The Case for Electoral Reform - Andrew Doyle
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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster
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🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:29.3 | Polsters are imperfect profits. We saw them humiliated in the 2016 US general election. |
| 0:36.8 | One survey by the Princeton Election Consortium declared that the chance of Hillary Clinton |
| 0:41.5 | defeating Donald Trump was over 99%. |
| 0:45.0 | Here in the UK in the same year, very few believe that the majority would vote to leave the European Union, |
| 0:50.0 | even among those who most desired that outcome. |
| 0:52.0 | The electorate is a fickle beast. |
| 0:54.8 | So what are we to make of the latest of many ominous polls for the Conservatives? |
| 0:58.9 | A recent U-Gov analysis seemingly obliterates Rishi Sunak's chances of victory with |
| 1:04.0 | labor projected to win over 400 seats. If this prophecy plays out it would see |
| 1:09.2 | numerous cabinet ministers dispatched including Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordent and Grant Shaps. |
| 1:14.4 | The results are even worse for the Tories than those revealed by a poll commissioned by Conservative |
| 1:18.5 | Britain Alliance in January, which drew information from a sample seven times larger than the norm. |
| 1:24.4 | We've seen pollsters get it disastrously wrong in the past, |
| 1:27.4 | but surely the return of labor is now an inevitability. |
| 1:30.8 | And although I'm unlikely to vote for either Sunak or Starma, I would never be comfortable with any one party holding such an overwhelming majority. |
| 1:38.6 | Effective government requires effective opposition. |
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