A majority in NI voted to stay in the EU in the first place, so while it’s good to hear it’s not exactly surprising either.
I mean, this isn’t exactly a revelation but what purpose does this poll even serve?
Whether NI or indeed Scotland still want to be part of the EU is kind of a mute point at this stage. What’s done is done.
I was thinking how good it was they give some info about margin for error and how the poll was taken; all very clear until I got to this:
“The division in Northern Ireland on the protocol is remarkably even. Just over a fifth of all voters (21 per cent) support it; 23 per cent neither support nor oppose it and 24 per cent oppose it. A slightly larger proportion of voters — 31 per cent — say they don’t know.”
What is the effective difference between “neither support nor oppose it” and “say they don’t know”? Confidence in being undecided?
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A majority in NI voted to stay in the EU in the first place, so while it’s good to hear it’s not exactly surprising either.
I mean, this isn’t exactly a revelation but what purpose does this poll even serve?
Whether NI or indeed Scotland still want to be part of the EU is kind of a mute point at this stage. What’s done is done.
I was thinking how good it was they give some info about margin for error and how the poll was taken; all very clear until I got to this:
“The division in Northern Ireland on the protocol is remarkably even. Just over a fifth of all voters (21 per cent) support it; 23 per cent neither support nor oppose it and 24 per cent oppose it. A slightly larger proportion of voters — 31 per cent — say they don’t know.”
What is the effective difference between “neither support nor oppose it” and “say they don’t know”? Confidence in being undecided?