[mattomac]

That is an interesting poll to be honest especially considering the time frame is directly in line with the period.

[mattomac]

Starmer pipebombed Austerity at Davey... his face was a picture

[Tubby Isaacs]

Well done indeed. Davey is a true believer in it. Not just (for which you could make some case) taking fairly strong action on the current deficit, but scrapping all that investment when borrowing was very cheap. Jo Swinson came up with a decent manifesto in 2019, but ran into trouble when asked about austerity (which was by then unpopular). Davey's learnt nothing from that.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Just an anecdote, a Labour councillor attended an allotment association meeting last night which she was dreading as they weren't known Labour voters. She found herself getting a cheer when she said Keir should stick out the bollocks media noise and get on with the job.
Kinda felt like that about Sunak, at least he wasn't embarrassing the country and if he brings more stability that would be no bad thing.

The Green score looks too low there, but the Lib Dem score isn't very good with anybody, so that's very plausible. I keep hearing how Labour are losing voters to the Lib Dems, but are they really losing any where it matters? Perhaps they have and the Lib Dems have lost those to the Greens and even Reform (having got a lot of Kipper votes in 2024 to get rid of Sunak).

[Youngian]

The Green score looks too low there

That would be the social media narrative among noisy people who told you everyone loves Corbyn when he was leader. But is it really too low?

[Tubby Isaacs]

It's higher with every other pollster, including yougov who have them close to Labour but behind. They got 6.39% in the General Election. I think it's very unlikely they've added only 4 points.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Advice for Sir Keir here from John McTernan. It includes "rejoin the Single Market" and "reindustrialize the country", like these are trifles that the PM can just magic up. And just renationalize Thames Water, even though that would likely come with nationalizing the debts (which is what they want the company to negotiate away). And put the Competition and Markets Authority to work not on the big issues they're looking at anyway but on what sounds like stuff people write to local papers moaning about. The analogy given is Lina Khan reducing the cost of beer in New York sports stadiums (reckon they won't get the money back some other way?)

Surprised he didn't call for everybody in the country to get a pay rise and a tax cut.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... point-plan