Monday, February 12, 2007

Democracy in action?

Gordon Brown will support England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup reflecting opinion polls ‘showing’ widespread public support.

Government supports road-pricing despite petition of more than one million signatures opposing it!

2 comments:

JRD168 said...

Beware of petitions...

Snafu said...

jrd168, you are right to be cautious about petitions, but are over one million signatures any less representative that an opinion pollsters random sample of 1,000!?!