UK: Support for Labour falls to 19-year low

[muriel_volestrangler]

Labour support has dropped to the lowest point since the party's heavy defeat in the 1987 general election, according to an ICM opinion poll for the Guardian. Its share of the vote has dropped by five points since March, putting it on 32%, two points behind the Conservatives.

The poll is bound to alarm Downing Street as it battles to prevent a drubbing for Tony Blair across England in the May 4 local elections, especially in the capital. It was conducted after weeks of damaging publicity for the government on issues such as "loans for peerages" and criticism about rising deficits in the health service.

The findings may also disturb David Cameron because they show Labour support is haemorrhaging to the Liberal Democrats, not the new-look Conservatives.

The Lib Dems have risen by three points to 24%, a remarkable improvement for a party mired in scandal at the start of its own leadership election two months ago. But Labour will be anxious that the slide comes as the government is being battered on the NHS. Mr Blair was forced to use his monthly Downing Street press conference yesterday to appeal for greater balance in reporting, as well to defend the health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, who was given a hostile reception while addressing delegates from the main public sector union, Unison.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1760808,00.html

Nice going, Tony. Quit now - we all hate you.

[AX10]

1. Blair better step down now.

Labour is not the problem. Tony Blair is the problem.

[Inland]

2. 32% is the the number du jour.

Bush also at 32% approval in CNN poll released today.

[rpannier]

3. But the good news is

It's bottomed out. It can't go any lower.

Do I have my Ken "smellman" talking point down correctly?

[IndianaGreen]

4. "Nice going, Tony. Quit now - we all hate you."

I endorse your feelings on Bush's poodle! Blair is bringing the entire ship down with him. At least his wife won't have to spend £275 a day on her hair.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2239682

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Hah - the follow up to that - all the other expenses

£3,600 for Michael Howard's makeup
£2,000 for Charles Kennedy's makeup
£300 for Star Trek outfits, bought by Labour to take the piss out of Tory John Redwood (known as "The Vulcan)
£3,000 for groundhog outfits bought by the Tories

plus huge amounts for 'election gurus'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4940182.stm

[TankLV]

6. Great, just fucking great - the bush ass kisser is bringing down the whole

party!

Kick his sorry bush ass wipe arse out YESTERDAY!

The #2 WAR Criminal needs to be IMPRISONED!

If Labour can't/won't KICK him out, instead of waiting around for HIM to "decide", they deserve everything that's coming down to them.

But then again, I feel the same way about our less than principled Democratic Leaders, too.

What are they all waiting for, for poll numbers to drop to NEGATIVE digits?!

[sweetheart]

7. uuhhh beavis.... that wuz cuul

I'll wager blair's at home right now, stoned on a big fat one,
laughing at the decline...

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha... i'm retiring with all my
Tory chums in corporate luxury.. eff off."
- TB ;-)

[tabasco]

8. Blair is pulling Labour down the toilet.

Bush is pulling the republicans down the toilet.

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