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Labour 12 Point Lead, Ukip At Its Most Popular Ever...
... Is now the time for the Conservatives to ditch Cameron?
// Labour has forged a 12-point lead over the Conservatives for the first time in almost a decade, according to a Guardian/ICM poll.
Ed Miliband's party now stands at 41% of the vote, up three points on ICM's January figure, and the Tories are on just 29%, having slipped back four from 33% last month. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats have sunk two points, to 13%, whereas Ukip has inched up three to 9% – setting a new record for Nigel Farage's anti-European outfit in the Guardian/ICM series.
The Labour lead is the biggest – and the Conservative vote-share the smallest – in the polling series since May 2003, during the brief political bounce for Tony Blair which came between the felling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad and first stirrings of civil war in Iraq and arguments about dodgy dossiers.
With his party plumbing the sort of depths associated with the second half of the John Major era, David Cameron will be particularly dismayed about the continuing surge in Ukip support. //
// Labour has forged a 12-point lead over the Conservatives for the first time in almost a decade, according to a Guardian/ICM poll.
Ed Miliband's party now stands at 41% of the vote, up three points on ICM's January figure, and the Tories are on just 29%, having slipped back four from 33% last month. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats have sunk two points, to 13%, whereas Ukip has inched up three to 9% – setting a new record for Nigel Farage's anti-European outfit in the Guardian/ICM series.
The Labour lead is the biggest – and the Conservative vote-share the smallest – in the polling series since May 2003, during the brief political bounce for Tony Blair which came between the felling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad and first stirrings of civil war in Iraq and arguments about dodgy dossiers.
With his party plumbing the sort of depths associated with the second half of the John Major era, David Cameron will be particularly dismayed about the continuing surge in Ukip support. //
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The fact that Conservatives (if this thread is anything to go by) prefer David to Ed, probably means Ed is the right choice to take the Labour Party away from the discreditted 'New Labour' position. The Labour lost the last election so the party had to change. David was tainted by being one of the leading Brown/Blairites, so he wasn't going to distance himself from it like Ed needs to.
Looking forward to Eastleigh. Do you think that Cameron and UKiP already have a secret pact? Why else would Fararge wimp out of standing? A high profile, well known candidate like him could have got them their best election result, so why did he not stand?
Looking forward to Eastleigh. Do you think that Cameron and UKiP already have a secret pact? Why else would Fararge wimp out of standing? A high profile, well known candidate like him could have got them their best election result, so why did he not stand?
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