Labour sinks to lowest approval rating of this parliament
https://news.sky.com/story/labour-sinks-to-lowest-approval-rating-of-this-parliament-13419161
by corbynista2029
Labour sinks to lowest approval rating of this parliament
https://news.sky.com/story/labour-sinks-to-lowest-approval-rating-of-this-parliament-13419161
by corbynista2029
33 comments
I’m sure the recent appointing of an advisor who runs a company that lobbies for Thames water should help win support back…
It’s astonishing that, despite the government being so unpopular, the Tories are still incapable of capitalising on that. This should be bonanza time for Tories but they just seem useless.
Down to 20% with no positive news in sight and Corbyn hasn’t even officially launched his party yet. This is historically bad for a new government and I’m not at all surprised the party is starting to panic.
Because they continue to allow Reform to set the narrative not realising that you will never beat Reform that way.
Reform are selling magic beans and Starmer is trying to sell baked beans in response.
In the modern world voting is now based on X factornomics. People vote on charisma and image.
If someone’s image is bad (post Covid Boris/Truss), people will vote for the opposite (which is how Labour got in).
If someone has no charisma and image (Starmer) then people won’t vote for them to stay in.
Starmer’s one hope to cling to power is to deliver growth. To do this, he needs to get Labour to make those tough decisions he talks about but has failed at every stage. Labour are hard wired to try and appease everyone and so will end up appeasing nobody.
Farage knows this.
The Tory Party know that Badenoch hasn’t got what it takes and is a caretaker.
Labour still have their head in the sand about this.
At this stage Starmer could personally invent cold fusion and the right would just attack him for taking jobs from the fossil fuel industry.
I’m sure the Online Safety Bill hasn’t helped.
I know it’s a non-partisan issue, but Labour’s comments about supporting criminals if you don’t like the act, etc. have turned a lot of people off.
Sucking up to The Sun and hiring Tory advisers not working? What a surprise
It baffles me how badly Starmer has ballsed up his first year this badly. It should have been nothing but easy wins.
Labour’s biggest problem is not how low their popularity is, but the way they’ve burned it. Previous governments that sunk to deep unpopularity had the ability to claw their way out with economic and legislative success.
But that’s way more difficult here. Labour has a massive trust issue that means they’ll struggle to get credit for the things they do right in the future.
I mean yesterday, Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations…
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
Can the cunt just resign yet before he hands us over to the far right any further?
It is atrocious and they only have themselves to blame. Labour had the EASIEST election win in modern history. Their manifesto was non-existent and their policy ideas rarely discussed.
Their campaign? “We are not the Conservatives.” And with the Tories struggling to even keep discipline in their ranks it was destined for a landslide victory.
Since then it was like that ending in Finding Nemo where the blow-up fish goes “now what?!”. You would think they would have the answers, but nothing.
Rayner’s new flat in Hove gets more attention than the cost of living crisis. Starmer seems more and more absence – his Facebook posts get more coverage than what he’s actually doing. And Health Secretary Wes Streeting can’t seem to stop the strike threats from stopping either.
Compare that to the New Labour movement in 1997 where a charming Tong Blair could swoon his way through any interview. Gordon Brown had all the economic answers. John Prescott was a man who got the left to fall in line. Big characters with big ambition and big impact. A manifesto to proud of and effects that we still see daily.
Now we allow Reform to dictate the media play. “Two-tier” bullshit discussion rein supreme and asylum seekers in hotels continue to take up the headlines. Where are Labour? Head in the sand. They need to act quickly and then impose the actual policies they want to bring in – if they have any – before they start cracking and we end up in an atrociously hung parliament. Or worse, a Reform Government (yes highly unlikely but you cannot honestly tell me you have not thought about that possibility).
They need to fucking do their job.
Labour continuing to score own goals at every opportunity.
The Migrant Hotel crisis is indeed hurting Labour and Farage is simply making the most of it. They need to mitigate the situation otherwise Reform will definitely win. We don’t want Farage but we also want clarity and a robust resolution.
I mean, they were elected to get cost of living under control, housing working and not raise taxes. Instead they have raised taxes, cost of living is spiralling, housing output is down. Oh and they’re banning porn and calling their own voters pedophiles. And that’s without touching crime, education, infrastructure etc.
How anyone can look at this shit show and say anything other than wtf starmer is beyond me…
I imagine if they actually did anything at all in their manifesto, they might be popular. Growth? Lower energy prices? Cost of living? Smashing gangs? National debt? All hot air and no results.
It’s no wonder.
Already being worse off under Labour with them not increasing the income tax allowances (fiscal drag), after they spent years screeching at the Tories doing the same stinks of hypocrisy.
Rachel Reeves shafting businesses who are now holding back on employing people.
Rachel Reeves also about to shaft the middle class in the next budget.
Winter fuel allowance debacle.
Disabled benefits debacle.
Migrant crisis – A year in power. Why couldn’t they start emergency power legislation on day 1. They scrapped Rwanda, which was already having an effect deterring people with some carrying on to Ireland to avoid it.
Utter failure.
Did the Tories fail? Utterly. One of the reasons they got a drubbing at the election.
The Tories quite rightly lost.
It’s going to be a long 4 years before Labour lose the next GE.
Have they tried calling people pedo-enablers a bit more? That should do the trick.
Just one more lurch to the right bro. Just one more appeal to Reform voters bro it’ll all be better then. Just one more daemonisation of trans people bro come on
Maybe they should start listening to the public instead of the loudest instigators
Wouldn’t believe a word sky news say. The R E F O R M keys on the sky laptops must need replacing monthly at this point.
Labour sinks to lowest approval rating of this parliament so far!
Not surprising when the Government are putting up Taxes left right and centre to fund HMO’s and Hotels for ‘Asylum Seekers’ . On top of that, promising to smash the gangs, has been an utter failure with ever greater numbers arriving. Hardworking people are struggling and the Government just doesn’t see it
With such a huge majority they really shouldn’t be polling so low already. Their first year was an absolute disaster and it’s hard to see a way back atm. I’m currently planning not to bother voting, unless it may keep reform out where I live. I don’t want reform, I don’t want the tories and right now I don’t want labour either.
I think what people need to remember is this isnt just about small boats, this is about immigration in general and demographics as a whole, and there’s a large and growing undercurrent of people feeling increasingly empowered to call for ‘remigration’ of legal immigrants and those with citizenship, for ideals like this to be out in the open this way even 10-15 years ago let alone 20 would’ve been unimaginable, there has been a significant and hardened shift to the right in the last 5 years and our society is becoming increasingly polarised and radicalised by both social media and what they can physically see is happening in their own communities.
The United Kingdom is rapidly descending into a political tinderbox and those who warn of social unrest aren’t being hyperbolic, there were warning signs before Brexit that the white working class felt like they were being pushed aside and that the country was leaving them behind, this is the manifestation of those warning signs and it will take a true government of unity and a focused push by society at large to stop this train before it gets to the next station because ill be honest even just speaking with friends, coworkers and family, they’ve all become far more right wing over the past year, to the point that everyone keeps talking about going to that rally on September 13th in London, supporting that whole raising the banner etc etc, it starts out innocent like this, but I fear we’re just looking at the nucleus forming of a new movement that will cause absolute havoc on these islands.
Not to say they are perfect, because no one is. But this is the direct result of the media pandering to the likes of Farage.
Labour has more than a few challenges to tackle, i had high hopes like so many others which have been crushed by tory 2.0. How they can miss so many open goals is beyond me.
Their comms and PR are worse than soggy lettuce, they don’t seem to have a direction which compounds the above and they have alienated just about the entire voting demographic which is a dark skill in itself.
They should be doing a Gavin Newsom and taking the fight to Farage, they should be broadcasting what legal immigration is, be honest and upfront with how screwed the UK is financially and how that burden to fix is on all equally not just the working folks. If the vast majority of the populace has little to no disposable income then a service based economy will fail quickly.
You also can’t call a decent portion of the country racist when they’re trying to highlight a problem, is the problem real; to them it is and this is again a PR failure to explain how immigration works, what laws we have to abide by and why. We may be an island nation but there is a wider world around us that we need to play nice with.
Labour needs a huge dose of honesty, the country needs positive change, a focus on gen y and beyond as the next generations have (for decades) and continue to be completely screwed over by the ‘me’ generation. We’re all stewards to the coming generations and as stewards the ‘me’ generation have utterly failed. Was it international; of cause not but the road to hell and all that.
The media are massively complicit and it’s all the worse for it. Lies and false narratives that only leads to greater division of the populace. All media should have an honesty grading that’s has teeth, apologies and retractions should have to occupy the same pages and space as the article that lied. The provenance of ownership should also be easily identified too. The toxicity and lies are eroding any sense of community and making people angry, selfish etc.
As for the Tories; Boris screwed them by purging the talent to deliver his ready-made perfect brexit. People like Rory Stewart come to mind. Nobody’s perfect but the dross thats left is embarrassing. May as well bring the useless fireplace salesman back.
Don’t get me started on bnp/ ukip/ reform; they will deliver lies, ineptitude, more corruption, more cronyism and enrichment of the few resulting in further division and pain for the working masses. Nhs will surely be bludgeoned to death. Good luck if a new pandemic rears its head again.
Lobbying and dark money are root-cause issues compounding all of the above. Until that is resolved positive change will be piecemeal at best
☝️ The lowest approval rating of this parliament *so far*
yeah cause they don’t stand for much while they are better than the tories they are still heavly lobbied and no longer a left wing party.
Starmer has been a complete fucking disaster.
Right leaning centrism is a pointless ideology that aims to do nothing except keep the chair warm for the likes of Farage.
they’ve done f all for the working people.. why won’t they prioritise fixing the terrible leasehold laws..?? hundreds of thousands are waiting on that.
it would be a tangible improvement for a lot of people..
How is Labour any different to Conservatives on this issue?
Most things I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt because 12 years of the Tories can’t be fixed in just one.
But other things it’s like they’re just asking for it… The Online Safety Act and calling Farage Team Saville being one of them.
And I still don’t know why they think defining Islamophobia and basically restoring blasphemy laws would go down well or bring any benefit to the country.
Their own MP’s also demand change, then completely veto the welfare reforms. Then bring the party into further negativity when other taxes need to rise to raise the projected savings they’ve voted down…
Sorry to quote the Thatcher movie, but…
“The medicine is harsh. But the patient needs it in order to survive.”
Labour will always be their own worst enemy!
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