"98% of readers", though,
ought to be "98% of readers who bothered to answer the question", which isn't quite the same thing. Not so long ago the same paper (IIRC) reported that 99% of British people - not even readers - wanted the UK to leave the EU; but, again, this was based on a "poll" in which people had to make the effort to get in touch. So it's not surprising that the results tended towards the Southern Sudan end of the spectrum.
Nor is it surprising that people who're fed the daily diet of xenophobia and tits in the Star end up repeating it back.
What is actually surprising is that the paper has the temerity to use the word "readers" to describe the people who buy it and look at it with their mouths open.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 13:31,
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