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A recent opinium poll suggests 33% of British adults blame the last labour government. The government that hasn't been in power for 11 years now. This country

by mhh__ 5y ago

A recent opinium poll suggests 33% of British adults blame the last labour government. The government that hasn't been in power for 11 years now. This country is really not in a good place.

mattvot 5y ago
Source?
- rwmj 5y ago
  https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1442048881165017091 https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/14420488811650170... - see the final column of the graph
  - jstanley 5y ago
    That includes "partly to blame", and notably "the last Labour government" is considered least "partly to blame" of all the options presented.
bob229 5y ago
Could be worse. People could actually want to vote for a party whose leader thinks men have cervixes
droopyEyelids 5y ago
If you can't read the text of a poll, or if you can read it and it asks binary questions, disregard the poll.
t0mas88 5y ago
You're quoting the least votes option out of a poll, which is a very misleading way to present the data. Because 68% of British adults blamed Brexit, 70% blamed the current government and 76% blamed Covid (this was the top 3). Followed by several other options and then in the last place with only 33% people blamed the last labour government. And all those figures included people that answered "somewhat" instead of full blame. Which may not be crazy because realistically all previous governments could "somewhat" have a blame in the state of things after their term.
- mhh__ 5y ago
  The point is that it is way more than Lizardman-territory. If I were at the PC I'd have just copied the data out in full but I was going from memory on my phone.
  - rob74 5y ago
    Well yeah, the people who voted for Brexit have to put the blame on something other than Brexit, or else they would have to admit that their decision was wrong...
mjw1007 5y ago
I think that just tells us that many people treat opinion polls as an opportunity to say what they approve and disapprove of, whatever the actual question being asked is. (And that's arguably rational behaviour, if you interpret the opinion poll question as saying "would you like to help give the media a stick to beat X with?")
tomp 5y ago
Maybe that's just a proxy vote blaming the Labour party. Which are to blame (at least much more than 33%), because they're not producing a viable alternative to conservatives, hence allowing them "political monopoly".

by mhh__ 5y ago

A recent opinium poll suggests 33% of British adults blame the last labour government. The government that hasn't been in power for 11 years now. This country is really not in a good place.

mattvot 5y ago

Source?

rwmj 5y ago
https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1442048881165017091 https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/14420488811650170... - see the final column of the graph
- jstanley 5y ago
  That includes "partly to blame", and notably "the last Labour government" is considered least "partly to blame" of all the options presented.

bob229 5y ago

Could be worse. People could actually want to vote for a party whose leader thinks men have cervixes

droopyEyelids 5y ago

If you can't read the text of a poll, or if you can read it and it asks binary questions, disregard the poll.

t0mas88 5y ago

You're quoting the least votes option out of a poll, which is a very misleading way to present the data. Because 68% of British adults blamed Brexit, 70% blamed the current government and 76% blamed Covid (this was the top 3). Followed by several other options and then in the last place with only 33% people blamed the last labour government. And all those figures included people that answered "somewhat" instead of full blame. Which may not be crazy because realistically all previous governments could "somewhat" have a blame in the state of things after their term.

mhh__ 5y ago
The point is that it is way more than Lizardman-territory. If I were at the PC I'd have just copied the data out in full but I was going from memory on my phone.
- rob74 5y ago
  Well yeah, the people who voted for Brexit have to put the blame on something other than Brexit, or else they would have to admit that their decision was wrong...

mjw1007 5y ago

I think that just tells us that many people treat opinion polls as an opportunity to say what they approve and disapprove of, whatever the actual question being asked is. (And that's arguably rational behaviour, if you interpret the opinion poll question as saying "would you like to help give the media a stick to beat X with?")

tomp 5y ago

Maybe that's just a proxy vote blaming the Labour party. Which are to blame (at least much more than 33%), because they're not producing a viable alternative to conservatives, hence allowing them "political monopoly".