Back in March/April David Cameron's poll honeymoon was wearing off to such an extent that some Tories were muttering about ditching him as leader. Then Labour imploded with the Prescott/Clarke/Hewitt triple whammy which turned what might have been reasonable local election results into a rout.
It looks like we've done it again. The attempt by round-robin letters to get Blair to resign was of course predicated on him being allegedly such an electoral liability that only an immediate change of leader could rescue us. Except that the poll taken immediately before all the letter writing (31 Aug to 6 Sept) - and sat on by MORI until revealed by politicalbetting.com yesterday actually had Labour 1% ahead of the Tories (CON 35%(-1): LAB 36% (+4): LD 19% (-5)).
Maybe the problem with Labour's popularity is not Blair or his policies but the perception that we are all more interested in the timing of an internal election and who will win it than we are in getting on with implementing the manifesto we were elected on less than 18 months ago.
Dave that might make sense if the poll had been taken after the events of last week, but most of the fieldwork was done before "letter gate". The polls taken since then have seen the Tory lead go up.
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