Quarter of voters think UK is doing too much to support Ukraine

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/quarter-of-voters-think-uk-is-doing-too-much-to-support-ukraine-3409056

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  1. Support for the Ukraine war effort among Britons appears to be waning, polling shows, as President Volodymyr Zeleksny has signalled he is willing to broker a peace deal with Russia.

    A survey by BMG Research conducted for *The i* *Paper* suggests that voters are increasingly likely to state that the UK is giving “too much” support to Ukraine, nearly three years after Vladimir Putin’s invasion.

    According to the figures, more than a quarter – 26 per cent – of respondents said they felt the UK was doing too much to back Kyiv, a rise of 11 percentage points since August 2022 and an eight point rise since the question was most recently asked in February 2023.

    As such, the country is split on whether the UK should step up support for Ukraine if the US decides to pull its military and aid funding after Donald Trump takes office.

    The research shows that just under a quarter – 23 per cent – believe the Government should increase support if the Trump administration withdraws support, while the same number think the UK should follow suit and pull its own backing for Ukraine.

    Just over four in 10 voters – 41 per cent – said the support the UK was currently given was the right amount, while 19 per cent said it was too little, down from 25 per cent in 2023.

    The figures come as Zelensky has said he would be willing to cede territory lost to Russia in order to end the “hot war” if it meant the remainder of Ukraine is taken under the “Nato umbrella”.

    Pat McFadden, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said he “can’t predict” if Ukraine would be part of the Nato alliance in the future, but added the country must be “free to make decisions about its own future”.

    He added that any application would “have to be considered properly by Nato in the future”.

    Asked if the UK would back a deal that would see Russia keeping control of areas such as Crimea if the Ukrainians agreed, Mr McFadden said: “The principle that we would approach anything around that would be that Ukraine’s got to be free to make its choices.

    “We don’t want to see Ukraine coerced into accepting a deal that it doesn’t want, and we want them to be free to make their own choices.”

  2. I dont, we cant do too much to help our democracy loving friends.

  6. 1/4 would sell their granny if it made petrol cheaper.

  7. So three quarters, no opinion, think our support is fine, or not enough?

  8. Just wish they would find a solution. Around 500,000 young men killed/injured and the West throws billions into weapons to kill and injure more young man.

  9. Just like the rest of the click bait journalism,, if you don’t tell us the sample size and more information on the sample group the whole article is irrelevant..
    it could be 10 white guys in Nigel Farrages office or 10 nationalised citizens in Glasgow for all those stats are worth..

  10. People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can’t trust people!

  12. Europe should go all in with Ukraine rather than just enough to stop them losing.

    A resurgent Russia will threaten all of Europe and judging by the state of UK society i very much doubt people here would fight even for their own country. That’s proven in polls and the way people slate anything to do with supporting our supposed beliefs.

    Our way of life isn’t a given despite what a lot of people think. It’s not the prevailing form of governance and universal rights and freedom is a rarity throughout human history.

    But that is too deep for many to comprehend.

  13. People like coldplay and voted for the Nazis.

    You can’t trust people.

  14. 30% of British people have never played chess. I reckon there’s a correlation.

  15. I think a lot of people are annoyed at being told we have no money in the country and many households are struggling to survive.

    Only to have the government then say we can afford to give Ukraine billions.

    Something isn’t right about that and I agree that Ukraine needs help.

  16. Gaza has dominanted the news, you could track news coverage from flags displayed. Still see a few yellow & blue flags around though.

  18. So in other words three quarters don’t think we are.

  19. You’d think we’d have learnt something from the last century. They probably all think Neville Chamberlain was a great man.

  22. So 3/4 think we aren’t doing too much. Which is good news.

  23. Perfectly natural to not want to send money overseas when so much is in disrepair at home but I’d just say two things:

    1.) That “aid” often never leaves the country. It is a jobs program in and of itself.

    2.) if you think taxes and austerity are bad now go check out the standards of living after the last time the continent got into a bloody quagmire.

    U.K. is doing a decent amount. It’s Germany and France, but especially Germany, that should be embarrassed about what they are inviting in their doorstep.

  25. Can’t really blame people for thinking we’re giving to much support to Ukraine with the way things have been going in our country.

  26. Wonder if that correlates with another group that made a bad choice in 2016

  27. Our assistance is crucial for backing up the reason we have such strong soft and hard power. Our willingness to assist countries really does bode well.

  29. 75% of people think we’re supporting Ukraine enough, that’s democracy, folks!

  33. Just over half the country voted for Brexit.
    Let’s not start doing what the minority wants cos if you do fuck you I want my EU back first.

  34. Perhaps they also think the USA did too much for us in WW2 and they’d rather they were speaking German today?

  37. Means three quarters, the vast majority of people don’t think we are doing too much. Everyone I have spoken to believes we should be doing more.

  38. I don’t know the exact mind of Putin but I really doubt he’s going to withdraw until he gets a result, We’ve seen what they all get up to geopolitically and no doubt the quarter of voters are part of stop the war coalition who expect Putin to agree to a peace treaty, they’re never thinking of the bigger picture that Putin is now a global threat to peace in eastern Europe and stupidly naive to think letting him not get knocked down a few peg will lead to long lasting peace.

  39. What a strange way to phrase that a majority support funding for Ukraine.

    What is up with the world’s obsession with appeasing a contrarian minority of morons…

  41. Or, basically, three quarters… The vast majority, isn’t doing too much?

  42. Those voters probably couldn’t tell you two things the UK is doing for Ukraine

  43. Says who?

    Who was asked?
    How many were asked?

    Shabby “journalism”.

  44. 1/4 have no idea and just run with what sandra or bob from facebook say

  45. So 3/4 of us are right?

    Stupid way to title an article, imo.

  47. 50% of people are below average intelligence.
    The quarter that think we are doing too much for Ukraine?
    They are are either all in the bottom group, or they are not in any group atal all, because they aren’t brittish or they aren’t people.

  48. lol the western world is so fucked… We gotta win their or else we turn the clock back to when everyone scrambling for land.

  49. Donates old stuff that has to be mothballed at our expense – yes thats 100m in aid

    Pats own back

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