New prime ministers often get a polling bounce when they take office. By rights, following the various problems that afflicted the Johnson period and the Truss one, Rishi Sunak should have got some form of polling bounce.
Unfortunately as ‘Woofter Superior’ has noticed, this really has not happened. Just look at the polling numbers below . They are appalling for the Tories. The ‘new leader, new broom’ effect should be being felt now but it is not. I very much doubt that this failure to launch is anything to to with Rishi Sunak’s background and it is much more to do with voters being unhappy with the Tories in general. Mr Sunak has been handed a sows ear of a political situation and doesn’t seem to be managing to make it into a simulacrum of a silk purse.
It’ll surely get worse for the Tories after we find out how much poorer we’ll all be in a few days time.
But the good news is that Reform and the SDP should benefit from the pseudo-conservatives nadir.
Yes, however bad things are now for the Tories they can and probably will get worse. I agree with you that this could be a big boost for Reform / SDP. I hope that they take advantage of the Tories disarray and the public’s disgust at Labour by targeting their energies on seats where they have a chance of unseating or reducing the majorities of the Tory or Labour incumbent.
If he doesn’t stop these illegal channel crossings very soon and doesn’t get the thousands of civil servants back to these desks as well it will be 1997 all over again for the Tories. The fact that there are millions of voters who would elect an even worse Labour government in power tomorrow bodes ill for our society. I predict civic breakdown in the next several years if these issues are not fixed. We need a strong determined government with the backbone and motivation to do what is necessary to turn things around.
I agree that these issues need fixing and that it does look like ’97 repeated. I concur that there might be millions of people who will vote Labour out of desperate frustration with the Tories which will give us something awful which is a Lab govt where the Left and far left are still there beavering away behind the scenes. Starmer has not done what Kinnock did which Smith and Blair continued which was to properly sideline the Communist infiltrators which means that if Lab are elected then these commies will crawl out of the woodwork and into power. My concern is that if reasonable people don’t get elected to deal with this problem then people might start turning to unreasonable ones to do the job.
Sunak was too weak as Chancellor to insist that Boris found a cheaper way to tackle COVID instead of swallowing all the Sage lunacy. Now he’s blaming the problems that he was too weak to prevent on Liz Truss who wasn’t in office long enough to implement anything.
Agree there, Sunak was one of the worst offenders with regards waste during the pandemic. His record should have precluded him from the leadership job. I certainly concur that he’s blame shifting and swanning around the world stage so tht he can’t face accountability at home.