Party Polling

[Borg Refinery]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/party-membership-fell-again-last-083742774.html

Membership of the main political parties continued to decline last year even as they stepped up preparations for the General Election, newly published accounts have shown.
Labour shed another 37,000 members over the course of 2023, bringing its total membership at the end of the year to 370,450.
Although Labour remained by far the largest party in the UK, the figure is well down on its recent peak of 532,046 at the end of 2019.
Despite this drop in membership, the party reported a smaller deficit than it expected as it increased spending in preparation for the election.
Having expected to lose £2.5 million over 2023, the actual figure was £851,000, which treasurer David Evans ascribed to "an increase in high value donations", offsetting investment in staffing levels, technology and a "more appropriate" head office.
Labour was not alone in seeing a decline in membership in 2023. The Liberal Democrats lost around 11,000 members and while the Conservatives do not publish membership figures, income for the party from membership fees fell from £1.97 million to £1.5 million.
But where Labour recorded a deficit in 2023, both the Lib Dems and Conservatives recorded surpluses.
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Significant increases in donations and income from its party conference saw the Liberal Democrats end 2023 with a surplus of £271,258, while the Conservatives managed a surplus of £17.9 million – helped by a £10 million bequest from Lord John Sainsbury.
In his report on the accounts, signed off the day before Rishi Sunak called this year's election, Tory treasurer Alan Mabbutt said the party had enjoyed its must successful fundraising quarter in a non-election year at the start of 2023, stabilising its finances after the chaos of 2022.
He said: "The board remains confident that sufficient funding will be generated in 2024 to build on this positive result and support the spending ambitions of a general election campaign."
However, during the campaign itself, the Tories struggled to raise money while Labour secured millions in donations.
Meanwhile, ongoing turmoil in the Scottish National Party during 2023 saw its membership continue to decline sharply, losing around 18,000 members over the course of the year.
Between 2019 and 2023, membership of the SNP almost halved from 125,691 to 64,525.

Corbyn oversaw huge increases in membership in the party, was he really so hated as the media and internal saboteurs in Labour made out? Doubtful, the other parties - all of them - whored themselves out for money but Lab didn't get any under Starmer whereas Corbo got lots of small donations

Still don't make Wurzel's politics right, but good to note nonetheless, still arguably a step over the wet lettuces who oppose him who can't even get basic maths right

[Borg Refinery]

I think he was pretty unpopular before he even took the job . He won by default of the Tories incompetence not that he had anything to offer ,even Corbyn got more votes than this T@@@ .
But yes he is on a downward spiral even from his low starting point .

Corbyn didn't really do too badly against Theresa May, I don't like his pro terrorist politics at times but other parties have had the same problems supporting terrorists, so hardly just him in that case either

As for a downward spiral, I agree he's on a downward spiral from that low starting point - but at least the party isn't completely imploding unlike others and they are universally disliked by all (even those in their own party) as they whore themselves out to any and everyone with money ..

[Streetwalker]

I think he was pretty unpopular before he even took the job . He won by default of the Tories incompetence not that he had anything to offer ,even Corbyn got more votes than this T@@@ .
But yes he is on a downward spiral even from his low starting point .

[Borg Refinery]

Yup, Corbyn did much better than him, but somehow Labour play that up as a victory for the right wing of the party, while they rule over the party with an iron fist like a dictator - Starmer behaves like one

It's ridiculous really, then they have the gall to criticise other parties for doing same things they do daily

[Nick]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election

https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-kingdom/

Starmer isn't that popular is he? The Tories definitely aren't, looks like Starmer's popularity is dropping..

Will he prove to be the most unpopular prime minister ever?

He did that on polling day, getting less votes than Corbyn. 

[Borg Refinery]

[Borg Refinery]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election

https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-kingdom/

Starmer isn't that popular is he? The Tories definitely aren't, looks like Starmer's popularity is dropping..

Will he prove to be the most unpopular prime minister ever?