that no trade union made big of No2EU, endorsed by the late lamended Wedgwood Benn, who said the truth about the EU in starving its population
Without MEPs and the billions of contribution to an EU that has never had a signed off audit, as auditors will not put pen to paper to say where all the money is going, then the poor starving hunger in the UK could end.
In Europe, are free daily cafes offering, without any food vouchers, a free cooked hot meal and hot drink to the working poor, poor pensioners and the unemployed.
We burn or chuck in landfill 400,000 tonnes of still edible food, because the state will not subsidise the supplier to all the foodbanks, the charity Fareshare, so only gets a mere 5,000 tonnes.
Why is the EU allowing the UK starvation by design of 1 million benefit sanctions for many months, when it takes about one month to starve to death?
Why did the EU not direct the UK government to give the money EU gave direct to the foodbanks, instead of spending them on admin for benefit so as to leave people to starve.
Ask a Greek, Spaniard or Hungarian what they think of the EU and its austerity.
The EU reached in and took pensions from all sources in Greece and Hungary to pay a debt to French and German banks.
The EU reached in and took private people’s money out of their bank account in Cyprus and so took money from charities, schools, and hospitals.
The EU has just destroyed the national airline in Cyprus and all those jobs.
And it is the EU messing about in Ukraine going to war with Russia, when most of Europe is starving cashless poor.
There are even foodbanks in Germany.
The German dominated EU wanted to tax the church in Greece, because they were feeding the poor when all others could not, because all tax money is pouring out of Greece to French and German banks for a debt that will remain for centuries, as Greece falls ever more into the third world.
National debts killing the same people as the German politicians killed over two world wars in Europe.
The EU is inherently evil to the core and exactly the same cruel starving government as the current Coalition.
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I want out of the E U – living in France I see the real deep damage done by the wasteful Brussels crowd.. Empire building is NOT for this century – and not for the people of this century if they want any quality of life. Eve
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I was very surprised also by this 80% figure…. I thought it was more like 96% with 3% Don’t Know, and 1% Not Interested….. 🙂
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Well, until we get a vote (referendum) we’ll never know will we? Personally I want out and I suspect others who also want out feel more passionately about it and would be more likely to vote, that’s why the government daren’t risk it. After all, can you imagine the upheaval and work it would cause them? They prefer to just accept the status quo because anything else terrifies them.
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Sorry Tom, but on this one I disagree. You are allowing your hatred of Farage to get in the way here. When I discuss this with colleagues, friends, neighbours etc I would say 80% want out, with the other 20% being made up of youngsters who don’t know it any other way and have been brainwashed into submission their entire lives.
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Our net contribution to the EU is over £12Bn a year. If you think we will suddenly save that amount of money you’re deluded. Our exit from the EU will cost billions. If you think that this will save the welfare state, pensions, NHS etc. you will be disappointed. If it was up to Farage our healthcare system would be privatised anyway. What about the status of the tens of thousands of Brits who have made their lives in other member states, who will no longer be EU citizens? How will industries react, who only came here to have a foot in the door to Europe? Some will be planning exit strategies already. Most of the social problems we have in this country are nothing to do with our membership of the EU. Sweden for example has a very well state funded healthcare system and nowhere near the level of debt that we have because their financial sectors were not allowed to run amok. For all the EU’s problems I think we’re better off IN.
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