How Keir Starmer’s polling became one of the worst in the west. The UK prime minister’s drop in approval is among the lowest on record – both at home and abroad
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How Keir Starmer’s polling became one of the worst in the west. The UK prime minister’s drop in approval is among the lowest on record – both at home and abroad
by bottish
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Very much related, John Curtice on Reform:
> Reform’s annual conference takes place this weekend in Birmingham, with 5,500 tickets reportedly already sold. It is thought that one in five of the nation’s lobbyists will be there too. The party has now been ahead in the polls for five months.
> Never before has a party other than Conservative or Labour been ahead in the polls for so long. Indeed, since the party’s success in English local elections in May, it has consistently been averaging 30% to 31%, enough to put it well ahead of all its rivals.
> https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy853rj2kzo.amp
Depending on seat predictions those kinds of figures puts Reform on ~400 seats, an outright majority.
Keith the Human Rights lawyer. Keith the Genocide and War Crimes denier!
The main reason is cause the media have been relentlessly criticizing him since the first week
People want more action on migration. If he can deliver that then things might turn around
I used to call him the luckiest man in British politics, elevated entirely by the timing of enemies imploding.
Then he pissed it up the wall in record time, now we’re on course for PM Farage. Remember when they used to say there’s no way Boris could be PM? I miss those times.
There’s some interesting spin in this article to say the least.
What they’re saying, but don’t actually want to say is: messaging over actions is where he’s fucking this up. His message is that he’s trying to improve things but his actions are maintaining the status quo.
The Guardian here paints this as a matter of people wanting a ‘strong leader’ like its a trend or phase we’re going through. Fascinating considering polling also reveals people are pretty specific about what change they want to see: wealth tax, better pay, more investment in public services, more public ownership of utilities, reversal of austerity.
The November budget will collapse the government, and Farage will become PM.
Like it or loathe it, it’s really very simple.
The electorate, particularly in England, wants to see immigration drastically cut back- all the way to the pre ’97 levels.
If he does so, he will get a second term. If he doesn’t, he won’t.
So far he hasn’t.
I think Starmers plan was to do the ugly stuff year one to stabilise the ship but most of their efforts on the economy have been fruitless due to the levels of uncertainty on the world stage. Now things aren’t improving the way they wanted and they are scrambling a bit, as the negative sentiment isn’t going away.
Will be four years of right wing media demanding a General Election to get Farage in. Hopefully he is found out by then.
That’s cos he’s a cunt. A total shill for Zionism. He’s a Tory is all but name
Labour are going to lose the next election and never get a sniff of power for decades.
That will be the legacy of Starmer.
I remember saying to people he’d be absolutely horrible and they all said I was wrong. Seriously people need to open their eyes, he was always a complete arsehole
It’s not like you weren’t warned this would happen…
Has he tried appealing more to the Right Wing? I’m sure more pandering to Reform voters will do the trick.
Because he is too vanilla.
Tried to fix broken stuff the he told us was broken.
Went against the boomer supremacy. Tried to make one of their benefits mean tested.
Told us that the benefit system was unaffordable.
Oh and his biggest sin did not fix it all overnight.
Due to the right wing press and their agenda to get Farage in power. I’m not a massive fan but there’s no way Starmer can be said to have been as bad as Johnson, Cameron or Truss.
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