In order to get a balanced representative sample YouGov like other pollsters asks a lot more people to participate than it actually needs.

Once it has the numbers it needs it closes the Poll as they no longer need more people to vote and as its paying them that doesn’t make financial sense to do so.

Most of us from time to time have had a survey e-mail and when we go on it has been closed.

The creditability of YouGovs polls can be judged by both their accuracy, which appears to be amongst the best and the fact that they have a growing clientele of satisfied customers.

Peter.

1) Figures can be interesting without being statistically significant. It just means that you don’t draw definite conclusions from them.

2) I’ll be more specific. Open Europe have a report that says that 72% of the cost of regulation in the UK is EU-derived. Not quite the same thing I know, but it’s the best I can find.

Here’s the link, but it’s quite a long post.

http://openeuropeblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-many-of-our-laws-are-made-in.html

In what way are these figures interesting? They have absolutely not statistical significance!

“What many people don’t seem to realize is that the majority of our laws are now made in Brussels, not Westminster.”

And what you don’t seem to realize is that this is utter rubbish!

There is regionality within Scotland.

Labour won an election in Glasgow. Is the Pope still a Catholic?