{"id":2462,"date":"2010-05-15T09:07:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T08:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2010-05-15T09:07:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T08:07:36","slug":"political-honeymoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/political-honeymoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Political honeymoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/34517490@N00\/3639934564\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3299\/3639934564_03a77a8201_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/34517490@N00\/3639934564\/\">Camden against the cuts, 1980<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/34517490@N00\/\">nicksarebi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>YouGov have measured the popularity of the new government (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.today.yougov.co.uk\/sites\/today.yougov.co.uk\/files\/YG-Archives-Sun-topical-13.05.pdf\">PDF here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The overall approval rating of 60% (vs. 33% disapproval) is perhaps not great.<\/p>\n<p>However, what I find astonishing is that it seems to be popular in the entire country:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Both sexes (men 62%, women 57%)\n<li>All ages (18-34 61%, 35-54 56%, 55+ 61%)\n<li>Both social grade bands (ABC1 65%, C2DE 53%)\n<li>All countries\/regions (Scotland 58%, London 55%, South of England 70%, Midlands\/Wales 58%, North of England 49% [vs. 44% against])<\/ul>\n<p>In fact, the only group against the government is Labour voters, who naturally enough disapprove (25% for, 68% against).<\/p>\n<p>Both Tories and LibDems approve (by 87% and 69%, respectively).<\/p>\n<p>I dare say this is very positive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure a Tory-only government wouldn&#8217;t have been that popular in Scotland, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the new government will make good use of its honeymoon with the voters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camden against the cuts, 1980 Originally uploaded by nicksarebi YouGov have measured the popularity of the new government (PDF here). The overall approval rating of 60% (vs. 33% disapproval) is perhaps not great. However, what I find astonishing is that it seems to be popular in the entire country: Both sexes (men 62%, women 57%) All ages (18-34 61%, 35-54 56%, 55+ 61%) Both social grade bands (ABC1 65%, C2DE 53%) All countries\/regions (Scotland 58%, London 55%, South of England 70%, Midlands\/Wales 58%, North of England 49% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}