My poll finding of the Year – the massive gap between perception and reality over the nature of the UK
Great slide from @IpsosMORI on how very wrong the public is about the UK pic.twitter.com/s9jZgef27v
— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) December 14, 2013
The Tweet that had me trending on Twitter
Yesterday morning I posted the above Ipsos-MORI chart which within a few hours became something of a Twitter sensation. By early afternoon it made me the most referred to Tweeter in the UK and it continues to have a big impact.
The chart was taken from an Ipsos-MORI review of the Year which made this the first slide.
The polling itself took place in June and got some attention at the time.
That there is such a distorted view of the make-up of the UK has a massive political impact because many politicians and the media respond to perceptions not to reality. It becomes very hard to argue against what many see as “facts” which are widely believed but simply are wrong.