Not Joey Lucas

[smokingboot]

On the Campaign to Rejoin the EU page, I put up this post:

Here’s a question; it seems unlikely that any one opposition party has the strength /support to take us back into the EU, assuming that the EU would want us. Would you be ready to ally with erstwhile rival political groups/people in order to make it happen?

This got 302 likes and 170 comments.

So I then put up a poll:

Thanks for all your responses to my question about allying with rival political parties who have the same aim of rejoining. Trying to translate these opinions into numbers now, so same question stripped down, apologies if I leave out options, trying to keep it basic: Would you ally with political rival groups/parties/people to bring about Rejoin? I know, not exactly incisive, etc, but not hard.

The options were:

Yes
No
Yes excepting Conservative alliance
Yes excepting Labour alliance

And four days in, the numbers have gone

Yes 320
No 3
Yes excepting Conservative alliance 112
Yes excepting Labour alliance 3

I am not sure any meaningful conclusion can be reached from a FB poll. For all this seems like quite a healthy response, the group supposedly has over 33K members. How many are seeing the poll?

Also, interesting that, at the time of writing this, above a third of respondents would not contemplate a Conservative alliance to bring about rejoining the EU. If that was truly representative, it would cut any campaign away from business conservatives and might well kill it stone dead. But there's no reason to believe it is truly representative. It could just as easily be eager beavers for Labour, and/or some kind of Left Progressive Alliance pushing the narrative of Tories Out rather than Back To The EU.

Then there are those who want to talk about it, often agreeing with an option, but somehow not clicking on said option. Am I missing the obvious? Is the point an obscure one? Nuance for the first post, limited options for the second cos the latter is just a poll. Vote or don't. Unless explaining why one hasn't voted at all, putting opinion/preferred choice in the comments without adding to the poll is entirely irrelevant. Don't tell me about feelings and thoughts, there's another post for that. Jaysus, just tick a box.

What have I really learned from this?

I'm not Joey Lucas.
FB is a rubbish tool for this purpose.
We're all doomed.

This one's multiple choice. See, I'm learning.

Comments

[mallorys_camera]

I'm gonna choose Option (B) in your second multiple choice poll. 😊