Will look into it!

Agh! Thanks for spotting - have fixed

Have an idea for something along those lines soon...

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Yeh it was kind of over it- Fieldwork was 25th Feb - 3rd March

This is important. Reform keep taking positions that are only supported by the 25% of the electorate they already have and in doing so are negatively polarising everyone else against them.

Tracking our *negative* voting intention (who would Britons vote AGAINST):

➡️ Ref 38% (+9)
🌹Lab 34% (-4)
🌳 Con 7% (-1)
🌏 Green 7% (+4)
🐦‍ LD 3% (-)
changes w/ Nov 2025

As Reform has plateaued in the polls, the number of people saying they would also vote *against* Reform has grown

Interesting chart from @edhodgsoned.bsky.social @moreincommonuk.bsky.social - Labour struggling with renters. May change once Renters Rights Act comes in and if slowdown in rents (reported on BBC today) continues.

Finally, it's rare to see a wordcloud as vivid as this: the top thing people feel when shown these pictures of the enclosure is SAD 🐧

When shown images of the enclosure, the number of "don't know"s falls further, and people are much more likely to say it's unacceptable

🐧 The public have spoken on the penguins kept in a windowless basement in London Aquarium: 40% think it's unacceptable and just 19% think it's acceptable

Interesting how much Bluesky usage has fallen - it is now about half of what it was in November 2024 - would be intrigued to know people's theories about why that is

Fascinated by this way of measuring a Prime Minister's popularity...

By the same measure, here's the number of babies given the first name of our PMs one year into office:

Keir: 0
Rishi: 37
Liz: 24
Boris: 43
Theresa: 20
David: 1,163
Gordon: 14
Tony: 135

Source: ONS

The report - including segment names - is all our own. The aim of the segmentation is to be as descriptive as possible so that others may use it to help better understand society -as such we would not put normative words in those titles.

Nws! our tables page can be a bit of a maze sometimes

Dissenting Disruptors, Rooted Patriots and Traditional Conservatives all score highly on authority measures from Stenner et al. The thing that distinguishes DDs is high need for chaos (Arceneaux et al. 2023 etc.) and desire to tear existing institutions down - hence 'disruptors'.

Wrt to randomising response positions - we do that on any question where it makes sense to do so. But for ordinal scales we tend not to randomise as we want people to see the scale in order.

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On the website here! www.moreincommon.org.uk/our-work/pol... In the July folder as we released alongside all the polling for the report which came out in July

Yeh we debated how we should phrase this for a while - was reassured by the responses though: just one or two percent of voters for each party said they would vote against their own party so I do think it worked

This has interesting implications for how people might vote tactically in a General Election - suggests to me that a 'stop Reform' strategy from Labour could only go so far: Tory voters in particular are much more anti-Labour than they are anti-Reform for example

Every week we ask who Britons would vote for - this week we asked who they'd vote *against*

Here's what a negative voting intention looks like:
🌹Lab 23%
➡️ Ref: 22%
🌳 Con: 10%
🌏 Green: 4%
🐦‍ LD: 4%

Public blame greed of energy companies for rising bills With London Climate Action Week underway, new More in Common polling finds that low trust in both energy companies and the government is leading the public to increasingly believe that corporate greed...

Plenty more on this in a short blog I wrote here: moreincommon.org.uk/latest-insig...

And tomorrow morning @luketryl.bsky.social will be giving a webinar sharing these new climate polling findings and others - sign up at the bottom of that webpage!

To build trust in the climate transition, energy firms & policymakers must show they’re acting in the interests of consumers—yes, by lowering bills, but also by showing how climate policies are already cutting emissions, not just boosting shareholder profits.

(In fact, if you ask people where their high bills come from, most say the greed of energy company bosses, just 15% say net zero policies)

This is not a sign of backlash against climate policies generally, but comes from a growing sense that energy companies don't act in the public's interest or have their customers at heart - regardless of whether their energy comes from renewables or fossil fuels

For example, just as a majority suspect that oil companies might be funding climate denial to protect their profits, a majority now also think it's possible that renewable policies are pushing climate policies to support their bottom-line too

More broadly, this lack of awareness of climate progress reinforces the sense that energy companies aren't acting in the public's interest - and creates fertile ground for conspiracy thinking about energy companies...

This creates big problems for those making the case for the energy transition, because would be much easier to convince sceptical voters about the opportunity of building on successes, than it would be to convince them we need to entirely build to net zero from scratch

Something really striking about the energy transition in the UK is that, despite having halved our emissions since 1990, very few people are aware of this success - only a quarter of the public think we've made a meaningful difference to cutting our emissions

Great blog from Rory about where AI rhetoric and policy might reinforce a sense that the government isn't focusing on the issues that people care about