On 13/04/2019 01:48, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 12/04/2019 19:44, Nightjar wrote:
The press regulator has ordered the Telegraph to print a correction
after ruling that Boris was wrong when he claimed in his column that a
no-deal Brexit was the public's preferred option.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47913555
Unfortunately, Boris was in fact right.
"IPSO has forced The Telegraph to amend a column Boris wrote in January
in which he suggested No Deal was the most popular option with the
public. A Remainer academic from Reading University complained to IPSO
extraordinarily hysterically saying that Boris column was clearly out
of the Trump/Bannon playbook. The piece has now been amended to say
*** In fact, no poll clearly showed that a no-deal Brexit was more
popular than the other options. This correction is being published
following a complaint upheld by the Independent Press Standards
Organisation.
IPSO is mistaken on this point, IPSO clearly didnt look at this Opinium
poll just before Boris wrote his column and as reported at the time by
the BBC:"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46735713
A prime example of what the IPSO said the Telegraph had done:
'construed the polls as signalling support for a no deal, when in fact,
this was the result of the publication either amalgamating several
findings together or interpreting an option beyond what was set out by
the poll, as being a finding in support of a no-deal Brexit'
That is a poll of whether or not people support May's deal. It is not a
poll of whether or not they support a no-deal Brexit. It shows that the
deal is even more unpopular among remain voters than among leave voters.
That suggests that a more accurate claim (if there is such a thing from
a poll that doesn't actually ask the question) it would be that
remaining is a more popular alternative to her deal than a no-deal Brexit.
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Colin Bignell