Poll

There was disturbing news for opinion pollsters today as the results of a new survey were published.

The research, conducted by market research agency MORI-OR-LESSI, found that only 23% of people questioned would participate in surveys. This is a huge reduction from last year's result of 43%.

Meanwhile, in a similar poll conducted online, researchers found that a surprising 89% of respondents would willingly vote online. Of the remaining 11%, 6% said they would never participate in an online poll, and 5% were undecided.

The news comes at a particularly irrelevant time when MPs are still deciding on holiday destinations and the party conference season has yet to begin. According to expert analyst Doug Ramurbottom, this means that the research will have no real effect on the world and is only being reported because nothing more interesting has happened. "In fact," he told us, "the researchers were probably just wasting their time."