VOTERS reckon Sir Keir Starmer “flip flops too often” after his £28billion green U-turn, snap focus groups have revealed.
Labour have been plunged into crisis after they announced they were dumping their flagship economic policy.
Fed-up voters gave the decision the thumbs down, according to focus groups carried out after the decision emerged on Wednesday afternoon.
They accused Labour top brass of “chopping and changing” their minds, the groups hosted by the More in Common think-tank revealed.
A group of 2019 Tory voters in Cumbria said it reinforced their view that Sir Keir is wobbly and cannot make his mind up.
Mary, a business administrator in Cumbria, said: “If you say you’re going to do something, you shouldn’t be changing your mind every two minutes. It doesn’t make you look trustworthy.”
Aleisha, a learning disability support worker from Cumbria, said: “If they are chopping and changing their mind it’s kind of like putting a person into their party that they can’t make up their mind about what they want to do.”
Natalie, a healthcare assistant, said: “You’re not going to respect someone that keeps changing their mind all the time or pay attention to people that change their mind all the time.”
Disillusioned floating voters at a focus group in Essex hit out at the decision to dump the pledge.
Nick, an accountant, said: “It’s all nonsense. Because £28billion actually — if it was to make a big difference in the way it was described, with long-term benefits by investing — that would make sense and make us more sustainable as a country.”
Labour voters in Bristol — a Labour seat where the Green Party are a big threat — warned Sir Keir now has no big policies that make him stand out.
Retired lorry driver Kevin, from Bristol, said: “There seems to be a lot of backpedalling…. I think they could be shooting himself in the foot over that.”
Luke Tryl, UK Director, More in Common said: “While the U-turn on Labour’s £28 billion green investment plans might not shift votes on its own, it will add to a growing concern – that we often hear in our polling and hear in focus across the UK – that the Labour leader doesn’t stand for anything and flip-flops too often.
“While Labour can win off the back of Tory unpopularity, staying in power will mean convincing the public they have a realistic and clear plan to fix broken Britain.”
