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by ben_w 2588 days ago
YouGov survey for the Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/polling-shows-voters...

I used to like him. I wish he was all that you call him.

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An online poll. Huh.

What did I 'call him' that you disagree with?

That he has “broad support“, that he has “been astonishingly effective”, and that he has “revitalised Labour”. I wish all those things were true.

Unrelated: while YouGov is indeed online, it chooses which people to send the surveys to and has long-term profiles on each of them, so unlike a silly Twitter poll it has decent statistical relevance and the biases seem to be persistent, well quantified, and generally accounted for — you shouldn’t dismiss it just because you don’t like what it’s saying.