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?
13 Responses to “Poll: Public back Labour’s argument the cuts are “too far and too fast””
Newsbot9
Yes, and you’ve said you were an MP.
And of course you’re going to refuse to accnoledge that the rich should pay anything like a fair share. Let along shouldering a more than “fair” share of the burden, as they can without suffering/
No, you’ll engage in a murderous war on the 99% instead.
Newsbot9
Yes, you’re morally and intellectually bankrupt.
You keep attacking the concept of pensions, of the NHS, of there being a functioning state which YOU, politician, can partake in.
Keep on demanding the poor pay for your corporate welfare and lavish lifestyle. You “know” that you can abuse your power to leech off your inferiors, crook.
Nemesea
i think the cuts are unnecessary and dangerous as how many lives will be lost by taking benefits away from people and family’s who’s lives depend on them ???
because they are unable to work, and even if some came off benefits to work for min wage the price of things nowadays a family of 5+ would still not manage to support its self…..
and i know this because i am a mother of 3 kids which i love to bit and i am on benefits (hell i would love to work and get out of the house but i know i cant due to been disabled) and my partner cares for me and our kids….
and at times even on benefits we struggle to make ends meet and many times me and my partner have gone hungry just to be able to make it so the kids have something to eat and i know we get just above min wage so just think of all the children and family’s that will not be able to manage on a min wage and no benefits i know for a fact if i was taken of benefits i wouldn’t be able to keep my family afloat and i know i would starve my self trying to keep it afloat and many other mothers and fathers would and i know there are many other family’s that are even more worse off than what we are….
and i haven’t even mentioned the elderly and their pensions as i know a few who don’t have their heating on because they cant afford to even when the weather is really cold and i know a few who have died from getting ill due to been cold…..
so from what i have seen since this government has been in they have lied, blackmailed, ignored problems, and more or less try to kill off people that are not within their high rich class range which would be the elderly, sick/disabled, poor, and the homeless
also you may not have noticed that most employers are letting people go so finding a job when no one is taking on is quite hard to do