@SutherEric Fairly useless though, if you plummet so hard in the polls that you threaten to destroy the entire existence of the party that you’re leading.
@Maitacap@timetoshine1234@giselle97@helloKi30596224@UKLabour Indeed. It dropped from 600,000 to an undisclosed figure (they stopped telling us, it’s too embarrassing) which is likely around 175,000, during Starmer’s leadership. 😬
Meanwhile, unions have been threatening disaffiliation. ☢️
@richenergyceo@Keir_Starmer@RachelReevesMP “Early term unpopularity is pretty universal”
lol. Unprecedented levels of collapse after a landslide, averaging 17% in the polls, wipeout in local elections, wipeout in by-elections, record low personal ratings, psephologists minds blown, but sure pal, it’s “pretty universal”🤡
@ToryWipeout@Keir_Starmer He probably just doesn’t want to face losing both his seat *and* his post as prime minister both at once. For that would be far more humiliating than even Jo Swinson.
@London_W4 not quite, as he wasn't "given" a seat, since he was overwhelmingly voted for in the by-election, winning with over 50% of the vote, a seat that was 100% otherwise going to Reform if Josh Simons remained there.
@StephenKing The crime of genocide leaves the deepest scars of all. Something that Biden and Trump are deeply guilty of. The sooner most Americans understand that, the sooner you get to "recover", otherwise it's business as usual.
@hotwings100 Oh dear. A party with already fewer members than the Greens, but recently proud to boast 600,000, and now with the threat of union disaffiliation, polling usually in 3rd place, -45% personal PM rating, cataclysmic local elections, is going to become...weaker?
(lol. lmao.)
@Claudette966 Well, no. "The best prime minister UK has had in a long time" would not be facing such an unprecedented, stark and monumental wipeout at the next general election, that makes Truss/Sunak look comparatively like Tony Blair in 1997, would they?
@tessa0907@ToryFibs@AndyBurnhamGM@UKLabour Def was pretty poor. But wait till you hear about the guy who lied about literally everything in his leadership campaign, told party members to leave, purged loads of others, membership<200k, won a GE out of luck, then faced total, unprecedented, Labour wipeout and a -45% rating.
@TomK_Brit1993 Same energy as the "ooh Blair achieved this tinker here, and this tinker there" crowd, when the world knows, like Starmer, he's a war criminal and should be in the Hague.