- Re: Only found the graph on another blog, possibly The Times but it's paywalled Archived Message
- Poll showing 95% of UK not that interested in AS smears missing? - Iain July 13, 2019, 11:34 am
- Only found the graph on another blog, possibly The Times but it's paywalled - sashimi July 13, 2019, 12:08 pm
Posted by George Brennan
on July 14, 2019, 11:14 am, in reply to "Only found the graph on another blog, possibly The Times but it's paywalled"
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This may be it. Foraged through Populus online catalogue https://www.populus.co.uk/insights/2019/01/revealed-the-most-noticed-stories-of-2018/ “Labour party antisemitism row fails to cut through “Perhaps 2018’s starkest example of a story much greater within the Westminster bubble than outside it was the Labour party antisemitism row. For weeks it was the biggest news item in British politics but it simply did not cut through on a large scale. No more than 6 per cent spontaneously identified it as the story they had paid most attention in any given week – which does not necessarily mean, of course, that the rest of the population does not care about antisemitism. Which political stories did resonate? Jeremy Corbyn and antisemitism were dwarfed by Brexit, which became the biggest story of the year on 72 per cent as the prime minister sought to finalise her deal with the EU in December. “This is a huge share for politics outside of an election year but it is easy to overestimate how many people were tuned in before that point. Brexit did not command more than a third of public attention in any week until September, and it was only in the past two months that it became the most recalled story for a majority. “Even then, despite the wall-to-wall coverage, around three in ten members of the public had other stories (or none at all) on their mind. -------- In the light of Sashimi’s graph we can guess that public interest spikes up to 6 per cent whenever there is LFI press broadside, usually aimed to undercut a Labour poll lead, then subsides to zero. This of course does not tell us how sceptical that interest may or may not be. One poll by another company suggested that 26 per cent of the public thought general claims AS was generally “exaggerated” as against 25 who did not. Half the population dunno. There are polls showing Jewish people, somehow defined, buy into Labour =AS. I have not seen a poll asking how far the general public believes Labour=AS. Of course some polls may unpublished, or this case suppressed, when the give the wrong result gb |
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