Four-in-five Britons Believe the Governing Coalition is Out of Touch
More than half of respondents expect employment and economic activity to worsen in the next year.
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(04/29/12) -
People in Britain appear to be losing faith in their main political leaders, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll conducted for the Sunday Express has found.
In the online survey of a representative sample of 2,002 British adults, more than half of respondents say they have no trust at all in three politicians: Labour Party and opposition leader Ed Miliband (51%), Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron (53%) and Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg (60%).
Two-in-five respondents in Britain (42%) say they do not trust United Kingdom Independent Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage, but 40 per cent are undecided.
Four-in-five Britons (82%) believe the coalition is not in touch with the concerns of ordinary people. In addition, 33 per cent would consent to reducing donations to parties and increasing their funding from taxpayers.
More than half of respondents (52%) expect the employment and economic activity in the UK to worsen in the next year, while only seven per cent foresee a recovery.
On questions related to different topics, half of Britons (50%) think Jeremy Hunt should resign in the wake of the revelations about the Culture Secretary and the BSkyB bid, and 71 per cent would agree to nationalise or renationalise water companies in light of recent drought conditions in some parts of the UK.
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Mario Canseco, Vice President, Angus Reid Public Opinion
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Methodology: From April 26 to April 28, 2012, Angus Reid Public Opinion conducted an online survey among 2,002 randomly selected British adults who are Springboard UK panelists. The margin of error—which measures sampling variability—is +/- 2.2%. The results have been statistically weighted according to the most current education, age, gender and region data to ensure samples representative of the entire adult population of Great Britain. Discrepancies in or between totals are due to rounding.
