Farage Would Be Better PM Than Starmer, Voters Say for First Time
Keir Starmer suffered a fresh blow today as polling showed Nigel Farage is voters’ preferred choice as Prime Minister for the first time and the Labour Party hit a new low of its own. The Mail has more.
An Ipsos survey found the Reform UK leader was seen as a better candidate to be in charge of the country by 33% of voters.
This compared to 30% who preferred Sir Keir to be in Downing Street, according to the pollster’s monthly tracker of political preferences.
As recently as July, the Prime Minister led Mr Farage by eight percentage points in the Ipsos monthly poll.
There was further woe for Sir Keir as the latest survey also showed Labour’s Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham is favoured as a better premier.
Mr Burnham recently sparked feverish speculation he was plotting a leadership challenge against Sir Keir following a series of outspoken media interviews.
But, during Labour’s conference in Liverpool last month, Mr Burnham was left humiliated after he beat a retreat and offered his public backing to Sir Keir.
In separate research, Labour was found to have sunk to its lowest-ever poll rating as the Government’s woes continue to mount.
YouGov’s latest voting intention survey found Labour were supported by just 17% of voters, which was down three percentage points from last week.
This put Sir Keir’s party level with the Tories (17%), just one point ahead of the Greens (16%), and two points ahead of the Liberal Democrats (15%).
Reform was found to hold a 10-point lead with Mr Farage’s party backed by 27% of voters, up by one percentage point from last week.
Labour’s 17% is the lowest voting intention score that YouGov have ever recorded for the party.
And – in a sign of the Left-wing challenge facing Sir Keir – 16% is the highest voting intention score that YouGov have ever recorded for the Greens.
More soberingly, that splits 44% for the Right and 48% for the Left.
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No disrespect to Mr Farage, but a traffic cone would be a better PM than the Starmer creature.
But of major concern is the 30% who preferred Starmer.
I see the Leftie Lunatic Asylum has 17% of patients on the open wards, and 16% in the secure wing for the criminally insane.
Traffic cones don’t threaten our freedom to criticise them.
And you can call the Cones Hotline and complain.
With no General Election due this could be seen as a fairly pointless item of information, however it does serve the purpose of encouraging anyone who might believe a (protest) vote for Reform would be wasted to feel that that is no longer the case.
Labour could still pull the socialist, welfare dependent Rabbit out of the hat come the next election: with policy changes caused by voters backlash, and a new, ‘bluer’ leader, they could convince the rather socialist minded British to vote for them again. Reform are not a done deal for 2029, by a long way.
Reform is in danger of peaking too early, that’s for sure. Or elections might be abolished owing to a national emergency, anything is possible and if a week is a long time in politics, four years is an eternity.
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
You say this often Hux, part of me is inclined to agree, but how then do you think it will arrive (if indeed it can at all)?
24% for Ed Davey 🤣
People, we have a problem.
Yes, but I expect a large slice of support for Sir Potato ‘Ed is down to disillusionment with the incumbent. Which negativity perhaps is a main driving force is politics nowadays.
21% for Zack Polanski.
And he actually markets himself as a moronic clown!
Dregs of the Remainer Tendency.
Perhaps they like clowns….
Starmer is bad, very bad, but the Labour Party is stuffed full of far worse candidates.
Reform 27% v Establishment 65%. Tactical voting to keep the “Far Right” out. Result? Look at the fate of LePen and Geert Wilders, both with the highest proportion of votes.
And AfD likewise.
Not relevant comparisons since you are picking countries with PR systems which should be a warning to those who think that system would help Reform. As far as France goes their system has a good requirement to win 50% of the vote to qualify first up. If not then it goes to vote off between the top 3 and what then happened is a disgraceful withdrawal by one Far Left candidate to see their votes go against the RN candidate. An RN guy on GB News said in first past the post he would have won and was not alone in that.
Frankly my Dog, Cat and a Squirrel could do a better job than this lot, and they cost a lot less to run
What’s your cat’s name and why did you call your dog Frankly?
🤣
😂😂😂
“… why did you call your dog Frankly? .”
Because, my dear, he doesn’t give a damn?
The vote was taken at The Oregon State Medical Institution (Cuckoo’s Nest Ward). Randle McMurphy and his fellow inmates organised the count.
If the polls continue in this direction, stand by for Labour to bring in PR ahead of the next election to ensure a Far-Left stitch up. A travesty that doesn’t bear thinking about.
Of course Nigel would be a better Prime Minister than Starmer, and unlike Jewish Starmer, who is holding the post ILLEGALLY, Nigel was raised as a Protestant Christian, and reportedly said that he only stopped going to the Church of England because it was veering too much toward extreme Leftist political activism, instead of faithfully following its Christian mission.
As a Protestant, Nigel Farage would be the first LEGAL holder of the post of UK Prime Minister in many years.
I am surprised that 30% of respondents think two tier Kier Stalin is a good PM!?!?!? 1 in 3 people?
And that 17% of those polled think the communist Labour party are still worthy of their vote. I suppose we are getting down to the real core vote, here, though.
Perhaps ipsos has a lot of survey members in Islington.
Burnham is keeping his powder dry clearly – waiting for 2TK to get his comeuppance, then will be ready to step in…
And be even further left than Two Tier, as will be anyone else who replaces him.
Why oh why are there so many people who pay little attention to the current situation. They just vote the way they did in the seventies – vote conservative (or labour) until you’re fed up with them, then switch to the other one, and when they’re fed up with both they just vote LibDem or Green. They just haven’t noticed that these parties have utterly changed and are now just different segments of the Uni party con machine.
Probably because they still rely on the failed Legacy Media to (mis)inform them.
To be honest, my 11 year old and increasingly deaf Springer Spaniel would be a better PM than Starmer.
The bar couldn’t get much lower with perhaps the exceptions of The Abacus or The Tottenham Turnip.
I have a lovely, friendly, inquisitive Boxer dog, aged 5. Even if he did nothing undoglike all day long he would be a MUCH better Prime Minister than Starmer. How good is Farage at chasing balls?
His own or his owner’s?
For those of us who are desperate for improvements in the country’s economic prospects and an end to mass immigration and speech control these figures are dire. Burnham for PM after that failed coup? Where’s this guy’s judgement? Reform have got beyond base camp but they still have a mountain to climb.