Skynews poll runs against asylum seekers - vote now

Refugee Council | 01.02.2006 19:34 | Anti-racism | Migration | Social Struggles

Vote in Skynews poll which is currently running strongly against allowing any benefits for failed asylum seekers. Please make your voice heard and act today - vote no to protect asylum seekers from being treated like criminals.

From the Refugee Council - urgent
Defend benefits for asylum seekers

Dear campaigner,

Here's a simple action you can take to support our campaign against destitution right now:

http://www.sky.com/skynews/polls/displayresults/0,,30100-1003322,00.html

This poll is currently running strongly against allowing any benefits for failed asylum seekers please make your voice heard and act today.

Today the Refugee Council has issued a report giving our concerns about the operation of section 9 of the 2004 Act which has been piloted in three areas with the effect of sending most of the families affected into hiding and making them destitute.

The issues have been covered on most major broadcasting outlets and in the Guardian, Mirror and Mail today as well as regional media in Yorkshire.

Read our press statement:

http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/2006/jan06/relea0106_2htm
You can download our report on our website now:

http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/publications/pub004.htm#section9

Thanks for your continued support - more actions follow this spring to help asylum seekers facing destitution.

Bob Deffee
Campaigns and Public Affairs Manager
Refugee Council

www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/campaigns
Join our campaign: www.dontbelievethetype.org.uk
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Comments

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7500 votes needed

02.02.2006 12:45

when i looked earlier today, it was about 75% against benefits for asylum seekers and 25% in favour. Now it the against votes have dropped to 72.62% (12,056 votes), while the votes in favour have risen to 27.37% (4,544 votes). At least 7500 more votes are needed to draw even with 50/50, and that's if nobody votes against benefits from now on. Lets try it!

statsfreak

Poll hit 30%!

02.02.2006 18:37

The votes against benefits for asylum seekers have dropped to 69.19% (12,097 votes), while the votes in favour of benefits have risen to 30.80% (5,385 votes) - Total: 17,482, a record on the skynews polls.

statsfreak

FIXED?

02.02.2006 19:15

I just tried to vote (via this link) and was told "you have already voted". I hadn't. Anyone else had this?

Down again

02.02.2006 23:06

Now 18101 votes and "should they lose their benefits" down to 68.49%

I have now voted twice (that's democracy folks!) but from different IP addresses. So if you got a message you'd already voted it would be because (if you're dial up) another voter had that address before, during the period of the vote.

So....we're making a difference. Just let more people know about it.

hanging chads

FIX THE POLL!

03.02.2006 10:49

We have got to give the public a false impression!

Delaney

fixed it

05.02.2006 11:14

Thanks for the link, I have just voted at least 1500 times in favour of them loosing benefits, so easy if you know how !
thanks for the link

danny

The Sky Is Falling

08.02.2006 00:56

I had around 120 xterms wgetting the page for a couple of hours before sky.com pulled the poll. Went from around 68K Nos vs. 75K Yeses to 120K Nos vs. 75K Yeses. ROTFL.

Trixie

final poll result

13.02.2006 13:30

The question was: Should failed asylum seekers lose their benefits?

36.63% (75,339 votes) thought that refused asylum seekers should loose their benefits.
63.36% (130,290 votes) thought that refused asylum seekers should keep their benefits.

A record high of 205,629 votes were counted. However, this poll is not listed on the "previous polls" page of skynews:

http://www.sky.com/skynews/polls/archivelist/1,,91153-0,00.html

But then, the listed polls are a weird selection - dates of polling go far into the future, up to 2009.

This was a funny little action, not more. It looks like both camps used some electronic tools to boost their percentages. Never trust statistics!

statsfreak