Half of Labour Voters Say They Feel Let Down as Starmer’s Poll Lead Plummets to Five Points
Labour’s poll lead over the Tories has fallen to just five points, while nearly half of those who voted Labour in July say they already feel let down by Keir Starmer’s floundering Government. The Mail has more.
A new survey by Techne puts Sir Keir Starmer’s party below 30 points, little more than three months since his landslide victory.
A separate poll by YouGov shows that almost four-in-10 voters (39%) believe the country has got worse in the past 100 days. Just 9% say it has got better – and not even a quarter of those who voted Labour in July have seen an improvement.
It comes after a major row over the decision to cut winter fuel payment handouts for hundreds of thousands of pensioners.
There are also fears of a major round of tax rises in the Budget at the end of the month, despite taxes having risen to a record postwar high under the last Tory Government.
Nearly half (47%) of those who voted Labour in the election told YouGov they had positive expectations of Starmer’s Government but feel let down so far, with only three in ten (30%) feeling Labour has done as well as they had hoped.
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Has there ever been a government with brilliant poll results after the first few months?
Probably, but the fall in support for this shower is pretty unprecedented. We shouldn’t let them off with a ‘well, they all do this.’ . They don’t.
Interesting question. The answer is a bit of a mixed bag. ‘On the 99th day, the Labour government lost the Leyton by-election to the Conservatives, halving the government’s minuscule majority in the process. It had been a safe Labour seat since its creation. “It was an awful evening,” Richard Crossman, one of Wilson’s closest cabinet allies, wrote in his diary, “I felt an epoch had ended — ironically enough this was the ninety-ninth day of Harold’s famous Hundred Days.” ‘Now, the joy of Ipsos is that its polling goes back far enough that we can compare this with three first-term prime ministers: Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron. The bad news for Starmer is that he is polling worse in absolute terms than all three of them 99 days in. The good news for Starmer is that at this point in 1979, Margaret Thatcher was trailing Jim Callaghan, the Labour leader she had defeated 99 days earlier, by 16 points. Stephen Bush 11 Oct 2024 ‘”Sunny Jim” received an almost universal thumbs up from the press after 100 days as Labour leader and prime minister. Commentators praised his calming influence and straight talking approach. But with no working majority,… Read more »
Blair’s first one (not that I ever voted for the shyster)
Not surprised that Reform are in 3rd place, but disappointed. I knew the Tories would lose in 2024 and that Labour would be catastrophic, but the fact that the Tories got six million votes and are the official opposition makes them believe they are still relevant and they will once again talk a good fight but not mean it. Complete destruction was the only hope, and that has been taken away from me – so now the picture is completely bleak.
You pay attention to polls?
But yea. The system is screwed.
The polls prior to the GE were accurate enough
What’s screwed is how most people view the proper functions of the state and the government- I’m in a tiny minority
Wait till the members vote for Kemi, and they get Jenrick…
Six million stuck with the WEF plant Sunak
Maybe the membership will decline (not just at the normal rate of deceased ones).
I’d read / heard it had dropped right off – with a fair chunk moving to reform
Spot on. I know people take the piss out of the unthinking “me dad voted labour and me grandad voted labour so I’ve always voted labour brigade”, but unfortunately, the Conservative Party have a similar core vote who will always vote Tory despite everything.
How these voters can be prised away from the tory party sinking ship is a key challenge for any emerging right of centre party. On top of that, however, there are some swivel-eyed tory party members that any sane party would not want as members!
They used to call the CofE the Tory party at prayer- seems like the other way around now
OFF – T. Interesting article. “Mr Henegham said that in October 2021, Ms Mok returned from Bulgaria (I went there in 2022 as it happens because of their relaxed attitude to the unvaccinated)….and visited the club but had not been aware of the changes in guidance on self-isolating after the trip abroad”
Well of course she was unaware, the UK government was conducting a psychological war on the British public.
“The barrister told the court that she had not shown any real remorse for her actions”
She had the symptoms of a cold and carried on as normal, get over yourselves FFS!
Mayfair private club ‘bullied’ unvaccinated member after she breached Covid rules, court hears (msn.com)
Interesting chat on politics with a friend of ours the other day (we usually try and avoid that,
but she brought it up) – she’s a nailed on champagne socialist really now, as she’s done well, but grew up from a very humble background – always voted labour, always will type. She WAS not happy about Labours performance so far, the gifts, the gaffs, the net zero impact and worst of all in her opinion, the removal of heating allowance… I was shocked how blunt she was about Starmer.
And this is someone who previously thought Labour and Starmer could do no wrong, would defend them to the end… was very surprised to see that reaction from her – I wonder how many other traditional labour voters feel the same?
He is not the messiah – just a Two Tier free loading grifter.
Wasn’t it obvious since he first came on the scene that he would be exactly like this. His career has been in full public view for a long time and so surely you would glean some picture of the man from all of this if you intended to vote for him. If you’re that ignorant then it is a blight on humanity that you are even allowed to vote.
Starmer is like one of those football managers who take over a big football team only to lose 8 games and draw 3. Inevitably in what is a results business he looses his job and the club thanks him for his efforts. —–It’s a pity Politics isn’t a results business. Starmer and his assistants (Miliband and Reeves) would be shown the door but I would not be thanking them for their efforts.
Some Scottish commentator on GB News over the weekend thought Two Tier should be replaced by Ranting Rayner because she is a real socialist and no, I don’t think she was joking.
Just a 2min summary of the disaster so far that is the Labour government;
https://x.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1844808972374618396
Hardly anyone voted for them in the first place and this comes before the budget as well. By Summer I confidently predict they will be the most loathed party ever to have held office. Add together Tory and Reform votes and Labour become a very poor also staggered nobody party.
They ain’t seen nothing yet.
2tk is gonna hit hitherto unplumbed depths of unpopularity before he’s finished.
Which would be fun to watch if it weren’t for the fact that England will be totally destroyed in the process.
So 29% of the voting population are either mad, stupid or delusional or perhaps all three.
Just ill-informed.I also – I voted against Labour but I had no idea it would be as bad as this.
The winter fuel allowance was plainly an embarrassment to Labour because they were and still are , talking about cheaper energy bills with their policies