The survey does not allow for those who had no local May 2008 election. I didn't, so put down "Did not vote", but that is sure to confuse your analysis.

Good idea Jag - we should have regular monthly surveys asking all kinds of questions on policies, cabinet member rankings etc...

Not sure that polling your members/users/customers to find out what they are thinking and then using those findings elsewhere is really a ConservativeHome innovation:)

What I said -

GB has failed. It's over for him. Sentimentality would be misplaced. A great man with a great heart but a useless PM. People perceive the govt to be "heads down" and completely out of touch.

Never mind the war. To listen to Yvette Cooper twice on BBC Radio ask people to take a wider perspective of the 10p tax issue was to see someone totally clueless and we know she spoke for No. 10. Right now there's an open goal for the Tories.

And what is GB doing bothering with prison wages? Not his job and the fact he expressed an opinion was shocking. He has a cabinet for this.

OK - what to do. Cut petrol duty. Cut anything perceived as unfair. Set a new target that will credibly achieve elimination of child poverty in 2020 - you've pathetically missed 50% by 2010 but do something to accelerate progress. Cut the 42 day thing - not cos it's wrong but because people don't understand it.

Behave like a govt determined to win, not give up the election. And do it under a new leader.

Barring a miracle there's no chance of winning the election under Gordon (who AFAIK has never won an election except for a rock-soild safe seat) and almost no chance of winning if Gordon is removed. The remotely likely outcomes are:

1. Hung parliament
2. Small Tory Majority
3. Big Tory Majority
4. Enormous Tory Majority
5. Labour being eclipsed by the Lib Dems.

If Gordon can't turn things round in the next 3-6 months then we will be heading for 4 or 5, and a new leader would have a chance of 1,2 or 3.

PS: In a Hung Parliament Labour might want to do a deal with the Lib Dems. Can anyone explain why Gordon is gratuitously rude by routinely calling them "The Liberal Party"?

In addition to this, Brown doesn't care what you think. 

Funny that, because nobody cares what you think either.

He could follow the Welsh Labour party and do a deal with the Tories, it was only the people and a number of MP's and AM's who said no. Then we asked the Lib Dem's who said no thanks, then Plaid lied to us and then backed Labour in the hope they would be able to have a referendum on becoming a Welsh speaking country.

Who the hell would want to join Labour now.

Now is the perfect time for electoral reform. Of course it would be seen as oppertunist, but it would appease the Lib Dems. Brown should not be remembered for his equivalant of a Cones Hotline. So blow off the dust settling on the report of the Jenkin's commission, and enact an AV+ system. But, he's had trouble over referendums before, so put the system to a vote. I think it would be easily be a 'Yes' vote.

At the moment, I think Brown should resign. But he needs to remember that we can appear to be de-centralising, while understanding the necessity of market forces, while remaining true to progressive values.

So, he should say, that the 'Right-to-buy' policy, is a great one, and a necessary one. But here is an amendment that should be made to this policy. Invest in spending on housing, by using reciepts raised from the capital of the homes being sold. This should reflect needs, like gardens for affordable family homes, or flats for single young-ish people, as well as for key inner-city workers in our policing, health and education services.

He should say, that we don't want a return to the Winter of Discontent era. But, he should say that the Mitbestimmungsrecht model of German industrial democracy, should be enacted. He should say that we don't want a return to whole-sale nationalisation, and that ending state monopolies over the railways, gas, electricity, water and telecommunications, is a great thing. But he should also say, that to counter-balence this, that workers' and consumers' public-interest companies should be introduced through the gas, water and electricity industries. He should say that the telecommunications industry requires regional co-operatives. He should say that the railways, require regional companies, that have a strong consumer representation. This Fabian 'socialisation' model, could influence schools, hospitals, GP surgeries, parks, colleges, or even libraries. It could allow innovation, local experimentation, and private sector involvement, while increasing public involvement and ownership.