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As the nasty party showed its true colours again yesterday, following a blatant ad hominem attack of Labour leader Ed Miliband, polls show that the public will always choose substance over theatrics.<\/p>\n

 
\nYesterday (April 9) the tables turned<\/a>, with three polls showing Labour to be decisively ahead just four weeks away from the general election on May 7.<\/p>\n

 
\nBreaking the prior neck-and-neck tie with the Tories, Labour has pulled ahead by several points, with a Panelbase poll putting Labour ahead by six points, a Survation poll by four and a TNS poll by three points.<\/p>\n

 
\nThe Survation poll for the Daily Mirror also found that more people approved of Miliband\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s job as Labour leader as compared to prime minister David Cameron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s.<\/p>\n

 
\nThe surveys were conducted just before the Tories unleashed personal assaults on Miliband yesterday (April 9), as defence secretary Michael Fallon launched a vicious attack on the Labour leader<\/a>, calling into question his character.<\/p>\n

 
\nFallon claimed that Miliband “stabbed his own brother in the back” to become Labour leader and would now be “willing to stab the UK in the back” on defence.<\/p>\n

 
\nThe Tories refused to apologise<\/a> or back down from Fallon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mudslinging, with Cameron, chancellor George Osborne and work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith all standing by Fallon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s statements.<\/p>\n

 
\nEven the strongly conservative Telegraph denounced Fallon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comments<\/a>, calling them \u00e2\u20ac\u015bill-judged\u00e2\u20ac\u0165, and noting:<\/p>\n

 
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMr Fallon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comments were more an ad hominem attack on Mr Miliband and his leadership qualities than a serious critique of Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s defence policy.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

 
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur politicians need to put the mud-slinging aside and engage in a much more grown-up debate…,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165the Telegraph concluded.<\/p>\n

 
\nUnite political director Jennie Formby said the polls were reflective of a growing and unstoppable national mood.<\/p>\n

 
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThree polls are showing today that the Labour party is truly the party of the people,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese polls reflect what we here at Unite have been saying for some time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the electorate is hungry for a substantial change in government, one that offers real alternatives to the crisis working people have endured for the past five years.<\/p>\n

 
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn only the last week, Labour have unleashed concrete policies that will make a real difference to the lives of working people \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a clampdown on zero hours contracts, scrapping employment tribunal fees and putting an end to a 200-year-old tax loophole that enables the wealthiest to skirt their duty to contribute to society,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she added.<\/p>\n

 
\nIndeed, polls show that the electorate has embraced such policies. On abolishing the non-dom tax loophole, the vast majority, almost 60 per cent, were in favour of the policy according to a Survation poll, with only 16 per cent against it.<\/p>\n

 
\nFormby criticised the Tories\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 campaigning efforts, arguing that Labour didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to resort to such pettiness.<\/p>\n

 
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bLabour doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hide behind slick election strategies designed to manipulate the voting public,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t rely on negative campaigning based on disingenuous personal attacks, which only cheapens the quality of political discourse in this country.<\/p>\n

 
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bInstead, Labour simply offers what the electorate has been yearning after for far too long \u00e2\u20ac\u201c measures that actively attack injustice everywhere: from the tax system to the workplace. Labour predicates its campaign on a simple truth \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that the public votes intelligently, based on measurable actions and not empty rhetoric.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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