Gordon Brown now leads the most unpopular Labour government in history, according to a new "poll of polls" for The Independent.

The public approval ratings of his administration have sunk below the worst achieved during Labour's darkest days in power in the 1960s and 1970s, when the governments led by Harold Wilson and James Callaghan were engulfed by economic crises.
The figures will alarm already despondent Labour MPs because they call into question the Brown camp's claims that the Prime Minister can mount a successful political fightback if he steers the country through the current economic storm. Aides hope that he would then get the credit for enabling Britain to emerge from the global problems in a stronger position than its rivals because of his record during his10 years as chancellor.
John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, who compiled the "poll of polls", said: "It is probably safe to say that Labour is now in a larger electoral hole than any previous Labour government, and that only John Major's Tory government ever had even less polling support. So much for New Labour's claim that it would avoid any repeat of Labour's record in the 1970s."

These figures would give David Cameron's party 409 seats, with Labour on 182 – fewer than the 209 it won under Michael Foot in 1983 – the Liberal Democrats 29 and other parties 30.

Poll: This is the least popular Labour government ever - UK Politics, UK - The Independent

But remember folks as we are often told on this forum Nu Labour are in fact an excellent Government .... it is all the medias fault ..... or the global economy's fault or ...... well anything but the governments fault really