 They seem to think that they know better than 17.4million people... their lordships are playing with fire and it would be a shame to burn down the historic house".The event was extensively covered in the national media.The organisation has previously conducted polling on EU-related issues at both at a national and European level, including a two-part Open Europe/ YouGov Deutschland poll on "German Voters Sentiments on Europe" ahead of the 2013 German federal election, and an Open Europe/ ComRes poll investigating the UK electorate's relationship with the EU.