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On the economy – the public don’t trust us, but they certainly don’t trust the Tories either

October 23, 2012 10:08 am

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There’s a very telling graph in the Guardian today showing how confidence in the two main parties to handle the economy has chanegd in recent months:

As you can see, Labour are barely more trusted than before, but confidence in the Tories to manage the economy has collapsed. Interestingly, Labour’s surge in perceived competence came before the Tory collapse – with Labour’s improvement being more directly attributable to the Budget (and the 50p tax cut). Perhaps that suggests that Labour should be focussing further on making those at the top of society “paying their fair share”.

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  • http://twitter.com/renieanjeh Renie Anjeh

    YouGov put Labour 1% ahead on the economy. To come from being 20% behind to 1% ahead in the space of a few months, is rather significant.

  • Alexwilliamz

    I think this is about right, no political party can claim competency of the economy as they attempt to ride the buckaroo of capitalism rather than tame it.

  • Alexwilliamz

    The point is Renie that we have a political crisis in that the public don’t believe any of our politicians are fit to perform one of their key functions. Just been less bad is hardly an endorsement.

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