Cameron’s popularity slips as Brown’s rises

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One is certainly rather disappointed to see such abusive and offensive graffiti being levelled at Mr Cameron by frustrated voters in Aldgate East. One would not want to condone that in any way. Perhaps the author might think it an effective piece of political communication in getting across the point they were trying to make but I can see why the Conservative Party might be disappointed at that.

On a point of information, I wonder if Left Foot Forward could investigate as to whether the Conservative Party might expect to receive any rebate on the advertising costs if and when any of their posters have been vandalised in this and other ways, which I imagine Lord Ashcroft might feel is undermining the intended message. I wonder if the party have made any claims to date, or might have any estimate of how many posters and how much money is involved?

Would be interested if LFF were able to report any information on that, perhaps along with some of the other more egregious examples.

Is this not perpetuating personality politics? Also, no mention of Nick Clegg. Is he not popular at all, do the pollsters not ask about him or are you deliberately excluding him?

Also, I know it’s fun to mock the poster about Cameron and Eton but the Tory leader had little choice in his school. What if residents of Chelsea put a message telling to “fuck off back to Kirkaldy”, or is it fair game to mock Darling for attending Scotland’s oldest boarding school? Personally I’d avoid this sort of prejudice on a blog that tries to put forward a progressive agenda…

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Swagata – You make some perfectly fair points in the first two paras but the 3rd para was in breach of our Comments policy.

No probs Will. I suppose it was too personal. I meant a general observation that if the blog post concludes by saying “the voice of the future” is having a go at someone for their elite education then perhaps the author had better be on safe ground?

As for Clegg, I’ve done some digging and based on the UK Polling report linked I’ve seen the popularity ratings there. Both Cameron and Clegg score plus 15% approval ratings with Gordon Brown on minus 38% (http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/leaders/brown) although the latest survey on the site seems to be two months old. Given the increasing liklihood that Cameron’s falling popularity could bring a hung parliament then there’s all the more reason to include Clegg.

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Rather than condoning the vandalism of Conservative posters, the important question I feel is whether or not it is a coincidence that this piece of obscene graffiti was written at a time when the popularity of Cameron and the Conservatives is slipping? Is this evidence supporting recent poll findings? I suppose for a definite answer we would have to ask the writer.

On the issue of does this post perpetuate personality politics, I would suggest that in drawing attention to some polling data that indicates that the public feel Cameron is more personality than politics, the post in fact decries the perpetuation of personality politics.

How can the actions of a grafitti artist define the political mood? It makes for a good laugh but it’s got little to do with the polls. How come you excluded Nick Clegg, was that deliberate or an oversight?

[...] are just the facts. As Left Foot Forward points out, Cameron’s popularity is falling while Brown’s is [...]

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Please for the love all thats decent stop harping on about the guys school! What does it matter where he was schooled and why is it cool to discriminate in verbally aggressive terms someone who went to an elite school. I went to a crap state comp and my life nearly fell apart there, my step brother goes to a high ranking private secondary school. Is it ok to rip on him for that? Should he be discriminated in the job market for it? Would i make a better politician than him?

My point was not about his schooling but his popularity. I concede that the point of the last paragraph would have been more clear had it read…

‘Overall, it raises the question of whether an expression of dissatisfaction in Aldgate East – a suggestion that Cameron might care to go back to Eton – is one person’s protest or reflects a growing trend of Cameron’s declining popularity.’

[...] 37% said Labour, 31% Conservative and 18% Liberal Democrat – and yesterday, Left Foot Forward reported the IPSOS Mori findings for The Observer that showed Cameron’s popularity had slipped 9 [...]

brown stuff heats up pure compost and hot air as usual from the party of aprehension, you.ll never self brown no matter what you wrap him in and youve forgotten the army vote if you want to know what hate for labour is like just ask

[...] also comes in the wake of a slump in Cameron’s popularity, reported by Left Foot Forward earlier this week. His personal rating fell 9 points to 45% in the 18 months [...]