Voting Intentions since the Spending Review

BACKFRMTHEEDGE

21st Oct 2010: First post-CSR Poll -
CON 41%, LAB 40%, LD 10%

http://today.yougov.co.uk/

The Liberal Democrat score: 10% is the lowest YouGov have ever recorded them, the last time any pollster had them that low was 1997.


Also

October 22, 2010 Lib Dem vote collapses, Labour triumphs in three by-electionsn three local by-elections held yesterday Labour triumphed, with a wholesale collapse in the Liberal Democrat vote in Labour’s favour.

In Nick Clegg’s Sheffield back yard, Labour’s Terry Fox comfortably kept Manor Castle Labour with a massive 17.5% swing from the Liberal Democrats to Labour. Labour won 2,092 votes with the Liberal Democrats trailing in a poor second place with just 303 votes.
It was an even worse story for the Liberal Democrats in Oxford after local Labour campaigner Mike Rowley took the Barton and Sandhills seat from the Lib Dems. This time the swing from the Lib Dems to Labour was 10%. Again the votes tell the story, with Labour winning 837 and the Liberal Democrats in second place with 334.
Labour also triumphed in the River Ward by-election in Medway, Kent with Labour’s John Jones this time taking the seat from the Conservatives with a 5% swing from David Cameron’s party. In a close result, Labour won 695 votes to the Conservatives’ 631.
The results mirror the sorry story for the Liberal Democrats nationally, after a YouGov tracking poll gave them just 10% support – the lowest the party has seen for two decades.

http://www.labourmatters.com/Editor/lib-dem-vote-collapses-labour-triumphs-in-three-by-elections/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

AD9898_2

I'd still vote Tory, we had probably the best opportunites the UK has ever had in the 10 years between 97 and 07, what did Labour do, reside over the biggest house price bubble in history that has practically ruined the economy for years to come.

On top of that, it's turned hundreds of thousands of of families into 'dual working, stick kids in child care for 12 hours a day' debt slaves to pay gargantuan mortgages that can't even be paid by two incomes if base rate rises from 0.5%, with all the consequences to society as a whole.

seven-day-weekend

I voted Liberal Democrat in the last General Election. If there were an election now I would probably vote Tory.

TBH the only reason I voted LibDem last time was because I didn't paticularly like the Tory in our ward, otherwise I would have voted Tory then.

In days of yore I always voted Labour. That went out of the window when Michael Foot became their leader, and tbh I feel the same about Miliband Minor. (I was one of the people who cried tears of joy when Blair won in 1997 though ).

Sapphire

I'd vote Tory. I detest what labour did to Britain in so many ways over the 13 years they were in power, and the financial corruption, lies, etc, they presided over. Brown in particular seems like an unbelievable nightmare when I look back, and so do many of the leading lights in the labour party who are still there today.

Graham_Devon

Lib dem again. Think they have actually done ok considering.

Remember, if they hadn't have joined up with the tories, we'd probably have a mish mash of labour, lib dems and a couple of other parties by now, probably Irish and probably paid off monthly to keep quiet. Doubt Brown would be PM, so we'd probably have Ed Balls, Harriet Harman or, possibly, Ed Milliband as PM, with MP's walking out of the cabinet because they feel cheated etc.

The difference is, the lib dems and tories just seem to have got on with it and done the best they can do. Lib Dems have had to make comprimises and work with reality, as have the tories. No ones walked, theres been no fighting in the party that we are aware of.

Meanwhile, labour are still going through the jealousy stages with MP's leaving because they didn't get the job, still standing there attacking literally anything the coalition does, regardless of whether it's exactly what labour would have done themselves. It seems now, they have the wrong leader altogether, voted for by the unions, who, as we all know, want the impossible most of the time.

The coalition has come up with some constructive stuff and got some of it wrong. But overall, they done pretty well. People said they would last a week, maybe a month. Of course, these people were labour people.

Just imagine where we would be with a leader of a multi party colalition, voted in by unions, at a time such as now. Debt would probably be exploding.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

I have always voted LibDem as they are the party that most strongly represents my views. It is disappointing that they can't implement everything in their manifesto, but how can voters really expect them to? Tory voters haven't got everything they want either.

So yes, I would vote LibDem again, or possibly Green depending on the strength of the local candidate. I cannot see myself ever voting Tory or Labour.

ukcarper

I voted LibDems but will never vote for them again. If I wanted fast deep cuts I would have voted Tory not for a party that was arguing against them.

bendix

Voted Tory at the election. Would vote Tory again.

I think they've handled their first few months back in power with skill, fortitude and excellent political judgement - balancing politically prudent moves like bank levies with the right kind of discipline needed to repair the utter pigs ear that Labour's financial profligacy has left the country in. Again.

No doubt people will hate them - they always do. It's how Labour has maintained it's political power all through history.

Get elected. Spend spend spend and create a fiscal mess, leave the Tories to do the hard unpopular work of fixing it, and then get re-elected based on that.

chewmylegoff

i didn't vote in the election and i doubt i'd bother now. if i could just do it by text message i'd vote tory, because there is no way we can be governed by a piece of plasticine from wallace and grommitt.

tomterm8

No idea who I will vote for. I have never voted Labour, and I doubt I will start any time soon.

The Tory's have to be given a chance; while I don't agree with their economic policies in these circumstances, normally they are much better at running the economy than labour. They are doing some very good things with prison reform, and there is a chance they might sort the benefit system out...

Really, we need to 'wait and see' whether they actually do a good job at governing. They have not been given a strong hand, but it still depends on how they play it.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Voted Tory at the election. Would vote Tory again.