Jon Chesterson makes his second appearance in the Top 5 articles for 2025 with YouGov – no I’m just kidding, published in February. Well done, Jon.
Where’s our news, where are the investigative journalists, where’s our ABC and who the fudgestone are YouGov?
The ABC busted: our most trusted and public broadcaster drops the YouGov bombshell, except they hide the real bomb in the national closet where they hope it won’t be found. Either that or they are too bloody stupid to smell the rat!
YouGov sounds like a legitimate government institution but it is a British owned private company for profit co-founded by Stephan Shakespeare, a German born British entrepreneur and former owner of ‘ConservativeHome‘ (a politically conservative news website and events company) and Nadhim Zahawi, an Iraqi born British politician who served in various Ministerial positions for the Conservative government under Theresa May, Boris Johnston, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and most recently as UK Conservative Party chairman, and subsequently sacked for failing to adhere to the Ministerial Code, i.e. “to maintain high standards of behaviour and to behave in a way that upholds the highest standards of propriety” – hmmm sounding all too familiar!
Stephan Shakespeare is not his real name either, he was born as Stephan Kukowski in 1957 in Mönchengladbach, Germany and exchanged his surname for that of his wife. One has to wonder why he’d conceal his true name and identity. Yes there’s more, he was a failed candidate for Lord Mayor of London (shades of Boris, the Johnston kind) and failed one time Parliamentary candidate for Colchester even with the personal support of Margaret Thatcher – what a stunning life, history and performance he has led! Oh and he has spent time in Los Angeles, USA where he met his wife, worked as a teacher and Headmaster (heaven knows what), so he probably knows Trump I suspect, given both their form and interests in national elections, both domestic and abroad.
So YouGov have set up business doing national polls marketing research around the world including Australia, second question; why? Other than for profit and the speculation of election interference (data misused by third parties) I can’t answer that. Thirdly, they have apparently conducted a large-scale interview of the Australian public, 40,000 or so which is a drop in the ocean of the population eligible to vote (consider the merit and significance of their market research), but more importantly for what purpose would you spend so much time, money and analysis prior to a general election in a foreign country? Who is paying for and sponsoring this endeavour, who invited him here? Who and why?
Well then, who is the apparent beneficiary? Ah yes, Dutton of course, they’ve made no bones about that, and they have caveated this endeavour claiming to be the most thorough, sophisticated and cannily accurate predictor of election outcomes of any agency on the planet – TALL CLAIM huh! And the ABC wash all this down repeating this claim in their broadcast without the slightest hesitation of revealing all the dodgy-dodgy didgery-didgery dooby-doo stuff, and I thought we now had foreign interference laws… spooky?
So might Dutton have engineered this or perhaps it has been paid for by one of his billionaire mining oligarchs or the ultra Australian conservative think tank, IPA (Institute of Public Affairs) with all its remarkable ultra conservative donors and oligarchs, or some other darker person or agency hiding in the shadows here or overseas (I’m thinking Britain, USA and yes why not Israel and Russia), after all they too have their fingers in everyone else’s pies, particularly Israel soul defender of the faith, a little genocide on the side and LNP Dutton party faithful for sure (shout antisemitism and yes it worked for Trump and it seems to be working very well here too – just ask Chris Minns and Anthony Albanese)? Take a breath I will with a heavy sinking question mark and now I have forgotten the question – Just love it, that’s what it’s all about. And by the way Nadhim Zahawi was one-time chief strategy officer for ‘Gulf Keystone Petroleum’, yes another fossil fuel exploration and mining company chiefly operating in Kurdistan listed on the London Stock Exchange (not ASX mind). Are you still with me, getting the picture, joining all the dots, because sure as hell the ABC and ABC News aren’t, don’t and haven’t!
So should we be surprised at the result or even the sudden appearance of this bombshell of an organisation (or should that be organism) most of us have never heard of before? …Well yes we should! It is called electoral manipulation and buying up the result or even the election itself, selling out on democracy. Perhaps a little different in approach to the Trump and Elon Musk campaign, polls not trolls, lotto not bribery or raffle; you’d want to be more subtle and digger over here, and I bet we haven’t heard the last of it or biggest lie yet. I’m pretty damn sure Dutton, the IPA and the Australian oligarchs have a few other poisonous dirty snakes up their sleeves, more to come as their campaign gathers lightning thunder and speed, exchange truth for lies and fiction, steal all our oxygen (best in the world they say, well if you include Tasmania), and we’ll all die of news poisoning, blood boiling or the unrelenting crusades of shit attacks, monotony, lunacy and boredom gasping for breath.
Now if the ABC had any investigative, moral-ethical sense, integrity (disclosure) or responsibility as our key national public broadcaster, shouldn’t they have informed Australians of at least some of this? Instead, they report just the poll results favouring Dutton as the next Prime Minister on ABC NEWS – So just how is this news and where is the exposé (forgive my French) of YouGov’s research methodology – don’t mind if I do, Guv? Clearly it’s neither, it is ‘market research’ not science (don’t confuse that with ‘real’ research of the empirical kind); and it is manufactured news, tainted news, false news, in fact pure bloody fiction and the real news behind this bombshell has been kept hidden from us. But up it pops just before we go to general election – how bloody convenient, what a coincidence. And of course, who better to carry this dodgy manipulative fictional bombshell to soften up the Australian electorate prior to an election, other than our most trusted, balanced news provider, our national public broadcaster, the ABC. Gosh now they really are setting the standard, playing the lead role, heading the free to air gutter TV, News Corp and Sky News pack of yapping wolves!
So where’s that Commission of Inquiry or indeed where are the Australian Federal Police? Ah I get it, nowhere to be found, can’t monetise this without speeding or parking fines (a million of these) or racial aggravation of a police officer, nothing to see here folks…
… other than that ugly mug, guv, no mate of mine fudgestone from Dickson, shit, just kidding!
Check out, chuck out the rubbish (everyone is) just can’t miss it whoa… who’s Prime Minister of Australia now:
“ABC News Analysis”: Not that you could call it news or analysis, ABC NEWS, 16 February 2025.
“This is a big piece of research” yes it’s on YouTube too, comments turned off already: “YouGov poll shows Peter Dutton in position to be next PM” ABC NEWS, 16 February 2025, not on a bloody Sunday please I’d miss it.
Well why not watch this shitfest on iView, since everyone’s asking: You gotta know the title of it by now, guv.
“Peter Dutton most likely to be next prime minister”, and its qualified here “according to YouGov poll”: Qualified, but hardly makes it news or trustworthy now does it? Press article version and shit proud of it ABC NEWS, 16 February 2025.
Not sure about this, but looks like YouGov point scoring on popularity of ABC in the USA or maybe just plain arse licking: Doesn’t sound very scientific or newsy to me.
And no I’m not just kidding it’s on X, like where else would it be to make the news, but we don’t do it on X at The AIM Network, so I scratched the link, but there’s always FB and Instagram, it’s sure to be everywhere what a coup. Same for Sky News and the shitfest is apparently in every other little rat hole in the MSM news and media entertainment industry, not that any distinction is made between the two – oh yay!
Last round on level of general ignorance:
Why are people leaving the USA right now; and why the droves who want to don’t?
Incorrect answer: Deportations; and let’s MAGA on.
Correct answer: Trump; and because they are not refugees or illegal immigrants.
Will the same happen here in Australia; and who shall we hold responsible if it does?
Incorrect answer: No, yes… I mean, maybe; and ‘citizenship up for sale, deportation down’ Dickson Dutton.
Correct answer: Who the fudgestone really knows; and YouGuv (like we can’t really blame the ABC for first breaking the news that really wasn’t).
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If this was designed to get Dutton elected, it backfired. I reckon this got ALP up as people were so fearful of a Dutton government they over voted for ALP. Someone didn’t allow for the Australian tail poppy syndrome. Funny really.
Excellent work, Jon. Be only a matter of weeks now before “staggering new polling” is reported by News.com.au to be putting Sussan Ley’s refocused, renewed and awash with Advance funding and IPA think-tanking, Liberal end of the Coalition pantomime horse to be firmly in contention for the next Federal Election, which must be held by 20 May 2028.
Yeah, great article Jon.
With the msm ‘fouth estate’ corporatized and turned to junk, and the escapees from there crossing to Auntie, we’re left with independent media to dig deeper, expose the rationale and the trash, and give evidence-based warnings and opinion to the public.
Trouble is, that involves the public researching, reading and moving beyond headlines and rah-rah. It may be only the young’ns and politically inclined that would make the effort. For many, not inclined to, or constrained, there’ll remain the ‘bush telegraph’, tradition and instinct.
Our system of compulsory voting, provides an opportunity for mischief to sow seeds of doubt aimed at obtaining swings.
The mischief makers usually import foreign agendas and scripts, forgetting that ‘traditional’ and ‘instinctive’ Oz can smell a ‘rat’ from a mile off. It might not mind its home-grown rats, but will rush to exterminate (if only in its mind) imported rats.
The thing is, what is home-grown and how is it recognized? How long and what does it take to be accepted as home-grown?
With incessant invasions of mind parasites, the pollies have a tendency to grasp at a mix of rah-rah, celebrity and twists of moral high ground in a covert theatrical attempt to imply that their performances are home-grown.
Of course they will refer to the brilliantly named ‘Poll Bludger’ to get a handle on their efforts. But even then, it’s a flimsy exercise as one of the favorite sports of Oz is throwing a curve ball or bouncer at snoopers and toffs.
Having moved beyond MYEFO with sneakers on, and after the summer break boils and fries the left-overs, it’ll be interesting to see what Feb to April brings as the May budget approaches.