The Labour Government

I think I may have mentioned Tory Lite would be a fucking disaster. And I will make a prediction to you. The next elections for our parliament will see the SNP remaining the in majority.

This will hopefully show, that regardless if it’s Tory’s or Tory Lite, we are fucked. Starmer broke every promise he made to get elected. The country has been brought to its knees through Tory economic and cultural negligence. Brexit, the pandemic, Truss trashing the economy. Labour win and who do they go to to claw back money. Pensioners. The disabled getting less support. Labour? Don’t make me fucking laugh. Traitors to the working class. When the Tories fuck up, we pay. Even when the party who should be fighting our corner are in power. Fucking cowards.
 
I would probably give them an 8 or 8.5 out of 10 so far.
Solved the Junior Doctors industrial action quickly
Solved the train drivers industrial action quickly
Dealt decisively with the Farage riots
Brought forward legislation for renters rights
Introduced the workers rights bill
Slight drop for the winter fuel allowance as I believe it should be means tested, it shouldn't be a single cut off amount.
Looking forward to the budget hoping that the wealthy corporations will at last be forced to pay their share to the society they milk for profits and the non- dom loopholes are closed along with the offshore tax havens in UK protectorates
 
blueinsa said:
lol.

Seems like you need and crave an echo chamber cock?

Shame this isn’t one for you.
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Having a different opinion is fine.

When it’s negative about everything without any notion of positivity, it just becomes a drone of cynical depression.

It’s no wonder you posted how miserable you were.
 
urban genie said:
there is a clear negative reporting tactic going on from the right side of politics, which 99% or our press is
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Because that's what the country is mate. That's why Starmer got 20% of the electorate voting for him and 80% not.

The minor issue for the majority was that the Tory party had become unelectable and people were not prepared to hold their noses and vote for them any longer. So we have a Labour government a majority never wanted, and when they've turned out to be far worse than anyone could have possibly imagined, it's hardly surprising everyone - who didn't vote for them in the first place - is against them.

If there was a GE tomorrow, the Monster Raving Looney party might win. Labour would certainly get even less than 20% of the electorate voting for them. Reflect upon that for a moment: Less than 1 in 5 would vote for them*

Therefore, is it any wonder that the media, who ultimately just want to sell clicks or newspapers, are being critical? They merely reflect the mood of the nation.



* Given only 1 in 5 voted for them in the first place and now they are far less popular than then.
 
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Because that's what the country is mate.
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Not sure it is you know, or at least won't be for much longer if current trends hold. Back in Feb the FT did an analysis of the issues facing the Conservative party. There was a graph that showed propensity to vote for a conservative/rw party by age across a number of developed western countries. So percentage inclined to vote rw on one axis and age on the other. The data plot for the UK has become markedly different from other similar countries.

Most countries showed the traditional graph you'd expect with a steady increase in conservative/rw voters as age went up. What was interesting about the UK plot was (a) it's start point was much lower so the percentage of people voting conservative/rw at a young age was significantly lower than the other countries (b) but more importantly the expected linear growth of a greater percentage voting conservative/RW just wasn't there like it was in the other countries graphs. It wasn't quite flat lining but the gradient was very low compared to other countries until you got to much higher ages and then it climbed much more steeply. The implication was that the under 50s are rejecting/failing to gravitate to rw politics at a much higher level than in comparable countries. Might be a temporary trend but if not the conservatives will need a huge rethink.
 
Chippy_boy said:
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If there was a GE tomorrow, the Monster Raving Looney party might win. Labour would certainly get even less than 20% of The electorate voting for them. Reflect upon that for a moment:
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You sound like an Arsenal fan, Chippy.

Nobody's giving out trophies after three months of a five year parliament.
 
threespires said:
Not sure it is you know, or at least won't be for much longer if current trends hold. Back in Feb the FT did an analysis of the issues facing the Conservative party. There was a graph that showed propensity to vote for a conservative/rw party by age across a number of developed western countries. So percentage inclined to vote rw on one axis and age on the other. The data plot for the UK has become markedly different from other similar countries.

Most countries showed the traditional graph you'd expect with a steady increase in conservative/rw voters as age went up. What was interesting about the UK plot was (a) it's start point was much lower so the percentage of people voting conservative/rw at a young age was significantly lower than the other countries (b) but more importantly the expected linear growth of a greater percentage voting conservative/RW just wasn't there like it was in the other countries graphs. It wasn't quite flat lining but the gradient was very low compared to other countries until you got to much higher ages and then it climbed much more steeply. The implication was that the under 50s are rejecting/failing to gravitate to rw politics at a much higher level than in comparable countries. Might be a temporary trend but if not the conservatives will need a huge rethink.
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Interesting info - thanks!

There's a couple of things I think are going on here.

1. There's a difference between generally supporting conservative principles, and on the other hand, being a supporter of the Conservative government per se. My point really was that I think population is generally the former, not the latter. The Conservative party - in the form of the last government - were clearly not popular at all. In large part because they had been in for so long and the lot of the average Brit is not exactly great at the moment, so irrespective of cause, the incumbent government is never going to be popular.

And 2 - from my perspective, MUCH more concerning - is that I wonder to what extent the woke left has infiltrated and brainwashed academia? Not much reported at all was one of Starmer's first initiatives - to halt implementation of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023.

Why on earth would a government - ANY government - seek to stifle freedom of speech??? It's well understood that Universities in particular are riddled with woke leftist academics, and quite predicatable if their woke lefty views rub off on a yound electorate student base.
 
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