Will Dirty Tricks Stop Change?

In a sure sign that the @Labservative parties are melting down in blind panic at the sudden rise of the Lib Dems, the dirty tricks may have started to try to cripple what has suddenly become the most popular party in the country. Former British Ambassador Craig Murray noticed this comment:

Just done a YouGov, Mostly about Clegg & LDHere was one of the question“Nick Cleggs says the other parties are to blame for the MP scandals, he has taken money from a criminal on the run, many of his MPs have been found guilty of breaking the rules and his own party issued guidance on how to fiddle the expenses system?”

I’d say that was fairly direct!

There were some 17 other questions re the LD

by sealo0 April 18th, 2010 at 10:33 am

It turns out that questions were asked before the respondent was asked about their voting intentions. Of course the results will reflect the bias inherent in the earlier questions. According to Murray:

Anthony Wells of YouGov (known henceforth as YouGove) admits YouGov asking these “questions, but claims the voting intention question ought to have been asked first. He also points out that the antiLib Dem questions were “Not for publication”.I bet they bloody weren’t.

Yet somehow they made it into the polling process itself. Clearly from the second link above this poll hasn’t affected the Lib Dem surge, but the question remains whether this stunt was put together by YouGov itself to please News International, if it was ordered by Murdoch or if something else happened.  Liberal Democrat Voice opines The Sun was behind this – are they right, and if so will they succeed?

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