Are we heading for a Tory majority?

Tories build ten-point lead after Labour economic struggles

The Conservative party have amassed a ten-point lead over Gordon Brown's Labour government, according to a new poll.

Criticism of the decision to abolish the 10p income tax band has seen Labour's approval ratings fall with David Cameron's Conservative party seen as more capable of guiding the UK through the credit crunch crisis.

A poll carried out by Populus for the Sunday Mirror newspaper gives the Tories a ten-point lead on 40 per cent, with Labour having slipped three per cent to 30 per cent since the last Populus survey.

The Liberal Democrats have also gained two points in the poll with 19 per cent support, in a study that would see David Cameron elected with a majority of 25 seats should the results be repeated at a general election.

Some 31 per cent of respondents said they saw the Tories as capable of steering Britain through current economic problems, compared with 29 per cent support for Labour.

A growing number of Labour MPs have decried the decision to abandon the 10p income tax band, claiming it could be seen as a punitive measure against the poor.

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My answer to that would be "do you have a crystal ball?"

NuLab is deservedly unpopular but there seems to be little actual enthusiasm for either the Tories or the Lib Dems who, rather, are picking up the protest vote between them.

I can remember well the "Time For A Change" buzzes in 1979 and 1997 which, whether we like(d) it or not, were as much about positive vibes for Thatcher and Blair as they were about negatives for Callaghan and Major.

So there are two years to go in which almost anything could happen.

The Skin

I don't remember 1979, as I was only two at the time, but I remember 1997.

Did anyone like Blair back then, really? Everyone I knew thought he was smarmy and horrible, but we voted for him anyway to get the Tories out. (And little did we realise quite how bad he'd be, but that's another matter).

Certainly a lot of the press seemed to be in favour of Blair, but does that reflect the views of the public? I don't know. All I know is that it didn't reflect the views of anyone I knew, but maybe the people I knew weren't typical.

... the consensus among activists was that he was the only man who could win it. While I personally talked to many a Tory sympathiser who admitted that he was the reason they were voting Labour for the first time ever.

The "smarmy" thing came later.

The Skin

The economic storm caused by the tightening of credit and the knock on effect on the the property market is going to destroy them.

The bad news for the Tories is that it will probably do in the next government as well.