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Originally Posted by Russ D
It's a mystery to me too - however I remember the majority (if not all) the polls I saw around the time suggested the public were getting very weary of the protesters' actions. I'd consider the BBC to be as neutral as possible on the matter and each survey they undertook had the truckers as being VERY unpopular.
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the issue could be that those polls included non-motorists, and therefore people who have not had to suffer from the taxes.
it's like asking a group of tall people if they'd support a protest against a tax on short people, then comparing he result with what short people said.
You also have the issue of what questions were asked, ie did they say "do you support the current action of the protesters?" or "would you support the protesters if it caused hospitals to turn away patients and if food could not get to the shops?"
Lies, damn lies and statistics