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Published Date: 07 May 2008
MORE than half of Labour supporters want Gordon Brown to stand down as Prime Minister, an poll claimed today.
The Populus survey found 55 per cent of Labour voters believe the party would have more chance of winning the next general election if Mr Brown made way for "a younger, fresher more charismatic alternative".

The poll gave the Tories an 11-point lead, with 40 per cent support to Labour's 29 per cent. That is a rise of one per cent for the Tories and a fall of four per cent for Labour since last month. The Lib Dems were two points up on 19 per cent.

Asked who they trust most to deal with economic problems, 30 per cent said Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling compared with 40 per cent for David Cameron and George Osborne.

Labour faces a tough test in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election on May 22, caused by the death of veteran Labour MP Gwyneth Dunwoody.

Mr Brown is still under intense pressure to do more to reassure voters that they will not lose out from the abolition of the 10p income tax rate.

Last night former Home Secretary Charles Clarke complained short-term errors were "eroding confidence in Labour's competence".





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  • Last Updated: 07 May 2008 11:12 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Calum Crubag,

07/05/2008 12:38:40
They got rid of Blair as he was too sleazy and untrustworthy. And now Brown. The Unionists are falling apart!
2

Alastair the First,

07/05/2008 12:49:26
Dead man walking....
3

The Answer,

Glasgow 07/05/2008 13:26:03
Maybe it's an anti scottish thing!

Next will be Browne, then Darling!
4

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07/05/2008 14:50:16
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Marian,

Edinburgh 07/05/2008 15:14:40
There is no possibility, none, that Labour can win the next election. To win there must be tolerance. That is gone, subsumed in that contemptuous loathing that only the British people, pushed beyond their normal equable fairness, can really manage. And we have been so pushed. This will happen because New Labour have been dishonest with the voters, and they have been found out. That ultimate political sin, that thing above all that we as a nation cannot and will not tolerate. Moreover they have lied to us, not once, but repeatedly for more than a decade. And now all the lies are being exposed. The myth of Brown's economic "genius" is coming tumbling down and the whole shoddy edifice of debt-ridden idiocy is displayed for all of us to see. The crocodilian expressions of concern for social justice are demonstrated as untruths in the cold light of TV recordings. The overbearing authoritarian intrusive 'we know best how you should live your lives' contempt for the citizens is dragged with its monstrous pile of petty paperwork from behind the 'progressive liberal' rhetoric. We see New Labour for what it truly is, for what it has truly done, and we don't like it.
6

me150,

07/05/2008 15:26:45
Brown is the best person for the job. He fully understands how to deal with what is happening in the country and will, if given time, deal with it admirably.

However, like Wendy, the trust of the voters appears to have gone so it is perhaps best for him to go.

At least he can say he didn't abandon his party with a vow to never return and then, because it suited him, return to take over at the helm.
7

Neil McCart,

Cheltenham 07/05/2008 17:13:53
What puzzles me is where they found the 45 per cent who still support Brown??
8

Alan B,

07/05/2008 17:16:57
#me150 "Brown is the best person for the job"

The guy is clueless.

9

me150,

07/05/2008 20:10:39
Yes Alan and I suppose you know of someone better?
10

Dileas,

07/05/2008 23:59:33
"Brown is the best person for the job. He fully understands how to deal with what is happening in the country and will, if given time, deal with it admirably."

Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,hah, bah - humbug!

The man is deluded, has no personality, no ability and no integrity. How could he be the best person for the job?

Assuming you mean for a job as a politician.
11

Dileas,

08/05/2008 00:03:07
Me 150 asked "Yes Alan and I suppose you know of someone better?"

Not in the Labour party, I am afraid - they are having the same problem as Margaret Thatcher left in her wake - all people of ability had quit, leaving only toadies.

The Tories, on the other hand, could help England and, in Scotland, Labour might usefully take advice from Alex Salmond.

But would they? Doubt it - they are no good at listening, only at imposing their will on everyone with bans, fines and taxes.
12

it has always been allan,

08/05/2008 14:52:40
Yes I detest the self deluding megalomaniac but you got to admit he showed his true mettle by dealing with the plastic bag matter.

Nice of him to give us the opportunity to bail out Northern Rock

 

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