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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 22, 2019 11:42:13 GMT
Whilst I have little doubt that the Tories don't poll fabulously amongst teachers, TES are a bunch of wankers desperate to drive traffic to their failing model. Care to expand on that? I didn't know it aroused such strong emotions... TES try to get teachers to write on their subjects for free, rather than pay for content. Their resource marketplace is also relatively unpoliced, and therefore plagiarism and outright theft abound. They also charge schools a lot of money for advertising jobs. |
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Post by The Bishop on Nov 22, 2019 11:46:08 GMT
Care to expand on that? I didn't know it aroused such strong emotions... TES try to get teachers to write on their subjects for free, rather than pay for content Not something that is restricted to the TES these days...... |
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Post by pl on Nov 22, 2019 12:03:25 GMT
Care to expand on that? I didn't know it aroused such strong emotions... TES try to get teachers to write on their subjects for free, rather than pay for content. Their resource marketplace is also relatively unpoliced, and therefore plagiarism and outright theft abound. They also charge schools a lot of money for advertising jobs. Sounds a lot like the Guardian. Quite why the public sector is still propping up such publications when a single national public sector jobs website would be much cheaper is beyond me. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 22, 2019 13:25:34 GMT
TES try to get teachers to write on their subjects for free, rather than pay for content. Their resource marketplace is also relatively unpoliced, and therefore plagiarism and outright theft abound. They also charge schools a lot of money for advertising jobs. Sounds a lot like the Guardian. Quite why the public sector is still propping up such publications when a single national public sector jobs website would be much cheaper is beyond me. I think that's the model many councils are moving towards. Frankly it makes more sense. Greater Manchester councils have a joint website now. |
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Post by tonyhill on Nov 23, 2019 18:36:37 GMT
I've just noticed this poll in this month's PrintWeek. "A PrintWeek poll asking readers which way they plan to vote in the coming election attracted nearly 500 votes in two days, with the largest proportion (50%) saying they will vote Conservative, followed by 18% each for the Liberal Democrats and The Brexit Party, 8% saying they will vote Labour. All of the other parties collectively garnered 6%."
I would guess that PrintWeek is largely read by management level people in the printing industry rather than workers on the shop floor, hence the low level of support for the Labour Party. If I was asked for my vote I must have missed the email.
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Post by gwynthegriff on May 27, 2020 21:34:34 GMT
www.facebook.com/jewishtelegraph/posts/ This purports to be an Oxford University study, showing that 1 in 5 blame Jews for the Coronavirus outbreak. I'd be grateful for your opinions on how valid or scientific a poll this is, if possible. Thanks. The source seems credible (U of Oxford, lead is an academic and clinical psychologist etc) but ā¦ the figures look to be nonsense. 45.4% believe (to at least some degree) that the Chinese created it was a weapon. 19.2% that the Jews are using it for financial gain. 19.9% that it's the Muslims innit. 21.0% that it's Bill Gates. So 105.5% believe one or more of the above are involved. (Yes, I know but it would be interesting to know how many ticked both the Jewish and the Muslim box.) Oh, and 29.1% believe the WHO has a secret vaccine; 25.5% that celebs are being paid to say they have had it; and 26.5% the politicians have faked having it. God knows how they drew up their representative sample. |
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Post by John Chanin on May 28, 2020 8:00:29 GMT
www.facebook.com/jewishtelegraph/posts/ This purports to be an Oxford University study, showing that 1 in 5 blame Jews for the Coronavirus outbreak. I'd be grateful for your opinions on how valid or scientific a poll this is, if possible. Thanks. The source seems credible (U of Oxford, lead is an academic and clinical psychologist etc) but ā¦ the figures look to be nonsense. 45.4% believe (to at least some degree) that the Chinese created it was a weapon. 19.2% that the Jews are using it for financial gain. 19.9% that it's the Muslims innit. 21.0% that it's Bill Gates. So 105.5% believe one or more of the above are involved. (Yes, I know but it would be interesting to know how many ticked both the Jewish and the Muslim box.) Oh, and 29.1% believe the WHO has a secret vaccine; 25.5% that celebs are being paid to say they have had it; and 26.5% the politicians have faked having it. God knows how they drew up their representative sample. The figures donāt look right, but it is true that there is a large undercurrent of belief in batty and often conflicting conspiracy theories all over the world. The prevalence of this has been fairly firmly linked by research to trust - not narrowly in the sense of trust in government, or more widely the āruling classā, but in social trust, in the links between people. Not for the first time this is generally higher in Western Europe than elsewhere. The figures quoted here wouldnāt surprise me in the least for the USA, but donāt look plausible for Britain. Thereās quite a lot of reputable survey data out there that would confirm this (sorry I canāt be bothered to chase references right now) |
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Post by The Bishop on May 28, 2020 10:44:20 GMT
thanks that's very useful. Despite my frequent complaints about antisemitic behaviour, I believe such attitudes to be much less prevalent in this country than in, say, Russia, Austria, Poland or the USA. There is more antisemitism in the US than Britain? Tbh that would surprise some of the uninitiated. |
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Post by jamie on May 28, 2020 15:56:41 GMT
If you were to speak to the average supporter of Donald Trump, they would be far likelier to have antisemitic attitudes than the average supporter of the Conservatives here. Antisemitic attitudes are not very common amongst Labour supporters either. IIRC a couple of years ago a study found Labour voters were actually less anti-Semitic than Conservative voters. |
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Post by Sibboleth on May 28, 2020 16:00:24 GMT
Yeah, the party's... recent... er... issues... are not really related to the people who support it, or usually support it, as such.
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Post by belvoir on May 28, 2020 18:29:03 GMT
If you were to speak to the average supporter of Donald Trump, they would be far likelier to have antisemitic attitudes than the average supporter of the Conservatives here. Antisemitic attitudes are not very common amongst Labour supporters either. IIRC a couple of years ago a study found Labour voters were actually less anti-Semitic than Conservative voters. Meaningless nonsense because a) self-reporting: the most ghastly "anti-Zionist" Labourite would not dream of telling a pollster they were racist, because the Labour Party is automatically opposed to antisemitismandallotherformsofracism, even if opposingantisemitismandallotheretc means denying Israel's right to exist and wishing 6 million Jews were drowned in the sea, and b) if you poll the Tories and find Mr. A. Tory-Nobody of Nowhere, Mr. B. Tory-Nobody of Nowhere and Mr. C. Tory-Nobody of Nowhere (that's the Nowhere Tory-Nobodies, not the Berkshire Tory-Nobodies or the Kent Tory-Nobodies, mind) are anti-semites, that's less important than finding Mr. J. Corbyn of Holloway, Mr. S. Milne of somewhere else in Islington and Mr. Mo Mentum are all anti-semites. |
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Post by Defenestrated Fipplebox on May 28, 2020 19:20:14 GMT
IIRC a couple of years ago a study found Labour voters were actually less anti-Semitic than Conservative voters. Meaningless nonsense because a) self-reporting: the most ghastly "anti-Zionist" Labourite would not dream of telling a pollster they were racist, because the Labour Party is automatically opposed to antisemitismandallotherformsofracism, even if opposingantisemitismandallotheretc means denying Israel's right to exist and wishing 6 million Jews were drowned in the sea, and b) if you poll the Tories and find Mr. A. Tory-Nobody of Nowhere, Mr. B. Tory-Nobody of Nowhere and Mr. C. Tory-Nobody of Nowhere (that's the Nowhere Tory-Nobodies, not the Berkshire Tory-Nobodies or the Kent Tory-Nobodies, mind) are anti-semites, that's less important than finding Mr. J. Corbyn of Holloway, Mr. S. Milne of somewhere else in Islington and Mr. Mo Mentum are all anti-semites.
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Post by manchesterman on Jul 7, 2020 13:41:59 GMT
Not so much unknown polls but there dosent seem to be a thread based on polling averages results/maps like this?
However the SNP ousting Carmichael in O&S? Hmmm
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Post by hullenedge on May 7, 2021 14:04:24 GMT
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Post by The Bishop on May 9, 2021 9:28:23 GMT
Looking like the above may not be a totally bona fide survey.
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Post by finsobruce on May 9, 2021 9:41:06 GMT
Looking like the above may not be a totally bona fide survey. You shock and surprise me. |
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Post by hullenedge on May 14, 2021 8:20:55 GMT
Support for increased public expenditure but a reluctance for increased taxation:-
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Post by The Bishop on May 14, 2021 9:51:12 GMT
Was it not ever thus?
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Post by jamie on May 14, 2021 10:56:03 GMT
The fact thereās not much difference between Labour and Conservative voters on broad personal tax rises is indicative of how thatās probably not the whole story. Labourās message, even under Corbyn, was always that significant tax rises would only be for specific groups (the rich, corporations, tax dodgers etc). Itās certainly debatable whether they would have stuck to that if in power, but the message was never that everyone would be paying a lot more tax for more spending. Of course, the Conservatives traditional prefernence for broad based rather than progressive tax rises may run into some trouble instead.
Edit - Labour voters are still noticeably more likely to support/less likely to oppose personal tax rises if framed as in tandem to spending. So both partyās voters basically agree that they are paying the right amount of tax, but push comes to shove Labour voters are more supportive of paying more if told why.
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Post by hengo on May 14, 2021 11:16:05 GMT
Conservatives have always depended on certain key moments in ones life journey. Opening the first payslip- looking at the deductions and thinking ā crikey , Iām all for public services etc but that seems a bit steepā; the first mortgage; first experience of managing others as opposed to being managed; children going through their various stages with all the accompanying anxieties ; the actual experience of a Labour government as opposed to the anticipation ( admittedly only the more elderly among us can recall much of that). And so on.
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