The Commission’s Eurobarometer poll, published yesterday, has shown that support for the EU has dropped to its lowest levels in nine years. Only 49 percent of respondents from across Europe considered membership of the EU to be a “good thing” down 4 percentage points from last years poll, while trust in the bloc's institutions has dropped to 42 percent, six points down compa...
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OpenEurope on 27th Aug 2010 (via openeurope.org.uk)
The latest Com Res poll has the lowest ever poll-rating for Labour. Tories 45%Labour 24%Lib Dems 16%At what point will someone sit up and take notice that the current right-wing Labour approach is now totally killing the party - This is the lowest Labour Poll Rating for ages - the papers are saying the lowest ever - and now the Tories are out polling us by nearly 2:1 ....For crying out loud - take...
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Labourhome on 20th Jul 2008 (via feeds.feedburner.com)
Labour membership has fallen to the lowest level in the party's 108-year history.
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Telegraph on 30th Jul 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Labour has slumped to its lowest poll rating in nearly a quarter of a century, according to a new poll.
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Telegraph on 26th Jun 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Update (13:46): Open Europe blogs that the Commission has only given the results of this poll out to selected journalists and have not published full details of questions asked. So the integrity of the poll can't be scrutinised.As OE concludes, "It's a reminder that the European Commission is not just a civil service, but a campaign group".-----------------------The Daily Telegraph's Bruno Waterfi...
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DemocracyMovement on 15th Jul 2008 (via democracymovementblog.blogspot.com)
A few months ago I started a petition on the 10 Downing Street website calling on the British government to commission an independent cost-benefit analysis of our membership of Federal Europe. Here’s their response: This Government strongly believes that the benefits of EU Membership clearly outweigh the costs. UK membership of the EU is central to the
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WonkosWorld on 21st Aug 2008 (via wonkosworld.co.uk)
As expected, Czech Enlargement Commissioner Štefan Füle said Iceland had been given the green light by the Commission after fulfilling the Copenhagen criteria for EU membership (stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy and human rights, the existence of a functioning market economy and ability to take on the obligations of membership). The Commission's opinion takes account...
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EurActiv on 25th Feb 2010 (via euractiv.com)
Most voters are deeply unhappy about the way the European Union is run, and believe it is out of touch, unfair, and offers poor value for money. A new poll by ComRes, commissioned by the Campaign for an Independent Britain, shows that 83% of people are opposed to the supremacy of European law over UK law. With half of voters saying Europe is "largely corrupt", 71% of those polled say they want a n...
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UKIP on 12th Jan 2009 (via ukip.org)
Conservatives today are licking their wounds after they crowed about a YouGov poll for The Sun which they said showed the Tories had increased their lead to 12%, when in reality the poll showed that the Tories have slumped to their lowest support for more than a year. The ConservativeHome blog reported the poll’s supposed
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LabourMatters on 23rd Feb 2010 (via labourmatters.com)
Labour has fallen to its lowest ever opinion poll rating in a YouGov poll for The Sun. On the general election question, the Tories were at 41 down two from the last YouGov poll, Labour on 22 down five and the Lib Dems up one on 19. The Sun calculates that this would deliver the Tories a majority of 152. However, the poll contains numbers that should worry the Tories and show just how badly the ma...
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Spectator on 14th May 2009 (via spectator.co.uk)
The news in today’s Telegraph that the Labour party’s membership is now at its lowest in a hundred years is a stark wake-up call for the governing party. But let’s put to one side the tribal nonsense for a moment – not least because what’s happening to Labour is reflected more widely.
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LiberalConspiracy on 4th Aug 2008 (via liberalconspiracy.org)