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I heard a great tale about Ian Dale, the would-have-been tory candidate for Tonbridge Wells (he was forced to stand aside after comments surfaced in which he was insulting to his constituents and their town.
Some twenty years ago he was after the North Norfolk seat. A friend was at the time doing PR work for a local health trust. It was planning to close a local facility. Dale told the meeting the trust we holding that in the survey he'd conducted, 15% of local people didn't want the facility any way.
My friend whispered to the EADT journo he was stood next to 'what about the other 85% then?'
The EADT journalist asked Dale that question, and Dale went ballistic at both of them. Presumably for knowing what is left if you take 15 way from 100.