I'm more confused at 5% of people thinking UKIP is anti-Brexit. And less people knowing about UKIP's stance in general than the Brexit Party.

I think what we can take away from that poll is that unless the clue is in the name a large proportion of the population havent a clue, and even when the clue is IN the name 25% of people STILL haven't a clue.

 

Which all goes to show that about half the population is ripe for any old piece of tat, you could tell them Martians are invading and they'd ring up in panic. Sounds unlikely? Errr it happened, see Orson Welles radio broadcast of War Of The Worlds....

Which all goes to show that about half the population is ripe for any old piece of tat, you could tell them Martians are invading and they'd ring up in panic. Sounds unlikely? Errr it happened, see Orson Welles radio broadcast of War Of The Worlds....

 

The actually panic over the radio broadcast of War of The Worlds was very much exaggerated (including by Orson Welles himself in his experimental documentary "F For Fake") - the isolated, and largely unverified stories surrounding the panic was the old-timey version of modern days stories like "Chris Pratt wore a French hat, and people are FURIOUS", where the "people" are two people of Twitter with 7 followers between them. Ironically, the fact that people believe that there was mass panic surrounding this broadcast just goes to show how people are likely to believe something just because it confirms their cognitive biases.

'Ever since I first learned about confirmation bias I've been seeing it everywhere'... :basil:

'Ever since I first learned about confirmation bias I've been seeing it everywhere'... :basil:

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'Ever since I first learned about confirmation bias I've been seeing it everywhere'... :basil:

 

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The actually panic over the radio broadcast of War of The Worlds was very much exaggerated (including by Orson Welles himself in his experimental documentary "F For Fake") - the isolated, and largely unverified stories surrounding the panic was the old-timey version of modern days stories like "Chris Pratt wore a French hat,

 

Plus there was no instant confirmation/refutation then, so true facts were harder to establish - although there are still far too many people who believe in UFO conspiracy theories. :(

 

errrr the principle applies, there were a few hundreds of concerned calls to the radio stations. People widely believe the moon landings were faked. the flat earth society is very much a thing, the numbers of people claiming to have been kidnapped by aliens is a virtual army (as mentioned by Vidcapper), many millions of people believe Donald Trump is not a liar despite video evidence to the contrary....

 

People, and I'm sorry to say it, can be persuaded to believe any old piece of fake crap even when it clearly challenges reality and science. The evidence is everywhere - or else I've fallen victim to the same confirmation bias. I haven't. I didn't say they ran screaming into the streets....

errrr the principle applies, there were a few hundreds of concerned calls to the radio stations. People widely believe the moon landings were faked. the flat earth society is very much a thing, the numbers of people claiming to have been kidnapped by aliens is a virtual army (as mentioned by Vidcapper),

 

many millions of people believe Donald Trump is not a liar despite video evidence to the contrary....

 

He's in politics, so he's a liar, period. :P

 

AS for the others, I just laugh at them.

Who remembers the spaghetti tree hoax? :lol:

Who remembers the spaghetti tree hoax? :lol:

 

Not me, although that’s largely because it happened 30 years before I was born. :P

He's in politics, so he's a liar, period. :P

 

AS for the others, I just laugh at them.

Until recently, very few politicians were blatant liars. They may have bent the truth a little or been selective with facts, but they didn’t tell outright lies. The likes of Trump and Cameron have changed that. Their attitude seems to have been “People expect politicians to lie; why disappoint them?” That is potentially very dangerous.

Huge lead for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party in the latest poll from OpiniumResearch.

 

European Parliament voting intention:

 

BREX: 34% (+6)

LAB: 21% (-7)

LDEM: 12% (+5)

CON: 11% (-3)

GRN: 8% (+2)

UKIP: 4% (+1)

CHUK: 3% (-4)

 

via @OpiniumResearch, 08 May

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Until recently, very few politicians were blatant liars. They may have bent the truth a little or been selective with facts, but they didn’t tell outright lies. The likes of Trump and Cameron have changed that. Their attitude seems to have been “People expect politicians to lie; why disappoint them?” That is potentially very dangerous.

 

More dangerous if they believe them despite the lies, though?

More dangerous if they believe them despite the lies, though?

That's one of the reasons why it's so dangerous. It's a sorry state of affairs when so many people look at the PM's record and decide they cannot believe a word she says. It's dangerous when a significant number of people believe the lies told by the likes of Trump, Johnson and Farage despite the irrefutable evidence that they are serial liars.

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I mean it's totally wishful thinking as an election would never occur under those conditions but that is a beautiful map.

I wouldn't pay much attention to Westminster polling until a fair time after the Euros have ended. And FPBE seat projections are always going to be very tricky and incredibly interesting under unprecedented circumstances. A party on 15-20% of the vote could get hundreds of seats or barely any at all.

But of course while the exact numbers are fickle, we can't deny the broad trends of the Tories being in dire straits and Labour not much better.

Huge lead for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party in the latest poll from OpiniumResearch.

 

European Parliament voting intention:

 

BREX: 34% (+6)

LAB: 21% (-7)

LDEM: 12% (+5)

CON: 11% (-3)

GRN: 8% (+2)

UKIP: 4% (+1)

CHUK: 3% (-4)

 

via @OpiniumResearch, 08 May

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Also 38% is already a few percent above the ceiling that I thought UKIP+BREX would be limited to, even in light of ~40% of voters believing that WTO rules are a good idea. I hope it's wrong. Ack.