Gordon’s Pollster Deborah Mattinson Slammed for Dodgy Polling
Guido has banged on for a long time about Deborah Mattinson’s dodgy polling. Her firm’s “free” polling for Gordon Brown’s Smith Institute seemed to correlate with their ability to win 90% of government contracts. In September 2007 the Greens accused her of distorting evidence to support the government’s position on nuclear power. She of course…
Brown : “I Don’t Look at Polls”
Brown has just told Sky’s Adam Boulton that he doesn’t look at opinion polls. An absolutely blatant lie. He even has a personal pollster – Deborah Mattinson – who must now dread telling him the bad news. After Mattinson told him he would lose the marginals, he bottled having an election. When he told the…