"[t]he opinion polls are one of the factors that we take into account - it would be ridiculous to suggest otherwise, and I don’t think anybody is doing that".And as the Coffee House points out, if it wasn't about the polls why did virtually every paper get briefed that "Brown was going to study the polling data and then make up his mind"?
Monday, October 08, 2007
Straw says Brown is 'ridiculous'
During Brown's press conference he kept on saying that the opinion polls were nothing to do with his decision not to hold a General Election. Meanwhile, Jack Straw, the Lord Chancellor, tells the Times,
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I think the problem is that the data has got too good ( as have blogged)
I think Flash is living in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks people are being conned by this crap he spouted today.
And if they ARE being conned they deserve him
When you get to pick the time for an election, as you do in the UK, you'd have to be functionally retarded not to consider polling data. Denying it just makes one look a liar.
I think everyone knows perfectly well that Brown looked at the polls before deciding, and Brown knows that everyone knows.
Brown probably thought he had to appear that he was not acting out of personal interest.
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