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As a lifelong voter they’ve lost me. I will pay more tax, DH will pay more tax.
They’ve screwed our pensions.
Most people aren’t having children because it’s not a nice world to bring them into.
Having children is a lifestyle choice.

Basically Labour now means- aim low, don’t save anything, don’t get a good job, pop out as many kids as you can. 👍🏼It will not prevent child poverty- imo.

Stop being annoyingly logical.

Current Labour voters were wanted by oldies like me who can remember what they did last time they were in what would happen

and lo it’s come to pass

I'm old enough to remember what Labour did last time they were in. It was bloody great.

Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.

Yes interest is higher because our debt grew because of Truss and what her policies caused!!

Me and my large family have one response to your complaining… (please see gif).

Maybe focus on your own life.
We struggle enough as it is, and believe me nobody will have less kids because they’re being forced to, so lifting this cap to stop kids living in poverty for the decisions of their parents was the right thing to do.
No matter how much you bitter folk seem to think it isn’t.

I’m willing to bet you’re above a certain age, own your own home/have social housing that your kids grew up in and gleefully took any handouts you could when your kids were small. It’s always the way with posts like these.

Edited to add: Maybe we should stop state pensions? No, because that would be abhorrent. People can’t help growing old, just the same as kids can’t help being born.
Most people I see using public services are elderly.
Buses with their passes, GP surgeries and A&E rammed full of them every time I go.
Should it only be the old that are looked after?
and who do you think will care for them if people stop having kids because they can’t afford to?

You carry on making spiteful, bitter threads.
I’m going to bed with a little bit of hope tonight that life might not be all that bad after all!

You don't want benefits reformed, do you? You want them stopped. Sod the vulnerable in society. It's their fault for not being rich/well paid/able-bodied.

Me and my large family have one response to your complaining… (please see gif).

Maybe focus on your own life.
We struggle enough as it is, and believe me nobody will have less kids because they’re being forced to, so lifting this cap to stop kids living in poverty for the decisions of their parents was the right thing to do.
No matter how much you bitter folk seem to think it isn’t.

I’m willing to bet you’re above a certain age, own your own home/have social housing that your kids grew up in and gleefully took any handouts you could when your kids were small. It’s always the way with posts like these.

Edited to add: Maybe we should stop state pensions? No, because that would be abhorrent. People can’t help growing old, just the same as kids can’t help being born.
Most people I see using public services are elderly.
Buses with their passes, GP surgeries and A&E rammed full of them every time I go.
Should it only be the old that are looked after?
and who do you think will care for them if people stop having kids because they can’t afford to?

You carry on making spiteful, bitter threads.
I’m going to bed with a little bit of hope tonight that life might not be all that bad after all!

Me and my large family have one response to your complaining… (please see gif).

Maybe focus on your own life.
We struggle enough as it is, and believe me nobody will have less kids because they’re being forced to, so lifting this cap to stop kids living in poverty for the decisions of their parents was the right thing to do.
No matter how much you bitter folk seem to think it isn’t.

I’m willing to bet you’re above a certain age, own your own home/have social housing that your kids grew up in and gleefully took any handouts you could when your kids were small. It’s always the way with posts like these.

Edited to add: Maybe we should stop state pensions? No, because that would be abhorrent. People can’t help growing old, just the same as kids can’t help being born.
Most people I see using public services are elderly.
Buses with their passes, GP surgeries and A&E rammed full of them every time I go.
Should it only be the old that are looked after?
and who do you think will care for them if people stop having kids because they can’t afford to?

You carry on making spiteful, bitter threads.
I’m going to bed with a little bit of hope tonight that life might not be all that bad after all!

You don't want benefits reformed, do you? You want them stopped. Sod the vulnerable in society. It's their fault for not being rich/well paid/able-bodied.

£17.25 a week isn't going to encourage anyone to 'pop out as many kids as you can."

Its a benefit people have paid into with contributions.