Sunday Express Anti-Angling Poll

[chavender]

They are running a poll for or against allowing animal rights protesters to hinder anglers.

 

NO is 0901 890 3013

text is SXVOTE D to 61616

 

25p a time, small price to have your vote counted

[Steve Randles]

Well I have just called, no information when you do call...just a message telling me my call has been registered so I hope its been registered for the right outcome.

 

Anyone have any extra information on this one?

[John S]

Done

[northern mark]

I text them.

 

They charge 25p for the text and another 25p thanking you for voting and sending me advertising.

[Peter Waller]

Since the Express is the all time biased political rag I really wouldn't take it too seriously.

 

I mean, the Express, the totally opposite end of the spectrum to the Daily Worker or Communist Weekly! And probably as wide of the mark too.

 

Apart from that I've never mastered the art of texting so I'm convincing myself that it doesn't matter!!

[chavender]

Peter ,i wouldn't want to worry you but it pike & zander fishing they're dead against because of

the live baiting issues and dead baiting(as fish

afto die to provide some dead baits)and the use

of treble hooks,this is the third such poll that

has been run this week,they dont come at you head on they creap around your flanks and try to

influence the hearts and minds of the innercent

by pushing their message at children ,the old and put dout and popaganda into the minds of the

general public,by just such polls in the media as

this is their first point of contact,because this

is anonymous it wont be an out and out fight to

get all of angling banned but an gradual errosion

by banning different practices until we are weak

enougth to finnish off,so every time they try to orchestrate a poll we have to stand up and make

our views count or at least balence the arguments

[Elton]

These 'polls' are just cynical, and very lucrative, ways of fleecing huge amounts of cash from the general public.

 

If every newspaper ran such a poll, we'd all be spending thousands per year 'voting'.

 

Put it to them that if they really cared about the result, they'd make it free and simple to vote. Tell them that your 85 year old granny would love to have voted in their 'poll', but needed every penny she had to spend on heating.

 

They don't give a toss about the result - they just want their 25p's.

[Tony 1]

Don't bother texting, let the guy who wrote it know what you think. Please keep it rational and steer clear of personal attacks as you will play right into thier hands.

 

jimmy.young.@express.co.uk

 

[ 27. February 2005, 01:49 PM: Message edited by: Tony Coley ]

[Alan Stubbs]

Peter Waller:

Since the Express is the all time biased political rag I really wouldn't take it too seriously.

 

I mean, the Express, the totally opposite end of the spectrum to the Daily Worker or Communist Weekly! And probably as wide of the mark too.

 

Apart from that I've never mastered the art of texting so I'm convincing myself that it doesn't matter!!

And run by a man who made his money from porn...

Private Eye had this rag summed up perfectly even before Desmond bought it: The dailygetsmuchworse!

[John Ellison]

Just a minute, just a minute, I'm sure the last time I bought one (wife bought it at the airport by mistake) I'm sure there was a column by John Wilson. I'm nowhere near a fan of his but at least it was angling in print! Compare that with nothing at all in the Mail on Sunday and a derisory fiftieth of a column in the News of the World by Bob Nudd and we're in front.