Ed Miliband is a Skoda or a Labrador. I’m not sure what this means other than people probably don’t vote for cuddly dogs and cheap (ish) Eastern European cars no matter how much of a marketing make-over they have had.
They were some of the responses that resulted from the latest Sun/YouGov poll. The main crux of which was that fewer than one in five voters thinks the Labour Leader, who is embracing his wonky nerdiness, is a PM in waiting.
Translated, the poll says that an overwhelming 66 per cent say he does not look ready for power — and that includes 40 per cent of Labour voters.
Those figures were echoed by the YouGov/Sunday Times poll where 58% think he has not made clear where he stands.
That said he has sent a strong message to the unions at Labour Party conference and made his position on public sector pay restraint clear.
Miliband told Len McCluskey — general secretary of Labour’s biggest union donor Unite — that he was “wrong” to oppose a public sector pay freeze and insisting Labour under his leadership would be “the party of the private sector” as much as the public.
Despite the concerns that voters have over Ed Miliband the opinion polls continue to show Labour with a strong lead.
Labour has an average lead in the polls of 42% putting it 10% ahead of David Cameron’s Conservatives. That would give Labour a majority of 112.
