To wonder if people prefer the last government to this one?

Yes can someone please explain to me how illegal immigrants get benefits? Asylum seekers maybe, but illegal immigrants don’t exist in benefits systems

£1800 to strip wallpaper?!

Illegal immigrants don’t get benefits. “Foreign Aid” is a fraction of the national budget and its purpose is mainly to have influence. (Ditto the 50m to India as part of a trade deal).

And how much do you think the rest would really give us?

Am I the only person to read that the Chancellor is rowing back on the income tax rise?

The FT (which most won't have read) had a persuasive article a couple of days ago saying that the UK economy is not as moribund as the broadsheet press would suggest; not in fine fettle either, but less grim than some say. Even one of the Telegraph's columnists (Ambrose Pritchard-Evans) has written similar.

Starmer and Reeves are trying to avoid being taken out by back benchers or the markets. Today MPs seem to have got somewhere, the markets react. Borrowing costs hike.

They’re panicking over their jobs.

Don't worry. The government has no intention of paying the WASPI women. They are just kidding them on. The WASPI women who suffered were those in lower paid jobs, dinner ladies etc, ladies who had spent time rearing their children instead of working full time. The professional classes knew about it and made arrangements accordingly,
Judging by some of the comments on here it's amazing how many people absolutely hate and loathe their parents. They will be only too happy to sign them up for assisted dying so that they can grab their hard earned money and assets.
Back to the main point of the topic: I would trust Rishi with the economy more than Rachel from accounts.

This government does not hate old people. It bends over for them. The triple lock is not only unaffordable now, it will become more and more expensive as time goes on, yet it seems to be some sort of sacred cow.

It's one reason productivity is so shit. Zero investment in young people

Turns out it’s not so easy, and the conservatives were doing better than I realised!

How so? We had barely any growth for years...

Lying to us from one day to the next…

I was pleased to read that the govt is scrapping the Police and Crime Commisioner role, only a small thing in the general mess we are in but it is a sensible move as it is an utter waste of money.

Mumsnet isn't too keen on old people either!

I’d say Labour’s current performance is making a lot of people reassess their opinions on the conservatives. Turns out it’s not so easy, and the conservatives were doing better than I realised!

Their post makes sense, only because you agree with it, l don’t, because it’s so contradictory.
”politics isn’t black and white and and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side”🙄who actually said it was? My point was, the conservatives, chose to call a referendum, fact.No idea what you’re on about, that l’m supposedly pretending that it had nothing to do with Labour, l’m just acknowledging, that the Tories were in power for 14 years, so yes they are culpable!

The government have only promised to review the matter. Does not mean there will be compensation.

The word I would use is traitor, a man who unlawfully suspended Parliament. The only difference from Charles I is that because of my opposition to the death penalty, I would spare Boris Johnson from hanging.

I am WASPI generation, and I don't think any compensation should be paid. 1995 is 30 years ago... plenty of notice was given.

This government does not hate old people. It bends over for them. The triple lock is not only unaffordable now, it will become more and more expensive as time goes on, yet it seems to be some sort of sacred cow.

The Waspi women did not have their 'retirement put back, again, and again' and it is downright disingenuous to suggest that is the case. The original 1995 Act equalised the state pension age for women born between 1950 and 1955, to be phased in over ten years from 2010. The 2011 Act then accelerated that process. The age at which the Waspi women could draw their state pension was altered precisely twice, and the second change did not even apply to all of them. They have always been free to retire whenever they wanted using their own private arrangements, which is the grim reality faced by younger generations - if only they could afford to save for their own retirements while funding current pensioners and paying current housing costs which mosly benefits, you guessed it, boomers.

I was 19 when the 1995 Act was passed and I knew about it then; it was in the news for weeks. The Waspi women must have been pretty dedicated to ignorance if they didn't know about it. I too will be furious if they are compensated for opting to stick their heads in the sand.

Me too. As I read in the paper today "I can't think of a cause less worthy of support than the WASPI women"

We will all be old one day. We will also see the state pension age rise and rise in our lifetimes starting at a much higher base than the WASPI women.there probably won't even be a state pension by the time some of youngest adults retire. I will be utterly furious if the WASPI women are compensated.

I would prefer Richard Tice to Farage, but will still vote Reform.

I like Kemi, she is sensible and in touch, but she has a lot of repair to do to bring the party together on some key issues.

Obviously, this Labour government are awful, but it was also time for the Tories to go. Sunak was a bureaucrat, nice fella, but weak - competent, but weak.

I can't wait until Brexit is actually done properly and we get ourselves out of the idiotic ECHR and other EU related hell, and start acting like an independent nation in the interests of the people who live here.

Never heard of the WASPI women? Women who worked hard all their lives, only to have their retirement put back, again, and again.
The government is introducing assisted dying in order to get rid of all the old people. So that's one problem solved. Don't say it's not true. It is the thin end of the wedge. This government hates old people.

Absolutely this.
Labour in the 90’s ie Blair and Brown started an entitlement culture that has just grown and expanded.
It is very difficult to dial back a culture of entitlement and is a big part of the reason the country is in the shit.

Labour could have teamed up with other parties and demanded clear cross party rules about how referendum results would be treated.

Are there not already rules for how referendum rules would be treated? It’s not as if there had never been referendums before.

It’s more of the same and people are seeking an alternative. We’re finally getting away from two party politics which is great. It isn’t just Reform either, they just get the most airtime. The Greens are doing great.

The last 30 or so messages is the first coherent, concerted series of comments on the big events of the last 15 years that I've read on MN. By which I mean, obviously, that I agree!