Labour is stealing lies from the Liberal Democrat playbook – at least, that’s what this article’s featured image suggests.
The Liberal Democrats are notorious for publishing election literature that includes a block graph that purports to show how much support the different parties have, according to opinion polls.
Their former leader, Jo Swinson, came unstuck in the run-up to the 2019 election when Sky‘s Sophy Ridge pointed out that one such block graph was based on an entirely hypothetical question. Here in This Writer’s Brecon and Radnorshire constituency, I pointed out that the graph the LDs used was misleading because it did not provide an accurate visual representation of the differences – the blocks in the graph were the wrong sizes.
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I now live in a new constituency called Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe. There is no previous voting record because the constituency is newly-created. But the graph provided with Labour’s election material is based on “Best For Britain Spring 2024 Polling” – whatever that is.
We are not told what the question was, on which people in the constituency were polled.
But This Writer has campaigned for Labour in the old constituency and, to me, it seems a very long stretch to suggest that that party can spring from being a distant third in the polls to runaway first.
The claim that “only Labour can beat the Tories” seems nothing more than a bald-faced lie.
Also: these block graphs are intended to mislead voters about the very purpose of their vote.
In a general election, it is not your duty to vote tribally or tactically, in order to keep a particular party out of the constituency’s Parliamentary seat.Are you
Your duty is to examine the election material provided by all the candidates – no matter which party they represent or if they are Independent – and vote for whoever offers the policies that would help you the most.
In a country where the two largest parties are united on domestic policy – more privatisation, more austerity, more inequality, more poverty – and on foreign policy – supporting the genocide in Gaza – it seems clear that, for the vast majority of the population, there is no safety or security in voting for either Labour or the Conservatives.
Are you happy to be fooled by this lie?
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Labour is stealing lies from the Liberal Democrat playbook
Labour is stealing lies from the Liberal Democrat playbook – at least, that’s what this article’s featured image suggests.
The Liberal Democrats are notorious for publishing election literature that includes a block graph that purports to show how much support the different parties have, according to opinion polls.
Their former leader, Jo Swinson, came unstuck in the run-up to the 2019 election when Sky‘s Sophy Ridge pointed out that one such block graph was based on an entirely hypothetical question. Here in This Writer’s Brecon and Radnorshire constituency, I pointed out that the graph the LDs used was misleading because it did not provide an accurate visual representation of the differences – the blocks in the graph were the wrong sizes.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
I now live in a new constituency called Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe. There is no previous voting record because the constituency is newly-created. But the graph provided with Labour’s election material is based on “Best For Britain Spring 2024 Polling” – whatever that is.
We are not told what the question was, on which people in the constituency were polled.
But This Writer has campaigned for Labour in the old constituency and, to me, it seems a very long stretch to suggest that that party can spring from being a distant third in the polls to runaway first.
The claim that “only Labour can beat the Tories” seems nothing more than a bald-faced lie.
Also: these block graphs are intended to mislead voters about the very purpose of their vote.
In a general election, it is not your duty to vote tribally or tactically, in order to keep a particular party out of the constituency’s Parliamentary seat.Are you
Your duty is to examine the election material provided by all the candidates – no matter which party they represent or if they are Independent – and vote for whoever offers the policies that would help you the most.
In a country where the two largest parties are united on domestic policy – more privatisation, more austerity, more inequality, more poverty – and on foreign policy – supporting the genocide in Gaza – it seems clear that, for the vast majority of the population, there is no safety or security in voting for either Labour or the Conservatives.
Are you happy to be fooled by this lie?
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The Livingstone Presumption is available
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Health Warning: Government! is now available
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The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
is still available in either print or eBook format here:
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