Good, I hope Labour get re-elected so they can sort out their own mess. Then the faithfull will really see their true colours.

You see, we're just NOT a conservative electorate, whatever the cons say. The last 3 elections have seen the Tory share of the vote at 33%, 33% and 37%. This is with an aging population, too.

That's not any kind of endorsement for the tories, whatever they try to claim. It's certainly not an endorsement for the seismic, divisive policies they are currently pursuing.

In these circumstances, the ConDems should be going hell for leather building a national consensus, not hell for leather building a 'them and us' society! I don't thinlk they know how to. It's just not in the selfish Tory genes.

With the coalition's way of governing so far, Labour could tell the population they are all going to be shot and still be more popular.

"Support for Labour has reached its highest level for nine years"
The good news is, the party’s popularity is up. The bad news is, that’s only because the alternatives are so dire.

"a random sample of 1,000 adults"
who, if as fed up with cold callers as most of those polled in telephone survey’s might confirm, adjusted their answers accordingly.

"A second poll also released on Monday night"
has probably made it back to the continent by now.

Except for viewers in Scotland, who have their own Politics.

For a puppet, reality begins by realising that it is a puppet and not to imagine that it is a human whose cup is brimming with knowledge and solutions, knowledge being merely The Potential whereas experience is The Kinetic when it comes to reality. Met any "successful" politician who gave it up after realising that it is a club full of vipers and snakes out for their their own enrichment, be that of Fame, Fortune or Immortality? Like fabulously lucky lottery winners, they exist but have you met one yet? Really? You know, zer Bigge Vun. Ja, zer really, really Bigge Vun. Thought so. And should one be found, is he really deserving of his winnings? Why, then believe any old politiko and just look at the smiling and ever so sympathetic caring faces. Realise because mere knowledge is inadequate, that when there is no Purity within Desire, there is no such thing as the Desire for Purity, the duty of every principle and concept being to replicate. Got eet yet [Hint: When you are of hypocrisy, everything that comes thereafter is of hypocrisy] or is your solution to Zer Problem of paramount importance deserving of Fame, Fortune & Immortality. Just like this posting.

Come on people, these results are from Murdoch's papers, and we know how corrupt they are!!! he's having a go at the gvmnt coz he's about to get busted!

George Galloways little win is a wake up call for the main parties - he basically said 'your all as wanted as a severe case of thrush'

As a life-long socialist, I must confess to some confusion...

The New Labour party is presumably picking up preference votes against the backdrop of a Tory-led Government, even more unpopular than the pre-1982 Thatcher Government.

That takes some doing, I grant you, but DC appears to have achieved it..

This is no time for the Labour Party to rest on its laurels; it's time to recover from the Blair/Brown years and adopt some sensible inclusive policies which will address our many and varied problems, aid proper and sustained recovery and help the most vulnerable in our society.

If they don't, then I fear the country will descend into internicine squabbling, creating fertile soil in which extremists of both left and right will flourish.

What's needed is a viable alternative to this Tory-led bow-and-arrow gang in time for the next General Election, otherwise we may find ourselves mired in manure of the deepest and most viscous variety...

That's pretty good 41% considering the poll was conducted in a Labour safe seat area, red Ed should be ecstatic

Sorry, I am confused. Labour, an inept party that has been at the forefront of destroying our culture and heritage, robbed us blind, got us into wars, etc doing well in the polls ? Are people totally insane in this country ? If this is the case I suggest right minded, honest people start heading out for pastures new and leave the country to turn into a third world laughing stock. Last sane person to leave, slam the door, ......sorry leave it open for the next wave of "asylum " seekers, etc.

Why don't I feel any better? Ah, Milliband is at the helm. In terms of politics and leadership, I believe that the UK is at an all-time low. I wouldn't put any of them in charge of a filestore>

The people who claim they will vote for Labour are yearning for a return to the good old days when benefits flowed in ever increasing amounts even though they had long since passed the point where they were affordable. The ageing population and fewer young people entering the workforce means either getting the fiscal house in order by reducing the range and level of benefit payments or struggling to borrow the money, at ever higher interest rates, to pay for this largesse.

The Labour supporters don't want to put the house in order. They simply want to shuffle the problems off to future generations and let them shoulder a massive tax burden with severely limited benefits to help them when they might need them. Their mantra is, "I want it all and I want it now!" Their children will be so grateful that they have to pay off the debts their parents generated.

You may not like George Osbourne. You may even hate him. But like it or not, he is the one man standing between us and a humiliating bailout that will bring greater hardship than anything he has in mind today or that you could imagine. That is the reality. Get over it.