Labour voters - do you regret voting for them?

There was another thread with an almost identical title on here a few days ago. Tory HQ are in overdrive.

No, I don't regret it. Because a parliamentary term is five years, not three months. If things are better in five years than they are now, I won't regret it.

Lol. Nope.

That's a pretty baity post - I thought the same about people asking if Tory voters should apologise. Nothing was ever likely to be resolved within a couple of months and a lot of the issues we have can still squarely be blamed on the previous government. They can't get away with blaming everything on the Tories forever but it's too early to make any big judgements.

No, I don't regret it. The train and doctors strikes have been settled after months of failure to handle them by the predecessors. The riots were successfully quashed. Something had to be done about the fuel allowance - so many well of pensioners receiving the allowance they didn't need.

The immediate and relentless picking from certain sections of the media was entirely predictable.

I didn't vote Labour (never have) but a little bit of me hoped they would make a difference. Unfortunately it's not been a great start and I can't see it improving.

The nurses have just rejected the 5.5% offered, probably partly because they've seen how Labour have thrown money at and caved into the train drivers (with no requirement for any changes in working practices) and the junior doctors.

They keep saying that everything is the fault of the Tories however they've had plenty of time to plan and I'm just not seeing it. They haven't hit the ground running.

Jesus no. Don’t you remember what that previous shower of twats were like? Their utter, utter, contempt for the electorate. Having Dominic Cummings basically in charge of the country until he got the sack for calling Johnson’s girlfriend Princess Nutnuts? Parties during covid? Proroguing parliament? Getting us literally the shittest Brexit deal it was possible to got? That haunted pencil pretending to sleep during an important debate? Using taxpayers money to build a duck house on a lake and put central heating in the stables? Michelle Mone and her massive yacht paid for with the £28m proceeds of a government contract to supply unusable PPE , even though she had never had anything to do with PPE? Utter utter fuckery. The lot of them should be strung up. How they’re not in jail is beyond me. Things got so bad I was starting to respect Theresa by the end of it.

Here you go OP, this is the thread from last week - latest post was a whole 40 minutes before you started this one.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5167004-are-you-glad-you-voted-labour?

That’s hilarious, I didn’t spot that!

Let’s home and pray we never have a reason for martial law to be declared in this country.

I voted independent as I have major issues with some of their policies and also their actions towards the likes of Diane Abbott etc. However, I believe they are better than the shitshow that ran before them.... which to be fair wouldn't be difficult!!!

No, I like what they've done so far.

All the negativity is the right wing press trying to knock them.

I like that they're taking unpopular decisions for the right reasons, the last lot took popular decisions for the wrong reasons. This country needs straightening out and they've got four years at least to do it, they need to get the gritty stuff done now to make progress.

I didn't vote Labour or for the clearly incompetent, confused and shambolic Tories (or their market trader party rivals).

I'm quite content to give Labour a shot though. They honestly can't do any worse.

It's a complete nonsense to blame a 3 week old government for the social circumstances leading to the hate filled violence generated by the previous government's incompetence. In fact, they acted pretty swiftly to quell the bigoted violence.

And as the financial situation that they left becomes clearer, its reassuring not to have the Tories fiddling further to cover up and make it worse.

TLDR? I didn't but they are worth a shot.

I didn't vote Labour and I'm glad I didn't. I do however agree with means testing the WFA.

I strongly disagree we're mainly millionaires.. we're tax paying reasonable income in general.

But many don't need it; those that do should get it and more besides.

No as the Tories needed to go but I am wondering what's going to be done about housing, what's going to be put in place to make things more equal like a crackdown on Airbnbs making housing inaccessible and unaffordable for people who are permanent residents in these cities. There are nearly 92000 Air BNBs in London so these are no longer homes for people, it is the same in places like Brighton - it is infuriating watching programmes about rich prime estate just being bought up by foreign investors who are going to rent out as Air BNBs, it is destroying communities where once people who were permanent residents could live and work, I had hope that these things would change but maybe not.

The only thing I’ve properly disagreed with so far has been the two child cap not being abolished.

No, not at all.

I don’t think they have had a bad start. They’ve been left with an almighty mess, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. And the Tories knew they were leaving them with it!

What stuns me is the media campaign against them from the word go - mainstream media as well as social media. It’s been astounding - they haven’t been allowed a glimpse of a honeymoon period.

Nope.
I think they've royally messed up a couple of things.
But roll back a few months and how many messups did we have under the previous administration....

Nope, not at all.

I'm sure some will soon do so, if not already.

There was a remarkable statistic a while ago, the reasons why people gave for voting for Labour. The majority had said "to get the Tories out", whereas only 5% had voted Labour because they actually agreed with their policies! Talk about not knowing what you're voting for.

As ever, it's far easier to be in opposition and talk about what you would do (or do differently than the nasty people in charge) than it is to be in power. And probably a growing number of people who fell for that narrative will soon realise that they're actually not really any better than the Tories they wanted out.

Good grief, OP!

I’ve never voted Labour in my life (and am unlikely to), but they’ve been in for 5 minutes! They need time to bed in and find their stride before a sensible verdict can be reached on their performance!

Yet another thread...

Nope, I don't regret my vote, and am in favour of a number of the things they've started to put in place

Law and order has completely broken down.

Has it though?

I voted for the party that was the better of the twos who were realistically going to win. That hasn't changed. Not sure I've ever been wildly enthusiastic about a government and I was 17 when Blair was elected.

They didn’t get off to a bad start. They’ve done lots I really approve of. I’ve got reservations about the level WFA stops, but it shouldn’t be universal and that’s the only thing they’ve done I disagree with. ‘Snouts in the trough’? Really? In comparison with the last lot? Where was your outrage then?
Do I think it would look better if they didn’t take gifts? Yes. However they haven’t broken any rules - I’d like them to change the rules so gifts are not allowed going forward though.
No, I don’t regret my vote.
No, I don”t think Labour voters should apologise. I do think those continuing to vote Tory for 14 years should though.

I do not regret voting labour at all! I’d vote the same way next time too.

The media is Tory-owned: of course it's going to say that Labour are rubbish. They did not point out the Tory corruption which was so obvious, that they didn't bother to hide it. Saint Boris received far more "gifts" than Starmer. And so far, I'd still much rather have wet fish Starmer than the clown show we had before.

Labour are doing the unpopular stuff first: this is a well-known political strategy. Granted, it has been commented on that they are overplaying the gloom.