Tories Surge In The Polls Following Brexit Deal........

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1379532/brexit-news-boris-johnson-eu-trade-deal-general-election-poll-labour-party-keir-starmer
looks like Labour will have to wait another half century. What with all the *** flying Labour still can't get ahead in the polls! Will SKS even survive till the next GE?

[jno]

it's in other papers too, Bobbi

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-lose-seat-poll-majority-election-b1781587.html

[Sunk]

Bobbiesox

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9107967/Alarm-bells-Boris-huge-poll-finds-Labour-reclaim-Red-Wall-election.html

If I’d posted the poll with a Guardian or Mirror link you would have dismissed that. So I deliberately posted to a Conservative supporting newspaper. But here it is in the Daily Mail, just for you.

[bhg481]

Whyt a wonderful thread this is:

Daily Express has an article showing a Tory surge which means the Tories will be in power for ever.
Ah but there's another poll showing they are in danger of losing their majority at the next election.
That doesn't matter because the next election is 3 1/2 years away, so polls don't mean anything. In any case, that poll is in the Sun, so it's bound to be wrong.

[emmie]

whatever the tories still have 3 and a half years to run, anything can change but not in that time, the party could get rid of their leader i suppose, they could call a vote of no confidence, and vote him out i believe -

[Bobbisox1]

I've got to be honest , I don't really care, I certainly wouldn't like the PMs job right now ....of ever

[emmie]

no one would Bobbi,

[Ken4155]

Wrong, Emmie. Boris would.

[Jackdaw33]

The only PM to lose his seat in the past 120 years was Ramsay MacDonald in 1935, and that because at the time he had been expelled from the Labour Party for forming a National Government.

[emmie]

perhaps he has made a lot of mistakes, and yes perhaps someone else would have been better in the job, but it up to the party to sort that out. Not up to the country until next election -

[emmie]

Ken, not necesarily, had he known what was coming, even Boris might have baulked at the leadership.

[MallyJ]

Of course cocking up how people are told to behave during this pandemic may well set them back somewhat..people are fed up with a government who have no idea how to make a sensible decision and stick to it....or enforce it. What was it? Children to school on Monday swiftly followed by children not in school on Tuesday....got to laugh. At least people are realising what a buffoon Boris has turned out to be...not to mention his dithering affecting peoples lives...

[dannyk13]

Whatever the polls are forecasting now is of no consequence,a lot can happen in 3 1/2 years.

[Ken4155]

We are all born with 20/20 hindsight, Emmie.

[emmie]

whats a sensible decision, shutting schools for the forceeable future as someone suggested, and what are working parents supposed to do. they can;t take a year off work just because the government says so.

[emmie]

ken no one couldn't have predicted this virus, and the crap it has caused for everyone.

[ToraToraTora]

mally: "What was it? Children to school on Monday swiftly followed by children not in school on Tuesday....got to laugh. " - so the government should never react to circumstances and stick to their initial decision come what may? Right oh! You'd be having a go either way regardless and you know it.

[emmie]

whatever the state of play, there won;t be an election for a long while, if then the electorate has a change of heart then so be it -

[Sunk]

DeltaPoll survey 28 Sept Voting intention.
Cons 42%
Labour 38%

DeltaPoll survey 28 Dec Voting intention.
Con 43%
Labour 38%

The Express (and TTT) call a 1% difference a ‘surge’.

[MallyJ]

No TTT ... the government should watch what is happening and listen to advice from experts and move on from there...the Tuesday closing of schools was a late knee jerk reaction to advice that had been given for a week or two by then but Boris and crew didn't bother to listen to or react to until they were made to see the damage they were doing. It was the same attitude that they showed when this started...I seem to remember they thought herd immunity was the way forward despite evidence from other countries and from medical experts.

[emmie]

ok so its not a surge, but they are still ahead in the polls, but as the saying goes a week is a long time in politics, but if Labour are to make any inroads they better do something spectacular in the next 3 and a half years,