London elections: Tory landslide predicted

Westmonster once spent a couple of years living in Harrow, and didn't particularly see it as a thriving hub of political debate. More a collection of arbitrary chain stores and a couple of pubs it'd be best to avoid on Saturdays. Or Sundays. Or those other five days of the week.

Quite surprising, then, that local paper The Harrow Times has dived into the London Election meedja frenzy with very interesting results. Carrying out a web poll, the paper asked its readers who they would be supporting in the upcoming shindig. The results: it's going to be an absolute belter for the Tories.

A whopping seventy-four percent of those taking part claimed that the Conservatives would be getting their vote, with Labour lagging on a measly sixteen percent. Also of note is the Lib Dem position - languishing with four percent, behind even the Green Party (who managed six).

Of course, the reliability of the poll can be called into question. No-one can vouch, for instance, that the results weren't swayed by a couple of feverish Tory acolytes clicking their links until the early hours of the morning. Or - as a commentator on the Harrow Times site puts it:

"This is about the most unscientific poll ever conducted and your interpretation of the "results" is naive. 74% of readers did NOT say they would vote Tory. I read the paper. I didn't vote. You haven't told us how many unique votes there were (as opposed to multiple votes from the same person). No-one in their right mind would vote Tory - look what the morons have done to Harrow."

Oh, you and your 'logic' and 'reason' and 'balanced view of the facts.' Shush, won't you? We've got papers to sell.

Written by C J Davies on 6 Apr 2008 7:48 PM. There are 1 comments so far. Permalink