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iwantareferendum: are they censoring their own poll or have they made up the results?

A curiosity from the “I want a referendum” campaign. Their news release today claims:

I Want a Referendum today releases an ICM poll of 1,000 people who voted Liberal Democrat at the last General Election … The poll also finds that if only one question is to be asked then Liberal Democrat voters would prefer a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty to a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU.

And yet the full tables from ICM contain no such question, which as far as I can see leaves only two possibilities:

a. They’ve made up or got horribly wrong their own poll results in their own press release, or

b. They’re keeping hidden some of the poll answers (though, as the press release has mentioned them under the British Polling Council rules, ICM should release them).

Anyway, if you want to see poll results which do really answer the “what sort of referendum would you want?” question, see the results of the poll from MORI issued by the Liberal Democrats today. They show the public in favour by 2:1 of having an in/out referendum rather than a Lisbon Treaty referendum.

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