A Respected pollster has tested opinion in Makerfield ahead of Re Set.This is taken from the press release.
Conducted by Survation (member of UK Polling Council)
Designed by Dr Richard Johnson (Senior Lecturer in Politics, Queen Mary University of London)
Representative sample
Telephone interviews with 500 voters in the Makerfield constituency
Previously surveyed during the Makerfield by- electio n
Conducted: 21 October – 4 November 2026
Weighted sample to reflect demographics of constituency
Margin of error: 5.8ppts
Content: UK sovereignty
Poll on 10 policies which are wholly or partly outside of UK government control in the EU/Single Market
Who should decide these policies?
Innovative design
The purpose of the poll was to establish if the Prime Minister’s policies would meet his own “Makerfield Test” – whereby policies should not be introduced across the UK if they would not be acceptable to the electors of Makerfield.
The poll asked voters who should decide UK economic policy on ten different issues. It followed the design of a 2025 YouGov poll on British voters’ attitudes towards sovereignty run by Dr Richard Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. The poll deliberately did not mention the EU in order to break voters out of so-called Brexit ‘tribes’. Instead, the poll is designed to test core attitudes on where decisions are made.
In every case, a clear majority of the voters polled in Makerfield said policy should be decided by UK governments alone, with a range between 67% (medicine approval for the NHS) and 80% (state aid for regional development). This range included 69% support in the case of animal welfare standards, 74% for food standards, 75% for refusing criminals entry to the UK, and 78% for the setting of VAT rates.
So Re Set failed the Makerfield test with a huge majority wanting UK control of trade, borders, laws and taxes.
November 10, 2026
JR. You think our Andeh gives a flying fart about the Makerfied test? He’s a Fabian- a dashhundin sheep’s clothing.
November 10, 2026
Indeed it fails any test of morality and honesty too.
Note that when pollsters give an error margin of 5.2ppts they are generally just looking at sampling errors from the size of and type of selection of the sample they selected. Far larger errors for use in prediction usually come from the fact that answering a pollster’s phone call is very different from a real election with several weeks of the arguments being put and considered. Also many sampled on the phone may be people who will not bother to vote anyway. Further they may decided that the only two with any chance are equally bad or equally good. Or vote for one of them to just keep the other out and not vote how they might freely choose if it were not FPTP voting.
But in this case they are asking do you want thing decided by “UK governments alone” it should have asked by UK government and UK voters. In my case i would far prefer it to be decided by UK voters not UK governments and politicians who as we have seen for 35 years or so generally do the reverse of what UK voters want. So this poll might have caught people like myself in the smaller portion so bad questions. Hard to see why anyone would want these things decided by unelected anti-democratic EU bureaucrats.
November 10, 2026
So Re Set failed the Makerfield test with a huge majority wanting UK control of trade, borders, laws and taxes.
And this would be reflected all over the U.K. nobody wants to be ruled by Brussels only the headless chickens who seem to be in the Liebour party and Libdums, if I’m wrong so be it but I doubt I am Liebour/Libdums/ and all the other EU lovers put it in your next manifesto and Liebour call a General Election, let the people decide who should run our country because I wouldn’t trust Liebour to run a bath
November 10, 2026
Why would anyone sensible want anti-democratic EU bureaucrats with their appalling history and almost zero interest in the UK to decided anything for the UK? Even after 35 years of truly appalling and dishonest UK governments – at least we still have a little control over UK governments and MPs.
What Burnham is planning is pure dishonesty and treachery in my view. I think most voters will agree.
November 10, 2026
Happy to help. Nobody sensible wants anti-democratic EU bureaucrats with their appalling history and almost zero interest in the UK to decide anything for the UK. That doesn’t ever happen in the EU. All laws in the EU are made by elected politicians. You do know that, right?
November 10, 2026
Good morning.
Well, what the people of Makerfield giveth, they can certainly take away.
I know I would.
November 10, 2026
Hopefully the electorate in Makerfield will show their democratic views in the next general election by rejecting this two-faced (dare I say it?) liar.
November 10, 2026
Oh dear, how sad, well that observation will be ignored or spun by the present regime?