Councillors back Brown
This week's Local Government Chronicle reports that "Labour councillors have given Gordon Brown a much-needed boost, with a majority claiming the party can win the next general election with him as PM."
According to a poll of Labour councillors by ComRes 61% of party councillors believe the next general election is winnable with Brown as leader. Just over a quarter (27%) believe the party is destined to defeat without a leadership change, while 12% are undecided.
NEC local government representative Ann Lucas comments in the article:
"With all due respect to MPs and cabinet members, councillors are activists first and foremost and are as good a sounding board as you are going to get. If the leader has 61% support, then you are doing quite well."
posted by Luke Akehurst at 4:46 pm
3 Comments:
Well those Labour councillors who are left in office back Brown, and thats a lot fewer than Brown started off with.
Locally, in Merthyr Town Ward we have a bye-election called fo the 23/10 - A Lib Democrap was "required" to resign.
It will be interesting to see what the public view of Brown is.
GW
9:46 am, September 19, 2008
The councillor I spoke to this week certainly wasn't among that number .... I don't think anyone with half a brain thinks that Labour could win next time without major changes. It may be too late no matter what.
4:57 pm, September 19, 2008
NLP Councillors are dwindling away, because of being casualties of NLP NAT policies.
12:36 am, September 25, 2008
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