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What the UK thinks about Westminster personnel
Settled referendums
38
since Jun 2026
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5,755
all time, on Westminster personnel
This week
947
votes · 2 referendums settled
Written opinions
213
all time, left by voters
This week's opinion highlightThe most respected opinion this week
“No. I dislike the man. I also dislike a hit designed to halt a rise. Foreign donation law should be enforced on every party. A Channel 4 sting and a call to resign are not a conviction. Investigate. Do not treat a broadcast as the court. If the law was broken, charge it. If it was not, this is the field again.”
HardCompact, debating No on “Should Nigel Farage resign after "plotting to break law on foreign donations"?” · read the thread →
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- 5.Bigden405 respects
Who answered this week
The 662 placed voters lean Centre Right overall.
H. Left5%
Left19%
C. Left8%
Centre8%
C. Right11%
Right42%
H. Right7%
Regions this week
South EastC. Right
ScotlandCentre
LondonCentre
South WestC. Right
North WestC. Right
East of EnglandC. Right
YorkshireC. Right
North EastC. Right
East MidlandsCentre
West MidlandsRight
WalesC. Right
Northern IrelandC. Right
Votes each week
947so far this week
40227 Jul
3 Aug
1,13710 Aug
1,38217 Aug
24 Aug
94731 Aug
All-time personnel highlights
Biggest landslide
YES 91%
Should Police officers and military personnel comply with minimal physical fitness requirements, tested regularly?
91% of 276 votes went the same way.
Closest result
NO 51%
After Nigel Farage’s press conference would you say he’s gone from his job or has he stayed?
Decided by 2 votes.
Most debated
YES 57%
Should Nigel Farage resign after "plotting to break law on foreign donations"?
41 written opinions.
This week
2 settled · 947 votes
0% YES
Majority for
NO 43%
552 votes
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by @refnation⏱ Ended 4 Sept 2026
Should Nigel Farage resign after "plotting to break law on foreign donations"?
The verdict
The chamber backed resignation, but the sharpest No case insisted: “A Channel 4 sting and a call to resign are not a conviction.” The result was less a verdict on guilt than a test of political standards.
0% YES
Majority for
NO 25%
395 votes
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by @HonestVoter88⏱ Ended 3 Sept 2026
Is Kemi Badenoch right to remove Mel Stride as shadow chancellor?
The verdict
“Growth faces are fine. Turmoil is not a policy” was the losing side’s sharpest line, as the chamber gave Badenoch’s removal of Mel Stride a decisive endorsement.
Every personnel verdict
- YES 57%Should Nigel Farage resign after "plotting to break law on foreign donations"?The chamber backed resignation, but the sharpest No case insisted: “A Channel 4 sting and a call to resign are not a conviction.” The result was less a verdict on guilt than a test of political standards.
- YES 75%Is Kemi Badenoch right to remove Mel Stride as shadow chancellor?“Growth faces are fine. Turmoil is not a policy” was the losing side’s sharpest line, as the chamber gave Badenoch’s removal of Mel Stride a decisive endorsement.
- YES 56%Should Zack Polanski resign as Green Party leader?The call for Zack Polanski to resign carried the platform by twelve points, while the floor’s most respected Yes argument wondered whether he should stay to show the party’s “true face”.
- NO 74%Should Harry and Meghan receive taxpayer-funded security upon returning to the UK?“They’re not working royals” was the floor’s strongest line as No won by nearly three to one; the Yes case survived only as a conditional plea for protection when threats are credible.
- YES 55%Is Andy Burnham evidence that democracy in the UK is a mere illusion?Burnham’s route to Downing Street was judged less a constitutional technicality than a democratic provocation: Yes won narrowly, with the floor’s sharpest line calling the process “a petty game” that treated voters as “background”.
- YES 91%Should Police officers and military personnel comply with minimal physical fitness requirements, tested regularly?A near-unanimous Yes came with a built-in qualification: the strongest voices wanted fitness tied to the job, not imposed as a blunt universal test.
- YES 69%Did Nigel Farage call the by-election to avoid scrutiny over his £5 million gift?“The Pope appears to be Catholic” became the room’s sardonic shorthand for an obvious answer, as Yes carried the question by more than two to one.
- YES 52%Is DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) ultimately responsible for Jason Arday's death?Cambridge’s alleged failure to verify Arday’s appointment became a proxy for a wider argument about DEI, with Yes prevailing narrowly; its sharpest voices blamed a system that had “propped up this guy”.
- YES 73%Should Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor not receive a state funeral as planned?The chamber rejected a royal ceremonial send-off for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor; its sharpest case was about equal treatment, not a settled finding of guilt: “many have and have not been stripped of titles.”
- NO 66%Did Keir Starmer leave the UK in a better place than he found it?Not one Yes voter left an argument on the page: the chamber’s clearest verdict was also its quietest case.
- YES 57%Is Kemi the right leader for the Tories?The room backed Badenoch by 114 votes to 85, but the winning side sounded less like a movement than a shrug: one voter simply declared the Conservative brand “dead”.
- NO 76%Can Andy Burnham end rough sleeping as prime minister?“It requires housing, social care & mental health backup”: that was the floor’s most-respected warning, as a decisive rejection said Burnham’s first Downing Street instruction was not yet a deliverable plan.
- YES 58%Has the Nigel Farage bubble burst?Nearly six in ten voters here concluded that Nigel Farage's bubble has indeed burst, though the winning side mostly muttered its agreement rather than argued it, leaving the sharpest lines to Reform's defenders.
- NO 52%Is an increasingly informal prime minister dress code proof of the decline in all aspects of political leadership?A vote this close was always going to turn on whether clothes are a symptom or a distraction, and the floor split almost down the middle, No prevailing by the narrowest of margins, 74 votes to 68.
- NO 53%Can Andy Slaughter effectively serve as Solicitor General after meeting Hamas in 2010?A margin of six points is a thin verdict for what looked, on the page, like a lopsided debate: four of the five opinions left made the case for Slaughter, only one against, yet the floor still said no to his appointment as Solicitor General.
- NO 56%Can Anas Sarwar credibly serve as a UK trade minister after criticising the House of Lords?The chamber's verdict landed close to a coin toss among the young but hardened into real scepticism among women, with No prevailing overall as voters weighed whether taking a peerage to fix Scottish Labour's record low undoes years of anti-Lords rhetoric.
- NO 57%Is Andy Burnham set to be a total clown?Skepticism about the incoming prime minister's judgement fell short of a majority, with No prevailing by 14 points even as the dance-floor moment itself drew mockery, suggesting the chamber was readier to withhold verdict than to write Burnham off before he has governed a day.
- YES 62%Can Andy Burnham lead Britain after sidelining Starmer supporters in his first Cabinet?A purge of the old regime split the chamber less than you'd expect from a Cabinet reshuffle this brutal, with three in five voters here backing Burnham's right to clear house even as the deposed faction's sympathisers cried foul.
- NO 75%Should Mo Farah get his knighthood removed?This one barely divided the chamber at all, which is itself the finding: knighthoods, in the voters' minds, are apparently not conditional on the honouree's honesty about their own life story, only on the law catching up with them. Sir Mo Farah's revelation that he was trafficked as a child and had lied for years about his identity did not, for four in five voters here, amount to the kind of disgrace that has stripped others of their "Sir" — and no age band bucked that consensus. The over-65s were the most unforgiving of all age groups on the question, yet even they landed firmly on the same side as everyone else, suggesting this wasn't generational sympathy so much as a shared sense that deception told to survive trafficking sits in a different moral category to fraud or criminality.
- NO 68%Should Keir Starmer be tried for treason over his immigration and cultural policies?Even a chamber willing to entertain the question could not stretch the word treason to cover a prime minister's asylum and border policy, with voters here rejecting the charge by nearly two to one — a verdict less about Starmer's record than about the legal weight of the word being asked to carry.
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- YES 54%Should Andy Burnham introduce proportional representation to reduce UK political polarisation?A narrow but real majority backed Burnham's proportional representation push, with the chamber's oldest and youngest voters oddly aligned against the middle-aged sceptics who dominate British politics' working years.
- NO 53%Would Andy Burnham improve Labour's electoral prospects over Keir Starmer?Skeptics narrowly had it on whether Andy Burnham would be Labour's better bet than Keir Starmer, but the topline hides a striking gender gulf: men leaned strongly for Burnham, women decisively against.
- NO 51%After Nigel Farage’s press conference would you say he’s gone from his job or has he stayed?A vote this evenly split on whether Farage has actually gone anywhere is itself the verdict: by 50 to 48, the chamber decided the Clacton resignation was theatre, not departure.
- NO 56%Is Trump the death knell of American democracy as we know it?Verdict: no, Trump is not democracy's death knell — but the age curve is a U, not a slope, with the youngest and oldest voters far more alarmed than everyone in between.
- YES 57%Is Farage in deep trouble?A verdict this close-fought still hides a stark generational split: the over-65s were unanimous that Farage is in deep trouble, while the 45-54s — Reform's electoral heartland — mostly waved the trouble away.
- NO 55%Can Nigel Farage remain an MP after failing to declare gifts from a fraud convict and a billionaire donor?Close as the topline looks, this was no consensus: the 25-34s broke hard against Farage keeping his seat while every other working-age bracket from 35 to 54 backed him staying, a generational pincer that decided the thing.
- NO 55%Is Farage toast over the 5 million payment?Voters narrowly declined to write off Farage, but only just — No edged it 39-32, with the sharpest resistance coming from the middle-aged, not the young.
- YES 66%Should Andy Burnham introduce proportional representation to reduce UK political polarisation?Yes carried it comfortably, 66 to 34, with support holding remarkably steady across every age band from twentysomethings to pensioners rather than fracturing along generational lines.
- NO 67%Would Ed Miliband make a good chancellor under Andy Burnham?No to Miliband as Burnham's chancellor, by two to one — but the chamber split hard by both age and sex, with women backing him 73% to men's 27%.
- YES 59%Has Shabana Mahmood lost her mind?Yes carried it 59-41 on a chamber of 61, a comfortable but not crushing verdict that Shabana Mahmood has, in the platform's judgment, lost the plot on migration and protest policy.
- NO 52%Would Rupert Lowe make a better leader than Nigel Farage?Rupert Lowe fell narrowly short of Nigel Farage in the chamber's eyes, 34 to 32, but the verdict splits sharply by age: the middle years back Lowe, the young and old don't.
- NO 80%Should Ed Miliband be appointed chancellor under Andy Burnham?Voters rejected Ed Miliband for chancellor by four to one, but the headline number hides a sharp gender split: women were split down the middle while men voted 14 to 1 against.
- NO 56%Will Andy Burnham make for an effective Prime Minister?Andy Burnham's prospective premiership was rejected 31-24, a 12-point margin that flattered him less than the topline suggests: it was the platform's 25-34s, not any Tory-leaning older cohort, who did most of the sinking, going 35% yes against a youth vote that actually backed him.
- YES 54%Has Nigel Farage contributed to the downfall of four Prime Ministers?A narrow YES, 54-46, on Farage's role in toppling four PMs — but the topline masks a stark generational split: the youngest voters rejected the claim by nearly four to one, while those in their thirties and forties overwhelmingly endorsed it.
- YES 72%Was Keir Starmer right to resign?Yes carried every age band bar the tiny over-65 cohort, and by a comfortable 72-28 overall — a chamber with little patience for a Prime Minister clinging on after a by-election mauling and a 100-MP revolt.
- YES 53%Is Keir Starmer's legacy a good one?Yes narrowly carries the day on Starmer's legacy, 28 to 25, but the chamber is really two votes in one: women backed him decisively while men were split down the middle.
- YES 52%Would Andy Burnham be a worse Prime Minister than Keir Starmer?Yes squeaked home, 27 to 25, but the chamber split cleanly by gender: men backed the idea that Burnham would be worse by two to one, women leaned the other way.
- YES 63%Should Keir Starmer resign as Prime Minister on Monday?Voters here delivered Starmer a 63-37 verdict for resignation, a comfortable rather than crushing margin, with the weight of the vote coming from the platform's dominant 25-34 bracket.