According to a poll, even Labour’s own supporters believe that Keir Starmer is proving to be a worse prime minister than Margaret Thatcher.
More in Common’s research provided more proof that Sir Keir’s start in No. 10 has left the British people utterly disappointed.
Questioned who has been the best premier in the past 40 years, only 4 percent said the Labour leader.
That was the same percentage that supported Theresa May, two points less than the support for John Major and one point more than Rishi Sunak.
Baroness Thatcher came top with 33 per cent, with Tony Blair ranking second at 20 percent and Boris Johnson tied for third with Gordon Brown at 10 percent.
Voters who supported Labour at the election five months ago had a considerably worse image.
They put three-time election winner Sir Tony at the head of the list at 37 percent, with Gordon Brown next best at 15 percent.
Lady Thatcher was the third most popular option with 14 percent.
But that was well ahead of Sir Keir, who was supported by a mere 9 percent and barely edged out Lord Cameron by 8 percent.
Despite having one of the lowest winning vote percentages ever, Sir Keir has had a turbulent first five months after winning a massive election landslide.
Outrage has been mounting over the incredible £40 billion tax raid in Rachel Reeves’ first Budget at the end of October, with farmers protesting at inheritance duties and pensioners angry about losing winter fuel allowance.
He announced further ‘milestones’ in a ‘reset’ speech last week attempting to get his stumbling premiership back on track.
His first months in No 10 also saw Sue Gray sacked as No 10 chief of staff amid Downing Street infighting.
When it was revealed that Louise Haigh had a criminal past, she resigned as transport secretary, dealing Sir Keir yet another setback in recent days.
Fears were raised that the UK economy is falling into the red as a survey showed business confidence was crashing after the Budget.
According to research by the consulting company BDO, optimism has fallen to its lowest point in two years.
An activity tracker also fell by 3.2 points to 94.7 last month – the weakest in more than a year, with anything below 95 indicating contraction.
The darkening picture comes after GDP scarcely scraped into positive territory in the third quarter, recording 0.1 per cent growth.
The single month of September witnessed a 0.1 percent fall in output, with revision of the data still possible.
A recession is technically characterised as two consecutive quarters of shrinkage.
Margaret Thatcher was a catastrophe for the United Kingdom, and her choices as prime minister are to blame for many of the problems we currently confront.
She destroyed businesses, particularly in Wales and the north of England, leaving people without other options for employment, resulting in a generation of people living on the dole.
We now have foreign government-owned firms controlling our energy, communication, and train systems at exorbitant costs after she sold them off.
She sold off social housing stock at ridiculously low prices, leaving the taxpayer to pay over the odds to build more, and something we never actually replaced leaving a considerable shortfall for almost three decades.
Although she did have some positive traits as prime minister, her legacy generated a lot of issues for this nation.
What she should have done is work with her government to improve those industries, especially in telecoms, energy and rail, but she made a major mistake, which we are all still paying the price for.
Thatcher began selling everything, even if it was profitable, which is why we are in a mess, and not a single person complained when they were able to purchase their own council home at a knockdown price.
The first of Keir Starmer’s issues is that he lacks any personal magnetism. In addition to being as boring as dishwater, it’s difficult to understand his values and beliefs.
While he seemed enthused in 2019, he later came clean about saying things he didn’t intend.
His seeming indifference to freebies has earned him no followers, and he has created a variety of missions, goals, and aims only to abandon the majority of them.
Regarding his acolytes, he surrounded himself with a group of inexperienced lightweights and worthless idiots.
Perception in politics counts for a lot, but there’s no one in the cabinet you’d describe as a serious national leadership figure.
Labour prevailed in July because the Tories were just so dreadful, and Nigel Farage wasn’t ready for it.
Being in government is much more difficult than being in opposition, and Starmer seems to lack the vision, moral fibre, and character traits necessary to be a viable prime minister.
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