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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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[–] Aksamit@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Our former human rights lawyer of a PM has been fucking over those in need of human rights at breakneck speed in the last ten months, he's well out paced the nearly 15 previous years of tory bullshit in this regard. Have you not been paying attention, or do you just not consider the people he's hurting to be worthy of human rights?

The only 'Labour' things about Starmer are the party he took over and the fact he's as much a war criminal as Blair.

[–] Twig@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perhaps you've ignored what's actually happened over those 15 years.

[–] Aksamit@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Can you point to a single year of that last 15 under the Tory's, where they achieved as much lasting harm to as many different groups of people, as Starmer has managed to in the last 10 months?

At least the torys were incompetent bigots. This prick we now have is a fucking wrecking ball.