Labour In Denial?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-30022581
I know there's plenty of time but can anyone see a labour majority in May now? According to the article,- "The poll also suggested that the percentage of people who agreed with the statement that Ed Miliband is ready to be prime minister was down from 22% in June to 13%." - Ed is now a Liability that probably cannot now be jettisoned. Looks like 2020 at the earliest chaps, back to the drawing board!

[mikey4444]

jno...so why, despite this constant bombardment from the press, are the Tories consistently behind Labour in the Polls ?

I agree that there hasn't been a incident where a sitting party have been booted out after one term, but we live in different times now, startlingly different. We didn't have UKIP in the past and who would have thought that the SNP may end up as king makers ?

For that matter, who would have forecasted the situation in 2010, where we ended up with a coalition, unknown in modern times.

Maybe ludwig has a point. We managed very well during WW2 with a real coalition government. Perhaps Betty will call in all three leaders to Buck House next May and told them to get together and sort out our problems between them, in a real coalition !

[Hopkirk]

Oh dear Mikey!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/11225761/New-poll-puts-Tories-three-points-ahead-of-Labour.html

[weecalf]

More to the point and more importance to labour ,tory and other voters who cuts Ed Balls hair I want one like that ....

[BlackadderV]

//I agree that there hasn't been a incident where a sitting party have been booted out after one term//

You must be too young to remember Ted Heath.

[mikey4444]

Oh dear Hopkirk !

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/11/13/labour-lead-3/

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/uk-polling-report-average-2

http://electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html

[Hopkirk]

It's more exciting than the Premiership race this season

[mikey4444]

Alas Blackadder...I wish I was too young to remember Ted Heath !

You are right of course but that is 40 years ago now. They were very interesting times though. The October '74 election was the first that was able to vote in, although I first became interested in politics in the mid 60's, as young teenage boy.

Those were the days !

[ToraToraTora]

"So my oft-asked question still remains...if Ed is supposed to be so unpopular, why can't dave get ahead in the Polls and stay ahead ?" - because Dave is also pretty unpopular. Since he got the Lib dums on board and cobbled to together a governement, they have basically been infighting and firefighting. Throughout most of that our Labour supporting friends have been predicting one sort of Labour victory or another. It now seems much less likely. I think its another Hung parliament, even EC are going with a NOC: http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html. I've said it before but look out for a Tory/SNP coalition.

[mikey4444]

I will agree with you there TTT. It is beginning to look like a coalition of some kind. But the SNP would make strange bedfellows with the Tories !