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Not only can John Redwood not provide any factual basis for his claim that “polls show a majority now want to leave with no deal”, he accuses @Channel4News of being biased for asking him. So he is chucked off the programme by @krishgm. Why isn’t EVERY news programme doing this?
Being extremely kind to @johnredwood he may have meant one of two polls. He mentioned Comres. He may have meant this poll, as commissioned and publicised by no-deal cheerleaders “Leave Means Leave”. However, the figure is for tory voters ONLY. @krishgm 1/ 
Looking at the full data, even setting aside the ludicrously leading agree/disagree question (shame on you @ComRes - for becoming a “give us the answer you want and we’ll reverse-engineer it” merchant), No Deal only gets 41% in a contest with “delaying”. @krishgm @johnredwood 2/
The last Comres poll that asked the question in a non-insanely-partisan open way, found there was just 30% support for No Deal, with 42% against. @krishgm @johnredwood 3/
Or he may have meant this astonishing piece by the Mail, based (loosely) on YouGov data, which says most (but not a majority) support No Deal, PROVIDED you ignore London, Scotland, Northern Ireland, stand on a hill at sunset, tilt your head and squint. @krishgm @johnredwood 4/
Again, if one looks at a sanely laid out dataset by YouGov, on a properly balanced question, 50% of people think No Deal is a bad outcome - twice the number that think it’s a good outcome. @krishgm @johnredwood 5/
My only question is this: I have now heard an ERG hardliner claim “the majority of people now want a No Deal” roughly two dozen times, across multiple media and networks. Why was @krishgm the first one to challenge this fakery in a robust and persistent way? 6/6 END
