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Political favourability ratings, May 2025: Keir Starmer falls to lowest net favourability rating on record, while positivity towards Nigel Farage and Reform UK rises (yougov.co.uk)

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Astonishingly awful polling for Starmer, who has destroyed his favourability among everyone especially his own voters, while somehow making Farage more popular. If I was Morgan McSweeney, I would quit my job.

Some other 'highlights':

'This is the first time Keir Starmer has recorded a net negative approval rating among Labour voters.'

Labour is now even more unpopular than the lowest point of Corbyn's leadership.

EDIT:

Just so I can say 'I told you so', if:

There isn't an all-out war in Europe, and,
Starmer's still PM at the next GE

Then he will lose his own seat.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It's pretty easy to keep the centrists and left wingers happy—don't make policy decisions that align with Reform.

This plan of trying to out-Farage Farage is ridiculous and only benefits Reform as it allows less informed voters to draw similarities between the parties. All this is doing is legitimising their absurd positions.

Let the Tories fight for those right wing scraps and occupy the huge swaths of rational political positions left currently empty

[–] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You are absolutely right. There's empirical evidence that these kinds of 'accommodationist' policies only increase support for the far right. These polls are further evidence that the Starmer strategy is counter-productive.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Starmers policies are to please his donors not his voters.

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 6 points 1 week ago

I predict Farage will strategically outflank Starmer on his left on strategic issues, but Starmer knows this. The animating principle of anglosphere neoliberal center right parties like Labour, the Canadian Liberals, and the DNC is to deprive the left of their most viable party, not to actually win. They are throwing themselves on a grenade to open space for their brethren center right parties like Reform or the Tories to rule.

[–] AlbertSpangler 1 points 1 week ago

"They're right about everything, and you shouldn't vote for them" is the message he's giving