The 2015 General Election is almost done, with less than a dozen seats left to declare. David Cameron has won, and with an outright majority.
Huw Edwards on the BBC said, “Nobody predicted this”.
Well, not quite nobody, Huw:
https://doggerelizer.wordpress.com/2015/05/06/general-election-2015-predictions/
As you can see, a nobody predicted this. If everybody wants to come to this nobody’s house and offer me a top boffin job and / or fat wodges of cash in return for my god-like insights, I will consider your offer.
But how did I get this right when top bods around the country didn’t? Was it luck? Was it insider knowledge? Was it a time machine or a cellophane-sealed batch of NZT-48?
Actually, it was simply a matter of being realistic, objective, and following the ebb and flow both on the streets (as a political activist, myself; I’m not a drug dealer) and in the media.
But my supernatural gift of foresight comes as a small crumb of relief because the party I voted for did not win. Also, I didn’t put a damn bet on!
© 2015 Bryan A. J. Parry
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