Mostly noted just so everyone understands that even if the left wins, its not necessarily the end of the world for good and all…the right can stage a comeback:
Voters are increasingly writing off Labour as fewer people believe that a change of leader or policy would help the party to win the next general election.
A Populus poll for The Times, undertaken over the weekend after Labour’s defeat in Glasgow East, suggests that its dramatic slide in popularity is being driven by a collapse in economic confidence.
Labour is on 27 per cent, down one point on the last Populus poll three weeks ago, and about the level it has been for the past three months. This is the lowest since the early 1980s.
The Conservatives are on 43 per cent — up two points — with the Liberal Democrats down one point at 18 per cent. Other parties are unchanged on 12 per cent.
While 43% for the Conservatives doesn’t seem like a lot, the way British elections work this would result in a crushing conservative majority in the House of Commons, were the election held today. The good news for Labour is that they don’t have to call an election for some time yet (their elections aren’t rigidly scheduled as ours are), and so there’s a chance Labour will pull it together and at least avert destruction, if not a loss.
It has been a long road back for the Conservatives in Britain, and one wonders whether the past decade plus of Labour rule has entirely wrecked the chances of Britian remaining the nation we know – with the Archibishop of Canterbury suggesting that sharia law is ok with him (while traditionalist Anglicans warm up to reunion with Rome) and falling native birth rates plus heavy Moslem immigration threatening to overturn British life, things look a little bleak for the long term…but where there’s life, there’s hope and as the left is the left, it is inevitible that eventually the people will reject it. The Conservatives in Britian look like they’re going to get another shot at cleaning up Labour’s mess; lets hope they do it right, just as we hope the Republican Party gets its act together and does it right here at home.
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