With right-wing parties popping up like nobody's business, pollsters are struggling to keep up with the likelihood of any given party garnering enough votes to win a constituency.
'Some of these parties don't have a proper structure in place, for example to depose the leader,' said a leading pollster without indicating whether he thought that was good or bad. 'Most do seem to have secured a decent funding line - from Russia, from Musk - before restricting themselves to donation rules that only fully apply to political parties registered with the electoral commission,' he noted, agreeing that time was running short for them to get registered, recruit sufficient party faithful, vet candidates and print leaflets.
'May isn't that far away,' he noted, speculating that the vetting could be done after the event, 'it seems to work for Reform', he said, adding, 'if it all goes wrong they can just trouser the money they've siphoned from Russia and Musk,' pointing out, 'that also seems to work for Reform.'
