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[webofevil]

Compare and contrast: “Brits oppose £80m voting referendum” and “69% support holding a referendum”. The Sun kindly allows both interpretations on the same page. Presumably this is to allow the reader to make up their own mind rather than being a Foxnewsian exercise in blatantly lying in the face of the evidence that you yourself are presenting. Presumably.

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

also, leading question much? at least they say what the leading question is, which is a small step forward i suppose...

[chiller.livejournal.com]

So basically Sun readers want a vote, but only if it doesn't cost anything to have one. *sigh*

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Also, I think the £80m is the cost for holding a referendum on its own, not the marginal cost of holding a referendum at the same time as local & regional elections.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm more interested in the fact that it's a referendum on AV, which no one except Gordon Brown actually wants (and even he didn't want it that strongly)...

[lowlowprices.livejournal.com]

Did they ask people how important they felt it was for any question put to a referendum to be clearly phrased? Or not?