The evidence of the determined efforts to hoodwink the people on the controversial runoff proposal just keeps coming, the latest being the just-announced Mori telephone poll, from a sample of 512 respondents, mind you, showing majority support in favour. (T&T Guardian, August 24).It might have been helpful to know that the poll was planned before it was actually held and, of greater importance, how those involved, who appeared to be conspicuously uninformed, were selected.
Above all, a serious and vigilant pollster would have asked the respondents for whom they had voted in the last general elections and were likely to vote for in the next, to eliminate political bias in their attitude to the runoff proposal.This latest attempt to fool the people will fail and the advice to those responsible must be to try, try again.
Rawle Boland
Epsom, England