Sunak Is Sinking

The Conservatives have just fallen to a new record low.

Stuart Mitchell/@IncMonocle

It is becoming increasingly clear that those Conservative MPs hoping for a miraculous Rishi Sunak-led electoral comeback are delusional.

As the boats keep coming, the Government’s Rwanda Bill has been allowed to get bogged down in ridiculous ping-pong pantomime with the unelected Lords.

There are now even briefings from Conservative backbenchers that this is all by design. That Sunak’s Rwanda plan isn’t tough enough and won’t work beyond perhaps a few symbolic flights.

I’ll remind you that since 2018, over 120,000 people have been allowed to cross on small boats from France to England.

Yet this illegal migration emergency has not been dealt with properly by the Government who have allowed the situation to spiral out of control.

Had they been serious about stopping this madness, we would have left the ECHR years ago.

Suella Braverman has repeatedly called for this to happen and now has made clear that during her time as Home Secretary, Rishi Sunak just wasn’t interested in this urgent Leave agenda.

Whilst the former Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick now says much the same about an ECHR exit:

“The ECHR has been stretched beyond recognition by activist judges that treat the convention as a ‘living instrument’.

“It now consistently undermines the UK’s security interests.

“Much like the doomed 2015 EU renegotiations, meaningful reform is a fantasy. We must leave.”

Except instead of listening to Braverman and Jenrick in Government, both are now on the outside with Sunak limping on.

Increasingly the tough talk without any action is provoking an almighty backlash from the British public.

It is interesting to note that Remainstream media’s relentless day after day campaigns on the struggling nature of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss in Downing Street isn’t being replicated now with Sunak.

That’s despite our current PM actually sinking the Conservatives to a lower level than either Johnson or Truss.

The reality now, as polling firm Ipsos explain, is that:

“Net satisfaction with Sunak now at joint worst levels in history of Ipsos – going back to 1978 – equivalent to John Major and Jeremy Corbyn’s worst in 1994 and 2019.

“Yet public ambivalent on another Conservative leadership change – and none of the potential alternative candidates perform much better head-to-head with Starmer.

“Conservative vote share at 19%, a record low for second consecutive month- with Reform up to high of 13% in Ipsos polling.

“Despite leading the Conservatives by 25 points overall - Keir Starmer also registers his lowest net satisfaction score with the public as Labour Leader.”

So no great enthusiasm for Labour’s Keir Starmer - but he still manages to trounce Sunak who has seen public support dip below levels experienced by Truss or Johnson in the Ipsos surveys:

“16% are satisfied with the job Rishi Sunak is doing as Prime Minister (-3 from February) and 75% say they are dissatisfied (+2).

“His net rating of -59 is not only a new low for Mr Sunak  but it is also level with the all-time record low for a Prime Minister with Ipsos set by John Major in August 1994 (also -59), and  Jeremy Corbyn’s record low for a Leader of the Opposition (-60) set in September 2019.”

As to the effect this is having on the Tories? Well another new record delivered under Sunak - the party’s lowest level of support ever recorded by Ipsos who began this research in the 1970s.

And at the same time, as has been the trend, Reform UK continue to record new breakthrough highs:

“Labour 44% (-3 pts from February), Conservatives 19% (-1), Reform UK 13% (+5), Liberal Democrats 9% (nc), Green 9 (+1), Other 6% (-1).  Making Labour’s lead 25 points, from 27 in February.  

“The Conservatives’ share of 19% is again the lowest ever recorded by Ipsos in our regular Political Monitor series, which has run since 1978. 

“Reform UK are at a record high of 13% in Ipsos polling, although not quite yet at the heights of UKIP or the Brexit Party who reached 16 per cent in October 2014 and May 2019 respectively.”

The 2019 majority Brexit voters handed to the Tories has been wasted and betrayed. They’ve had enough and want an election as soon as possible:

“Just over half of Britons want the General Election held by the end of the summer.

“42% want the election before the end of June. 10% want it in July or August.

“23% say September or October. 10% November or December.

“7% January 2025. 4% have no preference and 3% don’t know.”

There were so many opportunities for the Tories to deliver radical post-Brexit change. They have totally failed to do so. Legal migration is at record highs, taxes have been whacked up and they’ve failed to stop the boats.

Reading comments from paid subscribers of Heaver News (thank you!) it is also clear that enough is enough as far as you’re concerned.

Paid supporter Mikemac has said:

“Rishi Sunak has got to go now. Stopping the boats has become a national emergency…Boats should be stopped now, stop the taxi service, and turn the boats around.

“Sunak is an absolute disaster for the Tories, and this will soon be evident at the next GE.”

Whilst paid subscriber Charles endorsed the Truss proposals now being put forward:

“Liz Truss is absolutely right, leave the ECHR, scrap the Supreme Court and abolish the Human Rights Act takes away all of the ambiguity that enables lefty lawyers to overrule our executive.

“We need to roll back all of Blair's catastrophic reforms, which also includes devolution and the majority of quangos.”

And finally Lia said of the ongoing chaos of illegal immigration:

“When I think of the millions that have been paid to France to help control the situation!

“They have just taken the money and laughed as they headed to the bank.

“Also, millions given to Rwanda when absolutely nothing has happened at all. Angry doesn't cover it.”

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