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🚨🚨New Voting Intention🚨🚨

Labour lead is twenty-three percentage points in the latest results from Deltapoll.

Con 24% (-3)

Lab 47% (+1)

Lib Dem 12% (+2)

Reform 7% (+2)

SNP 4% (-)

Green 4% (-2)

Fieldwork: 23rd - 26th June 2023

Sample: 1,089 GB adults

(Changes from 16th - 19th June 2023)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We really need electoral reform. Whilst I'm happy for the Labour Party, it really isn't healthy for them to get 500 seats with 47% of the vote, especially when they are simply benefitting from the "anything but Tory" votes, rather than having an overwhelmingly popular programme of their own.

If Starmer got in with a massive majority like this, then it's really setting the country up for a massive crisis a few years down then line, when everyone gets disillusioned with Labour, and has literally no safe place to move their vote... It would present a dangerous opportunity for fringe crazies to play the populist card, and send us all straight to Hell.

PR would give fair influence to sensible centrist voices which are currently being stifled.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

PR, IRV/STV, fuck it even AV would be a step up but we didn't want that, remember? We had a totally fair and not-at-all-underhanded referendum with a poor turnout that proved it once and for all...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot can happen in a year and a half, though the trend wouldn't suggest the conservatives can remotely get their shit together.

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

Previous behaviour would suggest they're pretty good at the complete opposite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Flavible:

Party	Pred %	Pred Seats
CON	24.0%	111
LAB	47.0%	409
LD	12.0%	52
REFUK	7.0%	0
Green	4.0%	1
SNP	4%	52
PC	0.5%	3

Electoral Calculus (2023 Boundaries'):

Party	2019 Votes	2019 Seats	Pred Votes	Gains	Losses	Net Change	Pred Seats
CON	44.7%	375	24.0%	0	305	-305	70
LAB	33.0%	198	47.0%	305	0	+305	503
LIB	11.8%	8	12%	8	0	+14	22
Reform	2.1%	0	7%	0	0	+0	0
Green	2.8%	1	4%	0	0	+0	1
SNP	4.0%	48	3.7%	0	15	-15	33
PlaidC	0.5%	2	0.5%	1	1	+0	2
Other	1.1%	0	0.1%	0	0	+0	0
N.Ire	-	18	-	0	0	+0	18

More evidence the floor is falling out for CON (again...for now)

[–] Tagger 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm really hoping that we see a total crumbling and fragmentation of the conservative party. They have caused such damage to the country and have, seemingly run out of any capable or empathetic politicians.

It's time for the party to end.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need a 'Canada 1993'

[–] 15liam20 1 points 1 year ago

And what might that be? Asking for a friend.

[–] rowdy_p 1 points 1 year ago

I dream of a day where the con's aren't even the official opposition. Although I fear knowing my luck that if it happened they'd likely be replaced with an even crazier bunch of zealots.