The majority of the public believe protests rarely, if ever, make a difference
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Most Britons – including protestors themselves – say that disruptive protests do more to hinder than help a cause.
By Joanna Morris
The vast majority of Britons (76%) say they’ve never taken part in a public protest and nearly eight in ten of those people (78%) say they are not very likely, or not at all likely, to do so.
The recent imprisonment of Just Stop Oil activist Jan Goodey, however, shows the kind of risk some members of the public will take to support the causes they believe in. She is one of the 18% of Britons who say they have taken part in a protest.
Environmental issues, war and Brexit are the most common causes Britons say they’ve protested about
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of those who have protested say they’ve done so repeatedly, with 5% of demonstrators saying they’ve protested publicly 20 times or more.
Labour voters are more than three times as likely to say they’ve ever protested than Conservative supporters, by 32% to 9%. At 22% to 13%, those in ABC1 households (...
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