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According to YouGov, she's got an approval rating of 15%. Sack the nasty bigot and by all means let her lead her party further into the wilderness.
~15% of the population are just unrepentant sociopaths then, I guess.
I've often been suspicious of YouGov though because they have this tendency to ask questions in a way that gets them the results they want.
If they want a result that shows that people like Braverman, then they make sure not to ask questions anywhere where they might accidentally get some young people answering. Probably a good idea to go to a retirement home or exclusively ask people coming out of a Waitrose. They very much are not going to the universities, and they are not going to the abandoned Northern cities. As long as they stay south of Bedford they should be ok.
They are right leaning, and not independent, so I don't trust their findings, for the most part. I don't believe they actively lie (except by omission) but I do think they're dishonest in the way they collect their information.
So she's got 15% of the vote when it's been massively biased in her favour. It's not exactly a great endorsement.
I had a fever dream the other day that Sunak's plan is to bide his time until three months before the election and announce he's standing down. All the major players have as much said they will too which will pave the way for Braverman to take charge into the election and carry the Tories into the worst drubbing since 2019 Corbyn (hopefully worse).
That's one way to purge the party, I suppose?
Well he did have his next job interview with Elongated Muskrat t'other day so its a distinct possibility.
As for Cruella, she still hasn't cottoned on to the fact that her extremism only appeals to the sort of person who'll never vote for a brown skinned candidate.
What, a dumb racist? No way.