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agentmancuso

Liberal Democrats gaining on Labour

More bad news for Labour in an ICM poll published in the Guardian today, showing the Liberal Democrats closer to Labour than at any previous point since the party was formed.

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Labour support is in freefall, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. It shows that the party's position - 14 points behind the Conservatives - is worse than at any time since May 1987, just before Margaret Thatcher won her third election by a landslide.

Public confidence in Labour's ability to govern has dropped heavily on a series of key measures. Voters are also turning their back on Gordon Brown personally: 75% of people who voted Labour in 2005 now think that Tony Blair was a better prime minister. Overall, voters also place Brown as a leader behind Thatcher and even John Major.

The latest poll is not the highest mark for Conservative support seen in recent polls but the gap between the two main parties has never been so wide in an ICM poll in recent political memory. Voters are moving away from Labour to opponents, including the Liberal Democrats, on 22% today, up three points on last month. The party is now only five points behind Labour, the narrowest gap since the Liberal Democrats were founded. Support for other parties, 9%, remains strong.


It seems a racing certainty now that Labour will loose Crewe & Nantwich in Thursday's By-election.
Holebender

Considering how bloody awful and hated Labour are at the moment it's not much of a boast to say the LibDems are gaining on them but still behind them in the opinion polls!

How bad do you actually have to be these days to be behind Labour?
agentmancuso

Holebender wrote:
Considering how bloody awful and hated Labour are at the moment it's not much of a boast to say the LibDems are gaining on them but still behind them in the opinion polls!


On the contrary, it's a moment of quiet satisfaction. Given the way the British electoral system artificially maintains a 'two-horse race' approach to politics, the vested interests behind the two bigger parties, and the way the media plays out a stunted left/right Punch & Judy pantomime, the Liberal Democrats have every right to be proud of making headway like this.

You shouldn't forget that the SNP were stuck in a similar position until the Liberal Democrats forced Labour into electoral reform in Scotland.
Aventinian

Oh, a fine result.

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