The same story also covered by Skwawkbox: https://skwawkbox.org/2024/08/24/labours-net-public-approval-collapses-like-starmers-in-just-3-weeks/
According to the Twitter/X account Stats for Lefties, one of the main reasons for the drop is a “collapse in support amongst over-65s”.
No surprise their. The approval rating hasn’t shifted, so it seems to be a lot of don’t knows.
I wonder if that’s because they have showed no sign of stopping austerity.
Right now, they can’t.
Money has gone, opportunity for very cheap borrowing (which is what a sane government would have grasped enthusiastically grasped in the wake of the last crash instead of breaking out to exploit everyone harder) is gone.
Maybe, if Reeves is given scope to do her shit, this country can not merely stall the accelerating decline, but turn stuff around.
Nothing is more vital right now & for some time than keeping faith against the odds that that can happen.
There is nothing to lose by trying to hold our nerve.
To “turn stuff around” you have to change direction. So far she’s doubling down. Committing to the same direction.
The October statement is critical. She has to say what she’s doing different, and why it will sow the seeds of change.
You may be right about interest rates but there is a vast amount of existing money in the UK which is simply serving itself rather than being directed towards public investment. Austerity is a political choice imo.
To the surprise of no-one on the actual left.
According to the Twitter/X account Stats for Lefties, one of the main reasons for the drop is a “collapse in support amongst over-65s”.
So amongst people who don’t vote for them anyway and a demographic who are going to finally be losing out on something for once.
Nothing to see here.
It’s weird that neither article mentions the riots. I get why the articles want to attribute the drop to things Labour has actually done or said, but I feel a lot of that drop in support is people seeing that chaos of late July and blaming the nebulous government.
I’m not sure the current government get much blame for the riots.
If things like Any Questions/Answers (also my local) is a guide then a lot of pensioners are angry about the change to the winter fuel allowance.
You’re probably right, actually:
Across the board, the British public are more positive about how the riots were handled now than they were at the time. Compared to a fortnight ago, the proportion of Britons feeling the police handled them well has increased from 52% to 63%, while the number believing the legal system has done a good job dealing with the situation has shot up from just a quarter of Britons (27%) to a clear majority of 57%.
Keir Starmer has also seen something of a turnaround. Now, the public are roughly evenly split on how the prime minister handled the riots, with 43% thinking he handled them well and 40% viewing his response as poor. At the time of the riots, the public had taken a significantly more negative view, with only 31% saying Starmer was reacting well compared to 49% who thought he was doing a bad job.
This improved view of the prime minister’s handling is apparent among all groups, but has been most notable among Conservatives, a third of whom (35%) now feel he did a good job, up from one in six (16%) a fortnight ago.
There was a post that indicated. Labour has gained support, due to its actions on the riots,
Hard to see anyone placing the blame on Labour. At best there are a number who feel that Labour has not improved the properganda by remaining anti immigration. But that is a long way from responsible.
