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Shout it and repeat it often enough and it becomes true. Well, of course it doesnt but it may well become lodged as fact in some heads. 95% of people in Thanet want an airport at Manston. Not true. Perhaps a small, selective poll suggested this but the art of polling - in a neutral, credible manner is complicated and still fundamentally flawed otherwise wed know in advance of every election who was going to win. SMA and SUMA trumpet this but its just not true. What indeed were the small numbers of people asked anyway? Would you rather have an airport or a massive London overspill sink estate? That might produce one set of results. Would you rather have a 24/7 massive cargo hub with night flights or an attractively landscaped mixed use park with some executive housing? That might produce a totally different set of results. Neither of these subjective questions would be allowed by an official polling organisation. So stop saying that 95% of residents want an airport. At best you simply dont know and at worst its a downright distortion of the truth.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:26:43 +0000

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