Labour voters - do you regret voting for them?

No, don't regret it.

I was replying to someone who quoted 4 years.

I am always a little suspicious of posters who don't seem to know that UK parliaments run for 5 years...

Hopefully not. I’m hoping never to see another Tory government in my lifetime.

This.
The r/wing media bosses are targeting Labour.

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Keir

Jesus, OP. They have only been in power for 5 minutes. How can you possibly start judging their record?

At least it will only be 4 years!

65% of pensioners own their own homes outright, so no rent to pay or mortgage, yet they want benefits. Whilst those working earning 35k are spending half there income on rent or mortgage.

about time pensioners stopped wanting benefits to stop for everyone else but still want it for themselves

if they can’t afford to heat a 3 bed house, they can sell up and move somewhere smaller

Tory bot if anyone says anything that doesnt agree with the Labour supporters?!

Eh? She's married to a man who's worth 10 million so I'm sure he could have treated her to a few dresses. And thought she was keeping a low profile (which we were told when Labour got in) but now she seems to be everywhere. But I agree that this is a side issue and it is much more important how incompetent Labour are in other ways. I think they'll make our lives worse but then I'm a traditional conservative (albeit I would never support the rotten shower we've just got rid of) so I don't agree with most of their policies anyway.

My MIL and her siblings are are extremely financially comfortable with savings, occupational pensions etc. They are loosing their shit over the winter fuel allowances.
I remember my MIL saying a few years ago that she didn't agree with the welfare state...

It would definitely be skewed if that’s what they were claiming. It isn’t.

Some cracking past threads you started @MeadowL Bit of a disingenuous one considering you’re a reform voter Farage lover.
Oh and the one about your famous hubby, fantastic 😂 not Nige himself is it ?

This ‘intergenerational foundation’ seems very ageist….produced a report “hoarding of housing” and another on ‘bedroom blockers’
I suspect their research claiming all us oldies are virtually millionaires is heavily skewed in their favour!

No.

I kept reading about the clothing gifts and struggled to work out the reason I should give a shit. Especially when you compare that to the £40m worth of helicopter rides Sunak had the taxpayer stump up the cost for.

OMG this gets asked here everyday! go away tory bots!

Exactly this. Enough already!

I really hope the OP is a bot because otherwise this is just sad. And we should all expect another thread about this from them in exactly 4 weeks. And again. And again.

No, I don't regret it at all. I agree with most of their plans. I also don't really judge the pms wife over clothing gifts either. Ffs the woman is an NHS occupational therapist. We all know full fucking well the media would have destroyed her if she'd actually been on telly, state visits etc in gear from next & m&s, which is what she'd afford working in the NHS.

"In the trough" my arse

I voted Labour. I’m not bloody apologising 🙄Mainly because the alternative was another 5 years of the Tories. No fucking thank you. We’ve had 3 months of Labour in charge after 14 years of an utter shit show.

There’s a huge ongoing mess to clean up and Starmer and the rest have got straight to work trying to sort it out. Not saying it’s all gone great but I don’t envy them. The optics of making the winter fuel allowance means tested and the way it’s being done aren’t fantastic although I do agree it should be means tested. What gets me is that the Tories came for the sick and disabled and children living in poverty for over a fucking decade and barely anyone seemed to give a shit. The second that the winter fuel allowance becomes means tested and not given to all pensioners everyone appears to lose their shit.

My mum will still get it FWIW because she is a pensioner on benefits. My in-laws won’t but they definitely don’t need it and readily admit this.

edit to include paragraphs. Oopsy.

I wish I had a Labour MP, but my lot voted in Nick Fucking Timothy.

I don’t regret it. I agree with winter fuel payments being limited to those that need it - seems very sensible.

I think the media are giving them a hard time, and some of the headlines I’ve seen have raised my eyebrows about what’s being focused on.

I couldn’t give a toss if they had a sponsored wardrobe or stayed in an apartment on holiday - would like the bbc to focus on actual issues of the country (I equally didn’t really care about party gate so I’m not just being biased).

Would rather bbc did an expose on the inefficiencies of stamp duty etc rather than go for these click bait topics that do nothing to further public policy or move the dial on country’s real issues.

And have the memories of goldfish.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/thirty_days_only/5150997-do-you-regret-voting-labour?page=1

This is actually the most sensible approach.