Voters Dislike Tories “Even More Than They Did Corbyn in 2019”
New polling suggests that Rishi Sunak has a mountain to climb if he’s to avoid a Tory wipe out on July 4th, reports the Times.
The thought of the Tories staying in power is even less appealing to voters than the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn entering Downing Street was five years ago, polling suggests.
In a repeat of research carried out in 2019, YouGov asked voters to imagine that the result of the election was an overall majority for Rishi Sunak and the Conservative party.
It found 59% voters would either be “dismayed” or “disappointed” if the Tories remained in power after July 4th compared with 15% who said they would be “delighted” or “pleased”. A further 15% said they wouldn’t mind while 11% didn’t know.
In the 2019 election, in which Boris Johnson won a landslide victory against Corbyn, 52% said they would be “dismayed” or “disappointed” if the Labour leader won. Some 28% said they would be “delighted” or “pleased” while 9% said they wouldn’t mind Corbyn in Downing Street.
However, it wasn’t all bad news.
The polling also shows that Sir Keir Starmer has still to raise enthusiasm among voters. The survey found that 34% of voters would be “delighted” or “pleased” with a Labour victory — a figure only six points higher than for Corbyn in 2019.
Opposition is much lower than it was to Corbyn however. Only 35% said they would be “dismayed” or “disappointed” if Starmer ended up in Downing Street compared with the 52% who said the same about Corbyn. Some 17% said they “wouldn’t mind” a Labour victory.
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This is what you get when you abandon being conservative and morph into Labour Lite. The Tories only 5 years ago were given an 80 seat majority and they chucked it down the diversity, equality, gender, mass immigration and climate plughole. ——Bloody idiots.
PS It is probably better if they get a good pasting at the election to wake up their ideas.
Totally agree, but the thought of the Labour cheek of the same arse in power for 5 years gives me night terrors!
Maybe it is the medicine tories need though to cure them of their lack of Conservatism, just like we need some vitamin C and D to sort out all out malady’s
A hung Parliament, with Reform winning a few seats to boost their credibility, especially if they were Tory seats. To be followed by governmental chaos leading to another election within 2 years. This gives Reform time to really get their act together
Or Plan B – a dozen proper Conservatives defect to Reform now, forming a nucleus for change and voter support
The end of the SNP come what may, PlodScot should see to that
And if the CUP dies, do we care? They deserve it
Finally, someone who gets it! A vote for Reform is a vote for real change and, ultimately, what you actually want instead of what you feel you must settle for. Just 3 to 5 seats will do it, next time round it will be far, far more.
People keep saying they want change, this is how they get it. Vote Uniparty and, quite frankly, you are the definition of insane.
My mp is Lee Anderson so I’ll be voting reform anyways!
Reform? The party led by Tice who got hot and horny for vaccines? Not exactly a glowing endorsement of character or judgement. I think I’ll give the establishment options I’ve been given, so they can maintain their system, a wide birth and vote with my feet. If enough people did the same then it would make the whole system illegitimate. The only good reason to turn up at the ballot box is to somehow invalidate the result of that constituency.
Do you think Reform should put electoral reform in their manifesto? Would that win more votes?
I suggest slightly larger constituencies, each providing 5 MPs based on PR within that constituency. To make sure the rural voice is heard.
UKIP never won any seats and they had a clear cause that both traditionally Tory and Labour voters were passionate about. I can’t see Reform doing better than UKIP. The defection route is the only way that can happen and it doesn’t look like it will.
The media have done a good hatchet job on the Tories, although there was little need of any serious chopping to be done. Failure to reverse some or most of what Blair Directorate introduced meant more of the same regardless of who held the majority. I am minded of the old saying when regarding the potential of a labour government to those who would be joyful should it occur. Be careful of what you wish for.
The so-called democratic system in the UK is firked beyond repair so the result of this “election” is utterly irrelevant. Regardless of the nominally winning party we will get a Uniparty controlled by the Davos Deviants. We are at war and must look to any means of disrupting their evils.
Every little helps.
Not easy when 90% of the populace are sitting in front of soap operas, or football matches, ordering a curry and Irn Bru and think Simon Cowel would be a good Prime Minister.
The Times is a leftie lunatic paper. Ever read the comments section on it? They think they are better than anyone else because it’s The Times, in reality it is the gutter version of The Guardian.
Anyway, when was a poll last right or even close to being right? 2016 EU and Trump spring to mind. I keep saying it because it is true and actually obvious: it will be a hung Parliament. Look at back at the 2010 election; it largely turned on a “Bigoted woman” comment and still end up in a coalition.
Vote Reform, get a coalition, be part of it.
And interestingly if it becomes a hung parliament, the Reform votes will matter when decisions need to be made.
Nobody pays much attention until the last 48 hours of the campaign.
Starmer and his selection of whey faced ninnies are a complete turn off.
Ed Davey is a disaster for the Lib Dems
The SNP have a core 30% vote in Scotland, come rain or shine.
Reform have shot their bolt, as the council elections demonstrated.
The PM may get at least some of his vote out. I will never forgive the Conservatives for lockdowns, vaccine mandates, face mask mandates but I will not ‘cut off my nose to spite.my face’. That would be a bit silly.
I won’t forgive them for “net zero”, further eroding freedom of speech, not sorting out the NHS and the BBC, mass immigration, saying one thing and doing another, and being just another nondescript globalist bunch of vaguely leftist busybodies.
Completely understand but, in this company, the PM is the stand out candidate.
Lockdown Chancellor, weak.
Anyway it’s not the handful of sceptics here you need to convince- we are not going to lose the fake conservatives the election. It’s the swing voters who are going to swing back to Labour because they are fed up and fancy a change. ‘‘Twas ever thus.
I’m past caring. None of the parties likely to get any seats are proposing to address the real issues in any decisive manner, and none of them come even close to representing my views.
Still early days though.
Yeah give it another few decades or centuries and when we are close to collapse people will come round to my way of thinking
Given the almost universal stupidity on display in 2020, that seems unlikely.
Democracy: the least worst system of government.
I tend to agree though I think we might see a rebalancing eventually, just not in our lifetimes
Corbyn would have won if his own party back room boys hadn’t stabbed him in the back. Name a politician that drew crowds in the streets like Corbyn did in Liverpool. He was fighting the Tories and the neo-liberals who have taken over labour. Both parties now represent the WEF.
Spot on only to add Starmer was the lead back stabber.
Starmer is the globalist technocrats wet dream and he is a paedophile protector as his time as CPS director demonstrates. Starmer will be the most authoritarian uber creep this country has ever produced and a total threat to what is left of democracy in this country.
He takes his orders from the same people who the Tories take their orders from. Never voting for an establishment party is a sensible strategy to take.