What Some Folk in England Think About a President Donald Trump
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Trump as president is, I suspect, something of a nightmare scenario for many Americans. Well, it is for the Americans who share the views of the majority who frequent MMA anyway. Liberal Americans are understandably concerned that a man (and I do use the term loosely) like Donald Trump could actually become President of The United States Of America. Personally, whilst I think he is a dangerous idiot, I couldn’t care less.
My wife could and so could my daughter – care less that is, not become president. Both my wife and my daughter think that the world will become a more dangerous place with a man like Trump in charge in the USA.
My absence from MMA of late is only partially because I have been busy doing other things. I have also and quite genuinely been asking lots of people whether they are worried about the possibility of Trump becoming president.
Now, given that this is England and we have enough on our plate trying to get the hell away from the European Union I wasn’t expecting that many people would take the question entirely seriously and, indeed, some didn’t but a surprising number did.
I sampled 100 people – and no, I didn’t know them all and yes some people just stared at me like I was a loony as, from their point of view, a total stranger was asking them what they thought of Trump, but I persevered and I did manage to get replies from 100 people.
With hindsight I wish I had found a way to video my project if only to prove to you that I actually did do it. Never mind. You will just have to take my word for it and, after all, you can trust me I’m from Oldham.
My question was this :
“Does it worry you that Donald Trump may become President of the USA?”
The responses were as follows (and please remember, these responses were from people who live in Hayes Town in Greater London – formerly Middlesex – in England which is, of course, a little way from the USA)
8 people said “Who?” which is pretty good going really as I suspect far more would say “Who?” in Hayes Town if you asked for the name of the British Prime Minister.
3 people said “Burrrrp” and/or “Whashyousayin?” but I have to admit it was late on and in a pub so, perhaps, I should have discounted them from the survey as they had clearly consumed copious amounts of amber nectar but I was running out of time to complete my survey.
64 people replied with variations of “I couldn’t care less” / “I’m not interested” / “Who gives a fuck?” and responses of a similar vein.
20 people gave vaguely sensible responses :
“It could be a more dangerous world if he is elected” or similar came from 11.
“I think he’s great and I’d vote for him” or similar came from 7.
“He’s too stupid and they’ve already had ‘W'” or similar came from 2.
The remaining 5 people surveyed included my wife and daughter who both consider Trump to be a danger to the world.
That leaves 3.
1 was a Polish chap who couldn’t speak much English but, as he offered me a sip of his Tyskie beer from a can I felt obliged to include him. I decided he would, if he had even the vaguest idea what I was on about, have been against Trump.
1 was an Asian chap who didn’t seem to understand I was conducting a survey and kept insisting I ordered some food – but as he was a waiter in my local Indian restaurant and the food was glorious I had to include him and I suspect, as he is Muslim, he would be anti-Trump too.
I finally arrived home and realised that I had only 99 responses to my survey but, as it was late and I was extremely full of beer and curry I had no intention of going out again just for one more bloody answer so I settled for Marie-Bug.
Marie-Bug is one of my cats but, in my view, she is as entitled to her opinion on Trump as anyone else so I asked her what her view was on the possibility of Donald Trump becoming President of the USA.
It may have been a coincidence – or it may not have been.
On completion of my question Marie-Bug opened her mouth as if to respond – which wouldn’t have been something I was necessarily expecting – and produced the most monstrous hairball in the entire history of hairballs. The hairball erupted from her throat and splattered all over the window ledge and dripped down onto the floor. It was like watching a feline version of that John Hurt bit in ‘Alien’ when the alien punches out of his stomach except it was a hairball from Marie-Bug’s mouth.
So, America. I have religiously carried out a genuine and comprehensive survey regarding the views of the residents of my small bit of England regarding the possible election of Donald Trump as President of the USA.
It took a cat to finally give a really sensible answer.
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You should be concerned about who wins the US presidency old bean because it will have an impact on the world, including the UK 🙂
I for one appreciate the sound scientific and accurate statistical analysis you’ve presented Neil. The results of your survey here would most likely give the same results. I think 64% not giving a shit to be spot on.
Yeah that’s about right Joe 🙂