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**Hugh** · 03-12-2015, 15:54

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Speaking of democracy

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/12/01...elow-majority/

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Considering isis are now digging tunnels I'd say comparisons to the nva being prepared to wait it out and accept massive casualties in a war of attrition that their enamy isn't prepared to endure don't now end there

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Isn't that what corbyn was saying, go after the oil sales and arms rather than this tokenist show of solidarity that will achieve nothing

So it would be "democratic" to listen to the 31% who opposed air strikes, against the 48% who supported them?

And if we are going to run the country/our political parties by polling, it doesn't look very good for Mr Corbyn (from the Times article linked to in your link).

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Among voters who would vote Labour today, opposition to airstrikes is even stronger, with 57 per cent backing Mr Corbyn’s stance and just 23 per cent backing the Prime Minister’s position. Paradoxically, that should worry Labour’s leader, for the party is haemorrhaging support among people who voted for the party in May but currently back airstrikes. They comprise more than three million people; our figures suggest that well over one million of them would no longer vote Labour if an election were held today.

In essence, Mr Corbyn is polarising the electorate – gaining ground among a large, worried minority of voters, but alienating the much larger majority. This is why, even as the number of people supporting his stance on Syria has grown, so has the number of people who say he is failing as party leader.

Just after he won his leadership election, he became the first opposition leader in sixty years of polling to start out with a negative rating, with more people saying he was doing badly than well. His net score then of minus eight soon got worse. Two weeks ago it was minus 22.

Now it is minus 41, with just 24 per cent saying he is doing well and 65 per cent saying badly. It is even negative among people who voted Labour in May; his net score with them is minus six.

This contrasts with David Cameron, whose net rating with the general public is even (47 per cent say well, 47 per cent badly), and plus 79 among those who voted Tory in May (87-8 per cent).

All this helps to explain why the Conservative lead has almost doubled since our last published figures at the end of September, from six per cent then to 11 per cent now.