With approval of the Government’s management of the vaccine rollout standing at 72%, the Tories have extended their lead over Labour up to nine points, according to new polling by Opinium. This is the party’s largest lead since May last year. Approval of the Government’s handling of Covid overall is also net positive for the first time since May (at 44%), and over half of those polled believe that Britain is unlocking at about the right pace.
Conservative Party voters were also shown to be the most supportive of vaccine passports, both for domestic and international use. Here are the key findings.
The Conservatives expand their lead to nine points, their largest lead since May last year, according to Opinium’s latest poll. The Conservatives currently have 45% of the vote (+4 from two weeks ago), while Labour have 36% (-1), Lib Dems have 6% and the Greens 4%. …
Overall approval of the Government’s handling of the pandemic is net positive for the first time since May last year. This rise coincides with the vaccine rollout in February, and 44% now approve of the Tories’ handling and 36% disapprove.
Unsurprisingly, approval for handling of the vaccine rollout remains strong with 72% approving and only 8% disapproving. This is high even among Labour voters (71%) and SNP voters (57%). …
As lockdown measures continue to ease next week, over half (54%) think the roadmap is easing is at about the right pace, up slightly from 47% two weeks ago. Those thinking it was moving “too quickly” has dropped from 31% to 27% and “too slowly” from 12% to 10%.
The public is, on balance, supportive of the idea of vaccine passports, with 57% supporting this for entering busy venues within the UK and over two thirds (68%) for international travel. In both cases, the Conservative voters are the most supportive (70% for domestic and 83% for international) and Labour voters are more mixed (57% for domestic and 69% for international).
Adam Drummond, the Head of Political Polling at Opinium, has pinned the extension of the Conservative’s lead over Labour on the Government’s handling of the vaccine rollout.
The vaccine bounce continues to yield political benefits for the Government with their strongest figures for handling the pandemic since they first became negative last May. In terms of voting intention the figures bounce around due to statistical noise but there is a consistent Conservative lead in the high single digits.
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That’s an impressive amount of stupid. Turkeys voting for Christmas.
Don’t insult turkeys.
People are brainwashed. Here is KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov speaking about the brainwashing tactics of the USSR being transferred to the West. So much of what he uncovered can be seen happening in our society:
‘Ideological subversion is the slow process which the KGB calls “active measures” or psychological warfare. What it basically means is to change the perceptions of reality of every American to such an extent that despite the abundance of information, no-one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community and their country. It’s a great brainwashing process that goes very slow and is divided into four stages…..
Demoralisation – Destabilisation – Crisis – Normalisation‘
“Exposure to true information does not matter any more. A person who is demoralised is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures. He will refuse to believe it until he receives a kick in his fat bottom. When he feels the military boot crashing his balls, then he will understand, but not before then. That is the tragic of the situation of demoralisation.”
KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov’s warning to America (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI
The slave mentality is strong in the UK these days. Economy wrecked, social bonds broken, the populace locked in their own homes and terrified into submission, and still these cretins in charge garner great support? What is wrong with people?
What is wrong with people?
The vaccines, that aren’t vaccines, will solve the problem.
Slow infantilisation of the British people ever since Diana’s death.
It’s not a case of what’s wrong with people? It’s a case of what’s wrong with the opposition, if they can’t even oppose insanity unless it’s to call for even greater levels of insanity?
Sometimes it’s the case of choosing the lesser of 2 evils. As a passionate Unionist living in Scotland I’ll be voting Tory next month, even though it’ll pain me to do so, to try and stop a second independence referendum.
not to mention the disgraceful corruption and those who died because the NHS which this was all supposed to be about saving neglected to treat so many cases of cancer and heart disease.
Not from me. I doubt I will ever vote again.
Don’t vote…The government will get in!
LOL vote and the government will indeed get in. That’s the point isn’t it?
If you do not vote, you are actually ‘voting’ for the Conservatives. Vote for any other party but Conservatives and Labour (failed to oppose the Conservatives lockdown restrictions)
You have to vote against them, Independent or one of the new Parties.
As you will see, many people will tell you you are silly for not voting in this pointless exercise of validating a corrupt opponent-less system. The only time voting is of merit is if you have a good independent candidate. Otherwise voting for Labour or Libs, etc, will get you more of the same regardless of the colour of the party badge.
If I don’t get a choice of an independent, I will be spoiling my paper with a nice message telling them what I think of their criminal system.
The Conservatives won’t care if you spoil your vote. You might feel good for a few seconds but that is it.
If you spoil your vote you actually vote for the Conservatives or Labour (failed to oppose anything)
They extended furlough…
Indeed. So many selfish people – I meet them regularly.
yes, more corruption – they really should have renamed it the national bribery scheme
I smell some Dominion bs…
I can only assume that these ratings were what was left after deducting the 98% who said “none of the above”.
dark times lie ahead…. maybe it is just “that time” in history and it was.meant to be
Yes, I believe that we have lived through the (relatively) golden years of libertarianism and democracy: this was never going to suit the scum at the top. As a result, totalitarianism is coming and will, I suspect, last for a century or more. Orwell saw it coming, but few believed him; he thought it was all over, it is now!
Tories are vile, but Labour is viler.
People are stupid, zombies are beyond stupid.
Polls are rubbish.
End of.
Exactly Annie…. and guess what?
Sir Keir Starmer is a member of the Trilateral commission, the NGO founded by a Rockefeller.
See what he did there?
‘Polls are rubbish’: yes, but so, nowadays, are elections.
Unless we see the exact numbers, where the polling was done, how many declined to comment etc, these things are useless. However johnson and co will drink them up.
You do a psyop on people, they tell you want you want to hear, you do more, rinse repeat.
Spot on; these poll results bear no relation at all to what I hear from my social circles, who are overwhelmingly hostile and come from all sides of political inclination.
Yeah, it’s like the recent polling that a whopping majority want vaccine passports internationally and domestic! Only 2000 where asked!
And, no doubt, the 2000 were carefully chosen!
This is extremely reassuring. Hopefully that’ll mean a clean sweep for another party. These surveys are complete bunkum.
Mind you, it seems to me that so many people are so disturbed by Starmer’s spineless silence that, although they held their nose and voted for Corbyn’s Labour in 2019, they’re either voting Lib Dem or spoiling their ballot.
As I’ve just explained.
it is more stalinist brainwashing “put out a poll which says Conservatives are going to get back in because of the vaccine bounce – that will persuade even more voters to vote for us the “covid winners” and we might even get a few more to have the vaccination into the bargain”
Really, Tories are ahead of Labour? Please, that’s like saying my dog is in front of Labour, it’s not saying a lot is it? Just wait while I stop laughing….
Come the public inquiry, the Government will be forced to resign. Hence all polls until then can be ignored.
Well, I am, of course, sure that those chosen to run any inquiry will be of complete integrity and totally independent from government influence.
Assuming this poll is to be believed – something we’ll have a faid idea of after May 6th elections – then herein lies the problem. The most self-destructive, evil government in modern UK history would get back in tomorrow. On almost any measure they have failed the test of the covid situation, and there are no political consequences for them. Why on earth would they therefore be motivated to do the right thing?
I think a lot of people now realise lockdowns were not much use, but I think they still see them as having been inevitable and are happy to move forward, supporting the parties they have always supported. I think very few people think there was a real choice in March 2020 and at various points since then.
CONservatives and Labour voters would vote for a monkey if it sported the correct colour rosette
I held my nose and voted Conservative at the last GE as Bozo promised to Get Brexit Done –
His government have made a pigs ear of that as well
Never ever vote for them again
A poll – Methodology is all in marketing
Join the panel here
https://www.opinium.com/panellist-portal
“I held my nose and voted Conservative at the last GE”
You realize you’ve just defined yourself as a monkey?
People who think that this is ‘just the polls’ are living in La La Land.
This is a true representation of a population dim enough to form a majority for Johnson in the first place. They were told to do so. And did so – just like they don a mask.
They wanted Brexit, and predictably got a load of shit – from a big, narcissistic, lying shit.
It wasn’t difficult to work out: Vote shit. Get shit. Eat more shit. Ask for seconds.
Mummy needs to wash your mouth out with a bar of Fairy
Doh! Did you by any chance vote for Johnson? Your Miss Whiplash fantasies suggest it’s a real possibility.
By your reasoning, if we vote for freedom, expect shit. That’s what Brexit was supposed to be: political freedom from the EU. So if we vote to end lockdown, expect shit, so don’t do it – according to Rick of course.
Vote for Brexit, get shit on by the political class, vote for the only person that offers to deliver on what was promised – seems more accurate.
So what just wait until all the support programs finish and the true state of the economy is revealed. I can easily see a Labour victory at the next election. Just like in early 90s Central Europe, if enough people are suffering, a truly traitorous, corrupt and inept reformed Communist party can easily find itself back in power again. Just ask Lech Wałęs,
Communist Party? What’s the weather like out there on Planet Zog? It seems we have major problems from parties of the neoliberal right at the moment!
You get extremely tetchy at anyone warning of communism, don’t you? I find it baffling that you describe the so-called ‘conservatives’ right-wing while they ruin businesses, increase the state to monstrous proportions while flinging imaginary money around and all in a very socialist manner. They’re surely the most socialist government this country has ever had! Starmer is so impressed that he doesn’t even need to intervene!
If that is the case then the support programmes won’t finish. After all there is no need. By definition furlough pay finishes itself when the last person on furlough gets a new job.
Vote Tories: get extreme socialism. Vote Labour: get extreme socialism.
Polls are always so accurate. Why is this even on this site?
Why wouldn’t the government be leading in polls? There has been no opposition pointing out real alternatives.
Sheep will run away from friendly passers-by yet follow the shepherd that leads them to slaughter.
Doesn’t Bill Gates own the polls?
Only the Jabbed Get Rescued
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBojxhxC3Aw
Carl Vernon
Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell every Sunday 10am meet fellow lockdown sceptics
I think I’m going to be sick
I feel like that every morning when I realise that there’s another day to get through without anything changing however hard I try to get the message across.
Keep trying, I’m determined to change 1 person’s mind, and they one person and they… It counts!
It would appear the British people are still fast asleep, walking zombie like into the apocalypse. WAKE UP!!!! But no, looks like they’ve also had sealing wax poured into their ears.
I really think this is more propaganda. The only people interested in vaccine passports are those it benefits. ie the public sector and the middle classes. How do they think the rest of us will find the money to go in holiday or pay tickets for concerts etc.
it seems to me that we have an ill educated swathe of the country. Indoctrinated into hating their country and its citizens. What happens to the middle classes when their money runs out…….
Bollocks
Not according to this lady
The Churchill Project (@WinstonCProject) Tweeted: “Don’t you ever mention that name in front of me. That filthy piece of toerag.”
Who agrees with this lady?
https://t.co/22DpybtE5g https://twitter.com/WinstonCProject/status/1380840762640904193?s=20
Total bollocks. The polls lie. All ‘official’ polls have sponsors who have paid for them. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Opinion polls are published to influence voting intentions, not to reflect them.
Yep, the elites very well understand group think and psychology!
They know many people will want to vote or follow who is supposedly popular or ‘winning’ to fit in.
Using the same tried and tested methods of persuasion they used for the vaccines, on the sheep, who follow the crowd.
It is up to us to vote for other parties, even if you do not agree fully with their constitution. This will ensure opposition to the Conservatives!
Start by voting in the local elections for independent or The Democratic Network candidates if any in your area
If you do not vote or spoil your ballot you are indirectly voting for the Conservatives
That rather depends on what alternatives are on offer in your region. Normally it is just LibLabCon – though maybe some of us will have real alternatives available.
iane is right when he says ‘it depends’, where I live I will have a choice of 3 candidates:
Police Commissioner 1 – I believe in using truncheons to silence free speech protestors.
Police Commissioner 2 – I believe in using Jack Boots to silence free speech protestors.
Police Commissioner 3 – I believe in using water cannon to silence free speech protestors. (He’s the liberal).
So spoiling that ballot isn’t going to give the Tories victory there is it.
Moreover, even if it was a general election the seat is so Tory safe that spoiling a ballot would make no more difference than voting for Starmer (spit).
Personally, I have no trust in polls.
What utterly depressing statistics.
As a nation we are obviously doomed to be led by the nose to do whatever a handful of cranks demand of us.
We know from the reaction to Mr Gove in the DT what is really going on.
This is confirmed by a long term straw poll:
‘Opinions on Government responses to Covid-19 are highly critical – there may be some softening of this but it is accompanied by a slight increase of those who think the government is corrupt.’
https://inproportion2.talkigy.com/straw_poll_2021-03-09.html
There is, no doubt, support for the government, but not much from those who might, in the past, have been expected to vote for a Conservative Government.
Every political catastrophe……WW2, Suez, IMF interview without coffee, ERM bath singing, procyclical public spending before the 2008 financial crash, all have resulted in the ejection of the government…….
So where do the Conservatives actually think they are going to get their votes from?
Tumbleweed…………
Whatever people think of Farage, what happened in South Thanet when he was trying to get elected shows how the powers that be will not give up said-power to the electorate. They broke every rule in the book to make sure he didn’t get a seat in their corrupt chambers, and yet the result of their actions stood even after it was universally recognised they cheated.
I sometimes post on Conservative Home and point out that the single reason for the polls is the successful vaccine rollout and that a tsunami of wrecked jobs and lives must inevitably come to light I get accused of ‘Johnson Derangement Syndrome.’ But of course I’m right (it’s rather obvious) and the optimists are deluded. I also point out the irony of Conservative ministers obediently destroying values of thrift and individual responsibility on the advice of Communist academics and scientists. THat hasn’t got throug yet either.
I suspect the support comes from I’m on furlough, public sector I’m having a good time, looking forward to the extended summer hols lot. I wonder if their great grand children will thank them when they are still paying the bill for all this tosh.
I have a theory about the polls – go with me on this!
When Labour was the establishment’s best friend, the polls were always weighted to a Labour win, but the surprise was to them that the polls lied & the Conservatives did much better.
Now the Conservatives are essentially New Labour & are the establishment’s new best friend, so the polls are weighted to them.
However, we know from comments on here, the Spectator, the Telegraph and the Daily Mail that many Conservative supporters are completely disgusted by their party & currently will not vote for them.
I suspect this group, including me, are what are known as the shy voters that don’t show up in the polls. I’ve no idea how big a group we are, but the Conservatives are not used to having their voters turn against them & it will make a dent.
The downside is that unfortunately, it may not be as big as dent as we think. We will see.
With more and more reports of vaccine “breakthrough” i.e., people getting COVID despite haveing two jabs. There are Increasing numbers of serious, less serious and deadly adverse events (read CDC VAERS). I fail to understand the exuberance related to the roll out of something with no long term safety or efficacy data.
If anything over the last few elections polls have shown us that they cannot be trusted. They are simply there to influence rather than reflect voting.
That is also the only conclusion that can be drawn from the fact of its posting on this site.
No one in their right mind would vote for any of the major parties again after the last 13 months.
Interesting that 45% of the electorate support totalitarianism!
Dunno where they’re finding these Conservative voters. They certainly didn’t ask me. I wouldn’t vote for Johnson if he begged me on his knees. I might vote for the young Conservative candidate in the District Council election as she seemed amenable to reason when she knocked on the door. But higher up the levels of government the lying careerists can forget it.