Court Painter, after receiving his prognosticator fee, explains to all clients that in the spirit of fairness it would be unseemly to reveal his prognostications in advance of the people having spoken and thus become known as a spoiler.
It is rumoured among the chattering class, Court Painter refuses to be bought off by the multitude of pollsters who can be depended upon to reveal contradictory and often flat out wrong daily mixed poll results to anxious citizens !
Court Painter only accepts reimbursement from politicos who seek his clear eyed glimpses into the future.
