Labour is in a worse position than the Tories were in 1996

Just over a month ago, I wrote saying why I believed a ComRes poll was correct. It had the Tories on 38% and both Labour and the Liberal Democrats on 23%.

Today, another poll puts the Tories on 42%, Labour on 25% and the Liberal Democrats on 21%. When you take into account the margin of error, nothing much has changed. Labour is still in the twenty-something doldrums and as Political Betting point out today, this is a far worse place than the Tories were in the same stage of a parliament in 1996.

My prediction is still the same. The voters want Labour out and will do it in any way they can. Although governments invariably lose elections, rather than oppositions winning them, expect the biggest anti-government vote for a century. It's coming.