- People are stupid, part 4,567 - UK Polling Report:
"45% of Labour voters want Blair to go this year or next year"Which means, of course, that 55% of Labour voters DON'T want him to go. Likewise, "67% of current Labour voters think [Gordon Brown] will be a good Prime Minister" - even though "51% think that “it will be pretty much ‘business as usual’"
In other words, they LIKE what Labour's doing. they couldn't care less about the erosion of civil liberties. Because civil liberties are not a vote-losing issue. It's the economy, stupid, and until that REALLY begins to crumble, Labour will remain safely in power. We're stuck with 'em.
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The British public are a bunch of greedy wankers - all they're interested in is money.
"Which means, of course, that 55% of Labour voters DON'T want him to go."
Not necessarily. It could mean 55% wish he had already gone.
It's probably true that civil liberties aren't currently a vote winner for most people. They've never lived in a police state, so it won't be an issue until it begins to bite them, their family and friends. To quote Joni Mitchell -
"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?"
Actually, from those figures, we can only definitely say that 18% think that Blair is doing a good job - that's the minimum size of the overlap between those who like the look of Brown and who anticipate that he will be the same as Blair. Some proportion of 55% who don't want Blair to go may well dislike him, but believe that the alternative will be worse (Whether Brown of Cameron).
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