Essential: both leaders end the year on the nose
Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott end the political year as deeply unpopular leaders, losing the faith of even more voters.
Australia
Dec 12, 2011
Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott end the political year as deeply unpopular leaders, losing the faith of even more voters in the latest Essential Research poll.
Both the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader saw their approval ratings slump compared to last month, according to Essential’s online panel of voters, and Gillard has lost ground to Abbott in the preferred prime minister stakes. Just 39% prefer Gillard as PM (down two points) over Abbott on 35% (down one).
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The most fascinating thing about all of this, is that the Parliament (and possibly the majority of the Public “Service” in Canberra) actually believe the sole purpose of the rest of the population is to serve the Government. To most members of Parliament, actually representing their Electorate is anathema.
With not one positive story about her in any main stream media offering, and the same MSM and its derivatives that provide 75% of the daily emesis that is tipped on her supporting the opposition leader; who is really on the nose? What would her figures be if she received any positive press? from anybody? I guess we will never know.
The new name for Crikey in 2012 can be ‘POLLS GALORE”.
Drmick. Agree.
Couldn’t care less personally about irrelevant, misleading and disparaging mid electoral cycle polls, only the MSM does for all the obvious reasons!
@DRMICK you’re spot on! With lots of assistance from the mediocre, one-sided press and electronic media reporting – 2011 will go down as the year “wing-nuts” reigned supreme. This, it appears, is a phenomenon that not only applies to Australia but the US as well. Nowadays if you want to have a laugh/cry or just roll your eyes in disbelief, just up watch the misfits that line up for the Republican debates that will culminate in next US Presidential nomination for the Republicans. Don’t be surprised if that “Huckster” Donald Trump makes a bid for the whitehouse. As for our own home-grown wing-nut and his merry band of mediocre misfits – we “the Australian people” should be careful what we wish for. Should they get into government there will be lots of laughs for all – can you imagine Joe Hockey and Andrew Robb in charge of fiscal policy? Unless the media is a bit more balanced and honest in their reporting, Tony Abbott will be in charge of the asylum of government.
If she said she would stop trying to flog off the victims of war and pulled out of Afghanistan maybe she might get something positive said about her.
Instead the media still babble about the illegal and never to be legal “Malaysia deal” as if it could ever have been legal.
Or will ever happen.
If they shut up for a minute and didn’t fill their lousy papers with reams of crap about asylum seekers no-one would bother about it.
I can’t really understand the big picture. But then I do not need to. Politics is a team activity, my elected reps on both sides of the adversiral government are supposed to have my interest and those of every other constituent formost in everything they do. We are reading about two politicians Guillard and Abbot two electorates… Not the two parties not much preferred. Just two politicians who have over years not been up to the task of representing their constituents. Edward James
Oh dear… another week another abolutely “Essential” poll. I was starting to feel uninformed.
It’s all getting a bit like Murdoch lite this Cr*key business isn’t it?
I’m not even bothering to raise the methodological flaws and weaknesses of the market research conducted in such “polls”… I’ve bored everyone to death already on that elsewhere.
But I am beginning to seriously wonder about the nature of the relationship between Cr*key and this particular mob of market research shamsters. These “Brand Labor” engineers.
Is this routine boosting of the Labor leaning “Essential” just an ideological affinity with their particular set of crow entrails or is it more commercial?
Are we reading an advertorial????
It’s starting to look that way. What next: The Parrot as a regular columnist?