Do voters really want Labour – or not?
The people of the UK seem to be in two minds about the party that still claims to lead the Labour movement, despite being led by Keir Starmer, a man who has betrayed most of the promises he has made to party members and is soon likely to turn his back on the rest.
A poll by Redfield and Wilton Strategies suggests that almost two-thirds of people do not trust Starmer’s party to handle the cost-of-living crisis (and nobody can blame them, when he offers us absolutely no policies with which to do so):
Big moment.
Voters no longer trust Labour to address the cost of living crisis. pic.twitter.com/5wsMVv6pXz
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) August 8, 2023
But polling for Channel 4 News shows Labour would have a landslide victory with around 460 seats if a general election took place now:
New polling – given exclusively to Channel 4 News – shows a Labour landslide victory with around 460 seats and the Conservatives reduced to 90 seats – if there were an imminent general election.
Poll by @FindoutnowUK and @ElectCalculus.@PGMcNamara has more details. pic.twitter.com/AjuRsmP8zk
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) August 8, 2023
Why are people saying they’ll vote for Starmer’s party, even though they don’t trust him to do anything to help them?
One possibility presents itself. But wouldn’t it be depressing if Starmer’s cynical belief that voters have nowhere else to go apart from his shabby STP (Substitute Tory Party) was proved correct?
Then again, polls carried out when election-time rules on neutral reporting aren’t being enforced have been known to reverse themselves dramatically when those rules come into play.
And Starmer has some serious opposition on what he still claims is his own side:
If Keir Starmer doesn't cough up some policies soon, he's going to be a loser before he even reaches power, so says Mick Lynch of the RMT, but for many of us Starmer is already a loser on this front, given he's sticking with the Tory policy of starving kids, sticking with their… pic.twitter.com/s4cCeuUGGn
— Damien Willey 🟢 🔴 (@KernowDamo) August 7, 2023
Damo is right: Starmer seems to be selling policy to the highest bidder while the unions and party members dither over whether to abandon him.
Is it because voters (and the unions) see no alternatives?
There are alternatives, of course – but it seems too many people are buying into that hoary old Liberal Democrat propaganda that voting for anybody other than the party that came second last time will let the Tories back in.
The message from this site is simple:
DO YOUR RESEARCH!
Find out who, in your constituency, is putting forward policies that you actually need and support them.
Any policy at all would be better than what Keir Starmer is offering.
Are you planning to vote Labour at the next general election? If so – why?
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in its current betrayal format i simply do NOT want ’em in power… to an extent.
but ultimately, history PROVES that even a bad Labour gov’t (and mark my words it WILL be under Starmer) is better for the 99% of us than a tory one, and even with Blair in charge it achieved quite a lot e.g. minimum wage, that would simply NEVER of happened under a tory gov’t.
aka, like ’em or not IMO we simply just gonna have to bite the bullet next time at the ballot box, cos it obv the only way to get rid of the utterly INCOMPETENT tory reign of misrule… and e.g. Zahawi (tho i sure he ain’t the only one), was even incompetent at tax fraud let alone as CoE, ffs!
When the “dyed in the wool” Tory and Opportunist Zac Goldsmith says he will consider voting Labour over the Environment sort of says it all to me.
STP indeed !
Yes but they want the real Labour not the low fat Tory version Starmer and Reeves are pushing