Labour are set to lose all but five of their 40 Scottish MPs in the General Election, making it all but impossible to oust David Cameron from Downing Street, according to a new poll.
Labour are set to lose all but five of their 40 Scottish MPs in the General Election, making it all but impossible to oust David Cameron from Downing Street, according to a new poll.
The Poll by Survation for the Daily Record also found that just 2 per cent of voters completely trust Ed Miliband.
In contrast to Labour’s woes, the poll has the Scottish National Party riding high and going from six seats to 52 next year.
According to the poll of 1001 Scots, the SNP would win 45.8 per cent of the popular vote in Scotland, compared to Labour’s 23.9 per cent. The Conservatives would finish on 16.7 per cent and the Lib Dems on 6.1 per cent.
If this were replicated at the General Election it would mean the SNP winning 52 seats, Labour five, and the Conservatives and Lib Dems one each.
Further evidence suggests that Labour’s support for the No vote in the recent Scottish independence referendum has damaged their standing with Yes voters.
In more bad news for the Labour leader, Ed Miliband now has a worse personal rating in Scotland than David Cameron. Only 2 per cent of those polled completely trust Miliband, while a further 7 per cent mostly trust him and 20 per cent slightly trust him. In contrast, 59 per cent of Scots either mostly or completely distrust him.
Two per cent completely trust Cameron but 12 per cent mostly trust him.
58 Responses to “Another day, another grim Scotland poll for Miliband”
Black shuck
Too bad Scottish Labour didn’t support the ‘Yes’ campaign. That way, at least, the rest of the country would have had a beacon for how things might be done differently. Ed is a ‘nice bloke’, but as a leader John McEvoy has it right. Let’s face it we’re seriously looking at a lot of horse trading next election – Green/labour/plaid/liberal (if survive) etc vs UKIP/Tory/UDP etc. Get out your crystal balls and calculators, folks.
Ian Brannan
@madasafish
In regards to EVEL lets look at it from another persepective in Scotland, We have 59 MP’s and of those the vast vast bulk 41 were Labour, yet despite this we are saddled with a Tory Prime Minister and Government who has a mere 1 MP (11 if you include the Lib Dems, still a minority).
In addtion to this the goverment that we overwhelmingly rejected is able to impose policies such as the “bedrrom tax” despite the bulk of Scottish MP’s (48 against, 11 for) rejecting the measure.
I’m all for EVEL, but using the same logic England should not be able to impose Tory Governments or policies on Scotland that we rejected at the ballot box.
You also seem to be ignoring the fact that the SNP do NOT and have NEVER voted on English only matters, it is only the Unionist parties who do so.
Ian Brannan
Have any of you set foot in Scotland the last 3 years prior to the referendum? The sheer media bias against a YES vote was on Par with Goebbels or Pravda.
I’ll give you a clear example prior to the referendum, the Scottish Government’s position was it would be able to keep charging English students tuition fees in an independent Scotland, in apparent contravention of EU law (which we only supposedly currently dodge due to a loophole because England and Scotland are both in the UK).
Therefore, ran the argument, Scottish universities would be swamped by English students taking advantage of a free education, Scottish students would be deprived of places, and the universities would lose millions of pounds. Labour MP and no Campaign head Alistair Darling argues this case here – http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/politics/alistair-darling-claims-university-research-funding-would-be-devastated-under-independence-1.439972
Except, wait a minute. “Better Together” were simultaneously telling Scots that Scotland wouldn’t just waltz into the EU. They were constantly insisting that Scotland would go to the“back of the queue” see here -http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/scottish-independence-scotland-would-go-to-the-back-to-the-queue-to-join-eu-says-david-cameron-9475319.html for membership and take years, perhaps decades, to be accepted under goodness knows what terms. In which case, as a non-EU member, the EU’s laws about tuition fees wouldn’t apply to Scotland and Scottish universities could charge English students whatever they liked.
The No campaign was thanks to the media able to make these blatantlly incompatible lies stick at the same time. “Scotland will be thrown out of the EU – but, er, still subject to EU laws”.
A compliant media NEVER forced to the NO campaign to face up to this blantant contradiction. Indeed I CHALLENGE anyone to find a single instance where Alistair Darling or Better Together were held to account over this.
Ian Brannan
“the SNP has peaked at the YES 45%”
Before the referendum the SNP’s memebership was 36,000 its now over 85,000 and climbing day by day. Also there has been what seven or eight polls now in a row that Put the SNP well ahead of Labour.
“the respondents aren’t thinking much about the 7 May 2015 UK General Election yet”
Labour’s sole main argument for years in Scotland has been “vote Labour to keep the Tories out”, this no longer works seeing as Labour stood shoulder to shoulder with the Tories in the NO campaign,
“Labour needs to work hard and get tis act together”
Labour’s branch office in Scotland are utterly finished, I sense a real amount of anger directed at the “red tories” as they are now known.
gelert
My last visit was two years ago and not for any political purpose.
I do know that the behaviour of many SNP supporters in the recent campaign,towards anyone who dared to speak out against them, was worthy of Brownshirts.