Brits want a rule-breaking leader to fix it, new poll finds

People across Europe say that their country is in decline and that society is broken, according to a new Ipsos survey shared with CNBC.

The negative feeling has increased over the past four years in major European economies – citizens in Great Britain, Germany, France and Italy increasingly sharing the belief that society is “broken” in the past four years.

Clifford Young, president of Polling and Sociétal Trends, in the United States in Ipsos, told CNBC on Thursday “the predisposition to populism and anti-establishment feeling is very stable and raised on a global level”.

Populist feelings dominated electoral discussions across Europe, the group of Patriots for the right for Europe obtaining more than 10% of the votes in the European elections from last year.

During last week, a candidate supported by Trump won the Polish presidency during a close vote in the second round, while in Romania, the pro-Eue Nicusor Dan won during a presidential race vote after losing the first round against a far-right candidate.

In Germany, 77% of respondents said they thought that the company was broken – up 16 percentage points since this research was conducted in 2021. Great Britain and France also experienced two -digit percentage increases.

The greatest economy in Europe has experienced its share of political upheavals in recent months. The alternative party of the extreme right of Germany Für Deutschland Party obtained more than 20% of the national vote in the February elections, doubling its share of vote since 2021.

The two traditional centrist parties in the country have since trained a government and adopted legislation allowing major defense and infrastructure loans.

Carsten Nickel of Teneo described on Thursday the plans of the German government as “a massive live experience and on a large scale in the greatest economy in Europe. With 500 billion public investments, can you really reduce the voting of AFD?”

Economic concerns seem to add to the populist feeling through the continent. In all the European countries that participated in the survey, people were more likely than not to believe that their savings are faked for the rich and powerful.

About 72% of British respondents agreed with this declaration, the largest number of Europe and more than any other country in the G7. But the feeling was shared around the world, with a majority of 29 of the 31 countries included in the report indicating that their savings were faked.

The University of York, Daphne Halikiopoulou, says that right -wing populist parties adjust their messaging to call on these voters.

“These parties speak more and more about the economy in a way that calls for what I call peripheral voters, so people who do not vote for the extreme right as approval, but rather as [a] Protecting against other parties, the traditional parties, which, according to them, have failed them socially and economically. “”

The British were most likely to support the filming of a “strong leader who breaks the rules” as the solution to the problems they see in their economy. More than half of respondents are suitable for a solid leader, against only 24% of people in Germany who want a revolutionary leader, and only 38% in the United States.

Young says that it is a sign that “people are extremely frustrated because they do not have the impression that they get their right contribution”, while Lizzie Galbraith, main political economist in Aberdeen, said: “There has been proofs in the United Kingdom for some time now that there is the level of dissatisfaction with the status quo … The decrease in standards of service is probably East”.

The Labor Party in the United Kingdom faces pressures in the polls of the right British party led by Nigel Farage, which recently described a plan aimed at extending social benefits and reducing taxes.

But pressures on public finances could limit the government’s ability to make expenditure offers to try to strengthen its popularity.

Nickel told CNBC that “an extremely limited budgetary space” makes the Labor government more reactive to “short -term fiscal and, ultimately, to interest rates trends, then to look in the longer term and to really make the investments that would be necessary, or which could make a difference”.

These financial pressures could also have an impact on the political platforms of populist parties if they manage to ensure power across Europe. Galbraith says that “the implementation of these policies in practice would be much more difficult”.

She added: “We have often seen moderate populist parties when they somehow enter the government because of these budgetary constraints in which they are.”

France should be the next great European economy to go to the polls when it organizes presidential elections in 2027, and it is another country where we have seen signs of public frustration. 65% of respondents to the Ipsos survey agreed that “the company was broken” in the country.

Galbraith described the position of the French government as “really difficult”, warning that President Emmanuel Macron “will suffer from political divisions until the presidential election” while he seeks to issue economic reforms through a deeply divided National Assembly.

The chief of the National Rally Marine Le Pen was forbidden to appear in the elections after being found guilty of embezzlement – an allegation which she denies. Halikiopoulou says that the decision could be a “double -edged sword”, the far -right part seeking to present itself as having been “victim”.