Monday, 7 September 2015

The BBC's fightback appears to be continuing....


Newsnight has a poll out tonight (with ComRes) which seems to fly in the face of the other polls. (Fancy that!)

Yes, it partially reflects their findings that a majority of people are against an increased numbers of migrants - but it goes against them in highlighting that 40% of respondents want more migrants taken in.

The Mail on Sunday's poll, in contrast, offered people a range of alternative numbers (from 0-300,000) and found that even among the minority those who countenanced higher numbers, few countenanced much higher numbers and vanishingly few countenanced the high tens or hundreds of thousands. 

This Newsnight poll merely asked 'More, less, or same?'

The whole thing, however, gives the BBC News website the chance to headline its report about this:

Migrant crisis: UK public 'split' over taking refugees

Yeah, right!