Labour has to face up to the blindingly obvious – the Corbyn brand is busted
Deltapoll July 27 2019
The biggest impediment to the movement is the man at the top
The main challenge to LAB as it seeks to keep in the game is that its leader is dragging it down. Three weeks ago Deltapoll asked a supplementary question in its first post PM Johnson poll. How would you vote if Labour was led by someone other than Corbyn? The outcome is in the chart above.
The detailed data from he latest Survation poll shows a pattern that we are seeing from all the pollsters – something like a quarter of Labour’s GE2017 vote has now gone to the LDs and a tenth to the Brexit party.
Corbyn’s personal ratings have almost totally collapsed. Recent Ipsos MORI polls have seen dissatisfaction numbers for Corbyn touch 75% which is by far the worst recorded by the firm for any leader in all the 45 years the pollster has been asking its leader rating questions.
A real worry is that in its latest poll Ipsos found just 49% of current Labour voters are satisfied with the job Corbyn is doing (up five points), but 43% are dissatisfied, as are 92% of Liberal Democrats.
Nothing in this is new to Labour activists who have been getting strong anti-Corbyn responses on the doorstep for month.
All this means is that there are no downsides for Jo Swinson when she snubs Corbyn’s latest opportunistic initiatives.
The great thing for the LDs the Tories and Farage’s party is that Corbyn isn’t going anywhere.
Mike Smithson