The All New Political Polling Thread

Discussion in 'Politics 2.0' started by Moose, Oct 21, 2021.

  1. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    I haven't heard about that one! Ha ha! I'll have to wait until her ladyship has gone to bed before I start googling 'Russian sex party' though
     
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  2. HenryHooter

    HenryHooter Reservist

    Racism will be Lammy's downfall.
     
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  3. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Instead we can look forward to more of the undoubted paragons that are Priti Patel and Nadine Dorries.
     
  4. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

  5. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

  6. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Yes, I added the bit about sex to spice it up.
     
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  7. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

  8. Lloyd

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  9. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    Hmmmmm.... De Pfeffel's popularity figures haven't moved from what they were on Thursday/Friday before the latest partygate allegations this weekend:

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    Although the poll of polls suggesting a 9% lead for labour...

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  10. sydney_horn

    sydney_horn Squad Player

    It may well be that Johnson's approval rating has hit the floor. Based on the vox pops and Twitter, there will always be a percentage of people that will regard him as a "lovable rogue" and it looks like it could be around 30%.

    I think it's also a case of "partygate" saturation. If you still think Johnson is the man to lead the country after last week's PMQs then I doubt the subsequent "revelations of other "events" is going to sway your opinion of him.
     
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  11. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Newsnight had a steely eyed woman on last night representing the Conservative membership and she was clear, they don’t want Boris to go.

    Neither lies nor Parliamentary Standards have meaning to the members. They want to win. They want the Navy in Channel and the BBC ground into dust. Now!

    This raises the prospect of Boris being immovable in the short term, but also the juiciest Tory civil war if the Pork Pie conspirators try it.
     
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  12. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Tory MPs have always been more powerful than the members, though. See Thatcher, Major, May etc.

    Boris’s own preferences come into play here too.
     
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  13. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    Something I do find interesting (although I'm hampered by lack of good numerical data) is that many of the 2019 intake of Tory MP's are involved in, or at least sympathetic to, the "Pork Pie Plot" (FFS!!!). I'd expect C4 to be all over this.
     
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  14. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    It’s quite possible that a leadership election takes place and Boris wins. The members will put him on the slate and maybe more than half the MPs will vote for him, unless the Gray report is unequivocal.
     
  15. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    I do love the on-brand evolution that has lead us from Cameron's rumoured pig's head all the way to pork pies in the last decade.

    Great stuff.
     
  16. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Increasingly descending through cheaper cuts of pork. The Tories have left this Country in an offal state.
     
  17. Steve Leo Beleck

    Steve Leo Beleck Squad Player

    Not quite how it works. If he wins the vote of no confidence, he can stay unchallenged for a year. If he loses it, he's not allowed to stand in subsequent leadership election. MPs whittle it down to two, only then do members vote.
     
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  18. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Hadn’t quite grasped that. I can certainly see him winning a ‘no confidence’ vote. While that would strengthen him in the short term voters would see him as being unpunished.
     
  19. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

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  20. Moose

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  21. sydney_horn

    sydney_horn Squad Player

    Obviously positive for Labour but I think that 32% is also positive for the Conservatives.

    It's difficult to think of a time when the Government and PM have had worse PR disasters than the current lot have had over the last few weeks.

    Yet still 1 in 3 would vote for them.

    It all comes down to whether they can win the 10% or so back with a new leader and a "relaunch" of the brand.

    I suspect they will and it will be before the next election.
     
  22. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    I don’t think Labour and the Tories are necessarily fighting over the same voters. Labour’s target are its own third and those liberals who wouldn’t vote for them last time. There may be a drift back in the former Red Wall, but not a landslide.

    The Tories are in an odd place now. They need Johnson for the new seats, but Starmer will be increasingly more popular than him elsewhere and other Tories, unhappy with the behaviour, may tactically vote Lib Dem if he stays. As it stands, the Tories are staring at a defeat, even if Labour doesn’t hold above 40%.
     
  23. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    I'm sure I heard the consensus is the Tories are losing voters but they're not switching allegiance to Labour. They're basically disappearing into apathy and so @sydney_horn is likely right that a change of leader and a brand relaunch would win a sizeable chunk of them back.
     
  24. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    This is the line put around by Matthew Goodwin and it’s hardly a new one. The phenomena of the ‘shy Tory’ (I mean who wouldn’t be embarrassed?) is well known.

    But these polls force a choice. This one adds up to 93% without the main parties in the devolved nations. So if the SNP takes 3/4% alone, they don’t give much room for apathetic Tories. They are, therefore, saying which way they would fall today, even if they may change their minds. This notion of ‘apathy’ is wish fulfilment that only Tory red meat sustains them.

    I am very sceptical that a Tory rebrand is possible. Johnson’s Government already set itself against old Toryism and Austerity. A rebrand would need an ideological third way. If that way is simply competent Government delivering Brexit, then I give you the wreckage left behind, ministers who are either National jokes or mired in the same sleaze or routed old Tories. This is why so many don’t want to ditch Johnson. He is their winner.

    Except it seems he is not any more and that will mean the Tories are finished.

    Unless…Labour can pull something disastrous out of the bag and they do have form for it.
     
  25. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

  26. HenryHooter

    HenryHooter Reservist

    Anyone got an update on how polling is going?

    I imagine it is going very badly for the Conservatives.

    Would love someone to do an update:D
     
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  27. HenryHooter

    HenryHooter Reservist

    The unconvincing use of the words “poll suggests”, coming from Channel 4 are as hilarious as they are informative about the confidence placed in this poll.

    Indeed, I would go as far as to say that their use suggest this article is comical.
     
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  29. sydney_horn

    sydney_horn Squad Player

    Interesting poll from Opinium that gives Labour a slight lead on "Running the economy":

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    What ever the causes of the cost of living crisis, I think that this could be an early indication that a significant % the general public will blame the government.
     
  30. sydney_horn

    sydney_horn Squad Player

    Interesting split in this poll. Don't forget Macron is a right of centre former banker....the ground the Conservative party normally aspire to occupy....

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  31. sydney_horn

    sydney_horn Squad Player

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  32. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    As Javid warns the Tories face ‘electoral oblivion’ (presumably if they don’t pick him), a poll.

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  33. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Meister Manor predicted Labour gain from Conservative. Incumbent Mr. B. Johnson.
     
  34. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

  35. V Crabro

    V Crabro Reservist

    The first post in this thread was only 10 months ago. Since then we have had Owen Patterson, Partygate, Tractorgate, Pincher and the Tory leadership election. I wonder how much more damage the Tories can do to themselves before the GE?
     

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