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Tories hit rock bottom with support hitting record low of 20 per cent, new poll shows (www.standard.co.uk)

submitted 8 months ago by Emperor to c/uk_politics

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The Tories hit rock bottom today with support for their party across Britain falling to a record low of just 20 per cent, according to a new poll.

The Ipsos survey for The Standard showed backing for the Conservatives nosediving by seven points from 27 per cent in January.

The result is the worst for the Tories since 1978 when this regular poll tracker started and puts them a gaping 27 percentage points behind Labour.

Previous Conservative low points were 22 per cent under John Major in December 1994 and May 1995, 23 per cent in July 1997 when New Labour was settling into office under Tony Blair, and 23 per cent in December 2022 shortly after Rishi Sunak took over from Liz Truss’s brief and economically catastrophic administration.

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[–] Emperor 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It would be tricky to achieve even if all the frothing gammons naffed off to Reform (or whatever the BNP is calling itself these days) and the rest felt Starmer was sufficiently right of Thatcher, there would still be some people who lived up on the moors with no contact with the outside world who didn't get the memo, along with a certain percentage who had lingering concussions and just ham-fisted numpties marking the wrong box.

[–] PhobosAnomaly 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Gammons! I haven't heard that term since the good old bad old Brexit days! I think it needs to make a comeback!

Not that I'd advocate it, but having "milkshake" turned in to the verb "to milkshake" whenever Farage was also somewhat entertaining.

[–] Lifebandit666 1 points 8 months ago

I still use the term Gammon when I'm road raging