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Labour Voters. Honest question

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Tryingtodobetter82 · 29/12/2025 23:46

I’m not looking to start an argument on this subject. I know it’s a very heated and emotive topic.

I have strong views on political issues. What with algorithms and biased news organisations, it’s very easy to end up only seeing information that confirms what we already believe. Because of that, you don’t often hear the other side of the political divide.

I’m honestly curious whether those who voted Labour at the last General Election, for reference I did not, would vote the same way if there were an early GE in January, purely hypothetical of course.

If so, I’d really appreciate you sharing what you feel they’ve done right so far in their term. I’m asking as I genuinely want to understand different perspectives.

YABU - I would vote labour again
YANBU - I wouldn’t vote for them again (or ever have)

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PandoraSocks · 31/12/2025 17:39

EasternStandard · 31/12/2025 17:26

All this ‘regular mn’ stuff idk who you mean but did you object to attacks on Sunak’s wife?

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I am obviously not going to name the poster!

As for attacks on Sunak's wife, well I am sorry but I can't remember what I did or did not object to on MN 18 months ago. But if someone had posted similar about Sunak I would have objected.

EasternStandard · 31/12/2025 17:39

TopPocketFind · 31/12/2025 17:32

No, not excusing anything. Racism should be called out everytime. As does the abuse directed at Starmer's family and friends.

Akshata Murty non dom status, covid businesss loans, father's business interests in the UK are valid to question. Like Sunak's green card he forgot about.

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Were you adamant Sunak would leave for the US after the GE?

EasternStandard · 31/12/2025 17:36

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 31/12/2025 17:30

I do see some nasty and silly stuff about Starmer’s private life on here and, more often, on SM.

But MN has been atrocious for obnoxious crap about Johnson and Sunak. It’s all shameful, whichever party one supports.

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I’m pleased that Rishi and Kemi get a lot of support on other SM.

Labour used what they could to get in, on here by supporters too. It’s a bit late now to lament the level of debate.

TopPocketFind · 31/12/2025 17:32

TheNuthatch · 31/12/2025 17:24

Sorry but the abuse directed at Sunak's wife, even now, eclipses anything directed at Lady Starmer. Much of it started from Starmer himself when Sunak was PM.

Are you excusing it?

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No, not excusing anything. Racism should be called out everytime. As does the abuse directed at Starmer's family and friends.

Akshata Murty non dom status, covid businesss loans, father's business interests in the UK are valid to question. Like Sunak's green card he forgot about.

PandoraSocks · 31/12/2025 17:32

TheNuthatch · 31/12/2025 17:28

Was there?
Do you remember the disgusting comments when Carrie Johnson had their youngest baby? There was an entire thread about her on here.

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Yes there was.

It was horrible, as was that thread about CJ, if it is the one I am thinking of. There are horrible rumour mongers across the political spectrum. The notion that it is just people on the left is for the birds.

DeepBlueDeer · 31/12/2025 17:32

I also quite like Rishi Sunak as a person, and thought he did a reasonable job as PM.

I also think May is fundamentally a decent person, but made some really problematic decisions in demonizing immigrants for political gain. To her credit, she's admitted (and says she regrets) at least one of those. Hard to assess her as a PM as the circumstances were extraordinarily difficult.

Cameron was another that I think is a decent person, but (unlike Sunak) a bad PM on the whole.

Johnson and Truss I loathe.

TheRishi · 31/12/2025 17:31

TheNuthatch · 31/12/2025 17:28

Was there?
Do you remember the disgusting comments when Carrie Johnson had their youngest baby? There was an entire thread about her on here.

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"who would ever shag Boris. Ewww" I remember that stuff

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 31/12/2025 17:30

PandoraSocks · 31/12/2025 17:26

I am sure he does, but that doesn't stop the vicious rubbish that is spread on SM. Dislike the man and his politics, fair enough, but some of what is said is just atrocious.

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I do see some nasty and silly stuff about Starmer’s private life on here and, more often, on SM.

But MN has been atrocious for obnoxious crap about Johnson and Sunak. It’s all shameful, whichever party one supports.

PandoraSocks · 31/12/2025 17:28

Actually I am going to ask mnhq to remove my post as I don't want to give that particular insinuation any oxygen.

TheNuthatch · 31/12/2025 17:28

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Was there?
Do you remember the disgusting comments when Carrie Johnson had their youngest baby? There was an entire thread about her on here.

EasternStandard · 31/12/2025 17:26

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All this ‘regular mn’ stuff idk who you mean but did you object to attacks on Sunak’s wife?

PandoraSocks · 31/12/2025 17:26

TheRishi · 31/12/2025 17:15

I dislike Starmer politically but I assumes he has a happy but private family life with his wife and children.

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I am sure he does, but that doesn't stop the vicious rubbish that is spread on SM. Dislike the man and his politics, fair enough, but some of what is said is just atrocious.

1dayatatime · 31/12/2025 17:24

peacefulpeach · 31/12/2025 16:35

‘Sunak =decent??!! Seriously his family, aka wife and father in law, rinsed the country and took what they could, she wasn’t even willing to pay tax.‘

What evidence to have to support these grave assertions @onlyfools?

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I recognise that you may dislike Sunak because he was wealthy and had married into a wealthy family. However his wife as an Indian national was legally entitled to apply for non dom tax treatment for the income she received from her father's Indian based company.

I equally think that Starmer is a good decent person but he is out of his depth as PM and to be fair to him acknowledges this. Of the two Sunak is by far the smarter one.

Liz Truss on the other hand was massively out of her depth and not fit to run a Government Department let alone the country. What made it worse was that she actually thought and still thinks she has the capability when she was by far the worst PM in living history.

Johnson was actually smarter than the appearance he gave. However he wanted to become PM more than he wanted to actually do the job and quickly became either disinterested or didn't want to put in the considerable effort required to do the job.

TheNuthatch · 31/12/2025 17:24

TopPocketFind · 31/12/2025 17:04

Is that why the Right keeps going on about Starmer's wife and children and other 'rumours'?

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Sorry but the abuse directed at Sunak's wife, even now, eclipses anything directed at Lady Starmer. Much of it started from Starmer himself when Sunak was PM.

Are you excusing it?

TheRishi · 31/12/2025 17:15

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I dislike Starmer politically but I assumes he has a happy but private family life with his wife and children.

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EasternStandard · 31/12/2025 17:07

TheNuthatch · 31/12/2025 16:11

Only Sunak knows the answer to that. Perhaps he was tired of the relentless racism, or abuse directed at his wife.

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Yeh that was on here too.

TopPocketFind · 31/12/2025 17:04

TheNuthatch · 31/12/2025 16:11

Only Sunak knows the answer to that. Perhaps he was tired of the relentless racism, or abuse directed at his wife.

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Is that why the Right keeps going on about Starmer's wife and children and other 'rumours'?

peacefulpeach · 31/12/2025 16:36

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 31/12/2025 14:43

Sunak =decent??!! Seriously his family, aka wife and father in law, rinsed the country and took what they could, she wasn’t even willing to pay tax.
As for May, a doubt a couple thousand Windrush descendants wouldn’t class as decent.

What do you think about Kemi B?

peacefulpeach · 31/12/2025 16:35

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 31/12/2025 14:43

Sunak =decent??!! Seriously his family, aka wife and father in law, rinsed the country and took what they could, she wasn’t even willing to pay tax.
As for May, a doubt a couple thousand Windrush descendants wouldn’t class as decent.

‘Sunak =decent??!! Seriously his family, aka wife and father in law, rinsed the country and took what they could, she wasn’t even willing to pay tax.‘

What evidence to have to support these grave assertions @onlyfools?

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 31/12/2025 16:26

And curious how the rich that hang around Labour don’t get accused by them of exploitation or other wrongdoing. It’s another example of the bogus saintliness that the left cloaks itself in.

TheNuthatch · 31/12/2025 16:13

TheRishi · 31/12/2025 16:08

How dare her father have a successful tech company

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Ikr.
How dare she be a massive advocate and financial backer of female start-ups. The cheek of her.

TheNuthatch · 31/12/2025 16:11

TopPocketFind · 31/12/2025 15:54

As opposed to Labour conspired to lie about the Tories?

The Right 😂

Why did Sunak call an early election if the country was in safe hands with him?

Only Sunak knows the answer to that. Perhaps he was tired of the relentless racism, or abuse directed at his wife.

EasternStandard · 31/12/2025 16:10

TheNuthatch · 31/12/2025 16:04

Yep. So much venom directed at Sunak's wife too.

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The same people / pp set the scene for this, they don’t have a leg to stand on. Live by the sword and all that.

TheRishi · 31/12/2025 16:08

TheNuthatch · 31/12/2025 16:04

Yep. So much venom directed at Sunak's wife too.

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How dare her father have a successful tech company