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!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
Source is here: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2025/02/20/c33bd/1
That source allows you to see the results according to political affiliation. Pluralities of supporters of the Conservatives, Labour, and Lib Dems think that supporting Ukraine is more important.
The exception is Reform UK, whose supporters think that good relations with the USA are more important than supporting Ukraine.
Yes, they only attract a certain kind of users (i.e. easily tricked by "bonus points" systems). It's an opt in rather than a random selection. Even if they claim to use common strategies to spread out the responses statistically, there is no way it is accurate.
YouGov bad: https://undark.org/2024/06/26/trolls-polls-survey-science/
YouGov good: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/poll-of-polls-mrp/
Many thanks for the links, the first article was very interesting, I don't agree with your conclusion though :)
My takeaway is that traditional polling is mostly dead, because it has become prohibitively expensive to get a representative result. So if we still want to see regular opinion polls, then opt in polling is what we're going to get. And when it comes to opt in polling, yougov appears to be one of the better firms, from the article: "But opt-in polling firms run the gamut. Some, like YouGov, publish their methodology and strive to ensure the integrity of their data. Others, experts say, do not.".