Opinion split on Bigotgate significance, says Sun/YouGov poll

Mark Pack of Liberal Democrat Voice has unearthed some interesting poll results from the YouGov website : Which of these statements comes closer to your view? It's a storm in a teacup. Mr Brown was simply trying to let off steam in private. We should not think the worse of him 50% Mr Brown is a hypocrite - saying one thing in public and the opposite in private 46% Don't know 4% Pack's primary interest here is less public perceptions of Brown than what he calls another " poll result the Sun paid for but didn't report " (an earlier one put the Liberal Democrats 3 points ahead of the Conservatives on the question of which party was the most honest on spending cuts). But still, it adds in to today's endless pre-debate discussion on exactly how damaging this was for Brown. On Newsnight last night, a panel including Olly Grender, Peter Hyman and Daniel Finkelstein were moving away from the "game-changer" analysis. So back to yesterday's events in Rochdale. The New Statesman's Staggers blog notes that the findings of the Sun/YouGov poll do not chime with how many political commentators saw it . One commenter on the site writes: Ha ha. Wonderful. After all that hyperventilating and tantrum-throwing from the right-wing, blanket TV coverage and acres of hysterial newsprint, half the public still don't give a toss.