Posted on October 20th, 2009 by Anthony Wells
There are two regular tracking surveys of attitudes toward ID cards – the Home Office commission one, formerly carried out by TNS, now NOP, and the anti-ID card pressure group No2ID commission one, carried out by ICM. Both have released new figures over the last few months, and both show opinion moving against ID cards, [...]
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Filed under: ICM, ID cards, NOP
Posted on December 19th, 2008 by Anthony Wells
No2ID, the campaign against ID cards, have commissioned an update to their regular ICM polls on ID cards, which shows no change whatsover in the pretty even split in favour and against the idea (48% support it, 46% opposed).
As I’ve said before, polls commissioned by pressure groups are the ones I’d normally advise people [...]
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Filed under: ID cards
Posted on July 1st, 2008 by Anthony Wells
The latest in the regular series of ICM polls No2ID have commissioned tracking the public’s support for ID cards shows the public continue to be pretty evenly split with 48% thinking ID cards are a good idea, 46% a bad idea. While slightly more people support them than oppose them, those opposed to ID cards [...]
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Filed under: ICM, ID cards
Posted on June 21st, 2008 by Anthony Wells
YouGov have carried out a series of questions on civil liberties for the Economist – full tables here, asking respondents whether a series of issues seen as an encroachment on civil liberties are, on balance, a good or bad thing. Widespread CCTV met with the most support – 74% thought this was a broadly good [...]
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Filed under: ID cards, YouGov
Posted on February 7th, 2008 by Anthony Wells
A new ICM poll for the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust suggests 50% of people now think ID cards would be a bad idea, with 47% thinking them a good idea.
The wording in the question was the same as used in the series of polls done for No2ID by ICM, so it is directly comparable [...]
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Filed under: ICM, ID cards
Posted on April 8th, 2007 by Anthony Wells
An ICM News of The World poll found that 57% of people thought Gordon Brown was responsible for the current shortfallin pension funds, with 44% of people saying that Brown’s handling of pensions will harm Labour at the next election.
Meanwhile, a BPIX poll conducted last month for the Observer for a special on ten years [...]
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Filed under: BPIX, ID cards, Labour