Labour victory feels flat - just me?

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I seem to remember after the 1997 landslide the country was on a real high for days - this feels like an anti-climax. Is it just me?

I feel relief and quiet optimism - it doesn't really matter why they got in, but I do feel considerably brighter and more hopeful than I did in 2019. It feels good to have stability and people in office who are not a bunch of privately-educated toffs. I'm also feeling very grateful for our democratic process and the fact that no-one is disputing the validity of these election results or attempting to take power by force.

Just over 50% of eligible voters voted, and of that 50+%, only about 35% voted for Labour.
Ergo something like 80% (I haven't done the maths, just a guess) of the entire population are either:
•to young to care and have no vote
•just don't care and didn't bother voting
•voted for a different party

Hence no great celebration.

This and general expectation of the Labour gov we have rather than a 90s time capsule

But I’ll see what happens with it all. The policies and outcomes

His ego wouldn’t let him walk away, he had to put up the pretence of a fight.

A pathetic one, it has to be said, but enough to save his ego.

Yeah agree

*Because too many are taking from the system and not enough are contributing.

Demographics have changed

Theu don’t have any choice but to tax the money that’s moving round the system, and most of that is from people in work.

We are all going to have to pay more tax but it can’t just come from income, there aren’t enough workers. And of course no one wants to pay.

Maybe that's it @Farting

The weather is gloomy and we are not as young and optimistic as we were in 1997. I'm just relieved Labour won, but not expecting any miracles.

I'm absolutely delighted to have a labour government despite voting Lib Dem as there was just no point voting for our labour candidate here - it would have split the vote and labour and lib dem knew that. That's why they didn't campaign against each other.

They're facing an uphill battle but it's uphill at least.

Scared for the future I have daughters, granddaughters we need safe places for women

I genuinely don't understand those who thought things were going well with the Conservatives in charge?

I agree @Lindylou57 and it's the one area I had to concede on given it's the one area the Tories got right. But we couldn't have gone on with that mess of a government. Or at least I couldn't.

Tbh I've not mentioned the election to anyone today because I'm scared they'll say they voted Reform. I've spent some of the day with school mums and I just don't want to know. If I'd been with family and close friends we'd probably have talked about little else.

I'm absolutely delighted. I cried at Starmer's speech - he's so level headed and boring. It's brilliant.

I actually think they want to distance themselves from the ludicrous excesses of the recent Tory government. I think it's intentional as a strategy.

I haven’t voted Labour for years and didn’t this time. However, I actually do feel optimistic about Starmer. Obviously no one individual can work magic, but he is a staunchly boring, dependable public servant who might just provide some of the stable leadership that we desperately need. Yes, there is a lot of instability on the world stage right now, but a lot of the mess in the UK is genuinely down to Boris’s narcissistic nonsense, all the way back to Brexit. It’s been a carnival ever since he had power (predating his actually being MP) and has had a long til following his departure. Boring leaders never get people excited but they often do a lot of good.

*a long tail

I dont care if Starmer has a personality or not as long as he gets us out of this mess. We've all been scarred by covid brexit and the economic failure.
I'm beyond celebrating. I just wNt a less stressful life and one prime minister rather than the tories revolving door ones.

well I am jubilant! My voted yesterday mattered and it helped swing a vote to Labour! I also enjoyed seeing all those smug Tories losing their seats! So a few gins tonight to celebrate. Happy days here!

It won't be easy and any improvements are going to take time. I hope that people give them a chance. I do however find it rather concerning that our new Foreign Secretary believes that men can grow a cervix and our Education Secretary believes that men with a GRC should be allowed in women's toilets.

I feel relief mainly, but other PPs are right, it's a Tory loss rather than ringing endorsement of Labour. But imo it's good to have a woman who grew up in social housing as housing secretary. It's good to have a woman who went to a state comprehensive as Education Secretary. It's good to have an Energy Secretary who actually believes in climate change. It's good to have a serious man in charge who has achieved great things in his life through his own intelligence and hard work. It's good to have a party in charge who came into existence to further the lot of workers, rather than the landed gentry. I think public service is important to Labour politicians, whereas for too many Tories it was all about self service. I'm hoping we'll see some prosecutions for fraud and corruption during COVID, but maybe that's just wishful thinking.

It is. They’re getting fewer and fewer votes.

I dont care if Starmer has a personality or not as long as he gets us out of this mess.

He's already said he can't make much of a difference for quite some time.

No joy here and I voted for them…albeit in a safe Tory seat …the Conservative candidate won by 20 votes. The Reform candidate was hot on the heels of the Labour vote. I hope both parties take note. People are pissed off, disillusioned and disenfranchised.

I want to feel pleased but I can’t. It won’t be any better …I’m too long in the tooth now, none of them care about normal folk. I pity the people of Clacton with their protest vote for “man of the people” Farage. If they think he will solve all their ills they are barking. I predict he will fuck off as much as he can and nothing will change for them unless Labour really pull it out of the bag.

They got fewer votes even that the clown Jeremy Corbyn did.
People voted in a hissy fit of pique against the’Tories’
Only 21%of the electorate voted for them so 4/5 either wanted someone else or couldn’t see any difference between them.
They have no mandate and no talent.
Unsurprising that people are realising that giving the last government a kicking won’t actually deliver anything better.

Well if you voted for people that believe that men can grow a cervix, then don’t get surprised when that’s what you get.