The Sunday Times and the fiddled Yougov poll (28Feb10)

Former New Labour supporter Greg Dyke picks up an interesting fact as how in the course of a few hours, an opinion pole held by (New Labour supporting) Yougov managed to change to give New Labour a massively bigger lead than what it was first printed. No explanation is being offered by The Times or Yougov.

Recorded from BBC's Andrew Marr Show, 28 February 2010.

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[theemperorwearsnoclo]

This is from the BBC - The Biased Broadcasting Cartel. What can one expect.

The BBC are New Labour's "Ministry of Truth" and somewhere in the basement sits Winston Smith shoving the real data into a cast iron stove to keep himself warm.

[wrathofgod86668]

"Polls are intended, by those who commission them, to influence opinion, not to measure it. " Peter Hitchens.

[DonLandmann]

Valuable information

[AhmedMarquette]

Valuable information

[MrAnywhatever]

I don't know who these polls (comres, yougov, ipsos mori, sun, etc) are asking, but I've e-mailed 100 of my friends/relatives/colleagues and I've got:

Lib Dems - 59%, Con - 12%, Lab - 8%, BNP - 16%, UKIP - 3% Green - 2%.

I initially asked 100 people but had some non-voters and some non-replies so I ended up asking 121 people until I got 99 replies, and then my own vote which is for the Green party.

[dylans8]

Get them all in court for fiddling expenses misuse of public funds inc Brown who had his sky subs paid by us all