Chances of Labour landslide are melting as voters simply don’t trust Keir Starmer
Softie melting
ONCE again, the chattering classes who dominate the airwaves and social media prove to be on the wrong side of actual public opinion.
Listen to the BBC and you’d think voters are relaxed about illegal migration and all in favour of woke ideology.
But, as the The Sun’s massive poll of voters shows today, nothing could be further from the truth.
And that’s bad news for Sir Keir Starmer in particular.
Since he took over from Jeremy Corbyn — the leftwing fanatic he loyally supported in 2019 — Starmer has flip flopped from one stance to another.
He got every big call wrong on the pandemic including on vaccines and lockdowns.
There have been a string of policy U-turns — on Brexit, the NHS and welfare. But it’s not just his past record.
Starmer’s out of step with those demanding an end to illegal migration.
While he campaigns to stop deportation flights, 46 per cent want the Rwanda scheme implemented now.
Starmer said the scheme is immoral.
Does he think those voters are, too?
His torturous answers on trans issues have also been demonstrably at odds with the public mood.
Sir Keir has been right to purge the hard left from his party.
But it seems many feel he still lacks authenticity.
And it is a real kick in the teeth for Starmer that despite the Government’s considerable problems, it is Rishi Sunak who is more popular nationally, among women and even in Scotland.
Labour’s overall poll leads may be big.
But, as our poll today shows, Sir Softie’s hopes of an outright victory could yet melt away.
Strike crumbles
ABANDONING intensive care patients is a new low for striking nurses.
Despite the terrible effect on patients, public sympathy has been largely with NHS staff wanting better pay.
Walking out on the critically ill and leaving cancer wards empty puts that support at risk.
Royal College of Nursing leader Pat Cullen is threatening to take industrial action “for years.”
But she is losing control.
Today she is likely to be isolated further when other health unions accept the Government’s deal.
Back down now, Pat, before more unnecessary harm is caused.
Prisons horror
PATRICK Mackay is a ruthless psychopath serial killer known as the Devil’s Disciple.
Jordan McSweeney is a predator who brutally murdered aspiring lawyer Zara Aleena.
Yet somehow the soft touch Prison Service has conspired to indulge both these men’s sick fantasies.
Mackay — ruled too dangerous to be freed by a parole board last month — should never see the light of day again.
Meanwhile, McSweeney’s affair with a prison officer makes a mockery of HMP Belmarsh’s reputation as Britain’s most secure jail. Both men are monsters.
They should be treated as such.