Farage dodged scrutiny, police chase the easy target

The country delivered its clearest verdict of the day on housing the homeless. Should homeless UK citizens be prioritised over illegal migrants for interim housing in former armed services properties? Yes, said more than four in every five voters, with the winning case proving more forceful than the losing plea to help everyone without dividing lines.

The verdicts

Voters also sided heavily with the view that the decline in home ownership in England since 2003 is a serious problem, seeing it as a question of whether a generation feels it still belongs. Almost four in five agreed that a stake in the nation matters.

On policing, the UK concluded that police are targeting compliant citizens over uncooperative offenders. More than three voters in four backed the complaint that cooperation should count in your favour rather than marking you out as the soft option.

The country split almost down the middle on whether the "emergency alerts" regarding fire risks were an abuse of power. A narrow Yes majority worried that crying wolf would simply lead people to switch their phones off for the next genuine crisis.

Did Nigel Farage call the by-election to avoid scrutiny over his £5 million gift? The UK answered yes by more than two to one, with the room's sardonic shorthand captured in the line that the Pope appears to be Catholic.

Voters rejected the idea that the UK should invest more in climate adaptation than in increasing military spending to 3% of GDP, dismissing the framing of climate as a threat on a par with armed conflict. Two in three said no.

The country also said yes to stopping taxpayer money funding expensive AI slop for politicians, billionaires and media companies, though many rated the counter-arguments highly and disliked the loaded phrasing of the question.

Finally, the UK judged that "war" between Reform and Restore is keeping the status quo, with two in three agreeing that the right's factions are turning their fire on each other rather than the system they claim to oppose.

Voting continues today on fresh questions.

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