A snapshot of Britain

Thought this illuminating. From YouGov and a poll on striking Amazon workers. Supporting them 60%, opposing them 22%. 

A majority of Britons support the strike action by Amazon workers over pay

Support: 60%
Oppose: 22%https://t.co/7s9Mmnc3kj pic.twitter.com/I863shJrMT

— YouGov (@YouGov) January 25, 2023

Unsurprisingly Labour voters overwhelmingly support them (though it’s a wonder who the 4% are and 6% who strongly or somewhat respectively oppose them). Liberal Democrats are somewhat less effusive, but still overall strongly or somewhat support them. Let’s ignore the Tories.

More interesting again are the Remain/Leave divisions on the issue. 28% of that latter cohort somewhat or strongly oppose. 52% somewhat or strongly support. Remain 13% somewhat or strongly oppose as against 72%. Now, long stated here that once the referendum was passed there was no point in a Remain position, and I’d be the last to see it as a token of unalloyed progressivism, but I thought this about an actual dispute was quite useful in terms of determining the strength of attitudes within that cohort. 

Btw, there’s some hilarious (deliberate? trolling?) misunderstanding of polling and how it is carried out on the part of some tweeting in response to the poll and disbelieving that there’s majority support for the strikers.