Miliband Slump



Here's how The Sunday Times reported the results of its own YouGov opinion poll which says that Ed Miliband's popularity ratings are even worse than this of Nick Clegg. 

Ouch is all I can say, because that has to hurt and in a sigh of just how bad things have got for Ed Miliband another later IPSOS/Mori poll suggests that Ed is the most unpopular Labour leader ever with less support than Michael Foot who led the party to defeat in early the 1980s. 

Miliband slumps below Clegg

By Tim Shipman and Jason Allardyce - The Sunday Times


ED MILIBAND’S approval rating has plunged to an all-time low and he is now even less popular than Nick Clegg, according to a new poll.

The YouGov survey for The Sunday Times found that just 18% of voters thought the Labour leader was doing a good job, while 73% said he was doing badly.

The overall rating of minus 55 is one point worse than that of Clegg, who has long trailed David Cameron and Miliband in the eyes of voters. Today’s poll shows the prime minister ahead among the main party leaders, on minus 14 points.

The findings come as Miliband yesterday pledged a Labour government would scrap the House of Lords and replace it with an elected senate.

Overall Labour has just a one-point lead in the polls, but the party is stuck on 32%, the joint lowest support recorded since Miliband became leader in 2010.

Even among Labour voters just half think he is doing well, while 44% say he is doing badly. By contrast, Cameron enjoys the backing of 97% of Conservative voters and Clegg is supported by 71% of Lib Dems.

Miliband’s approval rating has plunged four points in a week after a bruising few days in which Labour has had to confront the prospect of electoral meltdown in Scotland.

The Labour leader’s standing in Scotland is even worse than in England, with just 15% saying he is doing well, compared with 80% who think he is performing badly — a rating of minus 65.

It is unlikely to improve after Miliband was accused last night of insulting Scots and offending the poor after sending a bag containing stereotypically Scottish fare to a food bank while attending a Labour dinner in a luxury hotel.

The Labour leader’s food parcel included Scots porridge oats, shortbread, Baxters Scotch broth, oatcakes, cock-a-leekie soup, Scottish raspberry jam and Tunnock’s tea cakes.

The gift was criticised by an anti-poverty group which had helped organise the collection outside Glasgow’s Grand Central Hotel, where Labour’s gala dinner was held on Thursday. John McArdle, of the Black Triangle disability campaign, said: “He’s a numpty . . . That shopping list would insult every Scotsman in the country.”

Sandra White, the Glasgow SNP MSP, said: “Ed Miliband doesn’t seem to understand that donating to a food bank isn’t a public relations gimmick.”

A Labour spokesman said: “It is contemptible for people to try to make political capital out of a donation to help those struggling in poverty.”

Details of the donation emerged as Miliband’s aides were forced to deny that in a separate incident in Manchester he had given just 2p to a woman begging.

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