5% of voters show they shouldn’t be allowed out of the house unsupervised or be left alone with sharp implements

5% of voter shouldn't leave the house unsupervised @OpiniumResearch finds 5% of voters think Corbyn is right wing pic.twitter.com/1MiELCXEqz — TSE (@TSEofPB) September 11, 2016

Occasionally polling throws out a result that really does make you go wow. Today’s Opinium poll for the Social Market Foundation contains a doozy. 5% of voters think Jeremy Corbyn is right wing, channelling my inner Sheldon Cooper, whilst I subscribe to the “Many Worlds” theory which posits the existence of an infinite number of Jeremy Corbyns in an infinite number of universes, I assure you that in none of them is Jeremy Corbyn right wing.

I quite like this kind of polling, it allows you see where the political mood is, looking at the below chart, Labour’s floor at a general election might be 25%, although I do acknowledge this is a very simplistic analysis on my part, as the chart below shows 25% of voters identify themselves as left-wing or centre-left. But look at those 45% in the centre, is a Jeremy Corbyn led Labour party really going to win them over? I have my doubts.

What might alarm Labour is the following chart, which shows the demographic that usually votes, those aged 65 and over is the age group with the highest share of those identifying themselves as right-wing or centre-right.

Demographic that votes aged 65+ has the highest % of those identifying as centre-right/right-wing @OpiniumResearch pic.twitter.com/FrceZypCJj — TSE (@TSEofPB) September 11, 2016

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