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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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.
Interesting that 45% of the electorate support totalitarianism!
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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…………
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.
Personally, I have no trust in polls.
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).
Using the same tried and tested methods of persuasion they used for the vaccines, on the sheep, who follow the crowd.
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.
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
Bollocks
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…….
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 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!
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
Doesn’t Bill Gates own the polls?
Sheep will run away from friendly passers-by yet follow the shepherd that leads them to slaughter.
Why wouldn’t the government be leading in polls? There has been no opposition pointing out real alternatives.
Polls are always so accurate. Why is this even on this site?
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.
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.
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
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“I held my nose and voted Conservative at the last GE”
You realize you’ve just defined yourself as a monkey? 🙂
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.
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.
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….