Comment by spacebanana7
2 days ago
He wins or draws on every measure of unpopularity, other than YouGov net satisfaction where Liz Truss still beats him.
2 days ago
He wins or draws on every measure of unpopularity, other than YouGov net satisfaction where Liz Truss still beats him.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/28/keir-s... https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/30/uk/keir-starmer-labour-pa...
I've come across various sources that lean center-left, note, CENTER-left, saying this. I think there might be something to it.
It's a problem with pretty much anyone. Things are bad from a fundamental structural failings for decades, elect new person, don't see immediate turn-around, they're massively unpopular.
The only way out of this is if you successfully blame $marginalised_group for the peoples problems. Or spend decades undoing the damage, but nobody ever gets decades in power.
It's because he was elected with a historically low % of the vote. Few wanted him at the election, few want him now.
Most don't want any of the options presented to them. Almost all the parties don't really serve the electorate, so a large number of people are abstaining.
I appreciate this in an anecdotal but I've spoken to quite a few people I know in my family, that saw it as their civil duty to vote and they told all told me some variation of "there is nobody worth voting for", "I don't think it matters who I vote for".
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Some of it is deliberately attempting to appeal to Reform voters, in ways which have infuriated Labour supporters while not winning any Reform support.