With Labour's dire standing in the polls, perhaps it's no surprise that the party is also rated poorly when it comes to customer service and value for money. The Labour party is ranked third equal with BT on the Plebble website in a top 10 of the worst performing companies and public organisations.
Plebble allows readers to rank organisations on a scale from minus five to plus five on two criteria: level of service and value for money. The score on each is then added together to give a final figure.
British Gas receives the worst overall rating of -4.10, followed by Foxtons estate agents on -3.79 and Labour is third on -3.54, alongside BT.
Judging from the comments recorded by readers, most people equate the Labour party with the government - which doesn't seem to have its own entry on the site.
"Just got back from queuing in the post office for 45 minutes because they've closed all of the other ones," according to one post.
Another says: "Eleven years of tax and spend - on target-setting, quangos, public-services management, expensive consultants and spin. My wife and I are taxpayers. No value for money. Falling standards. Economic disaster."
The Conservative party manages to stay out of the top 10 worst performers but it does score a rather poor -1.07.
Comments include: "Systematically asset-stripped the country during the 80s to feather their own nests."
Another reader adds: "Local Tories here are cutting £200,000 from the Sure Start nurseries which Labour set up to give children from deprived backgrounds a better start in life."
Again, people are equating the party with the authorities or governing bodies that they control.
Plebble was set up in early 2006 by two brothers, Will and James Paterson, and aims to "give consumers a voice" and allow people to make a better judgment about which businesses to use.
It's obviously not scientific but when a political party is rated as poorly as the likes of estate agents and utility companies, it just adds to the feeling that the public mood has turned against Labour.
