Poll alert

We have a ComRes opinon poll in The Independent on Sunday tomorrow, shared with the Sunday Mirror. As well as the end-of-term assessment of the state of the parties and their leaders, we asked a lot of questions about the Olympics. Is it true, as Alastair Campbell asserts today, having sat in on a focus group, that “we the people are desperate for the Games to succeed because we need something to cheer us up; and the media are desperate for them to fail because they see their mission to make us more miserable than we already are”?

We asked:

G4S, the private security company that is providing security staff for the London 2012 Olympics, has recently announced that it will not be able to provide enough security staff to meet their contractual agreement for the Games. 3,500 soldiers and police from forces around the country are being drafted in to secure the Games. Do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements?

Theresa May, the Home Secretary, should resign for failing to ensure that G4S provides enough security staff for the London 2012 Olympics

G4S should pay a bonus as well as contractual costs to the soldiers and police officers who have needed to be drafted in to secure the Games

The London 2012 Olympics will benefit the private sponsors of the Games but not the ordinary people of Britain

I am looking forward to the London 2012 Olympics

I am dreading the London 2012 Olympics

I expect that the 2012 Olympics will be worth the expense in the end

In addition to voting intention, leadership ratings and trust on the economy, we asked if people agreed or disagreed with the following statements about politics:

George Osborne should be replaced as Chancellor of the Exchequer

The fact that David Cameron went to Eton makes it harder for him to be a good Prime Minister for the whole country

A Labour government under Ed Miliband would be better at protecting people’s jobs

The Labour Party is unlikely to win the next general election

Tony Blair still has a lot to offer this country

I shall post the results here this evening. Full tables will be up on the ComRes website.

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• nebakhet

  Alastair Campbell is wrong. There are a large number of people sick of the Olympics because of the constant stream of propaganda about it, the commercial exploitation of it and the heavy handed enforcement of laws protecting it.

  Sure a large number of people aren’t bothered about this stuff, I suspect they might even make up the majority. But a sizable number of people are nevertheless being at best ignored, at worst misrepresented, when people like Alastair Campbell arrogantly make statements like this: “we the people are desperate for the Games to succeed”

  Out of everything, it’s this kind of sheer over-the-top enthusiasm for the games is what’s done it for me. They aren’t even ordering us to enjoy it, they’ve gone beyond that, they are PRETENDING that we are.

• FergalFury

  I dread the London Olympics.
  Ed Miliband has sweet FA to offer the country.

• porkfright

  And in the fifties sixties and seventies the mass events and parades in China and Russia were objects of derision here. None of our stupifyingly moribund political class have anything to offer this country-apart from corporatism, asset-stripping, and “We’re all in this together”-which we clearly are not.

• FergalFury

  Careful Pork. Le mot juste as always but the last cogent commentator here was Jody MacIntyre and we all know what happened to him. He was moving away from plod in a wheelchair in an aggressive manner. WE ARE ALL HAPPY HERE!! (Pssst I am now off to claim political asylum).

• porkfright

  Yes. Strike that last comment of mine. We are all happy. We are all fulfilled. I’ll keep saying it to myself until I believe it.

• FergalFury

  My reference was to Giovanni’s bete noire, socialism. A poster made in 1930 satirizing Stalin.