New polling is scaring the hell out of both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party in the U.K. Voters who want to leave the EU are abandoning the Conservatives for Nigel Farange's far right Trumpist Brexit Party and Labour voters who want to remain in the EU are abandoning their own flip-floppy party for the Liberal Democrats. The Guardian reported that a new Opinium poll for The Observer shows that "more voters now say they would back the Brexit party at the next general election than the Conservatives." The neo-fascists went from 3% to 24%, with the Conservatives at 22% and Labour at 29%.That is for Parliament. Next week the Brits vote for representatives to the EU parliament and the poll shows this problematic score:
• Brexit Party- 34%• Labour- 20%• Liberal Democrats- 15%• Conservatives- 12%
I hope everyone else is voting for the Pirates.
While the Remain vote remains split between several parties, the Lib Dems have become the top choice for Remain voters. The party increased its share of Remain voters to 29%, up seven points. Labour’s share of Remain voters was down three points on 28%.The poll found that if Labour were to switch and clearly back a second referendum with an option to remain in the EU, the party could win back a large number of Remain votes in Thursday’s vote. In such a scenario, Labour’s vote share increased to 30%, a 10-point increase on its current position.Support for Theresa May is ebbing away, even among Tory voters. Two in five (38%) 2017 Conservative voters think the prime minister should resign immediately. It has increased from a third (32%) since before the local elections in April.Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn are now tied over who would make the better prime minister, though both have low ratings. Each has only 19%, with 55% saying that neither would be the best person for the job.Support for May’s deal appears to have hit a ceiling. For the first time since the indicative votes in the House of Commons took place, more of the public think that MPs should vote the deal down (39%) than vote for it (36%).
The polling was completed even before Theresa May finally agreed to step down if her Brexit proposal loses in Parliament in the first week in June... for a 4th time-- as is all but certain. The clownish Boris Johnson (pictured on the right in full make-up) has offered himself as her successor. Conservative MPs are anything but thrilled, although Johnson has a great deal of support from the same kind of poorly educated and bigoted voters who support Trump. The BBC reported that top Conservative leaders are discussing a timetable for May to finally retire as prime minister and party leader. In the video below, The Economist discusses various other candidates who could save the Conservatives-- and perhaps Britain-- from the imbecilic Boris Johnson:
