Lib Dem Polls - How Low Can They Go?

[butchersapron]

15% for three days running now and another 4 councillors lost last night.

 

[butchersapron]

If anyone has access to the firewalled Sunday Times Yougov poll can they post the details up please? I suspect they're bad for the lib-dems - i only have:

Latest YouGov/Sunday Times poll shows Government disapproval up 12 points since this time last month.(42% approve, 37% disapprove, 21% DK) from YG

 

[gentlegreen]

Sadly, still no sign of a vote-worthy Labour party .

 

[little_legs]

If anyone has access to the firewalled Sunday Times Yougov poll can they post the details up please?

is this data only available on their website? the newsbank sunday times is not showing any polls and i have the copy of today's sunday times that does not have have any polls either.

 

[butchersapron]

I don't actually know - that was from the official YG twitter thing. Ta for that, just have to wait for a bit i suppose.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Sadly, still no sign of a vote-worthy Labour party .

First of all that's irrelevant.

Secondly it's wrong as far as many are concerned

 

[London_Calling]

The tv recorder will be switched on this lunchtime in the Cleggie household as, in the absence of Disco Dave, Nick takes PMQ's for the first time.

90 years of hurt . . .

BBC2, from 11.30am I'd guess.

 

[Santino]

Lib Dems on 14%: http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/2750

 

[Idris2002]

The tv recorder will be switched on this lunchtime in the Cleggie household as, in the absence of Disco Dave, Nick takes PMQ's for the first time.

90 years of hurt . . .

BBC2, from 11.30am I'd guess.

'Lloyd George knew my mother'.

 

[belboid]

excellent job from Cleggie in his first PMQ's. Well, apart from having to issue a 'clarification' almost immediately afterwards saying his attack in the illegality of the Iraq war was just the personal opinion of Mr N Clegg Esq, and not the DPM.

Still, David Steel thought he did a good job, and told PM (the programme that is, not the actual PM) how people were always coming up to him saying how happy they were the liberals were in the coalition. Presumably those people are labour voters delighted at the collapse of the liberal vote.

 

[Fedayn]

Still, David Steel thought he did a good job, and told PM (the programme that is, not the actual PM) how people were always coming up to him saying how happy they were the liberals were in the coalition. Presumably those people are labour voters delighted at the collapse of the liberal vote.

And presumably not in his former Scottish constituency or in wider Scotland where the Lib Dum vote is collapsing.

 

[William of Walworth]

A good friend in Oxford West (Kidlington, not the poshest areas!) always voted for Evan Harris, mostly as a tactical anti Tory vote but also because EH wasn't too bad at all as a local MP. He lost (just) to a fairly nasty(and raving Christian) Tory at the GE, but my mate now says nearly everyone he knows locally who used to vote Lib Dem tactically won't ever do so again. Not surprising, but probably quite representative ...

 

[butchersapron]

Just passing through, but tomorrows yougov has them on...13%

 

[Santino]

Just passing through

*waves*

 

[killer b]

Presumably those people are labour voters delighted at the collapse of the liberal vote.

 

[shagnasty]

The labour vote is interesting especially a party with out a elected leader and no team in place to really oppose but still higher than the election result.Butchers have you a link for that 13% for LD

 

[London_Calling]

He got a little carried away with himself in all the excitement:

Philippe Sands, professor of law at University College London, said: "A public statement by a government minister in parliament as to the legal situation would be a statement that an international court would be interested in, in forming a view as to whether or not the war was lawful."

plus:

The deputy prime minister made an initial mistake when he announced that the government would close the Yarl's Wood centre as it ends the detention of children awaiting deportation. The Home Office was forced to issue a statement saying that the family unit at Yarl's Wood would close but that the rest of the centre would remain open

Opps x 2.


and then there was the issue of which hat he was wearing when:

Asked whether Clegg had been speaking as the leader of the Liberal Democrats and not as deputy prime minister, a Downing Street spokeswoman said: "Yes."

The deputy prime minister insisted he was speaking in a personal capacity

So he has three hats, Deputy PM, Leader of the Lib Dems, and a "personal capacity", and we have to guess which hat he's wearing at any given point.

Seems a bit excitable.

(((Nick)))

 

[butchersapron]

If you think the first was gaffe rather than a planned desperate left-playing bid then you're wrong. The others were sheer incompetence.

 

[butchersapron]

...also revenge, sweet revenge:

Labour would demand the resignation of Nick Clegg before doing a deal with the Liberal Democrats in a future hung parliament, a senior Labour figure has said

 

[frogwoman]

...also revenge, sweet revenge:

 

[little_legs]

Nick Clegg is to hold public meetings across the country this summer to boost support for the Liberal Democrats, after the party plummeted to 13% in the polls.

link http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/25/clegg-tour-to-boost-support

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I don't think he'll be welcome in Newcastle where the party do not want to remind people they're associated with him.

 

[treelover]

Will we witness the first ever protests against the LD's and certainly the Liberals since the early 1900's

 

[Santino]

Will we witness the first ever protests against the LD's and certainly the Liberals since the early 1900's

The New Politics

 

[belboid]

Will we witness the first ever protests against the LD's and certainly the Liberals since the early 1900's

there've been plenty of protests against Liberal councils!

 

[belboid]

"Four in 10 people who say they voted Lib Dem would not have done had they known the party would enter a coalition with the Tories"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8854870.stm

 

[shagnasty]

Labour closing in on tories C40 L38 LD 14


http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/poll.aspx?oItemId=2643

 

[Santino]

What a fucking cunt.

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister, has admitted that he changed his mind about the timing of spending cuts prior to the general election, despite publicly telling the electorate weeks before the poll that early deep cuts would be "economic masochism".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/29/nick-clegg-changed-mind-cuts

 

[Fedayn]

What a fucking cunt.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/29/nick-clegg-changed-mind-cuts

Makes him Vince Cable's perfect partner given they both admitted to changing their minds, ie lying, before the election.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

I'm sorely tempted to get three cheapo hats from Castle Market and to write "Lib Dem Leader", "Deputy PM" and "Personal Capacity" on them. Then I can drop them into Cleggo's constituency office with advice that he use them to show the electorate in which capacity he is speaking at any given time.