AIBU to be dubious of this survey of MN users - Farage most popular leader, seriously?

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Locutus2000 · 05/01/2026 14:02

Telegraph today

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Article claims that 20% support on MN makes Reform the 'most popular party' amongst users. Also that we 'predicted Brexit' correctly.

I call horseshit. AIBU?

Mumsnet mothers have always leaned Labour. Now Reform is ahead

Rising support for Nigel Farage’s party — if not the man himself — may worry the government

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/mumsnet-poll-shows-reform-uk-on-top-lg0cgdzp0

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bombastix · 05/01/2026 14:03

Well… you have to ask yourself how many visitors MN has now compared to perhaps five or ten years ago.

Somnambule · 05/01/2026 14:04

I haven't read the full article, but generally speaking I think the MSM likes to characterise MN users (and by extension, women) as reactionary and bigoted.

Wingingit73 · 05/01/2026 17:07

You've read the right wing posts?

Summerhillsquare · 05/01/2026 17:10

Its all in the sampling - self selective. Angry people who feel they are sticking it to the man. Also, its the Torygraph, which would never publish a result that said we were all Greens!

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