YouGov on Wednesday's strike

I expect we'll have some more polling on Wednesday's strikes over the next week or two, but there were a few questions on YouGov's dailing polling for the Sun earlier in the week.

Firstly, asked about changes to public sector pensions, 41% of people said they supported them, 44% opposed them, a pretty even divide. There are some conflicting polls on this, people are more supportive of some of the changes than others. The most enlightening is probably YouGov in the Sunday Times at the start of November, which broke the pension changes into three parts - people were more positive towards making public sector workers pay more into their pensions (by 51% to 35%), linking pensions to average salary rather than final salary (by 49% to 30%). The part that met with more opposition was increasing their retirement age (44% thought this was right, 45% wrong).

Going back to this week's poll, YouGov also asked about support or opposition towards the strikes themselves. Teachers going on strike were opposed by 53% to 37% in support. Civil servants going on strike were opposed by 54% of people with 35% in support. Compared to very similar questions straight after the strikes at the end of June, it suggests a slight drop in support since then.

I expect I'll return to this issue in coming days! Meanwhile tonight we have the usual YouGov poll for the Sunday Times, while Patrick O'Flynn is suggesting there is a poll of some sort with good news for UKIP. We shall see.