Poll catch-up

Other sites have already covered this week’s opinion poll results, among them Labour’s largest lead since September 2007 and the public’s confusion over the Big Society. But there are a couple of findings that are worth dwelling on as we drift into the weekend:

1) Labour gaining ground in the blame game. Ok, so PoliticalBetting’s Mike Smithson mentioned this a few days ago. But, here at Coffee House, we’ve translated the numbers into the graph below. It shows that, over recent YouGov polls, Labour have been slowly receiving less and less blame for the spending cuts, while the coalition are receiving more:

Expected, perhaps – but still noteworthy, not least because of the obvious political implications.

2) Deficit deniers?
YouGov’s poll on Wednesday (see image below) found that 86 per cent of Labour supporters believe that Labour’s spending cuts would be smaller than the coalition’s. 52 percent of them believe that Labour’s tax rises would be smaller.