Wednesday 26 December 2012

Pink News: All Of We Loves All Of You?

A series of polls for PinkNews.co.uk has found that the popularity of the Conservative Party has grown since the general election, with David Cameron now a more popular choice to be prime minister than Ed Miliband. Most LGBT people said that by proposing same-sex marriage, David Cameron has positively altered their opinion towards the Conservative Party. Support for the Liberal Democrats has sunk, reflecting national opinion polls...

At the last general election in 2010, 39% of the PinkNews panel who voted in the most recent poll said that they voted for the Liberal Democrats, 27% for the Labour Party and 11% for the Conservatives. The Greens had 6%, SNP 1.6% and 0.5% Plaid Cymru. If there was a general election tomorrow, 38% said they would vote for Labour, 30% for the Conservatives, 13% for the Liberal Democrats, 9% for the Green Party, 2.4% for the SNP, 0.6% for Plaid Cymru and 0.69% for UKIP. In the self selecting poll, 42% said they would vote for Labour, 30% Conservative, 10% Liberal Democrat and 10% Green...


Pink News.

Pink News do make it clear that this is taken from a "self selected" panel online - so I'm not really sure it reflects the voting intentions of "the LGBT community", anymore than a poll of Mail Online readers could be said to represent the general population's.
And if the readers' comments are anything to go by Pink News does seem to attract rather a lot of scarily right-wing fruitloops.

PS As I've been so critical of them in the past, I'd like to say again how much Pink News has improved since the departure of J****** G***. Fans of frighteningly piss-poor and - quite frankly - embarrassing gay "journalism" should now read Gay Star News.

Update: This was picked up - unchallenged - by among others The Guardian.
The only piece I've seen which didn't just take this survey at face-value, and questioned its methodology and what conclusions can be drawn, was by Tom Chivers in a Daily Telegraph blog; Has Dave won the gay vote? Maybe, maybe not?
I think this was a pretty objective piece incidentally, and was not related to the Telegraph's otherwise anti-gay marriage agenda.,

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