Keir Starmer’s popularity sinks to record low in poll
https://www.ft.com/content/659406e7-552c-4e10-83a0-0adebb5ad838
by potpan0
Keir Starmer’s popularity sinks to record low in poll
https://www.ft.com/content/659406e7-552c-4e10-83a0-0adebb5ad838
by potpan0
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The British electorate certainly is a fickle thing.
I personally think he’s played his poisoned hand as well as could be expected of any government, given the inheritance.
> The proportion of Labour voters with a favourable view of the UK prime minister has plunged from 62 per cent to 45 per cent in just one month, the polling company found. It is the first time that Starmer has recorded a net negative approval rating among Labour supporters.
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> Across all voters surveyed by YouGov in May, just 23 per cent of Britons expressed a favourable view of Starmer, marking a five-point drop from the same time in April.
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> [Image](https://imgur.com/a/a2bNUyx)
I don’t get it. I was reliably informed that Starmer’s big pivot towards blaming all our problems on immigration showed he had his finger on the pulse of the public. Yet since last month his favourability has dropped sharply amongst every single voter group, most prominently amongst Labour voters themselves. He now has a net unfavourabiltiy amongst his own party base.
I guess it turns out that a platform of ‘my main opponent is correct, but vote for me anyway’ is actually pretty shit politics. I genuinely don’t see how he makes it to 2029. He has genuinely managed to alienate every voter group in the country.
EDIT: Can’t help but laugh at all these comments still insisting ‘well I guess the public are wrong’. That’s not how politics works guys.
Compared to the previous 5 PMs he is competent, has a plan, delivers on the promises they made. There’s no drama, no circus, just a boring guy who is doing his job.
Speedrunning alienating every corner of the electorate
People here are just begging for a reform government and all the misery and culture war bollocks that will bring.
Honestly, I’m still just pleased that we have a functioning adult for PM.
Given he told us trans folks to go eat shit, I am happy to say the same to him. May you get screwed at any step you take.
> The proportion of Labour voters with a favourable view of the UK prime minister has plunged from 62 per cent to 45 per cent in just one month, the [YouGov] found.
Maybe there is some super-smart strategy behind this. Maybe the Labour leadership know what they’re doing, and think this is the only way to stop the UK voting in far-right politicians.
But it does seem an odd strategy for a party to turn on its own supporters, and focus on courting those who hate them and will never vote for them, no matter what is said or done.
The Conservatives tried this in the 10s; trying to head off Farage’s extremists by moving towards them. And look where that has got them.
Opposing far-right populism is tricky – as we’re seeing across the world at the moment – but I’m not sure adopting their language, accepting their (often false) premises, and trying to compromise with them is the answer.
Starmer cares more about the people who don’t vote for him… than the people who do.
I really do not understand why.
Every metric in the country is slowly starting to tick up, and frankly if you look at foreign policy alone it’s the most successful government we’ve had in literally decades.
I’m really a Lib Dem/soft Tory at heart, but I can objectively look at what he’s doing and approve
Labour has successfully alienated its core vote while predictably failing to appease those who Starmer is wary of losing support to. if you are not true to your side why would any other tribe trust your pivot?
Starmer just needs to keep going.
We were always promised short term pain and this is just that.
Give me the boring, unpopular bloke who delivers bad news like an adult in the hopes of a better future.
If you want popular then glance across the pond at the dumpster fire that is America.
*”The polls are in, and it’s not looking good. I know! We must pivot even further right!”*
I don’t understand how I’m so disconnected from the majority of voters. I think Starmer is doing a half decent job and I’d prefer he continues rather than handing the reins to any of the other contenders.
it’s almost like people miss the drama and chaos of the last 14 years.
Our country is full of morons who don’t know what’s good for the country unfortunately
He’s suffering really from the fact that the election win was more about reform killing the tories than labour winning the election
People voted for labour because they were sick of the tories, and people voted for reform because they were sick of the tories.
That kind of foundation is never going to give labour the time or credit in the bank they need with the public
I don’t know what the hell he did to dip in the polls? Who is voting in these things?
‘Despite saying a few good words echoing a small sample of Reform, his history showing him to be entirely against them pretty much all previous points in time hasn’t netted him favourable support from Reform voters’
How very shocking.
It literally just validated a big part of the anti immigration argument, why would that make Reform voters (or in fact, any anti immigration voters) come over to his side which has been entirely wrong previously? The idea that the side that’s constantly being proven right must come over to the side that wants their support is ridiculous. He admitted that his previous ideals were wrong, if he feels so strongly about it he could call another general election.
I think he’s done remarkably little so far.
I mean employer national insurance increase was a bit cheeky, not so sure I’m onboard with yet another tax on work when people who own stuff for a living are squeezing out those who actually work and make a contribution. Really we should be looking at taxing asset appreciation more and giving workers and businesses a break for once.
Planning reforms will be quite important, but garner him little political support.
Growth is ok. but unemployment is rising and that’s worrying.
Starmer is looking at his ledgers and wants to keep them looking good, but he’s not one for any sort of radical change.
Expenses scandal, winter fuel allowance, reaction to Southport, stance on immigration. He has fucked up on so many issues with so many voters.
“our support keeps going down no matter how far we run to the right, we’d best run further to the right”
He’s lost the left, that should be starmer’s core voter base – he’s Labour after all. He decide he wanted to court the right and quite rightly the left are fucked off and looking for other options. Hope it works out for him.
*’Whatever the clinical bodyshock diagnosis, the vibes-based one is clear: the British public has never loved Starmer, and never will. On the rare occasions he reveals things about himself, they often in fact seem to be the absence of things. Starmer* [*doesn’t dream*](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/22/you-asked-me-questions-ive-never-asked-myself-keir-starmers-most-personal-interview-yet)*, we learned during his general election pitch last year, and couldn’t name a favourite book. There is something of the slight to him, and he knows it – in fact, he knows it so powerfully that these days all his big speeches contain frequent and plaintive tells. Specifically, phrases like: “I believe in this”, or “I am doing this … because it is what I believe in.” If things were going convincingly, believing in the things you were saying and doing would surely be axiomatic.*’
– Mariana Hyde in today’s Opinion column, who in my opinion nails why.
This bloke is wrecking my current employment and destroying my future. You bet he’s unpopular in my house.
He’s a Labour PM acting like a right wing Conservative, no wonder his popularity is in the toilet. Can anyone point to any differences between him and Sunak? His base hates him and the Conservatives still don’t like him.
He’s a tit who has wasted the most important opportunity in a lifetime – to show the country just how bad Conservatives were by leading with a new example of left wing policy that benefits the working class, who’ve been the punchbag of the tories for the last decade, and ending the abuse of the billionaire class wanting to privatise everything they can while paying no taxes.
Instead, after sacking anyone who remotely had any Corbyn era aspirations, he’s fronting a version of labour which is not much different to the tories.
Working class are still hit hardest. Elderly have had winter fuel payments cut. He backed Israel. He wants it to be a party “for all” and thinks he will get Reform voters if he brings in some of their xenophobic policy. Reform voters won’t vote for you on principle Kier because *you are not their daddy Toad of Toad Hall*. They are voting for Farage himself, like MAGA voted for Trump. Nothing will get them onside because you are simply the one they deem the enemy.
I still can’t think of a single thing Starmer is passionate about or truly believes in, politically. Not one.
He could’ve had this in the bag. He really could.
He’s a middle manager with a set of values that change weekly with the headlines. I suppose that’s not a disaster in itself, as long as he gets issues fixed. Time will tell.
Bro sucks up to right wingers and is confused when his core voters disown him. Well done, man! Masterful gambit, sir!
This sub will “but why? I love him” until he’s hung upside down at a gas station
He was never popular, people just hated the other choices more. We need a reject all option on ballot papers. He’s doing his best to implode the labour party like just like the Tories did to theirs.
It’s almost like trying to copy Reform hasn’t won him any support from Reform voters but has alienated the voters whose support he had. Who would have thought…
My problem with him is that he was elected to be different from the shitshow we had before him. In turn he is trying so hard to appeal to the same demographic that go for Tory/reform.
Be authentic and do something right because it is right, not because you might lose some shitty votes if you don’t.
Pandering to the Reform UK Ltd Plc Inc voters is such a waste of time.
He could cruise the Channel like Rambo, sinking “sMaLl BoAtS” every day for a week and Fartrage’s sweaty-faced pork chops still wouldn’t vote for him.
Instead, he’s losing the centre-left entirely and eft with the centre-right and flip-flopping Tories.
I just don’t think Labour are doing a very good job at telling people exactly what they are doing and people like Farage talk in sound bites that appeals to the masses
Everyone who posts on here about what a good job they’re doing is just revealing that they’re privileged enough to not be affected, and lack the compassion to care about those who are.
If you fundamentally have no skin in the game it’s easy to just shrug and say they’re doing a good job. These are mostly the same people who thought Cameron was a good PM because they didn’t really have to hear about him. The policies don’t impact their lives so they only care about surface level things like aesthetics and want a “boring” government because then they don’t have to think about it.
The worst part about these people is they’re so arrogant they can’t even understand that they’re in a tiny minority and will never make any effort to understand. They think they know everything but really they know nothing
god the centrist cope from this sub about Starmer’s popularity is tedious. as the partner of someone who is both an immigrant and a member of the LGBTQ community, the spineless worm can absolutely do one with his constant promise-breaking, backstabbing, Reform pandering, genocide apologist, Trump arse-licking lack of conviction or integrity. it’s devastating that he is still realistically the best alternative we have to Farage and Co, and I’m not shocked for a second by this data.
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