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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 09:31 AM Jul 2019

Just 0.13 per cent of the population voted for Boris Johnson

According to analysis from Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University, party members who supported Boris Johnson are even more ideologically unrepresentative of British voters than their other Conservative members. Some 85 per cent of Johnson's supporters are keen on a no-deal Brexit (this fell to 37 per cent among Hunt supporters). Though one in five Tory grassroots members would like to see less emphasis on climate change in public debate, this figure rises to one in four among Johnson supporters (the figure was around one in ten for Hunt supporters).

It’s the first time since the days of rotten or pocket boroughs, before the 1832 Reform Act, when politicians could use boroughs with very small electorates to gain undue influence in the houses of parliament, that only a few thousand people have wielded such extraordinary power.


[link:https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2019/07/just-013-cent-population-voted-boris-johnson|

Yay Democracy *rolls eye*
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Just 0.13 per cent of the population voted for Boris Johnson (Original Post) Soph0571 Jul 2019 OP
Minority rule...... Ohiogal Jul 2019 #1
What percentage of the population The King of Prussia Jul 2019 #2
Any number of wrongs don't make a right: Denzil_DC Jul 2019 #4
He will dare and I predict a riot, or two... Soph0571 Jul 2019 #6
What bothers me more... T_i_B Jul 2019 #3
As with Trump, it seems there's always a quote: Denzil_DC Jul 2019 #5
I did a graphic a while back on the nasty shit he has said Soph0571 Jul 2019 #7
Perhaps the most unpopular PM at the start of his term ever muriel_volestrangler Jul 2019 #8

Denzil_DC

(7,187 posts)
4. Any number of wrongs don't make a right:
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 04:52 PM
Jul 2019


But we'll now have had two in a row (granted May squeaked back into the premiership when she called her ill-fated snap election in between times) at a particular crunch point in the UK's history, rivalled only by Lloyd George's and Churchill's terms.

From what I could decipher from his hyperactive speech to the 1922 Committee today, Johnson's claiming a mandate for a no deal Brexit.

Let him put that to the test if he dare.

T_i_B

(14,734 posts)
3. What bothers me more...
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 12:53 PM
Jul 2019

Is the total lack of judgement on the part of that 0.13% of the population. Putting ideological purity far ahead of any other concerns and wilfully ignoring the reality of how the project to leave the EU has been progressing in the real world.

Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
7. I did a graphic a while back on the nasty shit he has said
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 06:30 PM
Jul 2019

Could not find it. But that is a good one for right now. I think an election in Autumn will be inevitable. Early or late autumn depends on when he tries to push through a no deal

muriel_volestrangler

(101,149 posts)
8. Perhaps the most unpopular PM at the start of his term ever
Wed Jul 24, 2019, 04:17 AM
Jul 2019
YouGov say he has a 31% favourable, 58% unfavourable rating, compared to May's 48% favourable, 36% unfavourable at her start.

Brown, also coming in without a general election, had a plus 7 percent approval rating in July 2007.

I expect Cameron and Blair, coming in after winning general elections, were OK; they can't possibly have been down at -27%. Not sure if such polls were taken when Major started, or if they'd be available on the net.
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