I’ve been reading the Daily Mail again (2)

The Daily Mail online (a wonderful outpost of right-wing extremism on the internet) is currently running a poll. It asks:

Which areas of government should be cut?

But surprisingly, for this day and age, it doesn’t give us the full range of areas that the government spends money on. Rather bizarrely The Daily Mail only offers a much-shortened picture of public expenditure.

We are invited to choose between:

  • Health
  • Education
  • Welfare
  • Trident

As I’ve already said… bizarre. But, on second thoughts, not for a right-wing tabloid.

The current results against this poll are:

  • Health – 4% of respondents think this should be cut
  • Education – 3% of respondents think this should be cut
  • Welfare – 53% of respondents think this should be cut
  • Trident – 40% of respondents think this should be cut

This tells anyone with half a brain (which probably rules out regular Daily Mail readers, obv) that 60% of the respondents believe that spending on the Trident nuclear weapon system *should not* be cut.

Amazing.

Sixty percent of the respondents think that spending a mind-bogglingly enormous sum of money, every year, for the next 30 years, on a weapon which (a) we can *never* use and (b) has not *repeat* not stopped various people from attacking us (from the Argentinians up to religious nutcases) is a good idea?

Wonderful.

Source: Daily Mail survey

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