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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Good but I feel it can go a bit lower if the Tories really put their backs into it.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

The bottom is zero and they're still not there somehow.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

20% is still stupidly high.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

1 in 5 people have seen the shit and corruption of the last 14 year. Then decided. Yep more of that please.

Now we know why promises of mental health spending never happen.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's also objectively not rock bottom.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It is a bit depressing.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

... The worst poll of their lives so far.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Anyone remember when Gordon Brown took over as Prime Minister and the press made him call a general election after six months because he didn’t have a mandate?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I saw that one of the polls predicted the tories would be left with only 25 seats.

That’s 25 seats too many!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I believe they can reach the presitigious 0%.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

they'll come surging back for another 16 years after the red tories have a 4 year turn in which they fail to improve anything and are a little bit more restrained about their transphobia than the tories, thus alienating all the frothing transphobes.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lower than under the Lettuce.

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