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[donyork]

The Daily Mail/Evening Standard website in London is running a poll on whether the mayor of London’s transport authority was right to ban Northern Cypriot advertising from its buses and underground trains as a result of hostile GC lobbying. Some 65,000 people have so far voted on this subject, with almost two-thirds opposing the discriminatory and politically-motivated ban. In practical terms, this means that tourist advertising for Northern Cyprus has been handed a bonus — its poster campaign elsewhere in London has attracted more attention than ordinarily it would have done and with a much more favourable reaction for website comments are overwhelmingly pro-TC (and clearly not from posts by TCs). This seems therefore to suggest that GC activists have scored an own-goal, and more importantly that in consequence the TCs are winning friends they did not know they had. As for the ban itself, it is doomed — either because the transport authority will cave in, or they will be ordered to do so by a judge. From acorns cometh the oak....

So more bans, please — more objections to direct flights, and more objections to the lifting of embargoes on free trade. These really do work — albeit now in favour of the North. It has been a long time coming, but it seems at last that the penny is beginning to drop. That is the real world out there, not the rantings of GC activists on this site. History is leaving them behind.

[Main_Source]

Looks like I better start stocking up on spray cans then. The government in this country has always screwed over the GC in London. I think we should just refuse to vote in the next election. I know im not.

[Main_Source]

Was Transport for London right to ban adverts for north Cyprus from London buses?



Yes
52%

No
48%

From the Evening Standard website, as of 00.57am 1/4/05 (not a April Fools joke I think)

[Main_Source]

The Daily Mail/Evening Standard website in London is running a poll on whether the mayor of London’s transport authority was right to ban Northern Cypriot advertising from its buses and underground trains as a result of hostile GC lobbying.

lol... I just realised...how can you have a Daily Mail / Evening Standard website!? Two completely separate papers...one is a national and one is a local. Besides, looked on the Evening Standard site 'This Is London' and they gave me those results I posted above...and the Daily Mail one had nothing. So my Turkish-Propaganda-Machine friend, could you please post a link.[/quote]

[donyork]

I have just emailed the following to the Evening Standard and it may interest you..

Your report on the banning of NC tourist advertising appeared on Wednesday March 16 and then duly became the subject of a poll on your This is London website . Not surprisingly, polls attract the most votes when the story is fresh, and then as the days go by they die away. So one week after the story appeared, the result was 63% against the ban, and 37% in f avour with some 65,000 votes counted.

But then something curious happened. In the last 36 hours, without any new reports in the newspaper, the number of votes has almost doubled — from 65,000 after one week to almost 120,000 as I write this. Indeed, in the 90 minutes between 7.30 a.m. and 9 p.m., the poll leapt by 5,000 votes from 113,727 to 118,713. Of these additional 54,000 votes, 76% have voted for the ban..

In contrast, the comment site on the subject — where you are required to register to post — has, , not had a single extra entry. It remains where it was on Wednesday evening.

This is poll-rigging by the very people who organised the ban in the first place. I think you might mention that...

(This is London website is owned by Associated News, publishers of the London Evening Standard it is sister national newspaper the Daily Mail).

[Alexandros Lordos]

A link, anyone?

[Piratis]

This is poll-rigging by the very people who organised the ban in the first place.

Thats how online polls are. You fall in your own trap. You can't post about a poll here telling us that the results mean something, and when the results stop favoring you say that the results are not reliable!

Online polls mean very little, either you like their results or not.

[donyork]

If online polls do not mean anything, why rig them? As it happens, the Evening Standard pulled this one at 10.45 am London time after 7,420 people ‘voted’ in just four hours, after the week-old vote of Wedesday doubled in 36 hours, flrom 65,000 to 121,000 when the block went on. The apparent rigging is now being investigated.

[donyork]

Sorry, the site is....

http://ichat.thisislondon.co.uk

[Piratis]

If online polls do not mean anything, why rig them?

I see. If the polls favors you, everything fine. If it stops favoring you, it means we rig it.

I will tell you what happened: TCs for several days were voting "no" in that poll to turn the results their way. Then when they thought they succeeded they decided to take advantage of it and come to forums like this one to do what you did. Meanwhile however GCs went to vote also, turning the results the opposite way.

Sorry, but your propaganda failed, and crying now about it will not help you one bit.