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Imdunfer · 27/04/2026 22:12

HappiestSleeping · 27/04/2026 22:07

There isn't actually any evidence that high net worth individuals are leaving in droves though.

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Well I suppose that depends on whether you call the number in 2025 doubling since 2024 "droves".

And whether you factor in that the top 10% of income tax payers pay over 60% of all income tax.

MsJinks · 27/04/2026 22:09

Well - we didn’t follow the orange one into war with Iran - Tories probably would have done. That’s one big win in my book.

HappiestSleeping · 27/04/2026 22:08

SylvanMoon · 27/04/2026 22:02

Many manifesto pledges delivered or on track

What a joke! What about all the things that have been introduced that were NOT in the manifesto? Restricting jury trials? Limiting the right to protest? Trying to bring in by the back door Assisted Suicide? Keeping the 2-child benefit cap until it absolutely became an electoral liability? Removing the winter fuel payments and then reinstating them because it was yet another electoral liability? Appointing Mandelson to anything? Increasing employer National Insurance contributions? Bringing in agricultural inheritance tax rules that's going to decimate family farms and not even deal with those who are abusing it to avoid inheritance tax? Changing the timeline for "day-one" unfair dismissal rights? To name but a few... Give us a break -- we're not blind.

As I said, there have been some howlers too.

HappiestSleeping · 27/04/2026 22:07

Imdunfer · 27/04/2026 21:54

Net migration down 69%

The clue is in the "net" . We have been exporting millionaires and high esrners in droves and replacing them with lower earners than they were, many of whom will also become benefit claimants.

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There isn't actually any evidence that high net worth individuals are leaving in droves though.

SylvanMoon · 27/04/2026 22:02

Many manifesto pledges delivered or on track

What a joke! What about all the things that have been introduced that were NOT in the manifesto? Restricting jury trials? Limiting the right to protest? Trying to bring in by the back door Assisted Suicide? Keeping the 2-child benefit cap until it absolutely became an electoral liability? Removing the winter fuel payments and then reinstating them because it was yet another electoral liability? Appointing Mandelson to anything? Increasing employer National Insurance contributions? Bringing in agricultural inheritance tax rules that's going to decimate family farms and not even deal with those who are abusing it to avoid inheritance tax? Changing the timeline for "day-one" unfair dismissal rights? To name but a few... Give us a break -- we're not blind.

Imdunfer · 27/04/2026 21:54

HappiestSleeping · 27/04/2026 21:18

Net migration down 69%
Millions of additional NHS appointments
Increased funding for policing
Increased resource for irregular migration processing
Pretty good handling of international affairs
Many manifesto pledges delivered or on track

Granted there have been some howlers too, but it isn't all bad by any stretch.

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Net migration down 69%

The clue is in the "net" . We have been exporting millionaires and high esrners in droves and replacing them with lower earners than they were, many of whom will also become benefit claimants.

HappiestSleeping · 27/04/2026 21:18

Selectivemute · 27/04/2026 21:15

Life feels genuinely tough at the moment, and I am trying to remain optimistic.

But what has this Labour government actually achieved since July 2024?

Please tell me the positives, because I am struggling to see any, right now.

Net migration down 69%
Millions of additional NHS appointments
Increased funding for policing
Increased resource for irregular migration processing
Pretty good handling of international affairs
Many manifesto pledges delivered or on track

Granted there have been some howlers too, but it isn't all bad by any stretch.

SylvanMoon · 27/04/2026 21:16

The "positives" as I see them are that they are so massively stupidly incompetent that they're going to self-immolate. And I write this as someone who actually stood as a Labour candidate in a local election several years ago.