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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jul 31

Interesting how much Bluesky usage has fallen - it is now about half of what it was in November 2024 - would be intrigued to know people's theories about why that is

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jul 31

Fascinated by this way of measuring a Prime Minister's popularity...

By the same measure, here's the number of babies given the first name of our PMs one year into office:

Keir: 0
Rishi: 37
Liz: 24
Boris: 43
Theresa: 20
David: 1,163
Gordon: 14
Tony: 135

Source: ONS

The Telegraph @telegraphnews.bsky.social · Jul 31

Read more here ⬇️

Name ‘Keir’ dies out after Starmer takes office

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jul 14

The report - including segment names - is all our own. The aim of the segmentation is to be as descriptive as possible so that others may use it to help better understand society -as such we would not put normative words in those titles.

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jul 14

Nws! our tables page can be a bit of a maze sometimes

Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jul 14

Dissenting Disruptors, Rooted Patriots and Traditional Conservatives all score highly on authority measures from Stenner et al. The thing that distinguishes DDs is high need for chaos (Arceneaux et al. 2023 etc.) and desire to tear existing institutions down - hence 'disruptors'.

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jul 14

Wrt to randomising response positions - we do that on any question where it makes sense to do so. But for ordinal scales we tend not to randomise as we want people to see the scale in order.

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jul 14

On the website here! www.moreincommon.org.uk/our-work/pol... In the July folder as we released alongside all the polling for the report which came out in July

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jun 25

Yeh we debated how we should phrase this for a while - was reassured by the responses though: just one or two percent of voters for each party said they would vote against their own party so I do think it worked

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jun 25

This has interesting implications for how people might vote tactically in a General Election - suggests to me that a 'stop Reform' strategy from Labour could only go so far: Tory voters in particular are much more anti-Labour than they are anti-Reform for example

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jun 25

Every week we ask who Britons would vote for - this week we asked who they'd vote *against*

Here's what a negative voting intention looks like:
🌹Lab 23%
➡️ Ref: 22%
🌳 Con: 10%
🌏 Green: 4%
🐦‍ LD: 4%

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jun 23

Plenty more on this in a short blog I wrote here: moreincommon.org.uk/latest-insig...

And tomorrow morning @luketryl.bsky.social will be giving a webinar sharing these new climate polling findings and others - sign up at the bottom of that webpage!

Public blame greed of energy companies for rising bills

With London Climate Action Week underway, new More in Common polling finds that low trust in both energy companies and the government is leading the public to increasingly believe that corporate greed...

moreincommon.org.uk

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jun 23

To build trust in the climate transition, energy firms & policymakers must show they’re acting in the interests of consumers—yes, by lowering bills, but also by showing how climate policies are already cutting emissions, not just boosting shareholder profits.

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jun 23

(In fact, if you ask people where their high bills come from, most say the greed of energy company bosses, just 15% say net zero policies)

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jun 23

This is not a sign of backlash against climate policies generally, but comes from a growing sense that energy companies don't act in the public's interest or have their customers at heart - regardless of whether their energy comes from renewables or fossil fuels

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jun 23

For example, just as a majority suspect that oil companies might be funding climate denial to protect their profits, a majority now also think it's possible that renewable policies are pushing climate policies to support their bottom-line too

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jun 23

More broadly, this lack of awareness of climate progress reinforces the sense that energy companies aren't acting in the public's interest - and creates fertile ground for conspiracy thinking about energy companies...

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jun 23

This creates big problems for those making the case for the energy transition, because would be much easier to convince sceptical voters about the opportunity of building on successes, than it would be to convince them we need to entirely build to net zero from scratch

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jun 23

Something really striking about the energy transition in the UK is that, despite having halved our emissions since 1990, very few people are aware of this success - only a quarter of the public think we've made a meaningful difference to cutting our emissions

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jun 23

Great blog from Rory about where AI rhetoric and policy might reinforce a sense that the government isn't focusing on the issues that people care about

Rory Evans @rory-evans.bsky.social · Jun 22

Shoutout to @edhodgsoned.bsky.social from More in Common for providing me with some focus group gold dust for my inaugural Substack.

open.substack.com/pub/roryevan...

The government should stop wasting its breath on AI.

Why tech bro energy is reinforcing negative public views of this government, and distracting from the things that might turn those views around.

open.substack.com

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jun 17

this was from an N = 13,000 poll! So pretty good subsamples at each level

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jun 9

Really strong connection between life satisfaction and voting intention - people with low life satisfaction are much more likely to take a risk on a smaller or newer party, Labour is only comfortably ahead on people who give their life satisfaction at 10/10

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Jun 8

Agree - and also a good chunk of Green voters are not the hyper-engaged / ideological stereotype. Many are politically disengaged and just have a strong preference against the Tories and Lab. The sort who vote green as a "none of the above" option rather than strong support for green policies.

Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · May 31

Thank you!

Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · May 31

and all evidence points to the fact that, were an election held today at least, these non-voter to Reform switchers are real group, are likely to vote, and ought to be taken seriously

Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · May 31

So this group are definitely habitual voters rather than reliable voters (for example 47% of them say they tend not to vote in Local Elections, compared to just 7% of all other Reform voters), but that doesn't mean they never vote...

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