Polls: Leaders, parties & the border
Red Lines
BBC
4.4 • 78 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Mark Carruthers chats to Suzanne Breen, Chris Donnelly and Newton Emerson.
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| 0:00.0 | Why are so many people here seemingly so unimpressed by the leadership being offered by the Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill? |
| 0:06.4 | And why is her colleague Arlene Foster-faring considerably better, even though both leaders recently polled in negative territory? |
| 0:14.6 | Suzanne? |
| 0:15.5 | I think it all comes down to the Bobby's story funeral. |
| 0:19.3 | Michelle O'Neill's poll ratings are absolutely awful. |
| 0:24.4 | 61% of people thought that she was doing a bad or awful job as Deputy First Minister |
| 0:30.6 | compared to about 38% for Arlene Foster. |
| 0:34.8 | But what will worry Sinn Féin, |
| 0:41.4 | it's not that Michelle O'Neill is polling badly with unionists. |
| 0:43.8 | She is 86%. That is an overwhelming majority of unionists have no confidence in her. |
| 0:48.1 | But what will worry Sinn Féin is that Green Alliance voters feel exactly the same way. |
| 0:54.8 | More than 50% of them, 56% are unimpressed with her. |
| 1:00.6 | And Arlene Foster actually beats her in the popularity ratings. |
| 1:04.8 | That never happens. |
| 1:06.4 | Michelle always comes ahead of Arlene with these other voters, |
| 1:10.7 | these Green, these alliance voters. |
| 1:12.9 | These are the people that Michelle O'Neill is expected to win over to Sinn Féin, a young woman, |
| 1:18.7 | not the old guard, taking over the reins in the party. |
| 1:21.8 | And it's bad news for Sinn Féin in transfers at the next Assembly election because it's suggesting that whereas |
| 1:29.0 | Arlene used to be toxic to voters, perhaps it's now Michelle. |
| 1:33.4 | What do you make of it, Newton? |
| 1:34.7 | It's a very asymmetrical situation for both leaders, while O'Neill is not impressing anyone, |
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