{"id":87904,"date":"2025-11-25T08:18:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=87904"},"modified":"2025-11-25T08:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:18:32","slug":"labours-sinking-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/11\/25\/labours-sinking-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour’s sinking ship"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the eve of what is widely expected to be a truly disastrous Budget for Labour, it's worth having a look at some polling data. This is supplied by Stats for Lefties, based on a Lord Ashcroft poll:<\/p>\n

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This is the seat projection:<\/p>\n

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I know all the caveats, of course.<\/p>\n

However, note the Labour figure. Governments have done worse, but very few have come close to a popularity collapse on this scale.<\/p>\n

Three thoughts.<\/p>\n

First, Labour is currently empowering the far-right in the UK.<\/p>\n

Second, the number of people who believe Labour has anything to offer is declining by the day.<\/p>\n

Third, if Labour had any sense of duty to the people of this country - and even its own supporters - it would deliver PR now.<\/p>\n

Will it react as it should? Of course not. This is Starmer's Labour after all, and they are living in cloud cuckoo land, and their own belief in the sanctity of all they do, so deluded are they.<\/p>\n

We are in trouble unless that Green growth continues. And don't rule out that it might.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the eve of what is widely expected to be a truly disastrous Budget for Labour, it’s worth having a look at some polling data.
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