Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives are facing their worst ever result at the general election and could be left with just 130 seats, according to Professor Sir John Curtice.
The country’s top polling guru warned of the bleak situation faced by the Tories as they head into winter with the news dominated by infighting over the prime minister’s Rwanda deportation plan.
The “shy Tories” may yet hold the balance of power. Most of those "don’t know"s and even a few professed Labour voters may well stow their votes with the Conservatives when it’s only them and God in the voting booth. They just don’t want to admit it to a human poll taker.
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My fear. Polls are kinda meaningless nowadays.
I just fail to understand what sort of person views the last 14 years as anything but a series of disasters?!
We’ve gotten very bad at voting. It’s not just the British, if that’s any comfort. It isn’t any comfort.
Sometimes I wonder if voting should be mandatory, like in Australia… but forcing everyone to vote doesn’t at all solve the problem of how so much of our news media is going out of their way to mislead and manipulate the voting public. Might even make things worse.
I keep seeing people whingeing about Starmer, saying they’ll never vote for him, then you get several comments down the chain and they let slip that they don’t actually bother to vote anyway. Madness.
Not to mention that despite mandatory voting, Australia has managed to have Scotty From Marketing, then the next election a party who’s entire policy could be summed up with “at least we’re not the last guy”
Exactly, the reason for my concern over mandatory voting. Also it has ‘tory’ in the word and who knows, it might Derren Brown some people into voting for them!
I didn’t used to vote when I was in my 20’s. At the time I didn’t listen to the news or watch TV. I didn’t vote because I had no idea who to vote for. Totally disconnected. It seemed a bit wrong to vote on something I know little about so I would choose not to.
If voting was mandatory it wouldn’t have changed my lack of interest or knowledge.
Thankfully I’m more engaged these days but I think there’s a lot of people out there who aren’t.