The "terrifying threat from Labour"

It's ridiculous, it should be a walk in the park, we should all be feeling jubilant esp someone like me.
Instead they are winning purely because of everyone is fed up with the tories.

Well i think yes, there is a huge risk of of us all loosing our minds if we are forced to look at a man in a dress and be forced to call him a woman...

That is Orwell 1984. I'm slightly above minimum wage and I don't think labour will benefit or help me at all.
My dd has mild sen and not a singled word about it schools have inspired me to to think they will help her.
My medical issues have taken years to even get near a consultant. I a still waiting but I am under no illusions that labour will sort that either.
. Because there is a fundamental lack of understanding as to what leads to sen issues in schools and so on.

And a functioning NHS boosts the economy. It does not help the economy having people off long term sick waiting for a pretty simple operation.

Our economy is in a terrible state. When the current Conservative government have had a decision to make around the economy, they always took the decision that shafted it. Instead they just tell us everywhere is the same. That is not true.

I earn significantly more than 50k p/a, as does almost everyone I know and work with (the nature of my industry, once established). I've got everything crossed for a Labour government. The same can be said for most people I talk to - though I'm conscious we all exist in our own echo chambers.

Some current tax policies are a bit shit (the 'cliff edge' at 100k and 125k are a bit wincey, tbh, but we can thank the Tories for the current tax gap) but if me paying more in tax means better public services and people in min wage jobs being able to afford to put food on the table by keeping a bit more of their pay then bring it on.

As for incentives for working hard - I grew up poor, and self-funded my graduate training and study with minimum wage jobs and eye-watering debt. I keep working hard because the more I earn the better my life is. I'm immensely privileged to have a well paid job and I'll keep striving to earn more as I like having the money to save, invest and spend. I didn't have that when I was at the start of my career on well under 30k a year.

As I've done since I turned 18, I'll be voting Labour. I hope the Tories get annihilated at the polls as look at the absolute state of this country courtesy of 14 years of Brexshit, Truss, Partygate etc. and their non-dom, PPE-exploiting pals.

Awful amount of people with the terrors on here. Shame mental health services have been run into the ground.

Remember the impact the Brexit bus had. Everyone who understood Brexit knew it was a nonsense. It still made some people vote for Brexit.
I wish more people understood the economy. If you cared about the economy and jobs you would have voted Remain.
If you care about the economy and jobs you will vote for the Starmer Labour government.

Pay more tax and improve the NHS then PRAY they sort out this trans stuff because I'm not sure how many female nurses will tolerate men watching and perving at them in changing rooms?

@LoveSandbanks

"Terrified of Starmer, that’s a bit strong!
Our household income is around £140k a year. We’re voting Labour. Can’t bloody wait to get the tories out. The only thing that worries me about Starmer is that he’s not left enough.

Do I think we might pay more tax? Possibly. Do I think that might lead to a better NHS and education system? Almost certainly. Along with lifting a significant number of school children out of poverty."

Similar situation here.

I cannot wait.

And any small tax increase will be tiny compared to the thousands I've had to pay out for a private dentist. There isn't an NHS dentist left in my town. Another thing the Tories have fucking decimated.

Exactly. Terrifies me. No future party are going to be brave enough to retract self ID once it becomes 'normal'. This generation of Labour voting women might just be the undoing of future generations of women. Hope I'm wrong but I'm not having that one on my shoulders.

I voted YABU because I've been accused of being a Tufton St based Tory shill on here just for commenting on my worries around Labour adding VAT onto uni fees.

I'm nothing of the sort.

I think you're falling into the trap of assuming if someone has views you disagree with then they must be somehow dodgy and up to something, rather than an individual who just has different priorities to you.

You’re implying that people have low enough intelligence to take on board what they see on Mumsnet, planted or not, as gospel. The majority of people have already made their mind up who they’re going to vote for. So if it is planted stuff from Tory admin, they clearly don’t know what they’re doing, and they’re leaving it a bit too last minute for it to have any effect.

It's beyond bad 'enough' for women. But pretending that the single sex spaces will have anywhere near the impact that other policies will have for women is disingeuous.

Is that because it’s ok for posh people to be “the idle rich” and anyone else who doesn’t work 24/7 till they drop is part of the feckless poor @hamstersarse ?

This. 100%

@VickyEadieofThigh that comment you are answering is a lie. Starmer said he keeps Friday evening free for his family. A pretty sensible thing to do.

Well of course, he's a globalist, neo liberal FFS. A Labour government will carry on transferring wealth to the rich.

@Cooper77 I am a centrist. You sound like the type of Conservative party vote who is retired in a pretty village and wants to stop any house building within 5 miles of where they live.
For the rest of us, Labours policies will improve the economy. Conservative policies have made the economy worse. We need a strong economy before we can do anything else. We need businesses thriving and lots of decent paid jobs. The current Conservatives have already shown they can not deliver this.

Whereas Tory PMs - Johnson, for example - have definitely been workaholics, eh?