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    Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
    As I said previously, pretending the backlash itself - we're not even translating to voting behavior yet - is about a party is like complaining that the 2020 BLM movement was overplayed for the sake of a single man.

    The entirety of the shift was driven by Leavers. It's worth asking what the data for other news purveyors show.
    An endless argument that is at least quasi-religious in our inability to decypher fact from faith:
    Does the media lead the public or the public the media?

    Perhaps a sign of my optimism in mankind i tend to the latter view - by which we can understand that in achieving control (by voting to leave), immigration became an issue with lower salience.

    Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian View Post
    About the immigration to Leave switch: I can't remember if I've posted it here, but there's a record of UK national issues polls, either by yougov or someone equally credible, which asked people what their main concerns were at that particular time. Immigration was in the top 1 or 2, averaging 20-30% (the other top 3 concerns being economy and NHS also averaging similar numbers), with the EU being nowhere (averaging around 1-3%), right up until around Feb 2016, when the EU jumped up to 1st with around 30-40%, and immigration disappearing as an issue.
    Yes, in polling parlence 'Europe' was a low salience issue, in that it generated strong opinions in either way but also a low degree of concern. They had bigger fish to fry.

    Perhaps unsurprisingly, when the EU referendum came up as a political issue in 2012'ish the salience of 'Europe' started to rise. It was in their face, so it concerned them more.
    Last edited by Furunculus; 06-15-2022 at 08:33.
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