Name: CNN forced to admit Keir Starmer’s poll numbers are ‘absolutely atrocious’
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I mean, you never see numbers like this in the United States.

Americans, Britain's, who like Keira Starmer.

His own party, his own party, labor, he's just at 52% there.

I've even seen numbers with satisfaction of him in the teens.

You know, we always talk about Donald Trump being unpopular in this country, but.

But Donald Trump looks downright like Abraham Lincoln compared to Keir Starmer's numbers at this point.

In 1974, Richard Nixon, just before he was forced to resign.

But look at Stormer, he's actually lower.

He is polling worse now than Richard Nixon was with Americans before he was forced to resign.

And I will note within their own party, they're both at about 50% popularity ratings.

That, of course, is a very dangerous number because it's one thing if you don't have the support of the overall electorate, but

when you don't even have the real support of your own party, those are the types of numbers that you can say, adios, amigos, goodbye, see you later.

Before we let you go, I just want to ask you about the fallout as well for the UK Labor Prime Minister, Keir Starmer.

And speaking of flaws, I would say there's a couple of there too.

Of course, the Peter Mandelson scandal has been shocking for him.

He still hired him as the US Ambassador even though he knew that he had links to Jeffrey Epstein.

And now of course, the Andrew allegations coming to light.

Oh, I think Keir Starmer's in real trouble.

He is in major difficulties and in fact, if this Andrew thing hadn't broken, he may well have fallen.

You know, we tend to get through Prime Ministers at quite a rate of knots here in the UK in recent years and Keir Starmer is clinging on for dear life at the moment.

He's shown a number of missteps and I think, you know, the Peter Mandelson appointment as Ambassador in the United States clearly has blown back on him in a big way.

I think he's still got questions to answer and we know that Parliament here in the UK in London has ordered a number of documents to be released and they may produce further information about Keir Sammer's decision making process, which May come back to bite him pretty hard.

So I think he's flailing here and the next two or three months are going to be quite instrumental because we have local elections, provincial elections here in the UK in early May, and

the Labour Party are predicted to do very badly.

Alex Armstrong is the host of Alex Armstrong tonight on GB News.

He has this editorial on Starmer's ticking time bomb.

The Prime Minister was forced into a humiliating U turn on cancelling local elections across the United Kingdom.

Initially, the British government had planned to Cancel Elections for 4½ million, British people.

To much uproar, let's put it lightly, in those areas, Labour control most of the councils.

And in those areas, even more interestingly, Reform UK are doing exceptionally well.

That's the party led by Nigel Farage, of course, now leading in the poll.

So the question was always asked, is this all happening because Labour are terrified of Reform uk.

Well, of course, they've been arguing that they need to do this little restructure, this little redrawing of the council's part of a devolution plan they say is going to give more power to local people.

But of course, Brits up and down the country have not been happy about it.

Reform UK said this is a farce and decided because it was the second year running they were canceling these elections, that they were going to take the government to to High Court.

Now, that all came to a head where the government had to concede to Reform uk, a party of just eight members of Parliament, and

say that actually Reformer rights, they've done the legal background, despite the Prime Minister being this forensic lawyer, Reform UK have beaten them and now these four and a half million people will get their right to vote in their local authorities.

This, of the 14, 15U turns the Prime Minister has done is the biggest, huge, tremendous U turn so far because it's going to give all those people the right to vote.

And you can bet your bottom dollar they are going to use that right to vote to boot out the beleaguered Labour Party out of those seats.

But there's some more bad news because now the taxpayer has to cough up 63 million quid to help these local councils who have now got just a matter of weeks to get ready for local elections.

And on top of that, the Government has to pay Reform UK's legal fees.

It is utterly disastrous for this government.

Now, of course, the other story here is that the Prime Minister, who's been in the front page of the press almost every single day for the last six weeks.

Well, he's now going to have a leadership contest, very likely on his hands the day after those local elections in May, because, as we know, he is clinging onto power because his Labour backbenchers cannot pick a leader yet and some of them just aren't ready.

And there's another interesting twist to this because Angela Rayner, who used to be the deputy Prime Minister before she was sacked, sensationally sacked out of office.

Well, it was her idea in the first place to cancel elections.

She got away with it while she was still in government and her predecessor hasn't got away with it.

So now people are asking is, was her original policy illegal?

That's going to be another huge scandal sitting on this government store alongside the Mandelson Files and the Chagos Islands two are the massive, huge, huge problems for this government.

So when I say this is the most embarrassing U turn so far, because it looks like with the Prime Minister is going to be in office for a couple more months, he's going to have a few more U turns he's going to have to swallow.

We're just going to have to wait and find out.

And can you imagine if it was the Tories or reform canceling elections, the left would have had a field day.