Poll: Public back Labour’s argument the cuts are “too far and too fast”

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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””

  1. BenM_Kent

    They’re not that hidden if you can keep shouting about it.

  2. Newsbot9

    That’s right. you’re running a ponzi, politician. You’re not going to pay the state pension, etc, because you’d have to pay tax.

  3. Newsbot9

    Shush now, don’t get facts into his copy/pasted shilling.

    And yes, LB, you’re going to manage to get lynched one day by the people you keep spitting on. Disgusting habit.

  4. LB

    Not me, The state. It’s the ONS figures. Personally I know the real debt to be much higher.

    e.g. The Triple lock means at least 0.5% above inflation.

    4.7 on state pension
    1.6 trillion for civil servants
    1.1 trillion for borrowing
    0.4 trillion for PFI
    ….

    Income 0.57 trillion.

    Bankrupt.

  5. LB

    Not me running the Ponzi.

    It’s MPs.

    Ben. Yep I’m going to carry on.

    As a question for you.

    Your share is 250,000 with interest on top.

    How are you going to pay your fair share of the mess?

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