Keir Starmer has suffered the biggest fall in approval rating after winning an election of any Prime Minister in the modern era – plummeting 49 points from plus-11 to minus-38 – a poll has shown. The Telegraph has the story.
Sir Keir’s approval rating was at a high of plus-11 in July after Labour won the election with a landslide 174-seat majority – the biggest in 25 years – according to the poll, by More in Common.
But by this month, ahead of Rachel Reeves’ Budget on Wednesday, his personal rating had fallen to –38 – a net drop of 49.
It takes him below Rishi Sunak’s rating, which this month has improved from –37 when he lost the election to –31, according to the poll of 1,012 adults.
In comparison, Sir Tony Blair’s approval was still at plus-46 in August 1997, three months after his landslide victory, when the figure stood at plus-60. It took until summer 2000 before his rating turned negative.
David Cameron’s approval rating did not turn negative until the start of 2011, after he had defeated Labour and formed a coalition Government with the Liberal Democrats in 2010.
It was not until the “omnishambles” Budget of April 2012 that his rating dropped to just above –30.
Boris Johnson, who started off at –20 despite winning the 2019 election, had turned his rating around to plus three by January and then plus-14 by the following March.
Luke Tryl, the Executive Director of More in Common, said the collapse in Sir Keir’s approval rating was “unprecedented” compared with other Prime Ministers in the modern era.
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did he ever suffer from popularity – the country just got sick of liars – and ended up with different liars by default…
Just can’t get good help these days.
What do people think of UKIP and this guy Nick Tenconi? Here he is being interviewed by Don Keith outside the courthouse for Tommy’s sentencing today. Hes also giving his views on the whole Farage/Tice/Robinson saga.
He certainly makes all the right noises about all the problems the UK is experiencing. Interesting that he’s an outspoken Christian and I don’t recall any other party leaders giving much importance to Christianity, so this is refreshing. I like how he deals with this random ignorant guy who interrupts him, I also like him a million times more than Starmer already;
https://x.com/RealDonKeith/status/1850946868743643619
I take the view that religion is a private thing, I don’t like to see it waved in my face by anyone. What his other policies are, well they would struggle to be as bad as the uniparty has been doing for the last 34 years.
Oh, that baffled, strained, rigid face, that humorless, robotic, stiff demeanor! That total lack of personality, that committee-meeting-boredom, that charmless, stern, constipated expression! The endless repetition of meaningless, hackneyed slogans, the party-commissar’s repertoire, the toolmaker’s tool.
Britain, how did we end up with this nonentity?
An excellent description.
I wish I could write like this!
Maybe he’s a Musk Android on a test run
Because the Globalists wanted him.
Spot on, and don’t forget shallow and empty!
In the picture it looks like someone has touched the button behind his ear and switched him off!
I logged in just to give your descriptive writing an uptick!
He is getting Gold Stars back at Davos / Tri Lateral / WEF / UN / WHO Head Office’s, he’s playing a blinder , maybe he could be the perfect fit to eventually fill uncle Klaus,s shoes now he’s retired . Just got to finish the UK off first & he’s in !
I’d guess that’s more likely to be his Tonyness… Bliar
So he is now about as popular as a fart in a Space Suit. —–But to most on this site his popularity hasn’t dropped at all. We all knew what was coming.
He was never popular. The “landslide” general election was a consequence of Conservative/conservative voters refusing to vote for the Treacherous Tories.
When the electorate looked at the Labour alternative, 80% either said “no thanks” or didn’t bother to vote since the official alternative (the Not-a-Conservative-Party) needed a massive boot up the jacksy.
He’s just gone from unpopular to despised. There’s no way back for him.
David Starkey, in his latest video hinted that Keir-Ching! is on the spectrum …. which is the conclusion I reached a few months ago.
I noticed something wrong with Starmfurhrer along those lines but he is a long way from the worst cases which make up 60% of autistic children – non-verbal and need specialist residential schools.
Starmfurhrer appears unable to relate to events as the unfold around him. He seems oblivious to the implications and consequences of events.
The first thing that was odd is how he looks like he has not had a bad night’s sleep since becoming PM. All other PMs I have noticed start to look weather-worn very soon after taking on the burdens of the office of PM.
It is as if nothing bothers him because he just cannot relate to it.
No empathy.
And when he is faced with questions he is unprepared for he is like a rabbit in the headlights. A good example is when Rishi Sunak trashed him repeatedly in debate and he was unable to produce a response.
Definitely a sandwich short of a pick-nick IMHO.
Your description fits a psychopath.
Perhaps the description fits a psychopath but I am no psychiatrist.
Here is the problem – did Starmfuhrer not realise the problem he has just created with Lammy over Diego Garcia?
First there is the strategic interest.
Second the islands were never in history Mauritian territory.
Third – and worst of all from a Far Left perspective – he and Lammy have just behaved like typical colonialist imperialists towards the Chagocians who are the rightful owners and heirs to the land.
Lammy with all his huffing and puffing has just been an outright colonialist imperialist racist of the worst kind to the Chagocians.
Will international law and legal action by the Chagocians force Mauritius to hand over the islands just as the Biden feared might happen without having a deal over the US airbase.
And of course add to this the bigger problem for Starmfuhrer – the Chagocians were the UK’ and US’ get out of jail free card.
All the UK had to do was hand back the islands to the Chagocians who own them and the Chagocians want to remain British in any event.
No worries about the Chinese and no worries about Diego Garcia.
Simple as hell.
So this is how Stupid Starmer [‘SS’] is.
Another side to 2TKeir
Unearthed Marxist magazine reveals ‘middle of the road’ Starmer is NOT all he seems…
“A magazine has been unearthed that shows Sir Keir Starmer’s hardcore left-wing political beliefs, a stark difference from the sensible centre left politician he presents today.
The Socialist Alternatives magazine- the British section of the International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency (IRMT)- was established by Sir Keir in the mid 1980’s and carried at least seven articles in his name.
In one article, the now Prime Minister argued for “broadening trade unions horizontally both within the immediate working enterprise and beyond” to “facilitate the fullest internal democracy to avoid vertical hierarchies dominating the unions.”
In the Marxist publication- described as “the human face of the hard left” by another left-wing magazine Chartist – Starmer called for “a new industrial pluralism that encompasses negotiating and counterposing the interests of the producers with the interests of the consumers/users, the community, women, the unemployed, the environment and ethnic minorities, etc.
“This, of course, is fundamentally anti-capitalist pluralism.”
Keir Starmer has come along way from his Trotskyist beginnings
Starmer wrote other articles for the publication that were sharply critical of Neil Kinnock’s leadership and called for a ‘radical alternative’ to “Labour right’s hopeless neo-Keynesian economic programme.”
In another he backed the campaign to reduce the working week to 35 hours, calling for a “campaign of struggles”.
On a dispute between print workers and Rupert Murdoch’s News International at Wapping, Starmer condemned the use of “‘paramilitary’ policing tactics”.
He wrote: “Whilst, of course, police violence and provocation should be condemned at every opportunity, it is necessary to go further and recognise that policing of any sort that is unaccountable stands directly in the path of any progress towards social emancipation, whether it be of workers made redundant in the pursuit of yet further profit or whether it be of ethnic groups coming to terms with racist oppression.
“This leads to the question of the role the police should play, if any, in civil society. Who are they protecting and from what? Who controls them and for whose benefit?”
Sir Keir’s journey to Labour leader was often bemoaned by left win commentators as a return to the centre for the party.
The Surrey-born, Oxford-educated barrister with a knighthood was at odds with their idea of a Labour leader, particularly after Jeremy Corbyn’s time in charge.
The unearthing of Socialist Alternatives magazine shows Starmer’s roots to be found in the hard left, Trotskyist movement, however, demonstrating how much he has evolved his political image.”
To be fair although I’m not sure why we should be, we all have skeletons in our plitical closets – I used to be a member of the young conservatives at uni, ssh don’t mention it .
But yes we really is a charmless, joyless, and infinitely boring figure, and astonishingly incompetent with it.
Peter Hitchens pointed this out in the same way he pointed out that so called middle of the road Tony was also a rabid leftie. They hide their true beliefs to get elected – or you could say they lie. At least with Corbyn you were left in no doubt he was a terrorist loving Marxist.
Loving a moron was never popular. Looking at the graph 2TK was never what you’d call popular
Moron?
“IQ of 0 to 25 (an IQ of 100 is average) are called idiots, 26 to 50 are called imbeciles and 51 to 70 are called morons.
Morons could communicate and learn common tasks; imbeciles stalled mentally at about six years old; and idiots couldn’t respond to stimulus or communicate with any level of competency.”
Might you be over-estimating him?
I’m pretty sure he’s never been popular in his life. Friendless at school. Picked on by everyone. Kicked out of pubs (rightly, oh how I laughed!) for being a spineless lackey. This is his revenge.
Two tier, free gear, oh-dear kier.
oh-dear kier – love that!
The puzzle is those who think he is doing a “very good” or “somewhat good” job, or who imagined he ever could.
Someone who only undoes the top button of his shirt? A trivial thing but telling.
Telling of what?
In his twaddle of a speech yesterday he added not being able to say what a working person is to his inability to describe a woman.
Interesting today to listen to the chancellor presenting her budget – whether you like her, the content or her beliefs or not, she *sounded* competent to me and on top of her brief… dare I say it, it was quite prime ministerial sounding?
She even responded to the odd quip etc in the moment, not something I can see coming easily to 2TK… every leader wants a competent team, but does 2TK want someone this competent after his job?