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Starmer’s approval ratings are heavily influenced by London – politicalbetting.com
Starmer’s approval ratings are heavily influenced by London – politicalbetting.com
Further to the previous post on the latest Opinium PM approval ratings I thought it might be useful to also look at Keir Starmer’s numbers region by region.
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I was very much, he said what, surely that's instant disqualification from race to be president, no...no seems not.
Suitably bland ratings for an incredibly bland politician. I bet you'd get the same if you asked about people's approval of a spatula, or Nissan.
I jest, of course; right now I'd kill for a Tory leader who could command such ratings. I know who I'd kill, as well...
It's worth saying that at times Sturgeon's numbers have fallen whenever the focus goes away from Covid. It's why she's always been very keen on her TV Covid briefings.
Its all part of the stupid current setup, well we are this, but not that, but really also this....we couldn't possibly for x, because we are public sector, but we also have own these private businesses.
Its a bit like MPs and second jobs.....that second job is definitely totally irrelevant to my commitment to the cause of public service.
You really are such lovely people
If Labour want a leader who can really appeal in the North and Midlands (and not just because he is not Boris), they still probably need Burnham
So, London approves of their London politicians, regional England is nonplussed, and Scotland hates them.
But any disadvantage of being London centric doesn't hit lawyerly, careful Starmer now any more than it does for "Man of the (24 hour party) People" Boris.
Nor does being a more traditional Labour area or Tory area make that much difference.
Starmer net approval advantage over Johnson:
London +42
South +39
North +43
Midlands +45
Scotland +64
Brown was also key to the 55% No vote in 2014
UKTV isn't funded out of the license fee; it's a commercial operation that happens to be owned by the BBC.
C*nts like Farooq don't give a fuck, because they vote Labour
"MP Margaret Ferrier to face trial on Covid rule-breach charge" - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-59894859
Margaret Ferrier is the SNP MP (now sitting as an Independent) who, reportedly, travelled around the country rather inadvisedly.
Her seat, on the edge of Glasgow, is one of that small number that Labour regained from the SNP in 2017, only to lose again in 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherglen_and_Hamilton_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
If it is a by-election, will be an absolute stonker. Fantastic opportunity for Scottish Labour to stage a recovery and give SNP a bloody nose (or vice-versa). Could put North Shropshire in the shade as the "significant by-election of our generation".
They are riding two horses at once. And again anybody says well why are you doing all this commercial stuff, and they said if you stop us, we can't afford to produce the Archer, so shut up.
The fact it's profitable shows that it works.
You’re not a Labour voting c*nt
You’re just a c*nt
Though overall UK wide Sunak is on -3% and Starmer on - 13%
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/12/10/boris-johnsons-favourability-has-dropped-all-time-
Rather than perhaps you could earn more commercially.
I can't say I shed a tear when the News of the World shut down. In fact, I seem to remember being pretty happy about it. In general though, having gone through the process myself in the past, I wouldn't wish redundancy on anyone.
An excellent speech by Margaret Thatcher from 1981 on the use of computers in schools:
https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104609
Possibly as true today as it was then: although the Internet had transformed things further.
We love him, and we owe him everything.
Anyone who wants to complain about him letting his hair down occasionally is more likely to be lynched than elected.
I don't see how BBC Food can compete with these people on any kind of scale, there's no way they can buy up the channels, they could hire chefs and monetise the videos but to get all kinds of cuisines they'd need an army of them and the channel just becomes cluttered or they need a network and there's no guarantee that they would be able to get their subscribers to cross subscribe.
In an age where my phone has got an almost 7" screen and there's chefs on YouTube offering advertising funded masterclasses why would I bother with a BBC Food written recipe from a chef who doesn't even specialise in the cuisine?
The responsibility for that change is about 99.9% the internet, 0.1% the BBC.
The fact most people including you don't see that flaw is part of the reason why the BBC is so easy to attack from all sides.
https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2022/01/falling-omicron-cases-and-conservative-poll-ratings.html
Check out the tory windowlickers almost universally hostile to BJ
Nick Timothy thinks the leaker is likely to hold back some plums for publication *after* Gray has reported.
We are in a phony war.
Just saying.
Their continued resistance to entertain change is causing them to be overtaken, but as soon as somebody suggests different all we get is stuff about how they made all this amazing stuff in the 80s and if there were made to do anything different insert popular show would have to be axed.
Shameless theft from @Pro_Rata downthread
Starmer net approval advantage over Johnson:
London +42
South +39
North +43
Midlands +45
Scotland +64
Jan 2021! And the trial not happening until Summer 2022...The wheels grinding exceedingly slow.
But the one thing you can't do is announce that things change in 5 years time when there are a whole pile of things that need to be solved before then - including a whole pile of cross issues such as broadcast transmitters that the BBC pay a disproportion amount of the cost of.
And people are willing to pay for this.
The difference now is winnie the pooh and alike are just sitting there watching.
Yes it's intimidating but you'll get used to it.
If Boris becomes popular again or Sunak replaces him and the Tories get a bounce then the North and Midlands will likely shift back in the Tory direction again.
Burnham has positive appeal north of Watford, Starmer doesn't.
See also the 2021 locals where Starmer Labour won London but lost ground in the North and Midlands to the Tories and also fell behind the Scottish Conservatives again at Holyrood. Labour's hold in Wales was more Drakeford than Starmer. Tory losses in the South were more to the LDs and Greens than Labour.
As always, I'm astonished you don't charge people for the service you provide here.
The Voice: Dutch TV suspends show over sexual misconduct claims
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60022641
The fact that you disagree with my statement that "If he gets popular again he will get more popular" is just one further indication of Chris's Law of the Internet - that no matter how self-evidently true a statement is, someone on the Internet will disagree with it.
Thank you so much. ;-)
I'd like to see a stone-cold killer revelation next. Something so bad that he not only has to resign but has to wear a bag over his head in public for the foreseeable future.
Starmer mirrors Welsh Labour in many ways.
Labour are seen as moderately useless, but by no means as bad as the Welsh Conservatives, who are, mainly through their personnel, an absolute laughing stock. One would have expected Johnson's spring sheen to have rubbed off on them. It didn't.
I think it would be fair to put down "I didn't disagree with it" as a further vindication of Chris's Law, in the sense of denying what's self-evident.
Please feel free to carry on adding to my collection ...
John Cleese to complain over BBC interview
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59681167
But that means you were claiming HYUFD said something that he didn't.
Gray report says rotten culture but not damning on PM knowledge; Big mea culpa + clearout of inner circle; More letters go in but 54 not hit; Major move to address April cost of living crunch; better than expected May locals. (Theoretically)
https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1483098095634329600
Get thee to a primary school, for heaven's sake.
Three full days of bantering on about the bloody telly.
Somebody make it stop.
It was then only Blair who finally led Labour back into power in 1997. Starmer must be concerned he is Kinnock 2 and maybe Sunak is Major 2 to Boris' Thatcher and Burnham is actually Labour's Blair even if it looks good for now for him against Boris
I browsed BBC food, but all their recipes were way too simplistic. I looked at a couple of famous tv chefs - just didn’t seem right. Quirky yet misguided
Then I found this. A woman in Australia who has basically dedicated her life to creating THE recipe for Singapore chicken laksa. Free on the internet along with explanatory videos
I followed the recipe and Wow, it is superb. Exactly what you’d get in a brilliant laksa restaurant in Singapore (I added dashi)
https://www.recipetineats.com/laksa-soup/
Incredible specialisation. Fantastically well done. No one can compete with that - in terms of laksa. Tho I wonder how the writer makes any money?!
I used to freelance for Future Publishing back in the '90s and there were at least two occasions when launches by BBC Magazines killed off Future titles.
One was Future's Classic CD, which was enormously successful (gold disc in Future's Beaufort Street reception, that sort of thing) until the BBC came along and launched BBC Music Magazine. All of a sudden Classic CD became a dead man walking. Circulation plummetted from 100k+ to 8k. You simply can't compete with the blanket advertising and cross-promotion the BBC had.
The second was a vegetarian food magazine. Future had hired the staff, produced dummies, booked promotions with Smiths, all of that. Then they got wind that the BBC was launching BBC Vegetarian Good Food magazine. Project pulled, instantly.
What's the public interest in launching magazines about vegetarianism and classical music when the market is willing to provide them? I don't get it.
That said, I don't share Leon's worry that the BBC killed off local papers. The vulture owners like Newsquest and whatever David "Rommel" Montgomery is running this week managed that just fine by themselves.
1. The BBC is funding 165 reporter gigs at local papers across the country, generating a lot of what used to be their core content (local councils and courts etc) as a shareable agency feed to keep local outlets sustainable.
2. The BBC's current provision of local news online is next to non-existent thanks to a mix of regulatory hobbling, self-restriction and silo working. Anyone whose business it has trampled doesn't deserve to have one (eg - the BBC site for Herts, Beds & Bucks currently has three stories written today... which compared to local news sites for Bedford, Luton, Hitchin, St Albans, MK and Aylesbury, erm, isn't much).
*Although that's a very tricky subject...
https://smarkets.com/event/42507921/politics/uk/uk-party-leaders/boris-johnson-to-face-vote-of-no-confidence
Settles Yes if VONC triggered but BJ still goes before it happens
Value if any in laying I think
I noted you said "managed", but I can't see any reference to that.