Why the ComRes poll was correct

Yesterday the latest ComRes poll put the Conservatives on 38% and both Labour and the Liberal Democrats on 23%. Some think this is rather odd. I do not.

For the past few months I have been getting a strong feeling the next general election will show the biggest anti-government vote in British political history. I don't say this lightly and although I have a gut feeling I am correct, I also base this on evidence.

It is not just about Gordon Brown and the economy, important though the two factors are. Britain has changed in the last 12 years. Labour would have you believe it is all for the better, yet the British people know this to be different. Tony Blair's mantra in the run-up to the 1997 general election was: education, education, education. What he should have said was: legislation, legislation, legislation, as more of our rights and liberties are taken away from us. Take the case of two female police officers who have fallen foul of OFSTED for looking after each others children. If anyone thinks looking after your own child and a friend's child is a child minding operation, they must be mad. Yet again the nanny state intervenes in our personal lives. Councils around the country are snooping in our bins. Parents are being spied on for perhaps trying to get around the catchment area rules to get their child into a better school. The list goes on and I am sure you can add to it, but the facts are Britain has changed, and changed for the worse. We know Labour has wrecked the country's finances, but they are wrecking our whole way of life too. Economies recover, but trying to change Britain from a tolerant, liberal democracy, into a place where petty bureaucrats snoop into our lives and more and more laws our introduced to restrict our freedom is something that can take decades to reverse and in some cases, may never be reversed. This is the one thing I can't forgive Labour for. I knew they were going to wreck the economy. I didn't predict the all-out assault on our way of life.

It is for those reasons I am not surprised at the findings in the recent poll. If you live in a Conservative/Labour marginal, expect an increase in the Conservative vote. If you live in a LibDem/Labour marginal, expect an increase in the LibDem vote. Results around the country are going to be extremely localised as the voters do all they can to unseat Labour. Cameron has not 'sealed the deal' with the voters and neither has Nick Clegg. Labour has failed and broken the trust it had with the voters and people will run to any party other than Labour. This is one of the reasons why the smaller parties and extremist parties will do better than they have done in the past and probably will in the future. The ComRes poll is not a one-off. It is a reflection of the state of mind of the British electorate who will do anything to consign this government to the political scrapheap.