YouGov has conducted the most crucial polling so far this year on November 5th into public attitudes towards heroic Catholic-rights activist Guido Fawkes. Four in ten have a favourable opinion of Fawkes, against a measly third who see him unfavourably…
Interestingly Reform voters are most favourable towards Fawkes at 55% to 22%. Tory voters are neck and neck at 41%-41%. Badenoch should take note…
71% of Brits say they are confident they know what he stood for – that is, religious liberty against a protestant tyranny that denied human, civil and political rights to Catholics. All of this means substantial progress on attitudes towards Fawkes since immediately after his martyrdom in 1606, in the wake of which Guy became a pejorative term for a wrong-un thanks to government propaganda…
Among a wave of public sympathy for Guido the usual slanderous media coverage portraying him as a religious terrorist and deplorable has died down. Hacks now ask – should we bother remembering Fawkes at all? To which can only be said: Remember, remember the Fifth of November – it is 419 years since Guido last attempted to overturn a corrupt, liberty-taking political class…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”
