The newspapers - an apology
In recent weeks we may have given the impression that Gordon Brown’s lead in the opinion polls represented some form of tectonic shift in the nature of UK politics. Headlines such as ‘Brown brings new age of seriousness’; ‘Era of Spin ends’ and ‘Dave’s rubbish and we hate him’ may have inadvertently given our readers to understand that the usual improvement enjoyed by prime ministers who replace unpopular and discredited predecessors was in fact a matter of great significance and that Labour would be in power for the next 1,000 years – minimum.
We now wish to make it clear that this was a misinterpretation of our position which has always been that the polls cannot be trusted, opinion is volatile and the most likely outcome of the next election is Brown sweeps back/Britain in the Balance/Cameron triumph (subs please use as applicable).
Please note that nothing in the above apology will prevent us from all writing the same old rubbish based on a couple of stray polls from now until the next election and beyond.