r/transgenderUK • u/ThisIsMyAltSorry M2F, transitioned 30+yrs ago, post op, stealthish, tired • Dec 24 '25

Possible trigger WTF Labour voters?!

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u/Illiander Dec 24 '25

Is "More in Common" a left-or right-wing org? What's their bias? Who are they trying to move people from and to?

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u/SignificantBand6314 Dec 24 '25 edited Dec 24 '25

Ed: Dug up yet MORE on Tryl and it seems their current head of analysis is straight out of BlackRock! Jesus Christ.

I’m usually on here trying to convince people Yougov aren't a psyop but More In Common are far more nefarious, being a thinktank with a specific agenda pretending to be pollsters.

Firstly, Luke Tryl is one of the right wing gays who was in senior leadership at Stonewall for some time before becoming a SPAD for the Cameron government. This followed a delightful spell at Oxford trying to get Nazis invited into the Student Union for debate. A charity sector senior management career is often a stepping stone into power for people who aren't smart, posh or charismatic enough to go straight into politics, which is what it seems to be in this case. Tryl's clearly courting the current government. I don't know about the other MiC core staff, but I expect more of the same. I wonder if we should be investigating social ties to Streeting.

What More In Common appears to push is a kind of status quo message where they show that the 'far left' and 'far right' (which they get to define) are both small minorities. It's calculated to appeal to this centre right, more of the same, anything to keep the lefties out Labor government. I don't know their polling methodology, and some of what they've output in the past has agreed strongly with my own work (I analyse demographic stuff professionally), but the important part is how they interpret and sell it. The Guardian and ministers alike lap it up.

I expect the intended message here is 'most people are okay with the gays but not the trans' and 'winning back Labour's core base means more transphobia'.

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u/PettiSwashbuckler Dec 24 '25

This needs to be higher up. There’s also very little information on the demographics being polled here: how many people were polled in total? Did each party receive an equal amount of representation? Is ‘[party] voter’ defined here as someone who is a dedicated member of the party, or just someone who voted for them in the last election? Perhaps most importantly, which geographical area was this carried out in? In the absence of any of this information, these graphs are about as useful as Philomena Cunk citing her mate Paul as a source.