Emigration Had Little Influence on UK Voters
According to analysts, emigration had very little influence in the outcome of votes. This is a matter that many people believed to be one of the main things that people were going to be looking at when voting.
This touchy matter was a big struggle for all the parties. However, this brings up a very good question… How could such an emotional subject for Britain not be a major campaign factor? Well, according to Andrew Hawkins a chairman of the ComRes polling firm, it has to do with the way the matter was approached by the three leaders during the election.
He went on to say that he thinks, in a sense, it is an issue that people dare not speak about during the election. For most of the last five or six years, it was among the top two issues in voters’ minds. However, these three parties undertook a conspiracy of silence, because they realized just how toxic it is if they raise it.
In the end, with 649 of the 650 parliamentary constituencies declared last Friday, the Conservatives had won 306 seats. This was followed by the Labour party with 258 and the Liberal Democrats with 57. Questions and concerns about the huge number of emigrants, especially after the European Union expanded to include countries from eastern Europe in 2004, are at the top of most peoples’ minds.
A YouGov survey of 4,368 people conducted last week indicated that more than three in four Brits, or about 77 percent, felt emigration rates should be reduced or emigration should be stopped completely. This is an overwhelming number of people that feel very strongly about this touchy subject.
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