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Yesterday , 06:16 PM
starmers 'changed' labour wasn't at all popular at the election. Even many of those who voted for them really didn't want to so not that surprising that their support was so soft.
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Yesterday , 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by chezlaw
starmers 'changed' labour wasn't at all popular at the election. Even many of those who voted for them really didn't want to so not that surprising that their support was so soft.
ok but being dialiked as much as sunak even before you basically pass any relevant piece of legislation is some kind of record, and losing 45 points of net approval in less than 3 months from the election is a lot more than what ever happened by a large margin in British history.

like no one ever came close to this dramatic shift in public opinion against him in centuries
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Today , 01:28 AM
It's a large shift in outcome of asking a binary question to many but quite possibly required a small shift in the underlying public opinion because the support of even the supporters was so weak.

Another reason could be that manys who favoured starmer had never really thought about him except as 'got to get the tories out'. That' going to be a lot more fragile than if the voters had liked something about him.
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Today , 04:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
ok but being dialiked as much as sunak even before you basically pass any relevant piece of legislation is some kind of record, and losing 45 points of net approval in less than 3 months from the election is a lot more than what ever happened by a large margin in British history.

like no one ever came close to this dramatic shift in public opinion against him in centuries
His approval rating was strongly negative all the way up to shortly before thr election iirc, thought not as negative as Sunaks, so it’s hardly a huge correction.

If you elect a new government purely because youre sick of the previous government only to find that theyre almost identical, why wouldnt you expect to see their popularity shrivel in line with the old government?
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