#election92

Spent most of the morning between Twitter and the BBC Parliament channel re-living the 1992 General election in a twelve-hour, twenty-year anniversary special broadcast of John Major's famous victory.

Besides the strange haircuts and ridiculously over-sized glasses which made '92 one of the worst years for opticians, it was how wrong the left-dominated media were in their disasterous predictions which resonated the loudest. Little change at the BBC and the now CEO of YouGov, Peter Kelner, looking close to tears as political reality became clear with a fourth successive defeat of his beloved Labour party.

I remember the events on that night vividly and have never trusted his predictions - nor those of his polling organisation - since.

The wisdom of Peter Kelner

Isn't there a flower at Kew gardens that lives for two or three hundred years without flowering, suddenly flowers, gives off a terrible smell and then dies? asks Peter Kelner - president of YouGov, a supposedly independent polling organisation - gleefully likening it to the future of the LibDems on this week's podcast from Guardian politics.

I well remember the same Peter Kelner almost crying on election night in 1992 as his polls - having predicted victory for Neil Kinnock - proved wrong and his beloved Labour party faced five more years of opposition.

He continues if I were Nick Clegg I would regard my time as Deputy Prime Minister as a fixed-term five year appointment and ponder life outside British politics after 2015.

Its nice to know that after all these years there's still plenty of balance from YouGov then...