UK weekly newspaper The Economist has launched an interactive poll tracker that features voting intentions for Britain’s upcoming EU referendum.
“Readers can use this to find what a weighted average of the main polls reveals about public opinion towards Brexit, overall or by region, age, sex, class and political party,” the paper explains.
It will be updated twice a week, and include data from a variety of sources (BMG; ComRes; ICM; Ipsos MORI; Survation; TNS; YouGov).
With results extremely close at the moment (40% wanting to remain, 39% wanting to leave, and 16% undecided), new data shows that most young people (59% of 18-24 year-olds) are pro-EU, while the opposite can be said of the over-60s, of which 54% want out.
The Economist’s poll tracker also shows that 48% of the “rich” want to stick with Europe, while 47% of the “poor” want to leave it in order to move forwards.
More data and results can be found on the newspaper’s website (click here) as the referendum countdown approaches its June 23 voting date.
Article by kind permission of http://portugalresident.com
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That these Portuguese were not expanding on the seriously negative take their history slants against the British. So that those British who particularly intended to better themselves in Portugal through running some form of enterprise were almost invariably doomed to fail. The British citizens 'Right to be entrepreneurial', as available to the tens of thousands of Portuguese in the UK - not possible here. But no warning was ever given - even now no Portuguese has the backbone to admit it!
If Brexit shakes out some of the weak links in the European Union chain - or oddly enough results in some strong links leaving that chain and forming another - then it may all have been for the good.
But was it all necessary ? Had Portugal (and southern Spain) been sufficiently developed as societies to accept the British as fellow EU citizens; would so much of this bad feeling driving Brexit exist today?