Posted on 07/06/2025 7:27:42 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
After a year in office, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government is in rough waters. On July 1st the prime minister abandoned cuts to Britain’s welfare budget, after a large rebellion of Labour MPs forced him to gut his proposed legislation. The government’s standing in opinion polls is poor. Sir Keir’s promise to bring stability after the years of tumult that followed the Brexit referendum of 2016 looks hollow. He would doubtless ask voters to ignore the drama in the House of Commons, and look at the progress he has made on improving their lives. We have done just that. To monitor whether the government is on track, we have devised an index based on several measures that resonated most with voters.
Sir Keir entered Downing Street in July 2024 promising to “stop the chaos” and begin a “decade of national renewal”. He identified a list of government missions that, if achieved, would improve the lot of ordinary people. There are three problems with his approach. First, the targets are too modest. Second, in its first year the government has made very slow progress. Third, Sir Keir’s goals do not have much resonance with voters. The Economist commissioned a survey from More In Common, a polling firm, to find out the kind of metrics that people think would improve their lives and increase their propensity to support the government at the next general election. People told us, for example, that they are more concerned about their own incomes than about GDP, and about lower bills rather than clean energy. And they really dislike potholes.
Our metrics cover eight domains: immigration, income, housing, health, energy, crime, transport and the environment. By normalising every metric on a scale from zero to 100 and taking the average we get an overall government-performance score
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What more would you expect from a PM that runs Perfidious Albion?
Some argue the UK still runs its colonies in North America. Canada - certainly
But also the USA - particularly through a wide network of Atlanticist / globalist organizations, NGOs, as well as media and cultural organizations, and long-term propaganda activities (like global warming/net zero) all active in the USA, controlled by friendly Americans who share the statist, woke, globalist ideology.
“On July 1st the prime minister abandoned cuts to Britain’s welfare budget, after a large rebellion of Labour MPs forced him to gut his proposed legislation.”
Be very careful when you hand out bennies because there’ll be hell to pay if you ever take them back.
And NYCs Mandahmi wants to double down on socialism.
“How is Britain Doing?” It should be renamed Britainastan. Does that answer the question?
“…to find out the kind of metrics that people think would improve their lives …”
Leaders KNOW these things and how to bring them about without having to consult polling firms.
The British sites
I frequent can’t stand him.
Better there than Poland.
While Stalmer deserves to be beat up on, since he is PM, no one voted for him to improve things (Farage got those votes). Rather they voted for him to (rightly) PUNISH the so-called ‘Conservative’ in the UK for being to left of even the US Democrats.
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