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The more voters are educated the more likely they are to be negative about Johnson – politicalbettin
The more voters are educated the more likely they are to be negative about Johnson – politicalbetting.com
In all British political polling at the moment the regular Ipsos-MORI political monitor stands out because it is just about the only one that still carries out fieldwork by telephone.
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Without adjusting for this, simplistic degree / no degree is strongly a proxy for age.
https://twitter.com/BrookesTimes/status/1415282011657363460
This is thoroughly unpleasant.
I've written plenty of stories that have been fiercely critical of the Home Office during Patel's time there but this is an abhorrent image.
https://twitter.com/RKWinvisibleman/status/1415316610076848130?s=19
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57838103
I think this is going to go down like a lead ballon outside those who aren't big fans of Boris government. Adding a £200-300 to families food bills is a rather tricky sell to say the least, especially among the current Tory Red Wall supporters.
I am saying those that will probably like this policy, don't like Boris and no intention of ever voting for him. Where as his current support base, e.g. the likes of your white working class, inspires to have a middle class lifestyle, types, isn't going to like the sound of £200 extra on his food bill nor the nanny stating.
Remember the government are really pushing ahead with the eco stuff, that isn't going to be winning them many red wall voters. Again something that non-Tory voters want e.g. electric vehicles coming in much sooner, but it won't make them vote Tory while Boris is in charge.
Oldies heavily skew Tory, they are scared of covid, and Boris is saying open everything up, masks they are optional, etc.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/2021/07/14/cars-flights-hit-green-taxes/ (£££)
Talk of higher taxes on fuel / airplane travel, road pricing, id cards, those 3 things seemed to really piss a lot of people off when Labour was in power. Hence why the second two got ditched.
Maybe things have changed now among the electorate in regards to this. We will see.
I've always felt that clown Sunak is completely out of his depth.
While we’re patiently waiting, here’s the Ipsos Mori findings for Scottish VI:
SNP 51%
Con 16%
Lab 15%
LD 10%
Grn 2%
oth 5%
https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2021-07/Ipsos MORI Political Monitor tables_140721_PUBLIC.pdf
This feels like a very timely moment to ask - where does racism come in the MORI issues index?
The answer to that question may give a clue re how much impact all the media coverage is likely to have politically.
(From memory I don't ever remember racism scoring anything in the index but would like to see the most up to date survey).
Those with higher education are no more worthy humans than those without it. Period. Especially in matters political.
This is yet another example of the divisions running through our land. It's difficult to avoid accusations of being supercilious but the fact is that intelligent people can see through Boris Johnson. Uneducated people can't.
He's a trickster. A conman. Full of blague, bluster and bullshit.
https://storify.com/services/proxy/2/b28lN2mvhESXHA4XrlHGSg/https/media.fyre.co/DSor2L6NR3e7vNn0SnOl_001-thei-xnf-20210715_1626299259_001.png
He's virtually bankrupt in his private life and he's going to do the same with the public finances. He splurges on vanity projects left, right and centre. Someone should confiscate the credit cards before he does even more damage.
But they ARE better educated.
There's an important difference.
He's not.
There's a good reason he got a 2:1 and not a 1st, not that there's anything wrong with a 2:1 but he was affronted about it. He's lazy, has a poor grasp of detail and tries to pull the wool over people's eyes by highfalutin speech.
Educated people see through it.
Wisdom is proved right by her actions.
PS And of course they don't say it out loud. Hence my use of snide implication. Of course, no one educated likes Johnson - it's only the plebs who do. That is the implication.
Does the useless flabby fucker just like spunking money on vanity purchases?
How dare you criticise our beloved PM just because you have a degree.
Snide? That seems to be you
Yours is the most appalling type of stalinist dystopian nightmare imaginable.
Doesn't matter how frequently or in what way I try to explain that neither of those is wholly, or even in part, true. He's 'just so intelligent' y'see ...
Sadly.
He was elected to "get Brexit done" but the Brexit he delivered is the one of 'project fear'
Northern Ireland trade completely fucked? Check.
Trade with the EU severely disrupted? Check.
Supply chain problems and shortages? Check.
Massive overheads for no material gain? Check.
Labour constraints? Check.
Every day he proves the naysayers right, but there is no joy in that
I'm sure heaping a load of tax onto the weekly shop as we try to emerge from a pandemic-induced period of economic turbulence will be super popular.
Edited extra bit: but it does come with a puritanical lecture attached, so as least it's in accordance with modern fashion.
She blew the dogwhistle, tried to piggyback on the team success, then tried some virtue signalling and was rightly smacked down for it.
It's not an amusing cartoon, but it is painfully on the nose.
May sacked her. No PM except BoZo would ever put her back in cabinet, and he should have sacked her a couple of times since.
The tragedy is that Theresa May wasn't quite strong enough or competent enough to hold off the nutters on the Far Right who were all Brexit or Bust. The situation was aided and abetted by the stupidity of the Labour Party in general and the malevolence of Jeremy Corbyn in particular.
This country is heading downhill. Fast.
I'll site Blair, Milliband, Brown and Corbyn as examples at leadership level.
I was happy to vote for Major, and Hague, and Cameron and May.
BoZo is a disgrace to the office. Every day he is PM is a stain on our nation.
The idea that higher education is full of political indoctrination is terribly old hat and no longer particularly true. But your argument is unravelled by the fact that this divide has never before been seen so starkly. Theresa May did not attract such levels of distrust among the educated. Nor did David Cameron. Nor Gordon Brown. Nor Tony Blair. Nor John Major (himself not educated to degree level). Nor, even, did Margaret Thatcher.
The reason is not the one you've given. It's because we have a charlatan, a shamster, a blaguer, a serial liar, in charge of this country.
We can see it. Clearly.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
It’s confirmed that England’s football team declined the invitation to attend 10 Downing Street. But @BorisJohnson said the team couldn't attend due to no available time to meet & greet. Our Prime Minister wouldn't dare lie would he?
https://twitter.com/MaxRobertFinch/status/1415398322907516931
Boris is like Trump, he upsets the values of the educated progressive elite; making no attempt at all to placate them unlike his predecessors. That explains his success with the less educated, who have always been easier to herd for political purposes than intellectuals.
Well, in my view as a supposedly educated intellectual the most anti intellectual government was that of David Cameron. They were absolutely dreadful. Boris Johnson (and to a lesser extent Theresa May) was a relief.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2021/04/david-cameron-and-great-sell-out
The number of payroll employees showed another monthly increase, up 356,000 in June 2021 to 28.9 million. However, it remains 206,000 below pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic levels. For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, some regions are now above pre-pandemic (February 2020) levels. These include North East, North West, East Midlands and Northern Ireland.
Following a period of employment growth and low unemployment, since the start of the pandemic, the employment rate has generally decreased, and the unemployment rate increased. However, since the end of 2020 both have shown signs of recovery. In the latest period (March to May 2021), there was an increase in the employment rate of 0.1 percentage points, to 74.8%, and a decrease in the unemployment rate of 0.2 percentage points, to 4.8%. The economic inactivity rate is up 0.1 percentage points on the previous quarter, to 21.3%.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/uklabourmarket/july2021
https://twitter.com/Sh3llieeeeee/status/1415284015100272640
https://thecritic.co.uk/missing-from-the-penalty-spot/ https://twitter.com/RobDotHutton/status/1415555105122918404/photo/1
But Boris is a stain?
You've been driven mad by Brexit.
Can I, as a very old man, have a grouse. When I were a lad, as the saying goes, the f word was rarely used among my friends and associates. Indeed, it was considered extremely offensive.
Now it's used as noun, adjective and verb on every possible occasion.
I was always taught that to use swear words to embellish speech demonstrated a lack of vocabulary, and even more so when writing, unless of course, appropriate for the writing.
Rant over!
The difference between moments of aberration and Boris Johnson is that with the latter they are not just moments. They ARE him.
Guardian political correspondent Aubrey Allegretti tweeted: "I’m told that plans to have the England team to Downing Street for a reception this week have been shelved, with attention turning instead to the PM’s levelling up speech in a few days."
I didn't vote for Boris (known liar, not Bright enough to see what he had agreed to).
In any case, they all need a break. The season starts again in 4 weeks time.
Why are you not worried about that?
He was the first leading Tory to be in favour of gay marriage.
He was on the right side in the Brexit referendum.
He got a far superior Brexit deal to May's.
The 'evidence' you cite is from White Shift Kaufman really isn't the whole picture and it's incredibly patronising to students. I've taught on University campuses much of my life and I can assure you that if a lecturer goes off on one in a left-wing diatribe, or even a more subtle attempt to coerce opinion, students invariably roll their eyes in sheer boredom. Politics has little or no interest unless you're a Dean of politics or a writer on pb.com.
Unless of course you are lumping something like climate change into being a leftie. Trump would. But hopefully you're brighter than that.
Personally, I was always rather sorry for Hague. Right guy at the wrong time.
Seems like if that happens that would simply provide an immediate incentive to offshore wholesale food production then have high salt and sugar meals and treats imported.
Road pricing will have to be investigated as the other options are worse in different ways
Same goes when it is Diane a Abbott.
There’s something about strong BAME women some people find challenging.
Like rcs1000 I have little time for Patel and she shouldn’t be in the job but the point can be made without resorting to that sort of crap.
Still, if it floats your boat fill your boots.
Dystopia Now.
Fortunately the wheels are already coming off the Boris Johnson bandwagon. He's too much of a serial liar for it to have stuck around for longer. Someone more wily (Tony Blair for instance) would have got away with it for a lot longer.
Hasn't fed through into polls or results yet - in part because Labour still repel them - but there is growing disquiet as various polls asking questions other than voting intent show. Ultimately we know this will go wrong for Johnson because like Trump he now believes his own lies, and at some point he is going to trip over himself badly.
Final point. There are some very well educated Clown Apologists on here. What is their excuse?
Now that drivers are switching away from fuel, there seems to be a desire to keep raising revenues from drivers rather than simply accept that fuel has gone and that society as a whole needs to pay for its costs.
Its like having if smokers all quit smoking placing a tax on ex-smokers to replace tobacco taxes.
I made the point she shouldn't be in the job.
I didn't mention her gender or ethnicity.
No surprise there.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/firm-with-ties-to-matt-hancock-given-vip-treatment-emails-suggest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
That you imagined it says more about you than me
Keeping VED and having approximately half a penny per kWh would replace all of fuel duty and be "fair". Drivers would be paying via when they refuel their electric cars and would still pay more tax from that than is spent on roads - but the rest of society would pay its fair share too.