Andrew R T Davies will take a small fall from his high horse with the news that support for independence doubles in the under 24's, but much more interesting is the party by party data, but any pleasure Plaid will get from that would be cancelled out by the fact that the poll states that only 27% of their own voters want independence.
Peter Hain told us just last week that:
“Welsh Labour members – and even more Welsh Labour voters – are currently overwhelmingly against an early referendum, and I do not see that changing for some years to come.”Some asked at the time where he got that piece of information from and it seems even more codswallop than before today as the poll discovers that only a third of Labour voters would vote No. 50% of Labour voters want a Parliament or independence. As I said last week, Peter Hain is nowhere near the wavelength that his party's members are on.
The most bizarre finding though is that 2% of Plaid voters want to scrap devolution all together. Do they know who they're voting for?!
Note: The call for a Yes campaign increased today with the launch of an online cross-party group calling for a referendum, see here. Not being a Facebookian myself I can't join but I hope you do!
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Do we know what the exact options respondees were offered? (no point to make, just interested)
One question asked:
Independence
Parliament
Assembly
Nothing
Another question asked how they would vote in a referendu for a Parliament
The full results were:
Yes: 46%
No: 32%
Would not vote/don't know/won't say: 22%
That's a big lead for the Yes campaign, but makes it clear they still have work to do.
Thanks. I'd seen some results, but always useful to know what the respondents had to select from.
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