It is a fair bet that, if the legacy media pollutes the infosphere with alarums on how the sky was going to fall in if we had an in-out referendum, and the lumpen masses were poised to fall upon their babies and eat them, then the next carefully managed opinion poll would discover that an in-out referendum was a "bad thing".

And so we are informed in the low-circulation Independent that a ComRes poll as cobbled together a result to please its paymasters.

Even then the result does not match the headline. What the poll is testing is the perceived effect of the delay, where some 49 percent of people polled "agree the delay is likely to result in economic harm because of the uncertainty it creates for companies and investors". By contrast, 32 percent disagree with this statement.

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Hard Talk on BBC 2 this morning was on the In/Out Referendum offered by Cameron.

Sir Nigel Sheinwald - UK Ambassador to the US, 2007 - 2012

In or out? For the next five years Britain's future in the European Union will be shrouded in uncertainty, thanks to David Cameron's commitment to a referendum. He believes his dramatic gamble will pay off not just at home, but in Europe too - allowing him to recalibrate Britain's relationship with Brussels, will it work? HARDtalk speaks to Sir Nigel Sheinwald who was the UK's top diplomat at the EU, foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair, then Ambassador in Washington. Is the Cameron EU gambit in Britain's national interest?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ipl...dor_to_the_US_2007_2012/

See - even the greatest minds can be deceived. We actually got 43% and 36% who would CONSIDER staying or leaving.

Even I would consider it