Will Labour celebrate as more reliable Survation poll puts party only 11 POINTS behind Tories?
This Site suggested, back when YouGov put Labour 18 points behind the Tories, that the figure might not be entirely accurate.
YouGov is a Tory-run polling organisation, remember. It shows, doesn’t it?
Now we have figures from Survation – the pollster whose figures have most accurately described voting intentions for the last few years – and they’re not much better!
Westminster voting intention:
CON: 44% (+6)
LAB: 33% (-5)
LDEM: 8% (-)
GRN: 6% (+1)via @Survation, 25-26 May
Chgs. w/ 29 Apr— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) May 27, 2021
Survation puts Labour a colossal 11 points behind the Tories. The Conservatives are up six points to 44 per cent, while Labour has plummetted five points to 33 per cent. That means they were level-pegging in the company’s previous survey.
But wait – there’s worse.
Boris Johnson’s approval rating has shot up to four per cent, while Keir Starmer is now languishing at -11 per cent. It’s a rise of 11 points for Johnson, while Starmer’s ratings have been falling steadily since May last year. He started with 17 per cent in May last year and has lost 27 points over the 12 months since.
On the question of who would make the best prime minister, Starmer hasn’t been a contender since September last year. Boris Johnson leads by 17 points, with support from 45 per cent of voters, while only 28 per cent thought Starmer would do a better job.
And people are under no illusions about the cause of the party’s collapse:
Labour are hoping to win by not being as bad as the Tories or as socialist as Jeremy Corbyn.
But they need to win voters over by actually BEING something.
Atm voters might as well go and vote for an old sink dumped on a skip.
— Chelley Ryan #EnoughIsEnough (@chelleryn99) May 27, 2021
The next few years go like this:
Johnson (128,000 dead) 'did his best'.
Corbyn (free prescriptions) 'is Satan'.
Starmer (100% teak) 'needs more time to unify the party'.— simon maginn (@simonmaginn) May 27, 2021
The question now is how much longer Starmer can hang on before he realises that nobody believes him any more when he blames Jeremy Corbyn.
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There needs to be official opposition to lock down policy. Then we will see Labour’s polling shoot up.