John Cooper: Who checks on the pollsters?

John Cooper: Who checks on the pollsters?

John Cooper is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Dumfries and Galloway. Opinion polls, said playwright JB Priestley, are “rather like children in the garden, digging things up all the time to see how they’re growing”. Priestley is most famous for An Inspector Calls, but these days it’s more likely be a pollster calling – there’s an awful lot of them about. Why? I blame the media, something I do with some authority as I was a journalist f…