{"id":17828,"date":"2012-11-18T12:15:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17828"},"modified":"2012-11-18T12:15:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T17:15:46","slug":"uk-voters-turning-against-eu-in-latest-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/18\/uk-voters-turning-against-eu-in-latest-polling\/","title":{"rendered":"UK voters turning against EU in latest polling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Guardian<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/m.guardian.co.uk\/ms\/p\/gnm\/op\/view.m?id=15&#038;gid=%2Fpolitics%2F2012%2Fnov%2F17%2Feu-referendum-poll\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Boffey and Toby Helm<\/a> report on the rising tide of anti-EU sentiment among British voters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well over half of British voters now want to leave the European Union, according to an opinion poll that shows anti-EU sentiment is sweeping through all three main political parties.<\/p>\n<p>The Opinium\/<em>Observer<\/em> survey finds that 56% of people would probably or definitely vote for the UK to go it alone if they were offered the choice in a referendum. About 68% of Conservative voters want to leave the EU, against 24% who want to remain; 44% of Labour voters would probably choose to get out, against 39% who would back staying in, while some 39% of Liberal Democrats would probably or definitely vote to get out, compared with 47% who would prefer to remain in the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The findings will make sobering reading for all three major parties, which are at risk of losing support to the buoyant anti-EU party Ukip &mdash; now two points ahead of the Lib Dems on 10%.<\/p>\n<p>Overall just 28% of likely voters think the EU is a &#8220;good thing&#8221; while 45% think it is a &#8220;bad thing&#8221;. The 18-34 age group is the only one in which there is a clear majority backing the EU, with 44% saying membership is good, against 25%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Guardian, Daniel Boffey and Toby Helm report on the rising tide of anti-EU sentiment among British voters: Well over half of British voters now want to leave the European Union, according to an opinion poll that shows anti-EU sentiment is sweeping through all three main political parties. The Opinium\/Observer survey finds that 56% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62],"tags":[337,289,533],"class_list":["post-17828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","tag-eu","tag-polls","tag-ukip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Dy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17830,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17828\/revisions\/17830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}