Editorial: Wrong, wrong, wrong

Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage did the honourable thing and the pollsters should do likewise. How can you get it so wrong? For the latest two months the opinion polls have been saying that it would be a hung parliament with all the political uncertainly this can cause. Millions of pounds was wiped off the value of British shares and sterling suffered a dive. But how can you get it so wrong? There was even one opinion poll this week that said that Labour was actually ahead in the opinion polls. There was only one poll which got it right;and it was the BBCexit poll, which was spot on. So far the pollsters have failed to predict the outcome of the Scottish referendum and the general election. Both were said to be neck and neck but the final outcome was a clear winner. The last time the polls got the result so wrong was back in 1992 when John Major triumphed against Neil Kinnock. The biggest issue of this general election was the SNP. England voted Conservative because they feared a possible pact between Labour and the SNP. Even the SNP cashed in on Labour´s woes, vote SNP because we will probably pact with Labour anyhow.  The one person I do feel sorry for is Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader. His party went into meltdown even though he helped to keep the last coalition government together. I think history will be kinder to Clegg than the voters.He did the honourable thing but perhaps he should have stayed.