Any Regrets...?

[NPBlue]

I regret voting for Labour when Blair first became PM.

I remember the excitement of the election, the night when I finally thought i was going to be see the end of Tory rule. I had grown up from the age of 13 with the misery of Tory rule, i finally had a chance to vote to end it or so I thought, but in my naivety i had not realised how far neo-liberalism had permeated into UK society, I had not realised that the post WW2 consensus was finished. Blair did OK but was no Socialist, he just carried on the work of the Tories.

Maybe if Labour hadn't won that election, the party would have got a new Socialist leader and my adult life would not have been so politically miserable and we would not have ended up with the reactionary bunch of cunts we have today.

All i have ever wanted is to live in a country that is peaceful, fair and decent. A country where every one regardless of who they are or where they are from gets decent schooling, is looked after by a well funded NHS, are treated well when ill fortune strikes, are safe to walk the streets, can afford to keep warm and eat a proper meal. Now it seems that is a pipe dream as we live in an increasingly authoritarian state, that is run in the interests of those with most. The I am alright Jack yuppie mindset of the 80s is the norm, hatred of difference is commonplace, culture wars are fought and woke is the new PC gone mad. Demonisation is everywhere, decency is frowned upon, doing good is belittled. As was once said "there is no such thing as society" has become true, we hate now before love, we are encouraged to spy on our neighbours where once we borrowed a cup of sugar. Showing you care is virtue signalling, I never imagined living in a country where having virtues would mean you would be ridiculed.

Our country is now a moral cesspit, lying is excused, philandering is fine, tax dodging is encouraged, our country is now unethical and immoral. Our once great democracy is a shambles, influence can be bought, corruption is rife and nepotism, cronyism, old school tie networks, sexism and racism are still attached to power.

We were once a great country, Blair on coming to power called us a young country, sadly Blair was right, we stayed young, we never grew up and if anything we regressed.

How I wish I had never voted for you Mr Blair, you had the power to make us a good country and failed so badly we now have this shit show of braggarts, charlatans, lunatics, liars and thieves taking our country further down the toilet and now we are a laughing stock.

I'm as pissed off with the amoral government we now have running the country as any other right thinking person, but, you know, politics apart, I still find us to be a civilised country with polite people standing in queues and saying 'good morning' with a smile when out on a walk in the country.

I've not noticed any change over the last few decades over how we interact with each other, and having a pint in the pub doesn't feel any different to how it was back in the 70's. We still take the piss in a gentle way like we always have.

I share your pleasure when Labour won the election in 1997. It was one of the happiest days of my life when I woke up and found out they had won, but for what it's worth, Labour sorted out so many problems after years of shortsighted mismanagement, and sparing the details, the country worked, and we had the largest increase in living standards in our history.

The problem was 'that note', 'There is no money left', which the lying tories seized on and waved around for all to see to impliment austerity. David Cameron admitted in his autobiography it was the excuse he needed to cut public spending, and slash and burn all the help vulnerable people all groups needed to live civilised lives. Remploy springs immediately to mind on that score.

It is ridiculous for any country to think it has run out of money, but enough people swallowed it and it's become ingrained in their thinking.

Rishi Sunak has spaffed billions on the economy, much of that going to friends of the tory party that are nothing more than gifts from the taxpayer that have been fraudulently claimed and won't be reclaimed, and if you think that is on Tony Blair, then, please, think again.

Austerity doesn't work, austerity has been widely condemmed as unnecessarily cruel, and it was a tory policy based on a traditional joke letter left in the draw for the incomming treasury minister from his predeccessor begun by Winston Churchill in the 1920's.

As for Brexit, the tories were so spooked by Nigel Farage, the foghorn of ignorance,and their decision to give the country an ill-informed and totally dishonest explanation about us leaving the EU, was nothing more than their desperate attempts to keep their precious party in power.

I have no regrets about voting for Labour in 1997. I am pissed off that so many voted for Boris Johnson in the last election, but I take some solace, as I have said before on here, that in times of difficulty after years of tory fuck ups and short sightedness, Labour are voted in and sort things out.

Hopefully that happens and water companies will be prevented from pumping raw sewage into rivers that my tory MP voted to continue, voted for hungry children in the school holidays to stay that way, and voted for every single measure against the EU despite 63% of his electorate wanting to remain.

 

[Grassland Blue]

I regret voting for Labour when Blair first became PM.

I remember the excitement of the election, the night when I finally thought i was going to be see the end of Tory rule. I had grown up from the age of 13 with the misery of Tory rule, i finally had a chance to vote to end it or so I thought, but in my naivety i had not realised how far neo-liberalism had permeated into UK society, I had not realised that the post WW2 consensus was finished. Blair did OK but was no Socialist, he just carried on the work of the Tories.

Maybe if Labour hadn't won that election, the party would have got a new Socialist leader and my adult life would not have been so politically miserable and we would not have ended up with the reactionary bunch of cunts we have today.

All i have ever wanted is to live in a country that is peaceful, fair and decent. A country where every one regardless of who they are or where they are from gets decent schooling, is looked after by a well funded NHS, are treated well when ill fortune strikes, are safe to walk the streets, can afford to keep warm and eat a proper meal. Now it seems that is a pipe dream as we live in an increasingly authoritarian state, that is run in the interests of those with most. The I am alright Jack yuppie mindset of the 80s is the norm, hatred of difference is commonplace, culture wars are fought and woke is the new PC gone mad. Demonisation is everywhere, decency is frowned upon, doing good is belittled. As was once said "there is no such thing as society" has become true, we hate now before love, we are encouraged to spy on our neighbours where once we borrowed a cup of sugar. Showing you care is virtue signalling, I never imagined living in a country where having virtues would mean you would be ridiculed.

Our country is now a moral cesspit, lying is excused, philandering is fine, tax dodging is encouraged, our country is now unethical and immoral. Our once great democracy is a shambles, influence can be bought, corruption is rife and nepotism, cronyism, old school tie networks, sexism and racism are still attached to power.

We were once a great country, Blair on coming to power called us a young country, sadly Blair was right, we stayed young, we never grew up and if anything we regressed.

How I wish I had never voted for you Mr Blair, you had the power to make us a good country and failed so badly we now have this shit show of braggarts, charlatans, lunatics, liars and thieves taking our country further down the toilet and now we are a laughing stock.

There are still very many good people in the UK.
The problem is that the loud, vulgar, greedy and brash have been given too much license to behave in that way, indeed it appears to be encouraged.
To argue differently, to swim against this tide is perceived as being "a bit strange" somehow.
I had ambition to move to and live in another European country, but the obsession with "getting brexit done" has put paid to that.

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

No regrets and pleased with my choice of a vote. Regret’s that the NHS, Education, and a decent standard of living for all, has changed for the worse since the sixties.
Its impossible to speak with a doctor or dentist and I think the system is broken it wouldn’t matter who was in Government the poor and the weak will still suffer.
As a country we elected Mr Johnson a corrupt individual in my opinion who elected a group of like minded people to serve this proud country. Ultimately the breakup of the U.K is now a reality.

 

[Grassland Blue]

You keep voting for for this shower of self interested career politicians who have little interest in running the country compared with feathering their own nests. And that's across the board, left, right middle.

Politics has become entertainment, a popularity contest based on personalities, where its actually the media (and in future the owners of twitter or Facebook etc) who dictate the powers that be. So I will continue to abstain until we have someone who is only interested in doing the actual job, we have that right, and if we all did it then politics would have to change direction.

And in all of Parliament can you think of anyone who is working for the interests of the country above all else? I can think of just a couple, that's shocking. Imo of course.

You have the freedom NOT to vote, of course, but if no-one voted then we would have to endure the same gang of rogues, with their appalling policies (corruption?) ad infinitum, as the party in power would have absolutely no opposition.
The only thing which kept this gang from returning us back to the Victorian era was the fact that we were a full member of the E.U.
Now we are no longer a full member this restraint has largely gone.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

No regrets and pleased with my choice of a vote. Regret’s that the NHS, Education, and a decent standard of living for all, has changed for the worse since the sixties.
Its impossible to speak with a doctor or dentist and I think the system is broken it wouldn’t matter who was in Government the poor and the weak will still suffer.
As a country we elected Mr Johnson a corrupt individual in my opinion who elected a group of like minded people to serve this proud country. Ultimately the breakup of the U.K is now a reality.

All true. The current system has failed. It is 50 years out of date and based on patronage and the influence of lobbyists and that applies to all political parties. Our system has split the country from a small group in Greater London who have become very wealthy (at least in property values) and 50 million people have been pretty much excluded. The country has totally failed to modernise and keep pace with the rest of the world.

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

Labour gain Rossendale its nice to see that one, it always was a swing seat and people voting against the current government is a small step in the people waking up

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

You have the freedom NOT to vote, of course, but if no-one voted then we would have to endure the same gang of rogues, with their appalling policies (corruption?) ad infinitum, as the party in power would have absolutely no opposition.
The only thing which kept this gang from returning us back to the Victorian era was the fact that we were a full member of the E.U.
Now we are no longer a full member this restraint has largely gone.

If no one voted I think questions would be asked. And the answers would be "standards and conduct of our MPs"

Just some of the things I'd like to see. ( as well as less tolerance of the shit we're served up now) :
No 2nd jobs
No lying in Parliament
No shares in companies you're lobbying for
No rapists or criminals
No media mogul connections
No university-straight into politics careerists

I want them to run the country in a professional way. When they do I'll vote. It shouldn't be too difficult for democracy to evolve that way

 

[bugsyblue]

I regret voting for Cameron. He’s one of the key reasons why Brexit happened. Although he’s like Nelson Mandela compared to the bunch of corrupt clowns we have in power now.

 

[somapop]

I regret voting for Cameron. He’s one of the key reasons why Brexit happened. Although he’s like Nelson Mandela compared to the bunch of corrupt clowns we have in power now.

David Cameron almost nonchalantly creating that referendum reminds me of this scene from Police Academy:

 

[Magicpole]

I regret voting for Labour when Blair first became PM.

I remember the excitement of the election, the night when I finally thought i was going to be see the end of Tory rule. I had grown up from the age of 13 with the misery of Tory rule, i finally had a chance to vote to end it or so I thought, but in my naivety i had not realised how far neo-liberalism had permeated into UK society, I had not realised that the post WW2 consensus was finished. Blair did OK but was no Socialist, he just carried on the work of the Tories.

Maybe if Labour hadn't won that election, the party would have got a new Socialist leader and my adult life would not have been so politically miserable and we would not have ended up with the reactionary bunch of cunts we have today.

All i have ever wanted is to live in a country that is peaceful, fair and decent. A country where every one regardless of who they are or where they are from gets decent schooling, is looked after by a well funded NHS, are treated well when ill fortune strikes, are safe to walk the streets, can afford to keep warm and eat a proper meal. Now it seems that is a pipe dream as we live in an increasingly authoritarian state, that is run in the interests of those with most. The I am alright Jack yuppie mindset of the 80s is the norm, hatred of difference is commonplace, culture wars are fought and woke is the new PC gone mad. Demonisation is everywhere, decency is frowned upon, doing good is belittled. As was once said "there is no such thing as society" has become true, we hate now before love, we are encouraged to spy on our neighbours where once we borrowed a cup of sugar. Showing you care is virtue signalling, I never imagined living in a country where having virtues would mean you would be ridiculed.

Our country is now a moral cesspit, lying is excused, philandering is fine, tax dodging is encouraged, our country is now unethical and immoral. Our once great democracy is a shambles, influence can be bought, corruption is rife and nepotism, cronyism, old school tie networks, sexism and racism are still attached to power.

We were once a great country, Blair on coming to power called us a young country, sadly Blair was right, we stayed young, we never grew up and if anything we regressed.

How I wish I had never voted for you Mr Blair, you had the power to make us a good country and failed so badly we now have this shit show of braggarts, charlatans, lunatics, liars and thieves taking our country further down the toilet and now we are a laughing stock.

Great post. Blair and Superbroon had a chance to make things better, but after sucking Murdoch’s withered cock to win, they were hogtied into focusing on deregulation of the City of London markets. That went well. They fucked everybody up, we’re bailed out by the people, then went back to be the greedy selfish vermin they are.
I remember the 80’s, was a lad but involved. Was a member of the Labour Party, left wing obviously, and tried and failed in our constituency to oust a right wing sitting labour MP. He was an utter cut, but an operator and one of our group made the mistake of telling his uncle of our plans and he told the MP and his right wing bellends. We turned up for the vote and found 16 of us couldn’t vote, as they claimed an issue with our memberships. Total bullshit, we lost by 9 votes to get shot of him.
As the years went by, Labour became Red Tories and have stayed there until Corbyn came along and look at how the establishment fucked him with bullshit that too many bought, the stupid cunts. I had never been a supporter of independence l, as I saw our fight as to back working class people all over these islands. That ran out of road as no matter how bad those Tories got, England returned them. I am proud of the fact we have never returned a majority of Tory scum for over 70 years.

I am just hoping we can get Indy, all the demographics of the younger voters support it, with only middle class and loyalists voting against it due to their love of the monarchy and no matter how bad things get, they don’t give a fuck.
I have always said I am not confident we will do it as once the Project Fear is ramped up many wobble. I hope if we do it, we can show you can have a fairer country and by that people south of Hadrian’s will see it’s all been lies that we cannot do things differently and get off their fucking knees and demand the same.

You may call me a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.