AIBU to think many people of the UK lack confidence in the current government?

How fucking dare you say that pensioners are selfish and don't understand. I was understanding this shit before you were born.
I have 3 children and never expected to get special treatment for childcare issues and annual leave preferences, we dealt with it all without the moaning that goes on today.
The 2 child benefit cap should be put back in place, if you can't afford them don't have them.
You could try understanding that childcare costs and house prices are not the fault of today's pensioners. Maybe stop foreign aid especially to countrues that have a space programme.

The remarks about pensioners not understanding aside (I don't agree) the triple lock probably does need scrapping. Ageing population etc. It should be means tested.

YANBU. I have no time for Burnham whatsoever.

Same.

'They' voted for labour. That's what they have.

Your position is hypocritical if you’re fine with the Tory Party doing exactly what you’re now attacking Burnham/Labour for. Badenoch served in the Johnson, Truss and Sunak governments too. Apparently it only becomes an outrage when Labour does it.

Here we go.

I would be happy for mine to be means tested, I would probably get more but how would that work with the contributions people have paid in? Plus the cost of doing it might not be worth it.

I’ve lived with many governments, as an adult. Some people will always lack confidence in all governments, depending on their politics and what’s going on.

That’s life. 🤷‍♀️

More people have confidence in the current government than they have in any of the other parties.
I don't think you understand how the democratic system works in the UK.
Our current Prime Minister has been elected legally and democratically. We don't vote for a Prime Minister when we vote and we never have. We don't have a presidential system like in the USA. We elect an MP to represent us. The Party who has most MPs elect their leader and that person becomes the Prime Minister. That has always been the system.
Andy Burnham was elected as an MP, he is a member of the Labour Party and he was elected by them to be their leader so he is the Prime Minister.

You're asking two seperate questions with two seperate answers there.
Confidence in the government is as low as it is under any government. 45% of people almost never trust the government.
Confidence in Burnham is much higher. 46% view him favourably and he is streaks ahead of any other political leader in the uk.

@CoventryCity I get the sense that you voted Labour and you are disappointed? I’m quite confused by that sort of person because I think they have done the things I was expecting anyway. Maybe I wasn’t expecting some of it to be quite as bad…

Anyone with that kind of spending power will not get (or at least keep) the winter fuel allowance.

She will have received it, but HMRC will have taken it back in full, through the tax system.

It already is, in a very blunt way. I no longer get it as I'm not on pension credit.

Full means testing is incredibly expensive and would cost more than the government would save. And the process would have to be gone through every single year, making it even more expensive, and difficult for the very elderly who might not be able to fill in the detailed forms every year. It would be like another tax return in its complexity.

So what happens is that the WFA is paid to all of us, and the taxman takes it all back from most of us. It's a pretty ridiculous system, but apparently there's no alternative that wouldn't cost the earth.

Those statistics have never been collected by any Government of any colour.
I think you just want to believe what you believe.
The facts are crime is lower now than it has been at any time. . Rates of homicide in England and Wales are the lowest they have been since 1977. Domestic burglary has decreased by about 50% since 2010. So has vehicle theft, and phone theft, has fallen by 70% over the same period.
Reported crime against women has increased but previously a lot of crime against women wasn't reported at all or it wasn't even considered a crime previously many were written off as domestics, and coercive control wasn't a crime, rape wasn't reported because in many cases women weren't believed and rape in marriage was legal anyway.
There is no evidence that migrants are any more likely to commit violence against women than other men. But people like someone to blame and usually that is someone different from themselves.
The truth is men whatever colour they are are the problem .

Of course they did. That's what opposition parties do.

Your'e a voter... yet only seem to care about this issue when it's a party you dislike hence the double standards.

I am a pensioner and I do think the triple lock should be abolished. I would be very much happier for resources to be geared towards young families instead of me.
And I feel the same way about the winter fuel allowance. I am eligible for it but I don't need it.
I would also be very happy to pay NI on my pension.
I see many young families struggling and it's not fair

We had an election barely two years ago, for god's sake 🙄

Tiresome nonsense. I saw PM’s Questions today and was so pleased with the maturity shown by this government.

But people haven’t really “paid into” the State Pension there’s no personal pension pot. Today’s workers largely fund today’s pensioners. And with an ageing population, there are now more over-65s than under-16s, with proportionately fewer workers supporting more pensioners. Something has to give the current system can’t just carry on indefinitely.