I have often thought of creating a game of Political Focus Group Bingo (for which the market would be admittedly niche) in which the players would tick off words and phrases on their cards as they were uttered by the focus group participants. One of these would be ‘Australian-style points system’ – a locution you will hear more often than not once the subject of immigration has come up, as it has in practically every group I have done since I began my research four general elections ago. Until the referendum the point was not so much that people thought the volume of immigration was too high (though many did) as that we did not have control over it or the ability to decide who could and could not come in. Nor do people want EU migrants already here to have to leave – my polling has found that whatever their view of Brexit, most agree they should be allowed to stay permanently.
Read moreFocus group bingo and the bottomless Pringle tube of outrage: Day 4 of my conference diary
- 3 October, 2018
- Politics
- Polling