Labour voters - do you regret voting for them?

Same thread every week .. with a couple of others under a slightly different title every couple of days

Either learn to search, keep it on one thread, or hop off to Politics

Aibu to think that those who voted them in should apologise.

God – that was a good laugh. Thanks, OP. (Also didn't we just have this exact thread about a week ago).

Couldn't be happier with my vote. I'm really pleased with the decisions as they making, and agree with means testing winter fuel allowance (as does my swing-voting, low income pensioner mother and her friends in a similar boat).

I could tolerate the Tories to the David Cameron years, but after that – no. Chronically and viscerally unforgivable.

"Law and order has completely broken down"?! PMSL 😂😂 You can't blame Labour for the riots - seeds of that were sown in the previous 14 years. Also, I'm not sure I should really be answering this question. I always was a Labour voter but, because of their pitiful failure to condemn genocide and the fact they've basically been promising austerity 2.0, I didn't vote for them this time. And they're still better than the Tories.

Don't be ridiculous. The Tories had been making a right pig's ear of things. I had started to believe that they were being willfully negligent. How ludicrous it was! A new prime minister every five minutes, each one talking more nonsense than the last one. Liz Truss alone was a complete shambles.

And I'm supposed to apologise for Kier Starmer when you'd all be kissing his bum if he wore a blue ribbon? As if you cared about pensioners five minutes ago.

I agree

No. Give them a chance.

And law and order hasnt completely broken down despite the tories trashing our emergency services, prisons, social work, probation services, courts etc. I still have faith in the fundamental decency of a majority.

I find it utterly bizarre that the BBC are making such a big deal about donations and gifts, when everyone knows the Tories under Boris Johnson were the biggest bunch of corrupt liars going.

Not that bizarre when you consider who the Director General is.

Nope.

As you may recall, the last administration offered us up the 5 worst prime ministers in history.

Sunak and May were merely inept and useless.

Johnson and Truss. Embarrassing.

Cameron. Dum de dum de dum.

I can sometimes understand people holding views that may lead them to want to vote for the Conservative Party, but defending/voting for/agreeing with that lot takes some explaining.

Are we going to have one of these threads every day? The Tories really are desperate.

I voted Lib Dem tactically to get our useless Tory MP out. I'm still delighted with the result, both that we now havea very good Lib Dem MP, and that Labour are running the country. I think Keir Starmer will be an excellent PM.

I find it utterly bizarre that the BBC are making such a big deal about donations and gifts, when everyone knows the Tories under Boris Johnson were the biggest bunch of corrupt liars going. It's that classic Trumpian thing of accusing the opposition of exactly what you yourself are doing wrong.

"Haunted pencil" 😂 Loving that description. But surely he's a quill rather than a pencil?

There's lots of talk about people only voting Labour to get the Tories out.
But all those people thought about it and, on balance, voted Labour - so they were voting for Labour policies and principles. They thought the country couldn't stand another 5 years of Tory decline.

Those thinking people now understand that change will take time.

Those people who didn't think in the first place now expect miracles. It's a capacity to think thing isn't it.

This

No, because they don't have a magic wand to fix everything, they have a huge mess to deal with and no-one expected things to change like a flick of a light switch.

bore off.

YABU

I'm not expecting miracles. By the end, the previous government were a shambles.

I voted Labour this time and at the previous by-election as much as anything as a protest.

Our local MP was recalled, suspended, then the spineless local party selected his girlfriend as candidate in the resulting by-election because he had threatened to stand as an independent.

For the general election they selected a no hope carpet bagger.

Why on earth should this shower get my vote?

Why have you started another thread on this?

I don't regret it, but if I say "sorry that it's not working out for you", is that good enough?

Aside from the Murdoch press, I've always thought the BBC to be largely impartial, if not perfect. But I've noticed a marked doubling down on Labour Party related non stories that wouldn't have seen the light of day under the last Government. Is that Tory Party donor still at the helm? Chris Mason, having covered the Sue Grey non story, even returned to the matter to justify writing about it in the first instance. It all came across as rather bizarre. Particularly when you consider the heinous things the last Goverment largely got away with.

Not again.

I voted for them. I don't regret it and I'm certainly not going to apologise to you or anyone else.

Yes. Because they have proved to be untrustworthy. Personally I'm not bothered about winter fuelgate but it should have been in their manifesto. They wouldn't have got as many votes. They were deceitful.

Can't decide if these OPs are exceedingly stupid and obvious Tory bots, or whether they are actually Trojan Horse-style Labour supporters who are in fact trolling the trolls 🤔

Anyway. Your OP is total fiction and I'm still glad I voted Labour 🙂

Not sorry and absolutely not going to apologise. The country couldn’t survive another five years of Tory misrule.

There have been plenty of threads where people have been critical of specific things labour have done.

But a thread about martial law and a complete breakdown of law and order is always going to be dismissed because it is nonsense. We have very obviously not had martial law. So it does suggest that the OP isn't completely up for a rational discussion.

No - they’re faced with the predominant right wing media taking them to task for things that the Tories did on a much larger scale. Tories and their billionaire followers are aping Trump in not accepting they resoundingly lost power. It will take longer than 3 months to turn things round

Public is shifting in views re Labour, shown easily in polls but you won't capture that on these threads op.

Asking people if they regret it will just get the opposite response

And the blanket winter fuel allowance was a mad idea. My parents got it twice because they had two homes. They spent it on a mini break.

No regrets at all.

I do wish MHQ would stop these daily Tory bots. On the other hand, these threads are so shallow they are easy to dismiss.