The Giga Poll - Report - Page 2
Silent majority
WON’T be tricked
by right-wing
toxic tactics
I’m doing
YOU feel no one is listening to you, I get that. I
feel it too.
I’ve shown this Government four ways to slash
our energy bills, we could halve them at no cost.
Nothing has happened.
I also feel we’re being told fairytales by
right wing media and politicians – about the
country we live in, about our fellow citizens, our
neighbours and friends and what they care about
– I feel disconnected from the picture they paint
of our fabulous country.
That’s why I commissioned this Giga Poll, so
named because it’s so much bigger than any
poll before it. I wanted to know what Britain
really thinks. And guess what, you also feel
disconnected from this right-wing narrative.
Nigel Farage for all his populist skills is out of
touch with the population…that for me is the
biggest finding.
Happiness, fairness and compassion live and
breathe in our people.
Farage, Britain’s very own Donald Trump Mini
Me, can stick that in his pipe.
Yes we care about immigration, we want it
under control – but we see the value of it too.
The cost of living looms large in our findings,
it magnifies my frustration
on the energy bill issue.
I’ve been banging on about
breaking the link between
the price of gas and the
price of green energy for
years.
Poverty looms large too,
so many of us are struggling
to pay the bills and face
the disarmingly poetic
choice between ‘heating and
eating’. Luxuries for many
are just a pipe dream. We have choices here too,
another thing I’ve ben banging on about is a
wealth tax. And reform of our tax system which
is prejudiced towards people that have the most.
It would affect me, I would happily pay it. Threequarters of you see the growing inequality in our
country and you agree with me – so strongly that
the wealth tax is the third most popular policy
Britain wants to see.
Trust is an issue too. We found so many of
you don’t feel the Government is listening but
you trust your local leaders because you know
they understand the issues you face and your
communities. That’s a key finding for me and I’m
going to be doing my best in the months to come
to get across your views and attitudes at the
highest level.
More positivity and more right-wing
disconnect is something that you may know
has occupied my adult life fighting the climate
crisis.
The majority of you get that climate crisis is
real and is human made and something we have
to tackle.
It’s driven by the mass burning of fossil fuels
and we’re paying a big price now in lives and
economic cost. Only one-in-ten Brits still believe
it’s not us humans “wot did it”.
And in further good news just over half the
country believes we must get to Net Zero. I hear
the other half who think it is too costly but that’s
the recent gaslighting of Reform at work – it’s
not the true picture.
Net Zero will give us cheaper energy and
energy independence and economic strength
through freedom from the rollercoaster of global
fossil fuel pricing. It’s not all about the climate.
My hope – and we all need hope – is that your
views and attitudes, expressed through this
massive poll will help shape the future of our
country. It needs to start with Government, they
have the levers of power – and they need to start
by listening.
The Britain I know and love, has a strong
beating heart.
Our Giga Poll says so.
trial new ways of involving the
public in decision making such
as citizens’ assemblies or online
debates.
And showing the clear win that
would result from such an initiative, the polling shows Nigel
Farage is failing in the toxicity
he has sought to inflict on Britain’s bid to become energy independent with sustainable green energy – with six-in ten
people thinking “climate change poses a threat to the future
well-being of me and my family.” Only 13% disagree. Even the
controversial push towards Net Zero has a majority favouring the ambition, with 51% buying in to the bigger picture by
agreeing that for the sake of the planet we have no choice but
to move to Net Zero by 2050.
The Government needs to do more to win the economic argument with 49% saying the cost is too much and we should
slow the process.
Nearly eight-in-ten think big business should pay more
to meet emission targets and provide environmental
protections.
What emerges strongly from the poll is the public wants
RIGHT-WING politicians are failing to “brain
wash” the public into thinking Britain is a lawless nation full of racial tensions, a massive
poll has discovered.
The British public expresses its concerns over finding solutions to the country’s ills built up over 14 years of Tory rule
but believes that despite the rhetoric of agitators they live in
peaceful and friendly communities.
Green entrepreneur Dale Vince, who commissioned
anti-extremism group HOPE not hate to undertake the research and has also joined with the TUC to “counter the destructive right-wing narrative”, said he believed the polling
was “absolutely essential to set the record straight on “what
Britain really thinks.”
He said: “This Giga Poll tells a very different story to the
one put out by those on the right who seek to brainwash the
public that we’re living in a constant state of fear.
“That’s not the case, and this poll proves that we as a
nation are not falling for that fake propaganda.”
The polling - the largest of its kind by breadth and depth of
over 45,300 people aged from 16 to over 65 - was undertaken
last month and posed 80 questions to a cross-section of the
public. The research showed eight in ten people like mixing
with people of other ethnicities, religions, and backgrounds.
And as for the campaigning slogan launched this summer by
Reform UK’s Nigel Farage that ‘Britain is lawless,’ some 65%
think their local community is peaceful and friendly, with
only 11 per cent disagreeing.
News that Britons are not buying into the angry rightwing rhetoric that the country is tearing itself apart will be
a source of comfort to Labour and the Prime Minister Keir
Starmer, who said following the recent rally organised by farright extremist Tommy Robinson that the country should
never surrender its flag to become a symbol of “violence, fear
and division.”
Though the right portrays immigration and asylum as the ‘key issue’
facing Britain, the poll showed that
it was only fourth in the list of concerns, with respondents by a clear
margin – 56% – saying their Number
One concern was the cost-of-living
crisis. The state of the NHS was second at 38%, with immigration and
asylum at 25%.
What has emerged from the polling is the clearest insight yet into the
thinking of the public who feel forgotten, neglected and poorer amidst
the noise of right-wing attacks on Sir
Keir’s leadership.
The ‘silent majority’ – still
suffering from the financial impact
of the Tory legacy, with Brexit, low
growth, the financial crash of 2008
and austerity, thrown into a disasDALE VINCE
trous mix still felt today – are supportive of a wealth tax with 75%
thinking ‘wealthy people are getting richer while poorer people are
getting further behind.’ And they are desperate to be heard
with 69% of those polled believing the Government should
By Dale Vince
OBE
This poll
proves that
we as a
nation are
not falling
for fake
propaganda
MONDAY 29.09.2025
