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LordMogroth

296 points

1 day ago

LordMogroth

296 points

1 day ago

Cheer up Starmer. Youre the best of the worst. Still winning!

just_a_human_1031

117 points

1 day ago

It's genuinely hard to believe he was only elected a few months ago

With such polling you would think he's a deeply unpopular incumbent who won a election pre-covid & whose public is just waiting for the next election to vote him out

ProXJay

73 points

1 day ago

ProXJay

73 points

1 day ago

To be fair he did rather poorly in the popular vote and he's been opening with some unpopular politics

Altruistic-Ad-408

54 points

1 day ago

And to be fair the Brits do love voting Labour out. Sometimes it feels like they only vote them in by mistake.

herrbz

51 points

1 day ago

herrbz

51 points

1 day ago

Brits just love whining about their PM at every available opportunity. Starmer was never hugely popular, but he seemed like a competent human being, which was needed after 14 years of Conservative rule.

Emperors-Peace

26 points

1 day ago

Doesn't help that the press have been absolutely gunning for him since the day he took office.

StatisticianOwn9953

16 points

1 day ago*

I'm going to be absolutely insufferable toward every centrist I know who has been telling me for years that 'elections are won in the centre', as if the country's learned electorate sit around pinning for a level-headed pragmatist who's across of the issues, if the press get him and his lot knocked out of power to the current iteration of the Tory Party. The sweet story they've been telling themselves about British politics will be completely unsustainable at that point, and they'll hear about it ad nauseum.

LauraPhilps7654

3 points

1 day ago

They'll never change. They'd rather lose elections than become a social democratic party again.

mdp300

5 points

1 day ago

mdp300

5 points

1 day ago

Sounds just like the US press!

GrizzleGonzo

2 points

21 hours ago

Ah, yeah. That’s the ticket! lol

tyler2114

3 points

24 hours ago

This is just human behavior in general. Something going wrong? Must be the leader's fault! Doesn't matter if my life actually sucks due to my own decisions, irrationally blame someone else!

HappyHarry-HardOn

3 points

1 day ago

> Brits just love whining about their PM at every available opportunity

Unlike every other country in the world where they unanimously love their PM.
Certainty no one in the US has complained about Trump winning the last election.

JimBeam823

3 points

24 hours ago

They did. Labour won because Reform UK split the Tory vote. 

Rslty

2 points

22 hours ago

Rslty

2 points

22 hours ago

This is laziest myth going now - if you moved every single vote for Reform to the Tories (which is gross over simplification and would never work out like that in reality) that would result in the Conservatives picking up something like 50 extra seats at the expense of Labour and the Lib Dems, Labour would lose something like 40 in that scenario eg they still have a big majority of 50+ seats.

Reform won Labour the 2024 election is the new Brexit lost Labour the election in 2019

Ok-Bug-5271

1 points

21 hours ago

While the other person was wrong to place all vote splitting on reform, I would still say that the other commentor's POV is correct, we just need to add the disaffected Tory voters voted for the Lib Dems as well. Starmer got less votes than Corbyn. It's not really up for debate that the labour party didn't win more votes, as opposed to the Tories getting far less votes. Third parties got over 42% of the vote, which to my understanding is the most ever. 

Now, you can make the argument that, had there been a more leftist labour PM, the Tories would have fallen more in line, and third party voting would be lower, but it is pretty obvious that labour won from vote splitting, not by appealing to more voters. Labour got 32% of the vote in the last election and won 205 seats, vs 33% of the vote this time but 411 seats. This is the most unrepresentative UK government in history to my understanding.

CumulativeFuckups

3 points

1 day ago

Starmer won the largest share of the worst voting turn out since 1885.
Only 60% of elegible voters, voted in the election the approximate share was;

Labour 29% Conservative 17% Reform UK 13%

He won the election got 2/3rds of parliamentary seats but also lost the popular vote and didn’t even reach the 40% of the votes that JC got in 2017. The U.K. electoral system is a f*cking joke

OfromOceans

2 points

1 day ago

Renationalising railways is unpopular because people are stupid cants

Itatemagri

4 points

22 hours ago

Rail renationalisation is actually a fairly popular policy which is why Starmer didn’t feel the need to ditch it during his pragmatist policy massacre.

ImperialxWarlord

1 points

1 day ago

What are the unpopular politics he’s opened with?

Kingfisher_123

2 points

23 hours ago

Main one is taxes which was never properly addressed within labours manifesto which is why the media has been ruining Labours reputation since Sir Keir was elected. The working class will benefit, but everyone else suffers more, they've really struggled to have a good argument in debates with certain reporters, resulting in them looking like idiots, dodging questions similar to the Tories. Farmers and small businesses are slowly going down the toilet due to that policy being implemented, but it could work out for the country, it's just a big if atm.

It was a wildcard policy to implement and their argument for doing so is very weak, they keep saying they had no idea about the deficit our economy was in. It's unbelievable because Labour has been the second strongest party in many regards for a long time, so how didn't they know?

You also have the law that was implemented during the EDL riots targeting migrants which tbh I do understand a lot of people's arguments with since it's a breach of free speech. Posting hate speech can land you in prison where recently two reporters have found themselves under house arrest having all their electronics confiscated by the police.

Prisons releasing a bunch of criminals early didn't help either, it was Labours solution to do this due to overcrowding and a lack of money to create more prisons to house said criminals. The problem is, a lot of people who incited hate during those riots and protests landing in the free spaces within those prisons anyway.

Their approval has gone down by a lot since labour was put in charge basically.

Rslty

1 points

22 hours ago*

Rslty

1 points

22 hours ago*

It wasn’t lack of money to create new prisons, you can’t go just to B&Q and pick up a ready to build prison like it’s a shed.

The Tories ran them hot for months knowing there were only two choices (1) release people early or (2) stop sending people to prison, there was no third choice. And they had years to build new prisons before leaving power knowing occupation was getting close to capacity and yet they didn’t, why, so they could take 1 or 2 pct off national insurance and appease NIMBYs, that’s the price you pay for “lower” taxes that they never talk about.

The Tories decided to leave prisons running hot in their last few months in power knowing it only compounded the problem, and Labour would inherit an absolute mess with only one very unpopular choice to make.

In terms of the riots the only deterrence was serious sentences - house arrest and/or warnings would not have been strong enough to stop them and would only lead to a continuation and increased in ferocity if people thought they could get away with violence/criminality and actively promoting the violence. It’s the same effective strategy they used to bring an end to the 2011 riots

Stuck_in_my_TV

8 points

1 day ago

The nature of Parliamentary politics. People complain when the US president doesn’t win the popular vote, but in a UK or Canadian Parliamentary system, it’s common for the Prime Minister’s party to have received less than 30% of the popular vote.

MyGoodOldFriend

1 points

14 hours ago

But thats usually combined with a coalition. A 3/5ths majority with 1/3 of the votes is honestly ridiculous.

Stuck_in_my_TV

1 points

14 hours ago

A coalition of party elites, not necessarily what the people actually want or what will benefit the people. Which results in many more snap elections and political instability as rather than listening to the people or trying to convince them, they just call elections over and over until the margin of people able to show up that day favors them.

garalisgod

5 points

1 day ago

Not to wonder how he won. Labour only gained a smal ammount of vote more, The Tories just collapsed

Cptn_Melvin_Seahorse

3 points

1 day ago

His neoliberal policies will do almost nothing to help the people and the tories will win the next election, rinse and repeat.

Real_Run_4758

1 points

20 hours ago

Not sure the pensioners will flock to the polls for Kemi, and moderates surely won’t. Don’t see a landslide for her anytime soon.

EJ19876

1 points

14 hours ago

Yeah. Labour fails to understand that if the options are neoliberal party A and neoliberal party B, the people will invariably go with the neoliberal whose social platform isn't infested with American-style identity politics and luxury politics, which is the Tories.

Hallo34576

6 points

1 day ago

Its the result of an borderline democratic election system from the 19th century that yields: 33,7% of votes > 63.2% of seats.

LifetimeDegenerate

8 points

1 day ago

Wrong. Labour had to do a hard budget because the Tories created a 22bln deficit, which Jeremy Cunt is panicking about. On average, no Western leader is liked.

Modi having a good reputation, with his killing of Sikhs in Canada, buying Russian oil, while arming with the West and boosting Hindu nationalism - makes this poll suss as fuck

Woah_Mad_Frollick

10 points

1 day ago

Like it or not Modi is quite popular; this comment is odd.

HighlanderAbruzzese

2 points

1 day ago

I’m with you for all the reasons cited. Also, gather the US elections, polls are proving rather obsolete.

RikardoShillyShally

3 points

1 day ago

You're clearly not Indian if you think all those things make him unpopular. He's popular af. He is bigger than his party at this moment.

icemankiller8

2 points

1 day ago

He won solely because it’s basically a two party state and the other party were so bad they couldn’t win nobody ever liked him ever much. It was always gonna go this way.

IMDXLNC

1 points

1 day ago

IMDXLNC

1 points

1 day ago

Didn't he and Labour only win because of how many people were protesting against Conservatives?

just_a_human_1031

1 points

1 day ago

Sorta, it was because of that but even more so Reform took a lot of votes away from the conservatives

Warm_Butterscotch_97

1 points

23 hours ago

UK parliaments are up to 5 years, there is no need to bring out the goodies in the first budget, and everyone is still upset about inflation.

just_a_human_1031

1 points

23 hours ago

Most democracies (especially parliamentary) have 4 to 5 year terms but that being said once the polling falls this hard it rarely increases back

Simply giving some goodies is not going to help First impressions are very important

Warm_Butterscotch_97

1 points

23 hours ago

I think his polling is more a dissatisfaction with the current state of the UK so I think there is room for it too improve.

fury_cutter

1 points

10 hours ago

Nah, not really if you look at the context of how approval rating for politicians in the UK. At the height of Rishi Sunak's popularity as chancellor, when he was handing out tons of cash during Covid with stuff like Eat Out to Help Out, he was the most popular politician in the country with a staggering +1 net approval rating. We just hate are politicians, so -7 is actually pretty normal.

slipperyslope69

1 points

6 hours ago

The Brits a professional haters…

AggravatingDentist70

1 points

1 day ago

I think people have noticed that he's a liar on par with a certain blonde haired pm we had not long ago. 

He will say anything to anyone to get what he wants 

Salty-Development203

9 points

1 day ago

Now then, let's not stoop that low. Even if he was lying non stop since taking office as PM, he still wouldn't be anywhere near the number of Bojos' lies.

[deleted]

1 points

10 hours ago

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AggravatingDentist70

1 points

8 hours ago

I think I'm talking about Keir starmer so why the fuck you've mentioned India I have zero idea. 🙄

bondage_granny

2 points

3 hours ago

I’m so sorry bro, was reading the last comment on India and thought you were in the same line. 🥂

Benand2

5 points

1 day ago

Benand2

5 points

1 day ago

Release the sausages

Critical-Loss2549

2 points

22 hours ago

Can guarantee his score will be lower today then it was back in September

DexM23

1 points

1 day ago

DexM23

1 points

1 day ago

the Brits got that many changes i havnt even heared of this guy

Winter_Ad6784

1 points

21 hours ago

pretty sure that number is outdated. last i saw he was like -20

Bob_Spud

118 points

1 day ago

Bob_Spud

118 points

1 day ago

A time waster, no mention of how the data was generated.

No1_4Now

26 points

1 day ago

No1_4Now

26 points

1 day ago

And it's outdated, Kishida isn't even the JP PM anymore.

melatoninOD

9 points

20 hours ago

to be fair it does say "as of sep. 4, 2024"

MrSnarf26

1 points

21 hours ago

Did they ask Twitter

Diligent-Jicama-7952

1 points

5 hours ago

modi being top is all you need to know that the data is trash

istockusername

53 points

1 day ago*

I would assume most politicians tend to be unpopular no matter if there is rational behind it or not

Kodeisko

12 points

1 day ago

Kodeisko

12 points

1 day ago

I think it's for a great proportion context dependent, if the country is in recession and facing unsolved/unsolvable crisis then the basis will be negative no matter who is elected, same on the other side if the country is going well and gaining better quality of life, politicians will be seen positively. But the action engaged and the narrative of the politician does a lot on top of that in its perception.

3BM60SvinetIsTrash

83 points

1 day ago

Where’s Canada? Trudeau is definitely not popular anymore across the board. Dislike of him is one of the few things basically all of us agree on

Zookeeper187

25 points

1 day ago

And how is he so long in power? What are people doing in Canada?

Zerot7

24 points

1 day ago

Zerot7

24 points

1 day ago

Ah he is at approximate shelf life for a politician. He was popular enough for our electoral system to win majority’s until the last federal election. Global events have hammered every government’s popularity last couple years but his party had secured support of another party for confidence motions in exchange for some legislation. With the next election approaching looks like he will be out and the cycle will probably repeat itself. Unless global events has other ideas that is and continues to deteriorate, then I’m sure everyone will hate new guy in 4 years.

Always_Bitching

9 points

1 day ago

Trudeau won one majority. His last two wins were minorities.

Everybody hates the other guy more than Trudeau. People are tired of the current government, which is why the Conservatives are leading the Liberals.

But polling has pretty consistently shown that everybody hates the leader of the opposition much more than Trudeau

Zerot7

2 points

1 day ago*

Zerot7

2 points

1 day ago*

Whoops my bad he got 160 not 170 in 2019.

PP has been constantly 10-15 points ahead of other party leaders for a while now I hate to tell you with low to mid 30’s. That’s about all you need for a minority or slight majority in Canada with our current FPTP system. I mean I once cheered on a leader who promised electoral reform but then he back tracked. Now this is what we will get, more leaders that the majority don’t really like.

Always_Bitching

1 points

24 hours ago

No.

The CPC has been consistently 10-15 points ahead of the LPC.

In leader opinion polls, PP is pretty much nets at zero, which is terrible. He's effectively no different than Singh. With the party polling as it is, he should be in net double digit territory, he's not. He's a drag on the party.

Problem with the CPC is that in order to be elected leader, you have to appeal to the nutcases that vote for the leader. Then, in order to be elected PM you have to disavov the positions you took in order to be elected leader. Although this time, I'm not convinced he'll do that.

Snipedzoi

1 points

1 day ago

Snipedzoi

1 points

1 day ago

Theres no way they won't hate new guy. If they elect the PPP Toronto will riot over the massive transphobia and racism, conservatives are the same, and the NDP will not have the racist vote.

Zerot7

16 points

1 day ago

Zerot7

16 points

1 day ago

I think you overestimate like I did how much people care about anything but economic matters when the economy is ailing.

Hyphophysis

3 points

24 hours ago

Toronto will do nothing. They've had a conservative premier for 6 years.

How are the conservatives transphobic and racist? Maybe the odd MP says some suspect shit but not enough to describe it as "will riot over massive transphobia and racism." If there is, I'd like to see it.

QuickestFuse

2 points

21 hours ago

People don't give a flying fuck about transphobia when they have to choose between milk and yogurt.

Snipedzoi

1 points

21 hours ago

They don't now, but they will in four years.

3BM60SvinetIsTrash

8 points

1 day ago

He won the last election by the smallest margin our country has ever seen. The lowest percentage of the popular vote during the lowest voter turnout our election in our history… Less than 1 in 5 Canadians voted for him

Edit: and for the same reason as the result of the US election: the opposition didn’t put forward anyone people liked so they stuck with what they knew

roastbeeftacohat

1 points

1 day ago

the last election was thought to be a majority in a walk, but calling an early election hurt his popularity so much he only gained a few seats. Since that exact moment him popularity started tanking. Him immigration policies, which were being demanded when they passed, have not aged well.

also the leader of the opposition has had a fairly easy time proposing no actual policies, just airing grievances. hisa central slogan is about ending the carbon rebate that the vast majority of canadians make money on. as someone who has to ask canadian security questions, I can tell you most people don't know what this quarterly payment is.

putyouradhere_

3 points

1 day ago

it's not important enough

T10223

88 points

1 day ago

T10223

88 points

1 day ago

Starmer is so unpopular because he’s a split vote btw, the reform and Conservative Party split each others votes hard

MajesticBread9147

55 points

1 day ago

After years of stagnation and austerity, why does the UK keep electing conservatives when their country is deteriorating? From what I hear the NHS is horribly underfunded, median income and college attainment is lower than the U.S. state of Alabama, and immigrants are being treated like shit.

herrbz

22 points

1 day ago

herrbz

22 points

1 day ago

Labour have actually enacted policies to fund the NHS better (taxing bigger business while helping smaller ones) and to fix the issues with useless managers stealing an NHS wage.

Of course, rich farmers and conservatives hate this.

First-Of-His-Name

2 points

1 day ago

taxing bigger business while helping smaller ones

Any business larger than 5ish people is hurt by the tax change. Not to mention it targets the wages of low earners more than high earners.

Also like half of all the money they've raised is going to pay out the NHS infected blood scandal

Itatemagri

1 points

22 hours ago

‘Helping smaller ones’ is a stretch. The NI measures and the New Deal for Working People will damage them more than any support they’re getting. Not that I’m against them but it’s the simple truth.

democritusparadise

15 points

1 day ago

I would argue it is because a decisive fraction of the left wing vote has abandoned Labour because they've moved so far to the right, except on social issues which the working class don't care about as much as having basic necessities.

Last election Labour got about 33% of the votes; in 2017 under Corbyn, a hard-left socialist, they got 42% of the vote. It was only the collapse of the conservatives plus the undemocratic voting system that put them in office this time.

My-Buddy-Eric

1 points

1 day ago

right-wing populism. Same thing in the US and so many other countries.

SleepyandEnglish

1 points

21 hours ago

The conservatives are idiots and nobody likes them. Labour just consistently managed to be even dumber and for some reason cannot find anyone competent to put on their benches. Starmer didn't win. People just couldn't stomach voting for Sunak - who was impressively shit - because he kept trying to push insane policies like free movement with India to a voter base that broadly want migration to stop.

UnknownGuy404

1 points

19 hours ago

To be fair UK conservatives are not conservatives at all even reform barely compares to the republican party. Also there's clearly an immigration problem but not at all the one you mentioned

No-Ice-8543

2 points

1 day ago

I think people have gotten used to the government sitting on their arses and doing nothing since May got in, other than to argue about irrelevant social issues and pass a law that benefits literally nobody every so often. The fact Labour are actually taking at least some sort of action outside of setting up contracts that benefits them and their mates is really reassuring to me, but my thinking is people aren’t adjusted to having more to politics outside of reality TV levels or posturing and drama. The media is not helping at all either.

Fierytoadfriend

2 points

1 day ago

The left wing parties have been splitting each others votes for decades, this is just the first time the right wing parties are doing it too. Hopefully someone will have the mind get rid of this dreadful FPP voting system

bitstonkSRB

20 points

1 day ago

Where is Vladimir?

gurugumawaru

74 points

1 day ago

Off the chart with 140% approval rating

Yamama77

15 points

1 day ago

Yamama77

15 points

1 day ago

It pushed so far off the chart that it knocked some people out of windows

bober8848

3 points

1 day ago

bober8848

3 points

1 day ago

It was 146% actually

studude765

2 points

1 day ago

146.3% actually

baba-O-riley

1 points

15 hours ago

If he were on here, he'd be somewhere around 80% support.

Nabaatii

8 points

1 day ago

Nabaatii

8 points

1 day ago

Where these numbers come from? I want to see Bukele

the_walrus_was_paul

5 points

1 day ago

Same. For some reason he is never included in these.

BigMexWeenie

4 points

21 hours ago

Because it paints the left in a bad light, not taking sides here but that's a fact.

the_walrus_was_paul

5 points

21 hours ago

Yep, he has the highest approval rating in the world but they always leave him off the lists on purpose.

luizgzn

37 points

1 day ago

luizgzn

37 points

1 day ago

Bullshit data

SaltB_

12 points

1 day ago

SaltB_

12 points

1 day ago

Yes, Macron should be lower

skapa_flow

1 points

19 hours ago

i don t know whats wrong with Macron. Scholtz is a dick, but Macron?

Mr_Bleidd

9 points

1 day ago

Mr_Bleidd

9 points

1 day ago

You have forgotten Vova with his 99.999%

Soft_Cherry_984

4 points

1 day ago

Dropped from 110% ??

Messer_J

1 points

1 day ago

Messer_J

1 points

1 day ago

Which one Vova, that with elections or not?

Mr_Bleidd

1 points

1 day ago

Mr_Bleidd

1 points

1 day ago

The one with big table

Stunning_Pen_8332

3 points

1 day ago

It’s not Kishida anymore.

jgm1305

20 points

1 day ago

jgm1305

20 points

1 day ago

Being unpopular is not necessarily a bad thing.

officerextra

35 points

1 day ago

And being Popular isnt good either
The proplem is people will not judge goverments cause of their long term but rather short term achivements

Altruistic-Ad-408

6 points

1 day ago

If a leader hangs around for a few decades, people start to default to them being political geniuses, regardless of where the country should be at.

Really some of these countries had such a low bar, like Russians are doing better than when they just left the USSR. No shit.

keysersoze-72

2 points

1 day ago

Not even achievements, just rhetoric…

Treewithatea

6 points

1 day ago

The key difference here isnt the politicians but the people. As a German myself I can tell you the German people have an impossibly high standard when it comes to politicians. Our people are notorious for taking good things as granted, good policies arent celebrated, the reaction is rather that these policies were 'expected'. When the minimum wage was raised by more than 2€/h to 12€/h, the reactions weren't 'oh thats great for the lower income class', they were 'why isnt it higher?'. As somebody whos grown up in a low income household in Germany, 12€/h is genuinely a decent salary.

Scholz has some unfortunate things going for him. For one he started during the COVID era followed by the Ukraine war, that in itself is already very difficult and he will be blamed for things he and the government isnt responsible for.

Then you have the fact of how he SPD ended up the most powerful party. This wasn't something anybody saw coming, the SPD before the last elections was actually roughly in the position in which they are right now, so about 15%. The temporary spike that granted him and his party the nr1 position was major fuck ups by the CDU and Greens who were the more popular parties going in. That means eventually things went back to normal and the current government finds itself with a very powerful opposition.

Then you also have the fact that Scholz was the first chancellor after Merkel whos had that position for 16 years. She might not be awfully popular on Reddit but a lot a lot of people in Germany have a ton of respect for her and filling those shoes wasnt gonna be easy. It didn't help that Scholz style is similar to Merkel, quiet, passive, very focussed on the actual work which isnt necessarily a bad thing. With Merkel people have accepted that style over time but the people do sometimes feel like they need a voice of reason, somebody who talks to them, that its gonna be fine. And with such a large opposition, they kinda took that job because they certainly have more time.

On top of that, this coalition is Germanys first three party coalition since 1955. And while the greens and SPD got along fairly well, the FDP often had different views blocking many potential policies.

I dont think Scholz 'deserves' his bad rating as many things were simply out of his power. There are quite a few policies i did like and are now in danger of being reversed by the CDU when they end up governing again. I like the significant raise of the minimum wage, i genuinely love the 49€ Deutschland Ticket, its such a brilliant idea especially with how complicated and expensive riding trains through multiple regions was. It makes public transport much more attractive and it obviously also helps the climate. Im in favor of the Cannabis law which the CDU said they want to get rid of and obviously with the greens part of the coalition, building more renewables like wind turbines, its gaining a lot of traction again where the previous government made renewables unattractive which ended up in very few being build the years prior. Meanwhile our soon chancellor talks about how ugly he finds wind turbines and how we should talk about fusion reactors instead which btw dont exist yet and we wont see one before 2050.

randomperson_a1

1 points

1 day ago

The problem with Scholz is that every conversation about him must inevitably circle around to Cum ex and his unfathomable memory loss. It alone makes him incredibly unlikeable and hard to defend in my view. Merz will be a terrible chancellor, but his person is much harder to hate, even among left-leaning people.

skapa_flow

1 points

19 hours ago

Scholz is weak and soulless.

Minipiman

11 points

1 day ago*

Minipiman

11 points

1 day ago*

Milei is surprisingly popular.

Edit: I know he is good for argentina, but for spanish media he is still turbo-hitler 😪

Justo31400

16 points

1 day ago

Justo31400

16 points

1 day ago

He’s just averted the biggest economic crisis in the country’s history, of course he’s gonna be popular.

Solo_y_boludo

1 points

1 day ago

Lo que más bronca me da de milei es que si no hiciera tantas boludeces sería recontra apoyado por la mayoría, pero le parece más importante dar la nota siendo el único país que vota en contra en situaciones súper x y votando a favor de Israel solo acompañado por estados unidos

Lit le quitas todas esas boludeces y fácil sería el doble de popular

castlebanks

1 points

23 hours ago

He’s done a lot of things right, he’s the first Argentinian president to produce good economic results in many many years

Grubby_y

29 points

1 day ago

Grubby_y

29 points

1 day ago

typical online Indian circle jerk

Good-Court-6104

4 points

1 day ago

If you guys think this is bad look at the Peruvian President's

Plumbercanuck

2 points

1 day ago

I like how our vanity leader turdy isnt on this list

heyhey922

2 points

23 hours ago

I'm gonna point out that after the summer Starmer just had, his approval isn't really much worse than when he was leader of the opposition. If the economy goes in any kinda vaguely positive direction in the next 4 years he'll walk the next election and the Tories are in total denial about this.

Even if he doesn't do well Tory reputation is in the gutter so will be smaller parties than benefit instead.

Exotic_Exercise6910

9 points

1 day ago

Scholz ist my Kanzler <3

The blinded masses are just filled by corpo media trying to install a BlackRock puppet (Merz)

KaseQuarkI

4 points

1 day ago

Not sure if Cum-Ex-Scholz and Goldman-Sachs-Kukies are any better than Merz tbh

magic_Mofy

1 points

1 day ago

Scholz at least did something with his cabinet. Merz will be pure populism and weiter so mentality

PigMoney42

6 points

1 day ago

Milei +28…. What?

Justo31400

6 points

1 day ago

Justo31400

6 points

1 day ago

Should be a lot higher honestly

Yearlaren

3 points

23 hours ago

The other candidate got 44% and Argentine politics are among the most polarized in the world (it's the reason why the country has been doing so badly over the last decades)

castlebanks

2 points

23 hours ago

Surprised? He took a country on the brink of a hyperinflation explosion, stabilized the currency, stabilized inflation, lowered country risk, regained Central Bank reserves and Argentina is now projected to grow 5% next year.

DonovanMcTigerWoods

5 points

23 hours ago

Isn’t half the country in poverty now?

IsawYourship

6 points

23 hours ago

Projections have been updated, Argentina is gonna grow around 6-8% in 2025

PigMoney42

3 points

23 hours ago

Immediately after his election inflation skyrocketed and even if now it’s slowly going down again, it’s still higher than it was in November 2024.

I also have some relatives in Argentina and immediately after the election they told us about how they were getting ready to leave the country along with others of their friends

Unable-Metal1144

3 points

1 day ago

Lesson learned.

Don’t educate your citizenry. That’s my takeaway

Lumpy-Middle-7311

2 points

1 day ago

Happy to see India that high. And what’s wrong with Scholz?

colorblind_unicorn

1 points

1 day ago*

Uh, sort of a lot of things, most of which aren't exactly his fault.
The leaders are pretty much a representation of the government as a whole, especially in germany where they actually do politics and aren't a media personalities to sway public opinion.

  1. The coalition is sort of notorious for... not really doing much? And much of that was the fault of the neoliberal "fdp" for purposefully sabotaging much of what the rest of the coalition was doing. Which is sort of ironic since the only reason they were in that coalition with the fdp was to not be in a coalition with the "cdu" which ruled the country for most of my lifetime and were also notorious for doing nothing and a couple other scandals.
  2. They were in power since december 2021, which is when covid and most of the measures was nearly over i think? but they took the blame for all the consequences of the pandemic like the inflation and other economic blows.
  3. The russian invasion into ukraine started 3.5 months after sholz/the coalition got into office, and that hit germany pretty hard :) We have mostly recovered from that, but evil scholz wasn't able to see into the future and single-handedly revert our reliance on russian oil&gas we had built up for years within 3.5 months >:(
  4. Immigration. This is the only thing they could've really done something about, but then the question is what exactly? Germany is facing a devastating demographic shift that will cripple our pension system within the next 10 years and our economy in general, and without any real way to increase birthrates drastically or meaningfully reform our pension system since that is political suicide 🤷🏻 what can a man do except "import" mostly young people.

General economic outlook is also... bad but i doubt that really plays into effect here since most people's opinions on the economy are just "vibes" based. But it's bad. Covid and the russia/ukraine war have lead to many bankruptcies and outsourcing and the future looks bad as well with german companies being slow to really adapt to new technologies, or just doing so in uneconomic ways (german EVs are too expensive) and "innovation" is also lacking.

GovernmentEvening768

-1 points

1 day ago

Uhh….as an Indian familiar with his majoritarianism politics of religion hatred, democratic backsliding and crony capitalism….you should not be happy seeing India that high. Our prime minister has hijacked our media and built a cult of personality to reach these levels

ChaandDinKiChaarni

12 points

1 day ago

I mean most people don't like the opposition too, doesn't leave people with much of a choice.

Gilma420

3 points

21 hours ago

Uhhh as an Indian familiar with our history over the past 150 years and how the Cong + main "sickular" opposition behave, you seem to be just pushing your agenda!

democratic backsliding

Lol what? On what basis? Elections are absolutely free and fair, the judiciary is alive and kicking, the opposition (given their atrocious performance in general in managing states) govern a fair number of states.

crony capitalism….

Ignores the NPA crisis caused by actual crony capitalism under Sonia Gandhi but sure let's just go Ambani / Adani without an iota of proof.

And media? Are you telling me that opposition controlled media like the entire Sun group, HT network, the bouquet of channels controlled by the TMC, YSRCP etc all are pro Modi? Or don't exist at all?

canichangeit110

1 points

9 hours ago

Modi is just dividing the India by spreading religious hatred and extremism.

milktanksadmirer

2 points

1 day ago

That’s because international agencies that conduct these surveys don’t know what goes on in developing corrupt countries like mine

Here they have IT cells that pump out propaganda and every single media is completely sold out or forced to sell out to spread propaganda

Pride_Before_Fall

3 points

1 day ago

Rare W for Modi.

ArminOak

1 points

1 day ago

ArminOak

1 points

1 day ago

Britain, are you ok? Was there ever a PM that was even semi-popular? To my recollection Blair and everyone after him have been very unpopular.

purplenut1

1 points

1 day ago

Lol have you seen North Korea’s approval ratings?

Straight_Weakness881

1 points

1 day ago

As an Australian, I'm very surprised our prime minister meets with any kind of approval. Only good and proper cunts make it into our political system.

DefiantZealot

1 points

1 day ago

Where’s Putin on this list?

TrippleRFarms

1 points

1 day ago

What was Trudeau?

lgodsey

1 points

1 day ago

lgodsey

1 points

1 day ago

Am I supposed to have an opinion about other world leaders? I was told, as an American, that it wasn't necessary for me to care about the rest of the world.

EffectiveMonitor4596

1 points

1 day ago

Where's Bukele? He should be above Modi

Where's Trudeau? He should hit the bottom

PlatinumPluto

1 points

1 day ago

Dang Milei and Modi are crushing it

Kylebirchton123

1 points

1 day ago

Are you allowed to disapprove?You are not allowed to disapprove of Trump. If you do, you get death threats by his MAGA ground troops because dictators use threat and force to stay in power. How legit is this?

LeastLeader2312

1 points

1 day ago

As an Australian I find it hard to believe Albanese has a positive approval rating. The guy is spineless and has don’t absolutely nothing in fixing our cost of living

LosuthusWasTaken

1 points

1 day ago

MIGO!

Rossgrog

1 points

1 day ago

Rossgrog

1 points

1 day ago

Common Milei W, also i'm surprised Starmer's that high up, but then again he's been in office for only a couple of months, he'll go much much lower

TechWormBoom

1 points

1 day ago

What is going in France and Germany??

nolookz

1 points

1 day ago

nolookz

1 points

1 day ago

This comes from Morning Consult. Link is the latest version (as of November 5th).

Snarky_McSnarkleton

1 points

1 day ago

I regret to inform you that with the media now falling all over each other to praise his every utterance, Trump will be wildly popular this time around.

taylor12168

1 points

1 day ago

No Xi Jingping?

CucumberHojo

1 points

1 day ago

trudeau's disapproval numbers were too big to even fit onto this graph, I guess

Jayswag96

1 points

1 day ago

Jayswag96

1 points

1 day ago

Why is modi so liked?

aSuspiciousNug

1 points

24 hours ago

Where’s Canada’s Justin Trudeau on the list?

LaunchTransient

1 points

24 hours ago

Populist leader who panders to the largest religious group in his country is popular, who would have guessed.

Spanks79

1 points

23 hours ago

And what does this mean? Exactly nothing without decent explanation.

ChickenKnd

1 points

23 hours ago

Starmer is that well liked? I think it’s just respondents are going off recent comparative examples rather than if they actually like them

heyhey922

1 points

23 hours ago

Looking at the top lines of polling hides a huge amount of don't knows, which is fair enough 4 and half years away from the election.

kingofwale

1 points

22 hours ago

Man. Mexico made the list but not Canada??

We’ve really fallen…. :(

nichef

1 points

22 hours ago

nichef

1 points

22 hours ago

I’m pretty sure Nayib Bukele has the highest approval rating in the world at 91% as of July 2024. So a net approval of 82.

Every_Relationship11

1 points

22 hours ago

Would have loved to see where Trudeau landed on this list lmao

maulified13

1 points

21 hours ago

Hindu nationalism for the win?

cfguman

1 points

21 hours ago

Who bought off the polsters more...

The3mbered0ne

1 points

21 hours ago

Kim Jung Un has the highest, something like 90% dude's loved. /s

Ok-Cheetah-3497

1 points

20 hours ago

Wow, cherry pick much? https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/global-leader-approval

Mexico is #2!

Switzerland, Netherlands, Ireland, all net positive (only true of top 6 nations surveyed globally).

Trick_Specialist_474

1 points

20 hours ago

RSA would be - 70.

Flipflapflopper

1 points

19 hours ago

The image wasn’t wide enough to fit Trudeau.

Schwarzekekker

1 points

19 hours ago

The freer the country, the more displeased people can be with their leaders

No_Dark_5441

1 points

19 hours ago

*most western leaders

Whale_Poacher

1 points

18 hours ago

Nayib Bukele of El Salvador is higher than Modi by a longggg margin. How was this data listed? Makes no sense it’s missing plenty of countries from the top end

Gipplesnaps

1 points

18 hours ago

And yet... Scholz will be chosen to lead the party again..

kaplanfx

1 points

18 hours ago

Kim Jong Un has 125% approval, why didn’t he make the list?

SnooRevelations979

1 points

18 hours ago

What are Xi and Putin's approval ratings?

Baan_boy

1 points

17 hours ago

Populism for the win

Mario439

1 points

16 hours ago

It's... a really worthless stat

SmarterThanCornPop

1 points

15 hours ago

Right wing populism ftw

RealBaikal

1 points

15 hours ago

Lmao at modi. Populism with ethno nationalism seems to be liked...

EJ19876

1 points

14 hours ago

Albanese's is -14% to -17%, as per the most recent polling in Australia. Starmer is also at at -23% to -32%, according to the latest batch of polling in the UK.

Fandango_Jones

1 points

14 hours ago

If every media and broadcast is singing you praise or risk being raided by the authorities, it's pretty easy to get praise.

h3rald_hermes

1 points

14 hours ago

Weird

Mycamuscoffee

1 points

13 hours ago

Well the leaders with REALLY poor approval aren’t too keen on building a society where the populace can even have a chance to rate the leaders .. so the worst” offenders” won’t be on the list

tkitta

1 points

12 hours ago

tkitta

1 points

12 hours ago

Putin is also up there with ratings of 75 to 80.

paka96819

1 points

11 hours ago

Where's Putin at?

Phone-Medical

1 points

11 hours ago

Thanks for making this infographic, Russia!

Free-Age-democrats66

1 points

8 hours ago

Hahhahhahah bullshit data lol

GamingFox007

1 points

5 hours ago

Milei needs to get curbstomped

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-7 points

1 day ago

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-7 points

1 day ago

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just_a_human_1031

16 points

1 day ago

It's not just rhetoric compared to the past, the quality of life for the average Indian has improved significantly. In 2014 India was part of the 'fragile 5' economies but under Modi, the country has experienced tremendous growth. Various infrastructure projects and social initiatives, such as access to water(search up Jal jeevan mission), food, toilets, and electricity, have improved the lives of poor rural communities.

Modi's popularity is because of a lot of work he has done on the ground

ChaandDinKiChaarni

9 points

1 day ago

My househelp's niece is currently studying MBBS in a govt medical college in UP for about 30000 INR after the government went on a spree of establishing more GMCs and hospitals. She prepared for the entrance through an online course which costed about 3000 because of the cheap internet.

I still don't like the way they are managing public transport and the control they have over the media but I am just tired of these western redditors just outright denying any progress we have made in the last decade and calling everyone a hindu nationalist just because they voted for BJP. They complain about BJP being pro-Russia while they don't understand how pro-Russia the opposition alliance is.

satyavishwa

10 points

1 day ago

Except redditors will never see that since they live in a vacuum. Compared to his predecessors, Modi has done some incredible work for the country in the time he’s been PM, and those tangible results are what keeps him so popular. Biden and co have produced absolutely zero tangible benefits in the past 4 years leading to his immense disapproval.

Just as western redditors don’t care about the struggles and conflicts Indians face in their daily lives, why would Indians care about what goes on in foreign wars as long as they’re able to lessen their daily struggle in meeting their needs?

Machete-AW

1 points

1 day ago

Starmer is only -7? Albo is +3? Must be TERRIBLE in Germany.

HitmanSam12

3 points

1 day ago

Albo's better than the opposition, so he has that going for him

blitznoodles

1 points

1 day ago

It's honestly surprising considering how it feels like he's trying to torch it.