Long time lurked, occasional poster. Just wanted to say thanks to RTB and others for continuing to hold rational debate and show that despite differing views it doesn't have to be an argument every time you encounter someone with a different opinion.
If the debate that I read so often on these threads were the type of conversations we could have in the UK right now, how different would the situation be!
Mainly, my post though was to say that polls, however wildly different, are only the views of the people that engage with polls in the first place.
Using polls as confirmation bias, to uphold the view you already hold, despite other polls showing different information is sadly like a giant metaphor for brexit as a whole.
We cannot blindly ignore all other points, choosing only to see what we believe as individuals, and then be upset when others state things we disagree with. The talk of a labour government being a terrible proposition for this country is mind boggling, when the current reality is that the country we all knew has long gone. The current government have damaged this country so deeply, so unerringly, so maliciously that for anyone to imply that a labour government would be worse is just a non argument.
Nobody should be allowed to do this to a country and get away with it. No one should be able to use a bumbling idiot act to kill people - be that medication being at risk (which is already happening, and no deal would cement) or inciting people to violence by using provocative language to encourage unrest.
All of this to say, I don't really take part in polls, I don't really engage in debate online, I haven't taken part in the marches, I have never followed politics as closely in my life as I have since the referendum.
That does not mean my opinion isn't valid, and when it comes to a vote at present the labour position on brexit is the one I most closely align with.
The assumption that a poll, not showing an increase in votes for the party you don't like, is accurate across the UK is frankly wrong. There are plenty of people who don't talk about politics, that follow this madness with increasing incredulity, that will not share who they will vote with and being blind to that prospect is a reflection of your own inability to see beyond your own point of view.
For what it's worth, I also was relieved that the supreme court ruled Boris had acted unlawfully, Boris believing he is above the law will not end well for any of us. He cannot, and should not, be allowed to break laws and act in his own self interests whilst holding the position of PM. If he can break laws and get away with it, why can't his friends, the people he is inciting to violence, you and I? Being blind to a person's flaws is dangerous, because one day he will turn against you too, and by that point you'll have nowhere else to go because you have blinkered yourself so drastically that you believe it would be an assault on your own self belief system to do something different.
Anyway, now I've thrown my 2 pence worth in I'll quietly retreat back to lurking and reading. Thanks again RTB, you're not alone and what you do is appreciated.