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Labour voters - do you regret voting for them?

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MeadowL · 23/09/2024 13:32

They got off to a really bad start and it's just gone downhill ever since. Within a couple of weeks we practically had martial law, we've had riots you name it. Law and order has completely broken down. They've cut the pensioners fuel allowance and all the while they've had their snouts in the trough. 2 tier Keir approval rating has fallen off a cliff - the country has had enough already lol.

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

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Suzuki70 · 23/09/2024 19:04

Beezknees · 23/09/2024 18:52

Tory HQ back again with another of these posts.

They think Mumsnet as a collective is thick.

ObieJoyful · 23/09/2024 19:03

I don’t regret it because our Labour MP is awesome.

BIossomtoes · 23/09/2024 19:02

MeadowL · 23/09/2024 18:56

From The Guardian no less!

So what? He’s never been or will be personally particularly popular. That isn’t what’s important.

Suzuki70 · 23/09/2024 19:01

What an original thread.

You can get back under your rock for the next 4 years and wait for the next election like we had to do for 14 fucking years.

pointythings · 23/09/2024 19:00

MeadowL · 23/09/2024 18:56

From The Guardian no less!

And? So? Popularity stats are a nonsense and a distraction from serious politics. Labour haven't got off to a great start, but they have done some good stuff already - ditched the Rwanda plan, sorted out the junior Drs strikes, implemented the buffer zone legislation for abortion clinics, started rebuilding political relationships with the EU. They need time to find their feet and learn from their mistakes. But compared to the previous government, they're golden. (I realise this is a bar that so low an ant could limbo under it, but still).

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MeadowL · 23/09/2024 18:56

From The Guardian no less!

Labour voters - do you regret voting for them?
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SeptemberSunglasses · 23/09/2024 18:54

I don't see how they can be blamed for the riots at all really.

I am surprised that the supposed left wing party scrapped winter fuel allowance, it's not very in keeping with what labour should be about at all and not the sort of thing people expected by voting for them.

YABU to say that people should apologise for voting for a change.

Beezknees · 23/09/2024 18:52

Tory HQ back again with another of these posts.

MrsSunshine2b · 23/09/2024 18:49

This is the funniest post I've read on here in some time. I really hope it's satire.

yorktown · 23/09/2024 18:48

Menopausalsourpuss · 23/09/2024 17:50

I think there is abit of a defensiveness in that people don't like to admit they were deceived and got it wrong. I felt the same way about voting for Brexit for a long time but can now admit I was wrong (in the sense that our leaders and the blob are so incompetent that it could never have been a success). Labour voters will eventually admit they got it wrong as the country gets even worse than it was under the tories - we really need new parties but it will be a long 5 years.

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I don't know anyone who voted for brexit who thinks they got it wrong. I certainly think they did, but I don't know anyone who admits it. So good for you for saying that.
Regarding voting for this government, if in five years, I do think they got it wrong, I'll vote for someone else. However, I don't see how they can get it so wrong that I'll be voting the Tories back in, Or voting Reform, which I think I lot of those disappointed with Labour really mean.

TheCentreCannotHold · 23/09/2024 18:31

MeadowL · 23/09/2024 16:41

I'm amazed at quickly the country has turned against 2 tier Keir. It's only been a couple of months and the country has rejected him.

Eh?! Are we reading the same responses here? This thread is pretty much unanimously saying "nah, we're good with it" and you're still beavering away at your little project.

Literally everyone I know is feeling relieved to be shot of the Conservatives, and broadly optimistic about a Labour term. Keir's good and Jess Phillips is a w e s o m e.

deltabluesandpinks · 23/09/2024 18:24

@Bumblebeestiltskin how is Labour transphobic? Because Keir was finally able to say what a woman was ie a biological woman? Have you seen the shite that David Lammy came out with?

notbelieved · 23/09/2024 18:22

Tell you what, OP I'll apologise for voting Labour when everyone who voted in the Tories from 2010 onwards also apologies. That's fair, right?

Bumblebeestiltskin · 23/09/2024 18:18

gokartdillydilly · 23/09/2024 13:34

Anything is better than those twats we had in power before. Anything.

This. Though I actually voted Green because there was no way I go vote for the current transphobic, pro-israel labour party.

Blanc0Nin0 · 23/09/2024 18:17

MeadowL · 23/09/2024 13:32

They got off to a really bad start and it's just gone downhill ever since. Within a couple of weeks we practically had martial law, we've had riots you name it. Law and order has completely broken down. They've cut the pensioners fuel allowance and all the while they've had their snouts in the trough. 2 tier Keir approval rating has fallen off a cliff - the country has had enough already lol.

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

Errr not at all, why on earth would we?

Riots were down to the Tory’s,WFA had to be done and as for pigs in the trough I’m not sure what the fuss is over this government doing what every government does as regards freebies. Don’t agree with it but feel there should be a rule banning anybody in government or opposition from taking freebies. Labour are the most likely government to bring that about.

deltabluesandpinks · 23/09/2024 18:17

Menopausalsourpuss · 23/09/2024 17:50

I think there is abit of a defensiveness in that people don't like to admit they were deceived and got it wrong. I felt the same way about voting for Brexit for a long time but can now admit I was wrong (in the sense that our leaders and the blob are so incompetent that it could never have been a success). Labour voters will eventually admit they got it wrong as the country gets even worse than it was under the tories - we really need new parties but it will be a long 5 years.

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What did you expect Labour to have done / achieved in two months?
I don't see how you think voting for Labour is comparable to voting for Brexit, at all Hmm

Cluborange666 · 23/09/2024 18:17

RafaistheKingofClay · 23/09/2024 16:46

I only opened the thread to ask this but I was going to say once a week.

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Bored of these now 🥱

PandoraSox · 23/09/2024 18:16

Law and order has broken down? How so @MeadowL ?

TENSsion · 23/09/2024 18:15

BIossomtoes · 23/09/2024 18:14

Get a new metaphor, it’s time that one died of old age and overuse.

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No thanks. It works perfectly.

TENSsion · 23/09/2024 18:14

TENSsion · 23/09/2024 18:12

Tories and labour are two cheeks of the same arse. I’ve not seen any change to be honest.

They’re both hopeless at best. Dangerous at worst.

Saying that, labour grate on me more just because they’re EXACTLY the same as the Tories but are sanctimonious to boot.

BIossomtoes · 23/09/2024 18:14

TENSsion · 23/09/2024 18:12

Tories and labour are two cheeks of the same arse. I’ve not seen any change to be honest.

They’re both hopeless at best. Dangerous at worst.

Get a new metaphor, it’s time that one died of old age and overuse.

TENSsion · 23/09/2024 18:12

Tories and labour are two cheeks of the same arse. I’ve not seen any change to be honest.

They’re both hopeless at best. Dangerous at worst.

Undercoverstory · 23/09/2024 18:11

Menopausalsourpuss · 23/09/2024 17:50

I think there is abit of a defensiveness in that people don't like to admit they were deceived and got it wrong. I felt the same way about voting for Brexit for a long time but can now admit I was wrong (in the sense that our leaders and the blob are so incompetent that it could never have been a success). Labour voters will eventually admit they got it wrong as the country gets even worse than it was under the tories - we really need new parties but it will be a long 5 years.

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How can anyone possibly know it was a mistake yet?

BIossomtoes · 23/09/2024 18:10

I think there is abit of a defensiveness in that people don't like to admit they were deceived and got it wrong.

We weren’t deceived and we didn’t get it wrong. At least we didn’t fall for Hunt’s promise of unfunded tax cuts. Perhaps we were all looking forward to a change of government for so long we put them on a pedestal and are disappointed to discover they have feet of clay so quickly but they’re still incomparably better than the Tories.

Menopausalsourpuss · 23/09/2024 17:50

I think there is abit of a defensiveness in that people don't like to admit they were deceived and got it wrong. I felt the same way about voting for Brexit for a long time but can now admit I was wrong (in the sense that our leaders and the blob are so incompetent that it could never have been a success). Labour voters will eventually admit they got it wrong as the country gets even worse than it was under the tories - we really need new parties but it will be a long 5 years.