(28-01-2022, 04:27 PM)Olive Wrote:And yet polling numbers suggest the opposite.(28-01-2022, 03:59 PM)Magoo Wrote: i dont think the wheels are falling off for labour.Yes.   And governments never get credit for disasters and failures that they have avoided.   But I think by election time plenty of voters will recognise the extraordinary success of Labour in getting us through three years of pandemic with fewer casualties than anywhere else in the world.
it could never stay as high as it was.
i think there might be a shift in thinking from covid to economy.
we had the right person/party in place at the right time. it was serendipitous really.
everyone knows that fiscal responsibility is not something the left excel at
so now the right will start to look more attractive, especially to business interests and the employable.
tis the ebb and flow of social consciousness as we react to a changing environment
Labour has had a 10% reduction in support since last election and not a lot on the horizon that would stop that fall.