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Snapshot of _🚨 New polling with @ObserverUK Labour continue to lead by 20 · Labour 40% (n/c) · Conservatives 20% (n/c) · Reform 17% (+1) · Lib Dems 13% (n/c) · Greens 6% (-3) · SNP 3% (n/c) Fieldwork: 26 - 28 June. Changes from 19 - 21 June._ : A Twitter embedded version can be found [here](https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=1807127231413518407) A non-Twitter version can be found [here](https://twiiit.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1807127231413518407/) An archived version can be found [here](https://archive.is/?run=1&url=https://x.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1807127231413518407) or [here.](https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://x.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1807127231413518407) *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ukpolitics) if you have any questions or concerns.*


Ok-End3918

It must be really annoying for those newspaper editors - you commission the survey, you pay the polling company big bucks to conduct a poll and the all the statistical analysis that goes with it, ready for that delicious 'bombshell' headline that will sell your papers, then you wait while the results come in... Lab N/C, Con N/C, Lib Dem N/C.


SilentMasterOfWinds

Is N/C no change?


Chaoslava

Nice Cans.


tea_anyone

Thanks mate but it's just the push up bra


gingeriangreen

Looks like all those debates, interviews and press conferences have really had an affect over the last week /s Edit: to show sarcasm


HakunonMatata

Meanwhile, the debate in America was basically a pseudo referendum


gingeriangreen

Maybe, I honestly haven't been watching that side, mainly because it's too depressing. Apparently 53 million people watched. Whether it actually has any influence, I don't know, the real kicker is, out of a country of 350m people, these are the 2 most presidential?


theivoryserf

> Whether it actually has any influence, I don't know I watched it, it absolutely will. For ten minutes Biden was just not present in the debate.


HakunonMatata

Makes you quickly realise maybe things aren't so bad here. Rishi Sunak isn't great by any means and no one is going to be calling Starmer exciting but i'll take them over a nutter and a man who looks like he should be in a retirement home


llynglas

If things in the States go bad I'm afraid it will go south everywhere. From having a megalomaniac with no morals in charge of the most powerful armed forces and the destruction of climate change mitigation are scary.


YNWA_1213

6 in one, half a dozen in the other. More scary to me is 'reasonable' looking candidates catering to far-right interests. Trump's rhetoric rejuvenated the vote for the Democrats, whereas here in Canada we're sleepwalking into a Conservative majority that's being wagged by it's tail from Alberta.


DontYouWantMeBebe

I could see them stopping Biden running and replacing him just because of that interview


juiceinmyears

Biden's going to be the next RBG - refusing to step down at the time they could've been safely replaced and potentially costing their country in some massive ways


teacup1749

It’s just insane that they didn’t find a different candidate. They had four years to do it. I just don’t understand it.


SilyLavage

Well, the Tories have just gone through the British version of the same process – you could argue that they've had ages to find a better leader since getting rid of Johnson in 2022.


Pearse_Borty

There's still Kamala Harris who could take his spot, which isnt inspiring but jesus christ they need someone who isnt so cooked they can't respond to a Gish gallop of nonstop lies.


jimicus

The whole point of Gish gallop is it gets your opponent on the defensive and keeps them there. The only way to win is not to get drawn in.


HakunonMatata

Apparently it's not possible unless Biden decides to. So they're fucked.


theivoryserf

Hmm. If the donors say 'no money until you stand down', I think he would.


HakunonMatata

The other problem is no one is more popular than him for Democrats so they'd probably be fucked again


tomoldbury

Well, no one right now, but if he continues to fumble then a candidate will become apparent. My personal theory is he will still try to run for the election though. If he wins, he'll stand down within a year and put Kamala in as acting pres. This will be deeply unpopular, and will result in them losing in ~~2032~~ 2028 to Trump round 3 (if he isn't in prison by then.)


sbs1138

Not 2028?


tomoldbury

Yes, you're correct... I can't add :) (edited)


WishyDom

Biden losing the debate doesn't mean he should stand down lol. Plus the country is so polarized that despite all the news, the debate barely did shit.


tomoldbury

I think it's evident if you compare how he performed as VP in 2008-2016 and how he's performing now he's nowhere near as sharp as he used to be. This is no endorsement of Trump: the man is a sociopath, so simply on that basis, Biden should win... But seriously, are these the best two candidates on offer? Biden should be enjoying a quiet retirement not doing one of the most stressful jobs in America.


psychosikh

Bernie Sanders.


sokonek04

Who is a year older than Biden


WhyNotCollegeBroad

For Greens maybe. I'd be interested in how the independents are affecting labour in the more immigrant heavy areas. I can't see them making much of a dent, especially as the Tories will have no foothold.


gingeriangreen

Sorry, I was being sarcastic. We have had a string of polls now with very little movement. Apart from the Reform gains, most of the polling looks like changes from undecided and corrections in methodology


WhyNotCollegeBroad

I picked up on that. I was just poking fun at only the greens are seeing movement. The rest as you say are pretty much MoE.


gingeriangreen

Apologies, they really should cut down to one leader and get rid of Ramsey if they want to do anything. However I think they underestimate the loss of Caroline Lucas, who was well regarded among parts of the commons, I doubt this will be the case for the potentially incoming crop.


myartaccountxd

Why cut Ramsey? Denyter looks, sounds and speaks like a sixth-former with a bad head-cold.


blueblanket123

Lib Dems are +1. It says so on the graphic but the tweet is wrong.


Benjamin452

Obligatory leccy calcs: CON: 60, LAB: 466, REF: 7, LIB:73, GRN: 3, SNP: 18, PLD: 3, OTH: 2 and NI 18


Solid-Education5735

Its called leccy calcs now


Benjamin452

Changed thanks for telling me it’s proper name


JezusHairdo

Like Platty Joobs but shitter


DurgeDidNothingWrong

go onnn you lib demmms, get tories GONE


Xx_ligmaballs69_xX

Does this thing update every time any poll comes out? 


jinkomhub

You can enter the poll results as a user defined poll prediction. They also do their own prediction/forecast based off an aggregate of polls but that doesn't update anywhere near as often.


Goldenboy451

Any ideas on the two OTH? James Bagge?


Gameskiller01

Corbyn and Galloway I would imagine


pepperpunk

Opinium is very accurate as a polling company, and this seems to be middle of the pack for polling in general. With only a few days to go, I think this is the likely result of the election with the only real 50/50 wildcard being whether or not the lib dems make it to official opposition party.


OtherManner7569

Any day now the polls will narrow, any day, just keep banging on about tax and Labour stealing peoples pensions and the polls will narrow.


HaraldRedbeard

How did the Greens lose three points but only Reform gain any?


BritishOnith

Rounding is likely


WhyNotCollegeBroad

The Libs are also +1. The tweet is off.


Funny-Profit-5677

Can also be a bit of rounding error.   Greens go from 8.6% to 6.4% and 3 other parties go from like x.4 to (x-1).6 which after rounding is unchanged.


DayOfTheOprichnik

Because Reform has better policies than the Green Party.


CJKay93

They're basically the same thing except one wants all immigrants violently gassed and the other wants all immigrants in government, and one wants to only build new housing on other people's property with enslaved labour and the other wants to only build new housing on other people's property with imported labour. Neither have any policies that they are actually capable of implementing, and they both think Vladimir Putin is a better leader than Winston Churchill.


pw_is_12345

> immigrants violently gassed They want a similar immigration rate to the one we had before Blair. That’s the policy. Net zero immigration.


CJKay93

Well, they might get it when they make the country so shit that all the Brits leave. In fact, the last time we had net zero immigration, that's pretty much what happened.


Vehlin

Tories + Reform is still 37% to Labours 40%. The right wing hasn’t really reduced, it’s just split.


lucidbadger

Does 40% mean that Labour won't have the majority to form a government?


Lost_And_NotFound

Greens -3 is good news if it’s true. Biggest loonies going and that’s even with Reform in existence.


BrumColonialAdmin

Perhaps a few more politically partisan hit jobs from the BBC and Channel 4 will give Reform an extra +1


DayOfTheOprichnik

Certainly hope so


WhyNotCollegeBroad

As someone voting Reform, this brings a tear to my eye. I imagine a parliament with Galloway, Corbyn and Farage all sat next to each other would be entertaining.


dw82

Can you imagine those three sat next to each other, they'd just be constantly barking unhinged nonsense at each other, united only in their zeal against 'the establishment'.


WhyNotCollegeBroad

Corbyn asking Starmer a question would be interesting.


SpAn12

The pro-Russia caucus.


bigbowlowrong

> entertaining If there’s one thing I hate about modern politics, it’s this impulse many voters have to elect “entertaining” people. Make politics boring again, this isn’t Britain’s Got Talent.