{"id":188,"date":"2019-07-27T22:03:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T21:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/?p=188"},"modified":"2019-07-28T07:51:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T06:51:18","slug":"two-polls-out-tonight-one-clear-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/2019\/07\/27\/two-polls-out-tonight-one-clear-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Two polls out tonight. One clear message."},"content":{"rendered":"

One by OpiniumResearch<\/a>, fieldwork 24-26 July changes with respect to 5th July:<\/p>\n

CON: 30% (+7)<\/strong><\/p>\n

LAB: 28% (+3)<\/p>\n

LDEM: 16% (+1)<\/p>\n

BREX: 15% (-7)<\/strong><\/p>\n

GRN: 5% (-3)<\/p>\n

And one by DeltaPoll for the Mail on Sunday<\/a>:<\/p>\n

CON: 30 (+10)<\/strong><\/p>\n

LAB: 25 (-1)<\/p>\n

LIB: 18 (+2)<\/p>\n

BRX: 14 (-10)<\/strong><\/p>\n

CUK: 2 (-2)<\/p>\n

The fearful symmetry of that +7, -7 and +10, -10 is burning bright in the tangled forests of polling data. I rejoice.<\/p>\n

I do not rejoice for the Conservatives, or mourn for the Brexit party. When the Tories’ voters deserted them en masse<\/em> for the Brexit Party just before the European Parliament elections I was happy for the same reason that I am happy now: those splendidly disloyal voters were sending the message “We voted to leave the European Union. Forget building high speed railways or cancelling them, or whatever other scheme you think matters, we want Brexit<\/em>. And we will vote for whichever party has the best chance of getting it done.”<\/p>\n

Edit: Good grief, there have now been four<\/em> polls published tonight. They’re like No. 9 buses, you wait ages then four turn up at once. The two later polls did not give such dramatic rises for the Tories, but one of them, by ComRes<\/a>, yet again followed the pattern of a rise for the Conservatives precisely mirrored by a fall for the Brexit Party. Only YouGov did not follow<\/a> this pattern. It showed a rise for the Conservatives and a fall for the Brexit Party, all right, but they were not quite equal. I repeat: it is not the rise or fall of either party that interests me. What interests me is that this demonstrates there is a most un-blocky bloc of voters for whom Brexit is the key issue. <\/p>\n

In recent weeks there has been a slew of comments from the Remain side that asked, with a pitying shake of the head, what would the poor shambling Leave voters actually do if Article 50 were revoked? Get out on the streets with their Zimmer frames and riot? (The search term riot Zimmer frame Brexit<\/a><\/em> gets 51,600 results. Recycling is all very well, but someone needs to donate them a second joke.) Well, besides the route taken by one Brexit-supporting old girl who won’t see seventy again – become an MEP and make Greens cry<\/a> – there is always the option of swing voting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One by OpiniumResearch, fieldwork 24-26 July changes with respect to 5th July: CON: 30% (+7) LAB: 28% (+3) LDEM: 16% (+1) BREX: 15% (-7) GRN: 5% (-3) And one by DeltaPoll for the Mail on Sunday: CON: 30 (+10) LAB: 25 (-1) LIB: 18 (+2) BRX: 14 (-10) CUK: 2 (-2) The fearful symmetry of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}