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Stevie
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POLL for Euro UK electionsTimes poll for the Euro elections.
Tories : 30%
UKIP : 19%
Labour : 16%
Libs : 12%
General Election UK
Tories : 41%
Labour : 21%
Libs : 15%
Scotland not mentioned
| Quote: | The expenses scandal has had a devastating impact on Labour and Gordon Brown, a Populus poll for The Times finds today.
Labour’s overall position has slid to 21 per cent, its lowest in polling history. When asked how they would vote in next week’s European election, those polled have put Labour in third place behind UKIP and the Tories, for the first time.
All the minority parties, including the Greens and the British National Party, have made striking advances in the past three weeks as the row over MPs’ allowances has engulfed all the main parties.
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Surprisingly the Liberal Democrats have been hit almost as badly as Labour in both the general election and European voting standings.
But it is Labour and Mr Brown who appear to have taken the biggest hit over the expenses scandal, with 62 per cent of those polled citing the Prime Minister as the most damaged, compared with 5 per cent citing David Cameron. Only 14 per cent believe that Labour is likely to win outright at the next general election, compared with 51 per cent for the Conservatives.
The overall general election standings put the Conservatives on 41 per cent, up two percentage points since the Populus poll this month, Labour on 21 per cent – down five points – and the Liberal Democrats on 15 per cent, down seven points. But a different picture emerges when people were asked how they will vote on Thursday.
The Conservatives drop four points to 30 per cent, compared with the poll three weeks ago. Labour drops nine points to 16 per cent, and the Liberal Democrats fall eight points to 12 per cent. UKIP are the beneficiaries, rising 13 points to 19 per cent, ahead of Labour and the Liberal Democrats. The Greens rise to 10 per cent, and the BNP is up three points at 5 per cent. A change in methodology for today’s poll could account in part for the higher figures for the smaller parties. They were included in the main “prompt list” for respondents. In the earlier poll they were included only in the prompt list for those who said that they would vote for “another party.”
The poll is particularly bad news for Mr Brown because the expenses row has hit all the main parties equally, with some of the most prominent casualties being Tories, but the Prime Minister and Labour appear to being blamed by the voters.
If the election has an outcome anything like the poll suggests, questions will inevitably be raised over Mr Brown’s leadership. Up until now Cabinet ministers have been wary of mounting any challenge to Mr Brown. Such a move was being discussed after poor election results last summer but petered out swiftly. Although there is no sign that any minister is willing to take up the gauntlet at this stage, senior MPs believe that any resignations from the cabinet would be fatal to Mr Brown.
He is already planning the strike back, including a reshuffle, immediately after the European elections. Tomorrow he will try to reassert his authority with a BBC interview in which he will set out the action he has already taken on expenses and his plans.
Asked which party had been worst affected, 35 per cent said Labour, 7 per cent Conservative and 1 per cent Liberal Democrat. However, 50 per cent said that all parties had been equally damaged.
Asked which of the leaders had been most damaged, 62 per cent said Mr Brown, 5 per cent Mr Cameron, 1 per cent Nick Clegg, and 25 per cent said they had been equally damaged. Even half of Labour supporters think that Mr Brown is most badly damaged; and of those planning to switch from Labour to Conservative 85 per cent think he is the main casualty. |
Dumble strikes back, perish the thought. I really believe he is hoping for a swine flu outbreak so that he can rush in front of the cameras waving packets of Tamiflu.
A BBC interview; why not another smiling YouTube performance?
I suspect he's quite confused as to why he is so unpopular, after all, he did just recently "save the world" and the nasty horrid world does seem so terribly ungrateful.
It's remarkable, Tony Blair got everyone mixed up in the Iraq nonsense and I bet if you took an opinion poll, Tony would be hands down more popular than Dumble.
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Reluctant Hero
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It's just as bad in the poll for the Sunday Telegraph:
Euros:
Toffs 29%
Lib Dems 20%
Labour 17%
Greens 11%
UKIP 10%
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/n...s-below-Lib-Dems-in-new-poll.html
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Holebender
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Also in the Sunday Telegraph, Westminster voting intentions:
Conservative 40%
Lib Dem 25%
Labour 22%
No mention of Scotland.
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Stevie
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And I thought 23% was a polling blip.
Dumble does it again, and he's still "Prime minister".
I suspect no-one wants the job until after the G.E. .
The last time Labour polled these figures was in 1987.
I don't recall exactly but was that at the height of the LIb Dem pact?
Apparently his BBC (Thatcher-like) appearance on TV wearing a lovely violet-pink tie made little difference.
Anybody any ideas how this will affect voting in Scotland?
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