“Keir Starmer’s net approval rating has fallen a further 5 points. His net approval now sits at -38, below Rishi Sunak and down 49 points from his post election high”
“Asked to grade the Government across a series of areas the public give the Government an average grade of D-. Those who voted Labour are more generous giving a C+.”
“30% think it would have been better if the Conservatives had won the election. 24% think worse and 25% think it would have made no difference either better or worse.”
Vondonklewink on
Who would have guessed that more austerity and continued managed decline might be unpopular? It wouldn’t be so bad if they hadn’t spent the last 15 years admonishing Tories for this and promising ‘change’. Only to get into office and get straight to work on maintaining the status quo, while enjoying the unprecedented number of freebies you get for being the bossman.
OwnLow6100 on
I get not being enthusiastic about this government but who on Earth is still voting Tory lmao, they have done the country over in entire new ways, they should cease to exist as a political force
pajamakitten on
The Tories handed Labour a poisoned chalice and knew what they were doing in the run-up to the election. Labour are also at fault, however they have been handed a country deep in a hole and they have to be the ones to sort it out. They were never going to be popular.
Jodeatre on
This so far is looking to be a race to the lowest voter turnout. Is there a minimum % of the populace that has to vote for an election to be valid?
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cbob-yolo on
So after watching the 2 main parties potentially screw up the last 20years by the next election.
Who is next? Who do we turn to, to fix whatever mess will be left.
MaltDizney on
Not that surprising, the ones in power will always be judged the hardest. Very easy to sit at the sides and scrutinise, with no pressure to come up with an actually viable alternative.
No_Breadfruit_4901 on
Luckily for Labour, next election is not until 5 years and they have all the time in the world to gain momentum again
kristmace on
It’s one single poll.
Labour’s start has been very poor from a PR perspective but they’d still easily win a GE against the Tories right now.
Critical-Usual on
Completely surreal. I know the Tories would regain popularity after a number of years thanks to the electorate short memory. But after 100 days of basically nothing?
tony220jdm on
No one wanted Keir just labour through the door and somehow this idiot got more unpopular than half the tories
ash_ninetyone on
Labour haven’t had an ideal start. I was wanting change of government. One of hope, not of doom and gloom. Especially since when I left school in 2010 into a difficult recovery followed by austerity and watching public services be gradually ran into the dirt.
I get shit is difficult. I get it’s not an overnight quick fix. But I was hoping for an actual Labour government, not Tory-lite.
You won’t catch me voting Tories again. But while they’re busy splitting their vote to Reform, if Labour aren’t aware of their roots, I suspect they’ll see them leaking voters to other left-wing parties like the Greens. If a left-wing version of Reform came along (except socially progressive than conservative/neo-libs) I would hazard a guess Labour would be in trouble.
Odd-Wafer-4250 on
Not surprising considering a) the Tories fucked things beyond repair for everyone else to line their and their mates pockets and b) the hatchet job the right-wing oligarch owned media have done.
The nation is filled with right-wing serf mentality moron who don’t mind the boot on their necks as long as they can punch down on someone they think is beneath them.
People base their views on inflammatory headlines and misinformation. Education in the UK was more or less defunded since 2010 and there’s a dearth of critical thinking skills in the nation and the nation is in a downward spiral as a result.
But fuck all of that, blame immigrants and muzlamics innit /s
LordofFruitAndBarely on
Some optimism from them would have avoided this. The CONSTANT moaning is a real bummer. If they approached things with a fresh winds of change blowing through the country, rather than stale old farts blowing.. people would like that and respond to it
Mr_XcX on
He needs to get his act together. Stop the anti business / anti pensioner sentiment.
Girthenjoyer on
Labour finding out that the fickle, juvenile cunts they’ve been courting aren’t interested in stuff like reality. They just want to be promised free stuff and be told rich people are bad.
GunstarGreen on
This was always the loveless landslide. Anyone expecting wholesale immediate change was always going to be disappointed. It’s 100 days, I’m going to wait for a budget before sharpening the knives. I’m asking for better than the last Tory Government, which isn’t a high bar to clear. I’m not an apologist for Labour but let them put out a Budget first. They’ve done all the moaning already about the mess they inherited (every Government does that), now let’s see how they respond. There are many, many problems that need addressing and expecting a bottomless well of money thrown at those problems was always unreasonable. We were told hard times would be ahead.
SnooCrickets3606 on
To me it just seems like the labour government can’t get out of the mindset of being in opposition. They have an overwhelming majority and yet still seem to have spent the last 3 months telling us how much the last regime were as if we hadn’t noticed.
Just get on and tell us what you plan to do. As some others here have said the communication has been poor and I certainly it’s affecting the economy, even if there is bad news atleast we should be clearer after the budget and those who have frozen investment decisions can decide one way or another.
Logical_Hare on
The media really, *really* wants polling to be relevant, even though the next election is five years out.
Delicious-Tree-6725 on
So what, the vote took place, they are in power for 5 years and the Tory leadership is down to Goofy and Pinky from Pinky and the brain, let’s give them a chance to do something.
plawwell on
Only another 4.75 years until the next general election. Nothing to see here. Move along.
ZeeSS on
Needs a massive dose of context here. This is a single poll, cherry-picked by tory comic, The Spectator. The current editor is one of the most ineffective and gormless creatures on the planet, Michael Gove. He recently left office to search for his spine in a vain hope to be regarded as a vertebrate and not a worm.
Poll of polls still has them over 12 points ahead of the Tories.
I’m not saying labour should be immune from criticism and they’ve taken a hit, but don’t believe the extent of Gove’s bullshit here. Pressure them to improve, absolutely.
And all this media hype about the first 100 days is just pathetic. Just over 3 months into a 4/5 year term.
bluecheese2040 on
Means nothing. Labour can do this for 2 years then win the population back in the subsequent 2 years.
rubbersoul199 on
A reminder that Corbyn’s Labour were 8 points ahead in the polls shortly after the 2017 election.
That didn’t end well …
Deep-Engine2367 on
We’re just a little hurt and emotionally vulnerable right now, we’ve been through a hard time and we have some trauma, calling Keir Starmer daddy will take some getting used to, that’s all..
WhateverUnited on
Anyone noticing a pattern .. it’s not Labour, not conservative, democratic, whatever .. it’s the government, economy, THEM. We are on a one way train to the end and it’s all in the name of evil greed. Nothing is going to change.
Ok_Awareness_9193 on
We could perhaps do with young people. Maybe they can come up with better policies.
NarrowTwist on
he needs to resign immediately, the worst PM in our lifetime
Circle-of-friends on
Honestly who cares about this other than right wing newspapers? They have a massive majority and have to break a lot of rotten eggs to make an omelette
shialebeefe on
I think Kier has massively underestimated how much it has hurt him taking all these freebies.
For me personally, the way that the Tories acted during Covid was a huge reason I couldn’t vote for them.
They gave their mates contracts and flouted the rules of social distancing like they were above the law and above the rest of us.
For Kier to immediately take every freebie going and to play it down so nonchalantly, made me realise he has no sense of morality. He is very much a previous prosecutor, operating within the realms of the amoral legal system and not with a personal code of ethics and integrity.
He’s painfully out of touch with the working classes, who would happily be skint if they knew they were paying for the elderly. He’s taking money from the elderly but paying for lots of immigrants. I really struggle with the immigration thing, I’m not anti-immigration, I am the product of immigration, but why on earth don’t they try to justify the immigration? They never actually say what their approach is, they just keep letting more and more in and never talk about the strategy or the reason.
BroodLord1962 on
Does anyone really care what polls say when they have got over 4yrs left in power with a massive majority
SosigDoge on
Considering the main opposition party haven’t even elected a leader yet, this is not a glowing endorsement Keith mate…
Ok_Analyst41 on
People seem to think that 3 months is enough time for economic policy to have an impact after 15 years of conservatives. The first labour budget hasn’t even been published.
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Voting Intention:
🌹 LAB 27% (-2)
🌳 CON 27% (+1)
➡️ REF UK 21% (+2)
🔶 LIB DEM 13% (+2)
🌍 GRN 7% (-)
“Keir Starmer’s net approval rating has fallen a further 5 points. His net approval now sits at -38, below Rishi Sunak and down 49 points from his post election high”
“Asked to grade the Government across a series of areas the public give the Government an average grade of D-. Those who voted Labour are more generous giving a C+.”
“30% think it would have been better if the Conservatives had won the election. 24% think worse and 25% think it would have made no difference either better or worse.”
Who would have guessed that more austerity and continued managed decline might be unpopular? It wouldn’t be so bad if they hadn’t spent the last 15 years admonishing Tories for this and promising ‘change’. Only to get into office and get straight to work on maintaining the status quo, while enjoying the unprecedented number of freebies you get for being the bossman.
I get not being enthusiastic about this government but who on Earth is still voting Tory lmao, they have done the country over in entire new ways, they should cease to exist as a political force
The Tories handed Labour a poisoned chalice and knew what they were doing in the run-up to the election. Labour are also at fault, however they have been handed a country deep in a hole and they have to be the ones to sort it out. They were never going to be popular.
This so far is looking to be a race to the lowest voter turnout. Is there a minimum % of the populace that has to vote for an election to be valid?
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So after watching the 2 main parties potentially screw up the last 20years by the next election.
Who is next? Who do we turn to, to fix whatever mess will be left.
Not that surprising, the ones in power will always be judged the hardest. Very easy to sit at the sides and scrutinise, with no pressure to come up with an actually viable alternative.
Luckily for Labour, next election is not until 5 years and they have all the time in the world to gain momentum again
It’s one single poll.
Labour’s start has been very poor from a PR perspective but they’d still easily win a GE against the Tories right now.
Completely surreal. I know the Tories would regain popularity after a number of years thanks to the electorate short memory. But after 100 days of basically nothing?
No one wanted Keir just labour through the door and somehow this idiot got more unpopular than half the tories
Labour haven’t had an ideal start. I was wanting change of government. One of hope, not of doom and gloom. Especially since when I left school in 2010 into a difficult recovery followed by austerity and watching public services be gradually ran into the dirt.
I get shit is difficult. I get it’s not an overnight quick fix. But I was hoping for an actual Labour government, not Tory-lite.
You won’t catch me voting Tories again. But while they’re busy splitting their vote to Reform, if Labour aren’t aware of their roots, I suspect they’ll see them leaking voters to other left-wing parties like the Greens. If a left-wing version of Reform came along (except socially progressive than conservative/neo-libs) I would hazard a guess Labour would be in trouble.
Not surprising considering a) the Tories fucked things beyond repair for everyone else to line their and their mates pockets and b) the hatchet job the right-wing oligarch owned media have done.
The nation is filled with right-wing serf mentality moron who don’t mind the boot on their necks as long as they can punch down on someone they think is beneath them.
People base their views on inflammatory headlines and misinformation. Education in the UK was more or less defunded since 2010 and there’s a dearth of critical thinking skills in the nation and the nation is in a downward spiral as a result.
But fuck all of that, blame immigrants and muzlamics innit /s
Some optimism from them would have avoided this. The CONSTANT moaning is a real bummer. If they approached things with a fresh winds of change blowing through the country, rather than stale old farts blowing.. people would like that and respond to it
He needs to get his act together. Stop the anti business / anti pensioner sentiment.
Labour finding out that the fickle, juvenile cunts they’ve been courting aren’t interested in stuff like reality. They just want to be promised free stuff and be told rich people are bad.
This was always the loveless landslide. Anyone expecting wholesale immediate change was always going to be disappointed. It’s 100 days, I’m going to wait for a budget before sharpening the knives. I’m asking for better than the last Tory Government, which isn’t a high bar to clear. I’m not an apologist for Labour but let them put out a Budget first. They’ve done all the moaning already about the mess they inherited (every Government does that), now let’s see how they respond. There are many, many problems that need addressing and expecting a bottomless well of money thrown at those problems was always unreasonable. We were told hard times would be ahead.
To me it just seems like the labour government can’t get out of the mindset of being in opposition. They have an overwhelming majority and yet still seem to have spent the last 3 months telling us how much the last regime were as if we hadn’t noticed.
Just get on and tell us what you plan to do. As some others here have said the communication has been poor and I certainly it’s affecting the economy, even if there is bad news atleast we should be clearer after the budget and those who have frozen investment decisions can decide one way or another.
The media really, *really* wants polling to be relevant, even though the next election is five years out.
So what, the vote took place, they are in power for 5 years and the Tory leadership is down to Goofy and Pinky from Pinky and the brain, let’s give them a chance to do something.
Only another 4.75 years until the next general election. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Needs a massive dose of context here. This is a single poll, cherry-picked by tory comic, The Spectator. The current editor is one of the most ineffective and gormless creatures on the planet, Michael Gove. He recently left office to search for his spine in a vain hope to be regarded as a vertebrate and not a worm.
Poll of polls still has them over 12 points ahead of the Tories.
I’m not saying labour should be immune from criticism and they’ve taken a hit, but don’t believe the extent of Gove’s bullshit here. Pressure them to improve, absolutely.
And all this media hype about the first 100 days is just pathetic. Just over 3 months into a 4/5 year term.
Means nothing. Labour can do this for 2 years then win the population back in the subsequent 2 years.
A reminder that Corbyn’s Labour were 8 points ahead in the polls shortly after the 2017 election.
That didn’t end well …
We’re just a little hurt and emotionally vulnerable right now, we’ve been through a hard time and we have some trauma, calling Keir Starmer daddy will take some getting used to, that’s all..
Anyone noticing a pattern .. it’s not Labour, not conservative, democratic, whatever .. it’s the government, economy, THEM. We are on a one way train to the end and it’s all in the name of evil greed. Nothing is going to change.
We could perhaps do with young people. Maybe they can come up with better policies.
he needs to resign immediately, the worst PM in our lifetime
Honestly who cares about this other than right wing newspapers? They have a massive majority and have to break a lot of rotten eggs to make an omelette
I think Kier has massively underestimated how much it has hurt him taking all these freebies.
For me personally, the way that the Tories acted during Covid was a huge reason I couldn’t vote for them.
They gave their mates contracts and flouted the rules of social distancing like they were above the law and above the rest of us.
For Kier to immediately take every freebie going and to play it down so nonchalantly, made me realise he has no sense of morality. He is very much a previous prosecutor, operating within the realms of the amoral legal system and not with a personal code of ethics and integrity.
He’s painfully out of touch with the working classes, who would happily be skint if they knew they were paying for the elderly. He’s taking money from the elderly but paying for lots of immigrants. I really struggle with the immigration thing, I’m not anti-immigration, I am the product of immigration, but why on earth don’t they try to justify the immigration? They never actually say what their approach is, they just keep letting more and more in and never talk about the strategy or the reason.
Does anyone really care what polls say when they have got over 4yrs left in power with a massive majority
Considering the main opposition party haven’t even elected a leader yet, this is not a glowing endorsement Keith mate…
People seem to think that 3 months is enough time for economic policy to have an impact after 15 years of conservatives. The first labour budget hasn’t even been published.