Gordon Getting Spanked In The Polls
Not much of a happy 56th Birthday for Gordon on Tuesday, as The Guardian reported that he is now trailing Cameron by 13 points in the latest opinion poll:
Gordon Brown is failing to persuade the public that he would make a better prime minister than David Cameron, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today which suggests the Conservatives could win a working majority at the next general election.
Voters give the Tories a clear 13-point lead when asked which party they would back in a likely contest between Mr Brown, Mr Cameron and Sir Menzies Campbell.
The result would give the party 42% of the vote against Labour on 29%, similar to its performance under Michael Foot in 1983. The Liberal Democrats would drop to 17%. The result is the highest that the Conservatives have scored in any ICM poll since July 1992, just after their last general election victory.
Pretty unhappy birthday all around for Gordon then. It is now just under a month to go until Gordon makes what will probably (one way or another) be his final budget speech, and with such a dramatic deficit to claw back in the public opinion, who knows what crazy hair-brained schemes he may introduce in attempts to boost his popularity before it’s too late?
