Here's how 1,435 of you voted in the recent poll on Chancellors and pre-budget questions.BEST LABOUR CHANCELLOR
Roy Jenkins 26%
Gordon Brown 24%
Hugh Gaitskell 15%
WORST LABOUR CHANCELLOR
Gordon Brown 44%
Alistair Darling 21%
James Callaghan 13%
BEST CONSERVATIVE CHANCELLOR
Ken Clarke 42%
Nigel Lawson 23%
Geoffrey Howe 15%
WORST CONSERVATIVE CHANCELLOR
Norman Lamont 38%
Anthony Barber 23%
Reginald Maudling 9%
WHO SHOULD BE THE NEXT TORY CHANCELLOR?
George Osborne 38%
John Redwood 22%
Ken Clarke 19%
William Hague 16%
PRE BUDGET QUESTIONS
Taxes on Alcopops should rise - Yes 64% No 31%
Road tax on 4x4 cars should double in order to help stop global warming - Yes 38% No 56%
The Chancellor should postpone the 2p a litre rise in petrol duty - Yes 69% No 28%
The Chancellor should cut taxes on business - Yes 80% No 15%
Non Doms should be taxed at a flat rate of £30k a year - Yes 38% No 48%
The Chancellor's top priority should be to reduce borrowing - Yes 72% No 24%
Inflation is far higher than government figures show - Yes 82% No 11%
National Insurance should be increased for people earning more than £100,000 a year - Yes 46% No 47%
8 comments:
What about halting the rise in spending and moving to pay off a greater proportion of the national debt?
What about the result for Best & Worst Chancellor ?
Iain, this proves that 24 % of your readership are Labour trolls.
Proof ? See "Best Labour Chancellor result.
Alan Douglas
That's rough on Lamont, for the Chancellor to take us into the ERM was Major, so by all rights he should be in the running to be the worst Chancellor. Lamont to his credit was the one who had to rebuild a monetary policy in a financial crisis, which Ken Clarke built on and was the foundation for a decade or more of growth.
Lamont did not believe in the ERM but carried out the policy. Clarke did believe in it & refuses to apologise to this day. Therefore Clarke was the worst chancellor-he merely got to inherit the consequences of his failed policy which nearly destroyed the Conservative Party. An accident of who was in which job spared KC from being totally discredited and allowed him to continue harming the Tory cause.
re "WHO SHOULD BE THE NEXT TORY CHANCELLOR?" - judging by your Party's current rate of progress, the people suggested by this poll will all be in old folks homes or beyond before the Tories have any realistic chance of forming a government...
What happened to the oveall best chancellor result?
Really, what is the point of these continual totally unrepresentative surveys? They prove nothing but the bias in your sample; consequently, they have no purpose whatsoever: an unrepresentative survey is worse than none at all - any social scientist would agree. If all you're trying to show is Tory views, then I can tell you them now: they don't like Labour, they do like Tories. Profound.
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