Opinion Polls Say Tories Are Out Of Touch, Labour Has Nine Point Lead

PA/The Huffington Post UK  |  By Posted: 1/04/2012 06:54 Updated: 1/04/2012 10:30

Voters believe the Government has lost touch with ordinary people and overwhelmingly blame ministers for triggering panic-buying of petrol, according to an opinion poll today.

The ComRes poll for The Independent on Sunday and Sunday Mirror found almost three-quarters - 72% - said the coalition was "out of touch with ordinary people".

Four out of five of those questioned said that ministers had caused an unnecessary panic over the threat of a strike by tanker drivers.

The findings will make grim reading for David Cameron after a week in which ministers have come under sustained attack for the Budget, the fuel crisis, and Downing St dinners for wealthy donors.

The poll found 71% believed Chancellor George Osborne had been wrong to extend VAT to hot pies and pasties while 64% disagreed with the so-called "granny tax" - scrapping age-related allowances for the over-65s.

Meanwhile, a YouGov poll for the Sunday Times put the current state of the parties at 42% for Labour, up two on last week, and 33% for the Conservatives, down two from last week.

The Liberal Democrats are down one on 8% and other parties are on 17%, the survey found.

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ccraiglamont
Sometimes funny, other times...not!
06:32 AM on 04/03/2012
Sunshineupit, I agree DD is the one person within the Tory party who has lived a life on the 'mean' streets but he would never be able to control all the greedy bean counters within the party as a whole.
Maybe it is time for a bunch of people from all the parties who are privately p*ssed off at having their hands tied by unpopular and unrealistic party policy to set aside their differences and form a party that leads FOR the masses instead of the FEW.
10:37 PM on 04/02/2012
A tip to the Tories:

David Davies for Leader!
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08:46 PM on 04/02/2012
What i find really surprising after spending a few years reading and adding to these blog pages is why ? are we in this together did i cause this global disaster did i contribute to any of this trillion pound borrowing, did anybody on these blog pages, i don't think so. somebody somewhere has committed to my mind a grand theft and why are they not being prosecuted for it, why should our pensioners suffer, schools nhs and armed services suffer for the mismanagement of the countries wealth by politicians and really wealthy bankers. Im sure the only real answer is we are all soft and we let them. Time for a real honest in touch politician to stand up and be counted, i won't hold my breath.
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07:22 PM on 04/02/2012
We the british people now know what has to be done to save this country. We have the Tory way of continuous cuts regardless of what happens. We have the Labour way to slow the cuts & try to keep unemployment levels from spiraling & try to spend our way out of trouble. We now know what is going to happen to the NHS under the Tories. We can also see who is benefiting from the last budget. We now need the Lib. Dems. to stand up & be counted by bringing this coalition to an end & letting the british public decide. We need our say especially at this point in time then we can really say WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
04:07 PM on 04/02/2012
Cameron isn't out out of touch... He's never been in touch.
Private Primary education....
Eton....
Oxford....
Conservative Party....
10:39 PM on 04/02/2012
Usual round of claptrap. Challenge his policies, by all means, but don't keep reverting to your own petty obsessions
02:28 AM on 04/03/2012
Petty Obsessions...???
What I am saying is he has been sheltered from everyday people and the everyday problems they face. I doubt whether he has ever held proper dialogue with a working class man or woman... by that I mean without him playing his money is power card.
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03:33 PM on 04/02/2012
@ Scouse55 Labour aren't Labour any more! I remember canvassing in Toccy, Speke, Fazack etc for the Real labour party in the late 80s and early 90s. We were sold out remember? Not just by Blue Labour but by Degsy H and his cronies who made us look like a load of chancers.
Until Labour goes back to its roots i.e. representing the WORKING classes not the WORKSHY classes then it will never be Labour in my eyes.
09:28 PM on 04/02/2012
100% correct.
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01:36 AM on 04/02/2012
I know I keep saying it again and again and again, but HOW on earth can Cameron hold the title of Prime Minister. He nor his party has a clear mandate to govern. His correct tittle should be "Leader of the Coalitiion in Government" GET RID OF THIS COALITION" Call an Election and sort ot SOMETHING else, I am the first to admit though I don't know who. Ed Milliband is totally unelectable, I mean how can one trust a man swho stabs his own brother in the back? But SOMEWHERE there must be somebody. Also what's all this about slapping VAT on improvements & alterations to listed buildings. Watch out, they will be slapping it on Baby Milk next. Sadly the present cabinet poor as thay are cannot afford one single penny from their own pockets.A ONE OFF "wealth tax" of say 20% (as the rest of us have to ay VAT ALL THE TIME (not a one off thing) on all who have savings of over £10,000,000 (and there are LOADS of them) would sort out the national debt once and for all..
Richard Britton
British Socialist Global Realist
03:33 AM on 04/02/2012
agree entirely
10:41 PM on 04/02/2012
& I'll point out the obvious, yet again: British Governments NEVER really have a mandate to govern. More people vote against the elected government than for it - add to that the many people who don't vote and you'll see what a ludicrous system we have, yet everyone bleats nonsense about "democracy". We have NEVER had any democracy here.
11:32 PM on 04/01/2012
I have never seen such a wonderful example of a Government snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, or , even in the wake of the last Government, who I really thought had taken the biscuit (along with everything else they could lay their grubby little hands on) had deceived an electorate with such guile with broken promises and the mess they have made of the Armed services review and defence policy, law and order, the economy, and the NHS. The tanker drivers dispute and its handling so far shows an ineptitude in so many areas of good governance that defies belief. The only ray of hope that they may yet still not be kicked out at the next election is that Galloway's election is a first class illustration that the Labour party is still not seen by the electorate as a reasonable alternative, but if Cameron doesn't get his finger out soon, even that fragment of reassurance will disappear. Unfortunately that may still mean we are stuck with a Government that is worse than second rate. We need a Government and Parliament that can regenerate some national pride by putting a fire in the gut of the electorate to pull together, and get things right. I'm afraid to say that on present form, this is not it.
10:05 PM on 04/01/2012
Things can only get better, surely our government are much better than the disasters of this week ? There must have been just a series of bad luck and the people not really appreciating our government. Of course I may be wrong but we all live in hope. We seem to be sailing on one of those luxury cruise ships rudderless, sinking and with a captain that has tripped and fallen overboard. The professional political classes are not the quality ship's crew we the tax payer deserve. Am I wrong ?
Richard Britton
British Socialist Global Realist
03:36 AM on 04/02/2012
get better for who? not for the millions with no hope of a proper job, those getting a pay freeze and loss of benefits and services

oh right, things can get better under this govt - just make sure you earn over £150,000 pa then you can have a tax cut
09:08 PM on 04/01/2012
I guess the government will say, "the only opinion poll that matters is a general election!".

Well then, let's have one.
12:11 AM on 04/02/2012
Problem is the way Cameron has things now is that we're stuck with the idiots we have now for the full term. We won't be able to get rid of them until next election. There is no other way (as far as I know, does anyone know better??) to force the Government into an election unless the Opposition raise a Motion of No Confidence.
Richard Britton
British Socialist Global Realist
03:37 AM on 04/02/2012
been saying that since they first announced the austerity program - let'#s have a vote on it and see if we want pay freezes and benefits for the poor plus tax cuts for the rich
09:41 PM on 04/02/2012
Of course there is a way, more than one in fact.

All out general strike

general refusal to buy motive fuels for a month. Clog up public transport leave your car home.

Worst case scenario, go mob handed to Westminster. drag em' all out and string em up on the lampposts along the Embankment..

The way things are looking though, I cannot see any happening as the British are about the very worst when it comes to fighting dictatorial law making, and threats of police boot boy tactics.

So, whatever we get dished out,it's obvious we deserve it.
05:52 PM on 04/01/2012
Call me Dave and Cleggy have never been in touch with the electorate. They got in by default and the British electorate are throughly cheesed off with politicians and their policies. This is backed up by George Galloway being elected in Bradford. The Tories need to change their direction and Labour need to change leadership. Lib Dems need to go back to the back benches.
The whole politics needs an overhaul.
05:14 PM on 04/01/2012
They weren't in touch to get elected, they needed the support of the Lib Dems. No change.