Going to the polls

I wrote a letter (yes, you’ve guessed it) to the Guardian the other day after it reported that Corbyn’s personal poll ratings as an opposition leader were the worst since 1977—as measured by Ipsos/ Mori. My letter asked how the opposition leader at the time got on. The letter wasn’t printed. But I seem to recall a certain M. Thatcher was elected with a working majority. So much for polls. But to cap it all, we’ve just had another poll which suggests the Tories are doing as well now as they did before the 2017 general election—like they’re on their way to a landslide. Well, we know what happened then. So why do the media carry on reporting polls as if they were the bees' knees, when they are so unreliable? I think it’s partly down to the need to create stories (their bread and butter) but also, for some reason to box Corbyn into a negative corner. Why of all people the BBC (which goes along with it) should wish to do this is beyond me—a Labour government is least likely to sell the BBC off into some commercial model (and I’m sure this is the Tories' long-term desire). What exactly is it about Corbyn that makes the BBC et al do what they do? Nowt to do with the so-called anti-Semitism agenda, I’m sure.