More data from the Sunday Times/ YouGov poll

ConservativeHome posted on the headline figures last night... but there are a few interesting Brown/ Cameron comparisons within the YouGov poll for The Sunday Times (highlighted on ePolitix.com):

• Lightweight: Brown 9% v Cameron 26%
• Out-of-touch: Brown 38% v Cameron 28%
• Thought likely to "say anything to win votes": Brown 24% v Cameron 41%.

Other Brown v Cameron comparisons - such as this one by GfK NOP - have been more encouraging for the Conservative leader.

Comments

[Richard]

I doubt the "lightweight" issue will make much difference at election time. The "anything to win votes" problem is probably because there's still a great deal of doubt amongst the public about exactly what Cameron stands for and what he plans to do. Plus the "Save the NHS" u-turn will inevitable raise scepticism.

[RB]

I remember Blair been seen as lightweight when he took over. Anyone remember the Tony Blair as a schoolboy sketches on Spitting Image?

[Jon White]

There's a great deal of doubt amongst the party as to exactly what Cameron stands for. I suspect Cameron doesn't know either.

[Andy Stidwill]

Most Tory members will judge Cameron simply on whether he can deliver a majority at the next election, nothing else.

If the best he can do is a coalition with the Lib Dems, most Tories won't be very happy with him.

[michael mcgough]

If you approach an election with a coalition as your ambition that is the best you will achieve.

[ToMTom]

If the best he can do is a coalition with the Lib Dems, most Tories won't be very happy with him..

The LibDems removed their most effective asset as leader and replaced him with StuffedShirt....because the LibDems are pursuing a twin-track approach to the election and running in LibDem and Conservative colours so they can combine after the election and Ming can become Lord Mingo of Bermuda

[Yet Another Anon]

The LibDems removed their most effective asset as leader and replaced him with StuffedShirt
Charles Kennedy was always a joke, he went down well with cool brittannia but he would have been a hopeless PM, he's an amateur comedian really.

So far as David Cameron goes, he really has to establish that he has an understanding of how the economy works and how the economy works and that he has some kind of vision for the future beyond a mere PR approach of customer service - running a country and even leading an opposition is far more than just selling a brand and this is the problem with David Cameron, George Osborne, Charles Kennedy and to a great extent Tony Blair. Man cannot live by image alone.

[Yet Another Anon]

If you approach an election with a coalition as your ambition that is the best you will achieve.
Going into an election the aim always has to be to get as many seats as possible and hope you don't need to form a coalition but to make provisional plans for a number of possible outcomes. The fact is that unless the Conservatives were to publicly agree a coalition programme before the election that would be put into effect in the event that the Conservatives could form a coalition but not a majority government - it would just not be credible to stand before the public and say vote for us, this is our programme, we will form a coalition after the General Election because people then would say that the policies they were standing on would go out the window after the election.

[DavidDPB]

"On the plus side, the Tory leader outscored both Blair and the chancellor for having “good ideas about Britain’s future”."

Bizarre sort of lightweight-one with ideas......

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1364750.ece

[frdg]

"good ideas about Britain’s future”."

But Cameron doensn't have any.

[TomTom]

It would be good if all politicians read Bagehot - The Monarch is supposed to be the decorative part of the Constitution and the Prime Minister the effective part

I fear Blair read this section and reversed the roles - Cameron might have made the same error....what do you think Vernon ?

[Gospel of Enoch]

"The Monarch is supposed to be the decorative part of the Constitution and the Prime Minister the effective part

I fear Blair read this section and reversed the roles - Cameron might have made the same error..."

Have you been watching "The Queen"? Blair goes down on one knee, and says "I humbly ask permission to form..." "No, Mr. Blair", she says, "it is I who ask YOU to form a govermenment"...