Gordon Brown's personal support among voters has fallen faster and further than that of any Prime Minister since political polling began, it has emerged.

 

In a double blow for the Government, the Conservative lead over Labour has stretched to 16 points - more than at any time since the Tories lost power in 1997.

 

With the Prime Minister's authority collapsing as rumours surface of a scramble to replace him from Cabinet colleagues and senior Labour MPs, the poll shows the public has also fallen out of love with Mr Brown.

 

His personal rating is now minus 37, down from plus 48 in August, a plunge even more severe than that suffered by Neville Chamberlain in 1940 after Germany's invasion of Norway.

 

The YouGov poll for the Sunday Time puts the Conservatives up one on 44 per cent, with Labour down one point on 28 per cent, and the Liberal Democrats also up one on 17 per cent.

 

It is the best rating for the Conservatives since the summer of 1992, just after John Major's shock election victory and shortly before Black Wednesday.

 

To make matters even worse for Mr Brown, the poll shows that voters would be more likely to support Labour if his predecessor Tony Blair was still in office.

Six out of 10 complain the Prime Minister has a tendency to "dither" and only 26 per cent believe he has shown decisive leadership.

 

Just 14 per cent agree he is "in control of events," while 57 per cent say he is "floundering".

 

Worse still for the man who built his reputation as the steward of the economy as chancellor, 61 per cent of those poll said they blamed Mr Brown for the current financial crisis and two-thirds said they did not trust the Prime Minister and the current Chancellor, Alistair Darling, to steer the country out of it.

 

The poll comes as the former home secretary Charles Clarke is rumoured to be planning to recruit a "stalking horse" challenge to Mr Brown's leadership if next month's local elections prove bloody.

 

He has been talking up the risk to Labour MPs in marginal seats in the south of the country of the Government's current unpopularity.

 

The Olympics Minister, Tessa Jowell, has admitted the public is concerned about policies such as the scrapping of the 10p tax rate, and the Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, is said to be distancing himself from Mr Brown's bid to raise the detention without charge limit for terror suspects to 42 days.

 

Geoff Hoon, the Chief Whip, has warned the Cabinet that the Government faces a significant backbench rebellion unless compromises are offered.

 

And with Mr Brown's leadership in such crisis, MPs have begun discussing the prospects of the various potential candidates to replace him, with the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, the current bookies' favourite.

 

Source: Sunday Telegraph

 

I hope Labour lose the next election and Conservatives takes over.

I hope Labour lose the next election and Conservatives takes over.

 

Spoken like someone who never had to suffer those buggers for 18 years...... <_< :P

 

I want the actual, proper LABOUR party to win the next election, not the bunch of "Nu Labor" lickspittle w/ankers we have in power now...... :lol:

 

As much as I don't like alot of the conservertive parties policies, I see them as the only viable option for the next election, as I really dislike Gordon Brown and think he is a rubbish priminster, the Lib Dems is a waste of a vote as not enough people will vote for them to put them into power, besides I and probably many others have no idea of the name of their leader. So in my first time being able to vote i will probably be voting for the concervitives.

where i live u vote lib dem to keep out the torries that the farmers love so much

 

labour don't get a look in here, we see them for what they are. $h!t

Well... Brown's only got 12 months to turn things around... (there has to be an election next year doesn't there? Seeing as it will be four years since the last?) and I can't see him doing it. I think we'll see the Tories completely slaughter Labour on May 1st, and that's usually a decent indicator of how the national elections will pan out.

Well... Brown's only got 12 months to turn things around... (there has to be an election next year doesn't there? Seeing as it will be four years since the last?) and I can't see him doing it. I think we'll see the Tories completely slaughter Labour on May 1st, and that's usually a decent indicator of how the national elections will pan out.

 

The last election was in 2005, so there could be one in 2009 as they are usualy every 4 years, but they can be done every 5 years, and I can see Brown wanting to hang onto power for aslong as possible so i think we won't see an election till 2010

The last election was in 2005, so there could be one in 2009 as they are usualy every 4 years, but they can be done every 5 years, and I can see Brown wanting to hang onto power for aslong as possible so i think we won't see an election till 2010

Oh I thought they had to be every four years? :( Bahhh... another two years of Brown it is then. :arrr:

They're usually every four years, but you can have up to 5... I think not calling an early election last year may backfire on him. I think he would've won then, but he needs a miracle now...

Edited April 16, 200817 yr by RabbitFurCoat

I hope Labour lose the next election and Conservatives takes over.

 

 

So do I but for totally different reasons :P