People always say Milliband was ahead in the polls in voting intention but as the article says, via the pollster in it, with Ipsos they’ve never had a Labour leader ahead on who’d be the most capable PM since Brown in 2008 – Milliband and Corbyn never came ahead on it.
Milliband’s problem was that he was absolutely dire in personal ratings and never ever was ahead on who’d make the best PM. Starmer was ahead by like 7 points on the metric with Survation, is ahead on it with ComRes, Redfield, Opinium, YouGov, and recently Ipsos, by 13 bloody points, wow.
Think we’re coming up to like 20 poll leads in a row now for Labour as well, so any lead under Starmer on the basis he’s outperforming Milliband and Corbyn on metrics like best PM, approval ratings etc, matter more than any of the leads under those last two leaders.
ol’ Scandal Johnson they call him
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A cardboard cutout would poll better then Johnson currently
Polls conducted and publicised in this country are generally disreputable but even if this is accurate it reflects far more on Johnson’s failure than Starmer’s success.
Labour have comprehensively failed in their role as the opposition. Their role is unearned, a product of a fundamentally corrupt political system. They are the alternative by default and no amount of wrongdoing will unseat them. Like the Conservatives, the worst punishment they can expect is that they’ll have to wait a little longer for their “turn”.
For nearly two years they assured us that they’d “govern us harder” if by some miracle they got into power. Besides this they were wholly forgettable. Starmer went on record opposing covid passports as “Not British” before completely reversing this position and betraying the people in the most brutal and insidious fashion, nullifying a rightful rebellion within the Tory party and assuring the furtherance of a two tier society.
For this act of aggression alone, I will never vote for the Labour party again. I am ashamed to have ever done so. It is now more clear to me than ever that government power must be strictly limited. The fact that Labour can boast an uninspiring cast of characters like CCP shill Richard Burgon and bewildered Care Bear Jonathan Ashworth – and still have any place on the political stage only underscores my point. Our political system is a farce.
“Public prefer Starmer”
If you look at the personal approval ratings, he’s just slightly less unpopular than Johnson
We all know Boris and Co are incompetent and sadly Labour are no better. I don’t forget Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were just as useless. Until a new party emerges that’s competent enough to do HS2 and leveling up properly, stop mixed messaging with Covid and get a real grip on this and change the country for the better then for me I’m not interested in seeing any of the current parties on offer in power.
No they don’t. The public prefer neither. In the latest YouGov poll ‘not sure’ at 39% is higher than Starmer (34%) or Johnson (22%). 5% refused, presumably because they were in the process of vomiting at the thought of either in No10.
It’s more that Johnson’s nosedive has taken him downwards past Starmer – while this is obviously positive for Labour, a new Conservative leader that looks vaguely statesmanlike (hi Mr. Sunak, or even Gove) would likely jump straight back up again.
Starmer still needs to have something that people actually like him for, he can’t just rely on being a completely beige non-Johnson.
Wow, Johnson’s basically poured petrol and set himself on fire, and yet the public prefer Starmer now by just two points. They are both incredibly unpopular. I don’t see how this is a victory for Starmer, really if he was doing a good job people would be foaming at the mouth for him to be the next PM.
What a system we have, a choice between two people that very few people actually seem to like.
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People always say Milliband was ahead in the polls in voting intention but as the article says, via the pollster in it, with Ipsos they’ve never had a Labour leader ahead on who’d be the most capable PM since Brown in 2008 – Milliband and Corbyn never came ahead on it.
Milliband’s problem was that he was absolutely dire in personal ratings and never ever was ahead on who’d make the best PM. Starmer was ahead by like 7 points on the metric with Survation, is ahead on it with ComRes, Redfield, Opinium, YouGov, and recently Ipsos, by 13 bloody points, wow.
Think we’re coming up to like 20 poll leads in a row now for Labour as well, so any lead under Starmer on the basis he’s outperforming Milliband and Corbyn on metrics like best PM, approval ratings etc, matter more than any of the leads under those last two leaders.
ol’ Scandal Johnson they call him
(っ◔◡◔)っ OUTSTANDING
–
A cardboard cutout would poll better then Johnson currently
Polls conducted and publicised in this country are generally disreputable but even if this is accurate it reflects far more on Johnson’s failure than Starmer’s success.
Labour have comprehensively failed in their role as the opposition. Their role is unearned, a product of a fundamentally corrupt political system. They are the alternative by default and no amount of wrongdoing will unseat them. Like the Conservatives, the worst punishment they can expect is that they’ll have to wait a little longer for their “turn”.
For nearly two years they assured us that they’d “govern us harder” if by some miracle they got into power. Besides this they were wholly forgettable. Starmer went on record opposing covid passports as “Not British” before completely reversing this position and betraying the people in the most brutal and insidious fashion, nullifying a rightful rebellion within the Tory party and assuring the furtherance of a two tier society.
For this act of aggression alone, I will never vote for the Labour party again. I am ashamed to have ever done so. It is now more clear to me than ever that government power must be strictly limited. The fact that Labour can boast an uninspiring cast of characters like CCP shill Richard Burgon and bewildered Care Bear Jonathan Ashworth – and still have any place on the political stage only underscores my point. Our political system is a farce.
“Public prefer Starmer”
If you look at the personal approval ratings, he’s just slightly less unpopular than Johnson
We all know Boris and Co are incompetent and sadly Labour are no better. I don’t forget Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were just as useless. Until a new party emerges that’s competent enough to do HS2 and leveling up properly, stop mixed messaging with Covid and get a real grip on this and change the country for the better then for me I’m not interested in seeing any of the current parties on offer in power.
No they don’t. The public prefer neither. In the latest YouGov poll ‘not sure’ at 39% is higher than Starmer (34%) or Johnson (22%). 5% refused, presumably because they were in the process of vomiting at the thought of either in No10.
It’s more that Johnson’s nosedive has taken him downwards past Starmer – while this is obviously positive for Labour, a new Conservative leader that looks vaguely statesmanlike (hi Mr. Sunak, or even Gove) would likely jump straight back up again.
Starmer still needs to have something that people actually like him for, he can’t just rely on being a completely beige non-Johnson.
Wow, Johnson’s basically poured petrol and set himself on fire, and yet the public prefer Starmer now by just two points. They are both incredibly unpopular. I don’t see how this is a victory for Starmer, really if he was doing a good job people would be foaming at the mouth for him to be the next PM.
What a system we have, a choice between two people that very few people actually seem to like.