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!
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2 comments:

  1. JRD1684:24 pm

    Beware of petitions...

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  2. Snafu7:12 pm

    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!?!

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