Britons back Boris Johnson’s Rwanda plan, our poll says: Huge support defies hand-wringing critics as survey shows even Labour voters are more for than against scheme to send asylum seekers to Africa

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1. “statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.” 

2. >The poll of more than 1,000 adults, carried out by Savanta for the Mail, found that while 47 per cent of all voters say they support the idea, just 26 per cent are against. The rest say they do not know or have no opinion.

   >Among those who voted Labour at the last election, 39 per cent say they support the move compared with 36 per cent who do not.

   36 and 39 percent sound suspiciously like 12 and 13 out of 39, respectively (and multiples thereof). Do we have any idea what proportion of Daily Mail readers who might e voted in this poll voted Labour at the last election?

3. >Britons back Boris Johnson’s Rwanda plan, our poll says:

   Daily Heil so it’s poll is complete bollocks.

4. I totally believe this.

   Too many folk on here don’t want to acknowledge our country is a nasty little backwater now

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6. Poll commissioned by Daily Mail supports government policy.

   Gosh.

7. The stats don’t surprise me really, only that there aren’t even more people who support it. People aren’t cruel though, they’re just misinformed. These polls carried out for the right-wing press only show how bad the media is at actually informing people properly and presenting facts to them. They’re merely demonstrating their own inadequacies as media outlets and journalists.

   If they changed the questions, people would have different reactions as well. Asking whether an *initial* 120 million quid is good value for money without any context is meaningless without saying the number of people that would pay to “off-shore”. Last year Australia spent £461 million to process *239* asylum seekers offshore.

   Daily Mail readers should be asked whether they think it’s going to be good value for money to spend £120 million to “off-shore” 60 asylum seekers. There wouldn’t be much support for that.

8. “The poll of more than 1,000 adults, carried out by Savanta for the Mail”

   Not much more than 1000, I’ll bet. And I’d be very interested to know how they picked that remarkably small group of people, bearing in ,it’d this was for the Daily Mail.

   Also, stop posting the Daily fucking Mail. It’s a shitrag.

9. Outsourcing human rights. It’s a neoliberal wet dream.

10. How does one sue a newspaper for slander and misrepresentation of an entire countries population?

11. Labour cannot oppose this. It will cost us in the May elections if we do.

12. Headline translation: Daily Mail readers have the same amount of compassion as people who read the Daily Mail

13. Bollox. This is the shit from the mind of the cruel.

14. Remarkable how comments are qquestioning the policy’s popularity, given that it is one of the only pull factors for the government.