Fun Online Poll Results: Bank of England has lost the plot

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has just announced that they'll stretch the elastic a little bit further (see previous post for explanation of this highly technical term).

Which is completely out of step with popular opinion. On a healthy turn-out of over four hundred votes (thanks to Alice Cook for linking and everybody at HPC), the responses to the question:

What should the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee do at its next meeting?
were as follows...
Disband itself and allow the markets to set interest rates - 43%
Increase the base rate - 35%
Keep the base rate at 1.5% - 11%
Cut the base rate - 11%

I doubt whether either of the first two options will show up as having been seriously considered on their minutes, once they get round to publishing them. Although, the two extremes ('cut' and 'disband') come to the same thing - if they reduced the OBR to zero, then banks are far less likely to deposit with the Bank of England and would set rates themselves 'in the market' - the OBR would become an irrelevance.