Westminster voting intention:

 

CON: 49% (+4)

LAB: 29% (-4)

LDEM: 10% (-2)

GRN: 4% (+1)

BREX: 2% (-)

 

via @YouGov, 24 - 26 Jan

Chgs. w/ GE2019, GB result

This country is finished. We live in a one party state with a sham democracy. One party state media, check, ridiculous democratic sustem designed to favour one party, check, constant attacks on the opposition, check. Gross.

This country is finished. We live in a one party state with a sham democracy. One party state media, check, ridiculous democratic sustem designed to favour one party, check, constant attacks on the opposition, check. Gross.

 

I don't believe for a second you'd be making this claim if it was Labour who had an 80 seat majority. :rolleyes:

 

He's trolling lol, it's the post election Brexit day high, things will be all to play for from now on!

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Interesting that Opinion Polling is still continuing after everything that's happened, but that's a side note. More than half of those responding now supportive on the Conservatives(!). Although I imagine at the moment things are quite volatile, and if you were to poll people tomorrow they could be 10 points down.

I have to say that the government has, for the most part, been handling this far better than I would have expected them to, and will have a mostly very positive perception at the moment. Obviously there are no other options yet and the fallout is not yet known but that doesn't surprise me, I think they may go a few points higher yet before the new Labour leader is chosen.

It's a one party state now and will be for the forseeable future, with a bought and paid hard right media. It's done.

Their handling of the coronavirus started off OK but has been an utter shambles for the last week or two. They have performed a complete U-turn without admitting it, let alone giving a coherent explanation for it. There are still huge numbers of people on zero-hours contracts who have no idea whether they are going to be able to earn any money for the next couple months or so. Now they are trying to award thenmselves emergency powers that go beyond anything introduced in WWII. Johnson is out of his depth and needs to be replaced by an adult asap.

^^ Agreed with SH the U Turn could well have cost lives!

Aand just a reminder: Bush polled at 90% after 9/ 11 and Macron, who was on his last legs politically and about to be forced from thr Eliysee by the Gilet Juanes, is now at 54%.

 

In the UK it is exascerbated by a fawning, pro-Tory, one party state media, and by the national culture of seeing criticism of leadership during a crisis as distasteful.

Aand just a reminder: Bush polled at 90% after 9/ 11 and Macron, who was on his last legs politically and about to be forced from thr Eliysee by the Gilet Juanes, is now at 54%.

 

In the UK it is exascerbated by a fawning, pro-Tory, one party state media, and by the national culture of seeing criticism of leadership during a crisis as distasteful.

The worst part of it is that the press coverage would have been very different if a Labour government had done exactly the same as Johnson's shower in exactly the same timescale. They would also somehow have found a way to blame Labour for the fact that the Tory government decided, in 2017, not to buy any more ventilators despite a report saying there were nowhere near enough to cope with a major epidemic.

A Holyrood poll out yesterday put the Nationalists up very high on a thumping* majority with 70 of the 129 seats.

 

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*thumping for a Parliamentary system explicitly designed to stop both majorities and the SNP from being in power.

Anyone have any opinion poll following Starmers first month? No doubt a 1000% Tory lead as ever as 30000 deaths aren't enough for the public to become critical!!

 

Anyone watching the Election 2010 coverage tomorrow on BBC parliament?

Last one I saw was 50% Conservative, 30% Labour, 7% Lib Dem, 5% Green

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I imagine things might start shifting in his direction with more covers like this.

Anyone have any opinion poll following Starmers first month? No doubt a 1000% Tory lead as ever as 30000 deaths aren't enough for the public to become critical!!

 

Anyone watching the Election 2010 coverage tomorrow on BBC parliament?

 

Whilst the dial hasn't moved much in terms of the main parties, the polling for Keir Starmer himself should give something for Labour to cheer about. His net favourability after one month in the job is +18, which is much better than the -51 that Jeremy Corbyn finished off with (and whose net favourability rarely went above 0). It is worth pointing out that the same poll gave Boris Johnson's net approval rating of +20, so he's within touching distance of being the most popular politician by this scale.

I wonder when, or if the Conservatives will lose their lead. It's a tory government, it has to happen sometime, although the SNP haven't actually lost a Scottish poll since September 2014 :lol: It sounds cliched but I can't see Keir Starmer ever being Prime Minster. Hopefully Scotland won't have to worry about that by 2024 though x

Whilst the dial hasn't moved much in terms of the main parties, the polling for Keir Starmer himself should give something for Labour to cheer about. His net favourability after one month in the job is +18, which is much better than the -51 that Jeremy Corbyn finished off with (and whose net favourability rarely went above 0). It is worth pointing out that the same poll gave Boris Johnson's net approval rating of +20, so he's within touching distance of being the most popular politician by this scale.

 

He just needs to start boosting his media coverage. He is a little dullard, but he’s really impressive as a politician. Even if he doesn’t get to be Prime Minister he will certainly help close the gap at the next general election. Labour have a really good shot if they handle the fallout of this well.

He just needs to start boosting his media coverage. He is a little dullard, but he’s really impressive as a politician. Even if he doesn’t get to be Prime Minister he will certainly help close the gap at the next general election. Labour have a really good shot if they handle the fallout of this well.

Given a choice between competent but a little boring or charismatic but hopelessly incompetent, it shouldn’t really be a difficult choice.

Given a choice between competent but a little boring or charismatic but hopelessly incompetent, it shouldn’t really be a difficult choice.

 

Agreed and certainly for me and you it would be an easy choice. But unfortunately the voters Starmer needs to win back are not me and you! Stuff like this newspaper headline is brilliant though, long way to go yet mind.