#1
The latest UGov poll suggests the Tories would gain an overall majority of at least 10 seats if there were to be a General Election now. I guess the wishes of the anti-Condems just went up in a puff of smoke.
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#2
bit of a pointless poll only 2 months into a new government.
one held in a years time might be more relevant.
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#3
Agreed Howard but Yougov are back to daily polling. A bit daft really.
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#4
i find it difficult to believe that newspapers still commission polls and really think that people have reached any decision on the coalition at such an early stage.
besides the main opposition party has no leader at present for the public to make a judgement about.
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#5
Sorry but I put that on the UKIP page only lastnight.
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#6
We saw what happened to the last commanding Tory lead in the polls, Sid, didn't we?
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#7
Indeed Andy, and we all know how notorious the polls are for getting it wrong. However, since the defeat of the last Government there has been a litany of doom and gloom postings on DF, relating to either the ConDems or the economy.
This UGov poll provides a glimmer of hope that Joe Public is feeling more confident about the economy, despite there being an awful long way to go. If the feelgood factor returns even a little that will be good for our eceonmy and small enterprises such as Rick's.
Not time to party yet, but maybe, just maybe, the action being taken by the coalition is beginning to bear the right sort of fruit. For the sake of us all, I hope that is the case.
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#8
of course there is criticism of the new government, just as there is with every government.
the fact of the matter is that the public is sick and tired of party politics and just want this coalition to work.
blue and yellow activists are muttering dark things about betrayal, trouble is they are a tiny minority that are ignored by the rest of us.
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#9
For one, I refuse to put any blame on the new Government because I think they've been left with an impossible task.......this country was abandoned to its economic fate a long while back by a thoroughly disreputable Labour Government. How anyone picks up the pieces from the mess the new Government was left with is beyond me, and I think Cameron & Clegg have taken the task to hand well and fairly.
I don't agree with Sid that the feelgood factor is returning - it just isn't. Business is absolutely dead at the moment, I have never known things so quiet. It's cyclical, just like it used to be before the City convinced everyone we were all rich and could afford to live on tick.
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