You have to ask yourself who owns and runs yougov. Then you need to ask yourself how is their target voter made up. I am no longer convinced by their findings.
We apologise for any misunderstanding caused by the changes to our account last night. It was an honest attempt to mislead people into believing our lies and propaganda. #FactCheckuk
Conservative Press Office May seem weird for us to say this but, if we’re honest, we reckon @jeremycorbyn was the clear winner. Pay no attention to misleading accounts.
It was said on Sky News this morning (interview with Dawn Butler) that a rabbi had quoted there were 103 cases of anti Semitism still on file with the Labour party. DB looked put out and said ‘I don’t know how you got hold of this - it’s classified information’.
Bona fide fact-checking organisations condemned the move as “inappropriate” while a top EU politicians said it amounted to “dystopian” disinformation of the kind seen in authoritarian states.
“Dystopian. Not even [Hungarian far-right prime minister Viktor] Orban or the Polish PiS [ruling party] would dream this up, let alone do it,” said Guy Verhofstadt, the European parliament’s Brexit coordinator.
The account, usually used for press releases from Conservative Party HQ, normally bears the party’s logo and branding as the account of the “Official Conservative Party Press Office”.'
Full Fact @FullFact · 14h It is inappropriate and misleading for the Conservative press office to rename their twitter account ‘factcheckUK’ during this debate. Please do not mistake it for an independent fact checking service such as @FullFact, @FactCheck or @FactCheckNI
So what Urmstongran no one has ever said there are no anti-semitic people in the LP. Although a significant number of the allegations in the past have been from people who are not members of the LP. It has been and is being investigated. It's a pity other political parties are not putting their own houses in order. Whitewavemark2 Johnson wasn't. I did think it would have been more balanced if the issue of Islamaphobia in the Tory party hd been raised with him. But it's become something no one wants to talk about.
Regarding polls, I think they're all rubbish and I take no notice of them. I only quote them here because remainers seems to like quoting polls. The only thing that actually matters is the election result.
I rest my case! It's the election result that counts. You can go into an endless spin over polls as much as you like, they prove nothing. The last election and the EU referendum proved that.
For those of us on GN, most agree it was pretty even, but we weren’t asked by any poll! ? I would have expected Corbyn to do better than Johnson, who doesn’t do well with off the cuff stuff when it comes to serious things.Whereas always having something to say is Corbyn's forte. There will be another tv debate soon between them, on BBC. All that matters of course, to either of them, is how the electorate actually votes on Dec 12 th.
Anyone can vote on YouGov, but they do sample by age/ demographic etc. You can sign up to do their surveys. I didn’t waste an hour of my life watching the “debate”, - more likely to learn something new watching Masterchef. The set has been described as a cross between an S and M dungeon and a 1970s game show.
David Lammy @DavidLammy Grimly dystopian. @JamesCleverly lies about using the Conservative Party Press account to lie to the country by pretending it is fact-checking service calling out lies, when in fact it is spreading more lies. This is what George Orwell wrote about in 1984.
I managed to force myself to resist the temptation to watch this.
I am just mind-boggled that the Tories indulged in such a blatant piece of cheating and chicanery on twitter, changing their name to Factcheck UK. Did they really think that no-one would notice.
How sad it is that our political life has stooped so low.
Julie E. had trouble controlling Boris - she couldn't stop him talking. I think Fiona Bruce is a good political presenter as her voice is lower and therefore commands more gravity. I know she's BBC though and she did a great job on Friday with the four leaders Question Time debate.