SERVICE DEALER READERS VOTE LEAVE
In our EU Referendum survey
by Service Dealer Editor, Steve Gibbs
We had very decent response to our survey last week, asking you our readers how you currently intend to vote on June 23rd in the EU Referendum. A sample of a fraction under 100 of you took part.
Overall the majority of respondents voted in favour of leaving the EU by a margin of 56.7% to 43.3%.
We were also interested in finding out how our readers across the individual home nations felt about leaving or remaining in the EU. Sample numbers from England were high with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland being much lower (Wales and Northern Ireland considerably so).
In England, 57% voted to leave with 43% choosing to remain.
Scotland were even more in favour of leaving with 60% voting out, compared to 40% wanting to stay.
Wales was the only nation to be split equally, with a 50-50 vote.
And finally, Northern Ireland turned out to be the only country who were more in favour of staying part of the EU with 67% wanting to remain, against 33% who wished to leave.
We also were interested to get a sense of who was voting in our anonymous poll and asked what section of the industry you represented - dealer, manufacturer or other. Dealers contributed most to the poll with 54.5%, followed by an almost even split of manufacturers and others (23.3% and 22.2%).
We also asked an optional question of how you believed a possible exit from the EU could affect our industry. You can read a selection of your thoughts here.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our poll. We always highly value receiving input from our readers and believe our Service Dealer community enjoys discovering what their contemporaries are feeling on a particular issue.
Obviously with any poll its accuracy in reflecting a particular group's view point is entirely dependent on who joins in - it's natural for those with strong opinions on the matter to want to be heard. Whilst those who are either not engaged in the debate yet, or are undecided, don't speak up.
However, from our sample we have a definite answer. I personally expected the result would be a lot closer. But according to the results of our survey, a clear majority of our industry wants the UK to exit the EU.
And if you remember from last week I mentioned how Richard Kendrick from Kramp had kindly shared with us the results of a similar poll they had undertaken with their dealers. Well Kramp's survey revealed an even larger split in favour of leaving the EU with 65% of their respondents wanting out, compared with the 35% who wished to Remain.
So it'll be fascinating on June 24th to see how closely our results match up to the one that counts.
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