Voting intentions.

Santana

I remember an episode of Yes Minister when Sir Humphrey demonstrated that you could get your required pole result by the way you phrased the questions.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GSKwf4AIlI

I remember an episode of Yes Minister when Sir Humphrey demonstrated that you could get your required pole result by the way you phrased the questions.

I too find him an embarrassment, but think his time is running out. He is unable to keep covering his lies, ineptitude, laziness and corruption much longer, and no amount of blustering on about covid vaccine success can cover his serious failings as a politician and leader. My opinion on his failings as a friend, father, employee, partner are well known, but are irrelevant on this thread. I am dreading the summit in Glasgow when we will once again have the humiliation of this blustering, scruffy man waffling on. Frankly, I wouldn't believe him if he told me today was Monday, which is a sad state of affairs, he must be telling the truth some of the time.

I would have thought that polls have had their day, rather than turned. They seem to get things spectacularly wrong.

What's the point of them?

Is today the day the polls turned? Polls taken around or since the government’s tax rises have showed the Conservatives’ lead falling back, or, in the case of YouGov, being overhauled entirely.

Does it matter? The turn in polls in the past has led to lost elections here and in other countries in the past. Could this be the moment?

PippaZ, interesting - the (understandable) approval blip at the start of the pandemic - then follows a pretty constant lead of disapproval of his efforts as PM. I find him an embarrassment, frankly.

The fortnightly Opinium poll has been published overnght with some bad news for the PM. His latest approval ratings which are featured in the chart above. As can be seen the PM now has a disapproval rating of 49 with an approval rating of 32%.

As it seems we have government by Conservative voter approval rather than by previous manifesto promises and promises of "leveling up" perhaps Mr Johnson should be revising his wish, quoted in The Times that he wanted to be Prime Minister for another 10 years.

No real surprises there then