Conservatives Phantom-veto poll bounce is over

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http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/201...of-people.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/0...81S0G920120229

You can't fool all of the people

In retrospect, we can now say it was never going to last, and indeed it has not. While initially The Boy was riding high on the back of his pretend veto, Reuters is telling us that the halo has slipped.

From a heady peak of a forty percent lead in December (against 34 percent for Labour), the Tories have slipped back to 35 percent, with Labour in the lead at 41 percent, with the Lib-Dims on 12 percent. Effectively, the positions have been reversed.

Compared with January, there is a three point drop, and only forty percent are now satisfied with Cameron's performance. This puts his "net satisfaction rating" at minus 11, down ten points from January, and contrasting with his 48 percent in December, then giving him a net score of plus five.

Unsurprisingly though, give the calibre of the opposition, The Boy remains the most popular of the main three party leaders.

However, what emerges clearly from the result is confirmation of the old saw: you can't fool all of the people all of the time. Capturing briefly the anti-EU sentiment of the country, very much under false pretences, Cameron and his party gained hugely in approval ratings with his pretend veto.

Now that the gilt has worn off, and The Boy has been revealed for what he really is – just another sad little europhile - both he and his party have lost ground. Nevertheless, we are still on the two-party see-saw, which means that some people still see merit in an alternative.

That would seem to confirm the other part of the saying, that you can fool some of the people all of the time.

Back to the normal polling rates now, with Conservatives and Labour neck and neck, the Liberal Democrats swinging from 7% to 12% and UKIP back on 6% to 7%. A lot of people say you need to occupy the 'centre' to win elections (centre is the left, basically) and it's shown to by wrong. I simply say, can you imagine if one of the main parties offered a trustworthy manifesto of leaving the European Union, ending foreign aid, ending the wars overseas, limiting immigration and slashing waste just what that party could achieve in the polls?

You won't get that with the main parties we have now, but wouldn't it be nice to have a genuinely conservative political party as the opposition so we could decide all of these things? step one towards that goal is of course, to remove the Conservative and Unionist Party.

Thoughts on the phantom veto and the recent polling?

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lol centre isonly to theleft if you're right-wing dan

Well it was naturally going to end because for his support to remain up, he'd have had to continue with the pretence!