The latest Sun/YouGov poll shows more support for Labour's argument on the cuts than the coalition's.
The latest Sun/YouGov poll (pdf) shows more support for Labour’s argument on the cuts than the coalition’s. Forty per cent say the government’s public spending cuts are “too deep”, with 43% saying they are “too quick” – echoing Ed Balls’s “too far and too fast” mantra.
As the charts above show, only 28% and 26%, respectively, think the cuts are “about right” in their pace and depth, with just 12% and 13%, respectively, believing the scale of the cuts is “too slow” and “too shallow”.
The poll also reveals 48% say the government’s deficit reduction programme is “bad for the economy” (v 35% good), and 57% say the cuts are being carried out “unfairly” (v 26% fairly). However, 55% say cuts are “necessary”, with less than half that figure (27%) believing they are unnecessary, and 35% say the last Labour government is “most to blame for the current spending cuts”, with 26% blaming the coalition.
Interesting figures – though for some reason, this poll, commissioned by The Sun, appears not to have been covered by The Sun. Now, why might that be?
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13 Responses to “Poll: Public back Labour’s argument the cuts are “too far and too fast””
Michael Carey
Even with the leading question…
LB
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171766_263808.pdf
Page 4.
4.7 trillion hidden off the books.
How about telling the public you’ve spent all their pension money?
Er, yes. They would lynch you. Better not tell the plebs.
Richard Gadsden
If you combine “about right” with “too shallow/slow” then you get 40-39 on one question and 43-40 on the other, where the small pluralities favour the Labour view, and the minorities agree either with Osbourne (“about right”) or with the Tory backbenches (“cut harder”). Those leads aren’t that strong, but they’re still a big turnaround from a year or so ago where the public agreed with Osbourne much more strongly.
David Mullen
Why not make the argument that the cuts are completely unnecessary. The problem with public finances is tax evasion by multi nationals and the super rich.
LB
So come on.
4,700 bn of state pension debt with no assets.
That’s not the banks, because they don’t run the state pension
That’s no the rich either. It’s multiples of the total tax take.
That’s politicians running a Ponzi.
On top all the other debts.