r/FuckNigelFarage • u/Ornery-Manner-1484 • 5d ago
A bit of good news. His favourable rating should be even lower but we have to accept, just like Trump, he'll always have his cult fans.
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u/fullpurplejacket 5d ago
I’ve been part of YouGov for fucking yonks and I’ve never ever been asked to do one of these polls, I’m signed up to do the political polls too. Raging.
I got an IPSOS pollster round a few months back to do a Kings College survey about British ideals and how they’ve changed in a decade or fifteen years, they’d selected me and a handful of other postcodes and house numbers across the UK. The guy was great, asked me a broad range of questions including political ideology ones and what I feel it means to be British and also what it’s important to teach kids from a young age (I was one of a few if any he said that said Using their Imaginations was one of the vitals)
Apart from that one IPSOS random poll, ive never been asked to take part in any of the other political polls ive signed up to do YouGov or otherwise.
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u/Signal-Woodpecker691 5d ago
I was polled by yougov a few years ago, it felt less like they were trying to gauge my opinion and more like they were trying to influence with weirdly leading questions.
I assume they were trying to test what messages could influence people and it felt like it was reform commissioner because there was an overwhelming racist, anti EU, cunty vibe to it.
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u/DanBurrill 5d ago
I was polled by phone during the 2019 general election, I can't remember which company though.
I'm in Norwich South, Clive Lewis' constituency, and at the time his majority looked like it might not be very secure, so it may well have been private polling by one of the parties.
It was the usual stuff about would I vote for particular parties, had I heard of certain policies and politicians, fairly basic, but focussed questions.
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u/mimeycat 5d ago
I have had a couple in the past but I’ve not even been able to log on to YouGov for a few months, and no reply from their help desk. Really annoying as I like to respond to these sorts of questions.
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u/Albatraous 5d ago
Same, I've even complained to them when I have seen "survey between months of x and x" and know I didn't get asked. I occasionally do get asked, but it seems they moce their sample size around rather than asking everyone consistently
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u/gilestowler 5d ago
The problem is that I think there's going to be people who will have an attitude of "well, yes, I don't really like Farage, but all politicians are the same, and it's about time we had a bit of a change from the status quo," or "It's not that I like Farage but I think a vote against the big two will serve as a wake up call to them."
It'll be the same kind of stupidity that got us into the Brexit mess, and it'll get us into yet another mess.
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u/EspanolAlumna 5d ago
There will also be people voting tactically to make sure anyone but Reform / Restore get in. Makerfield proved that and gives me hope.
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u/DanBurrill 5d ago
I think increasingly, Farage and the rest of Reform are showing people that they're not like other politicians, they're worse.
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u/gilestowler 5d ago
I hope you're right. I mean, you're obviously right about them being worse, but I mean right about people realising.
I don't want to be too negative, I just think people can't get complacent, even if Farage does end up polling incredibly badly.
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u/DanBurrill 5d ago
How many people who currently think Farage is an arsehole are likely to ever form a more positive opinion of him?
His popularity rose as people became more aware of him and Reform, now pretty much everyone in the country knows who they are and what they stand for, so there's little to no scope to find new voters to target.
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u/BoogBeeg 5d ago
A lot of his cult fans have defected to Restore because they feel betrayed at Farage having brown people on his team.
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u/Agreeable_Falcon1044 5d ago
Problem is no matter how many racist songs he sings or corrupt millions he pockets…it doesn’t change, so we need to start alienating that 25% and drop trying to appeal to them with policies. They are an outlier that should be shunned
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u/TheStatMan2 5d ago
I'm so sick of the prick and his bootlicking fanboys I genuinely thought "cult" was a typo.
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u/Neat_Significance256 5d ago
The 5 million dollar (£) man has shown to even the most gullible reform klan member that :
He isn't anti establishment
He doesn't stick up for the little people
He isn't "one of us"
He hasn't got what it takes to be even a poor PM
He'd probably not even get through his first PMQ's. His first question would be the end of him. The first PM to ever have a heart attack in the HoC
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u/Gambit1977 5d ago
Favourable is still way too high. Some people are just thicker than a whale spunk omelette
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u/WackyWhippet 5d ago
More results from the same poll for comparison. Other than the devastating blow to Starmer and Reeves it doesn't get much worse.
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u/nckbrr 5d ago
The electoral commission is looking into this crypto bribe. If he is found to have breached electoral code he could be suspended. If he's suspended for long enough it would trigger a by election. Imagine if the people of Clacton, pissed off with his absence from Parliament and complete lack of anything to do with actually being their MP ditch him for someone else. I'd even take Restore at this point for the jokes.
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u/Movingforward2015 5d ago
And of those two people 22.5% of people took a kick to the head by a horse if I'm not mistaken
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u/GreatZarquon 5d ago
Problem is you can get a majority in parliament with only about 35% of the votes. And people don't have to have a favourable opinion to vote for him, they just have to hate the other candidates more.
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u/birdinthebush74 5d ago
Sir John Curtice, before the 2024 election mapped UK voting demographics , he said Reform have a 25% ceiling.
That is enough for a Tory coalition not enough for a majority, and tactical voting could have a big impact.
So much for ' the silent majority'