Who are the 18% that think Labour is doing a good job?

 I'm a firm believer in the Pareto principle. 

Vilfredo Pareto, around the 1900s,  came up with the 80/20 observation.  He observed that 80% of wealth was owned by 20% of people.  

This generalisation seems to be widespread throughout nature - so much so  that maybe it's the natural order of things.

For example 20% of patients consume 80% of NHS resources.  20% of the population account for 80% of welfare payments.  20% of the population pay 80% of the tax.  We can also apply the Pareto principle recursively for example:  20% of the 20% so  4% of the population pay 64% of all tax.

It's not a bad approximation - the top 1% pay 30% of all tax - the top 10% pay 60% of UK tax.

So I was surprised to see that 18% of the population think Labour/Starmer is doing a good job.

I did wonder whether these 18% had really low expectations and therefore expected him to do an even worse job than he is doing and therefore responded positively since he's not doing as bad as they thought.

It then occurred to me that maybe 20% of the population have been brainwashed and are effectively in a Labour cult therefore they are incapable of seeing reality. Effectively the Labour Red rose tinted glasses. No matter what Starmer did - for example execute their parents, burn down their home, steal all their belongings...they will still view Labour as doing a good job.

So Pareto got it right. 20% of the population are bewitched by Labour - infatuated, obsessed and bedeviled by Starmer and Reeve's charisma - so-much-so that it's impossible for them to break free from their captivating and enchanting Labour spell.  

Either that or the 20% have just received an inflation busting boost to their welfare freebies.





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