HenryBHough
Diamond Member
Email exchange today with a friend I'll be visiting in North Yorkshire week after next. He was chuckling over what apparently was a concerted effort to lead pollsters down the garden path. Nothing to do with any party; just people sick of their phone ringing every five minutes with inane questions.
In his small city the polls universally predicted a Labour sweep; MP, Borough Council, Parish (City) Council. Actuality? Conservative MP; hung borough council (there'll have to be a coalition of some sort) but at the city level? The one thing nobody predicted; losses for all the parties and election of three independents.
During the coming trip I'll be in several large cities and a larger number of smaller cities/villages. Most interesting conversation will be with a distant relative (discovered just months ago through ancestry research) who has retired to a rural farm after a life in politics including has served as an MP for one term. I haven't discussed the possibility of intentionally misled pollsters but definitely will be doing that.
I could easily discount the chuckling of the first individual as he runs a pub and is given to joking yet the comic polling results raise the possibility that it was "for real". If it was, imaging the hell that could be raised with American pundits by a fed-up-with intrusive polling public!
In his small city the polls universally predicted a Labour sweep; MP, Borough Council, Parish (City) Council. Actuality? Conservative MP; hung borough council (there'll have to be a coalition of some sort) but at the city level? The one thing nobody predicted; losses for all the parties and election of three independents.
During the coming trip I'll be in several large cities and a larger number of smaller cities/villages. Most interesting conversation will be with a distant relative (discovered just months ago through ancestry research) who has retired to a rural farm after a life in politics including has served as an MP for one term. I haven't discussed the possibility of intentionally misled pollsters but definitely will be doing that.
I could easily discount the chuckling of the first individual as he runs a pub and is given to joking yet the comic polling results raise the possibility that it was "for real". If it was, imaging the hell that could be raised with American pundits by a fed-up-with intrusive polling public!