If you voted Labour in July, have you changed your mind?

[notgettinganyyounger]

Are you happy with the changes so far, and still backing Starmer?

Very happy so far.

Quite happy.

Thanks for asking.

Yes, happy

Those who are very happy, what exactly are you happy with? Apart from getting rid of the tories?

Happy so far.

They've been in for all of 5 mins it's literally impossible to measure if they've been 'successful' or not 🙄

Your response to the "Are you happy you voted for Brexit?" thread was "I am very pleased that I voted leave." With no further explanation. You've had a lot longer to think about why you are happy you voted Leave than Labour voters!

Nope....as if the Tories were going to be any better.

Yeah I thought this was cruel, I’m fine with means testing but on one hand chucking money at the public sector and then being blase about people who live in genuine poverty was really unpleasant. Also that blackhole, half of that is the cost of pay rises. I think the intervention on Oasis tickets was ridiculous, it’s an irrelevance, we have dynamic pricing on trains, do something about that fools, it affects a lot more people.

I’m not optimistic. The tories needed to go but I think Labour are going to be a shambles too.

Yeah I'm content with my decision. There's no money. The country was fucked by the Tories and it's now convenient to blame labour. The reality is society could do so much more to help themselves and help each other. I made the right decision and will continue to work my backside off to make society a tiny bit better.

Isn't the state pension going up by hundreds per year again? Against the backdrop of the triple lock and - on average - the wealthiest pensioners the country has ever known and an ageing population I think the pensioners taking some of a hit is fair.

I'll wait until after the budget but I fear that I can only see a worsening standard of living for my family.

Way to soon to tell

It took 14 years for Conservatives to fuck the country up as badly as they did,I think it's reasonable to give Labour more than 2 months to fix it.

I always knew I wouldn't agree 100% with every decision made by Starmer, but then I wouldn't agree 100% with any of them. The simple fact in my mind is that we had to escape from the Conservative party and the only viable option was Labour, so I don't regret my vote at all.

I'm managing on quite a lot less at the moment..my fuel bills last winter were not high because I turn off lights and keep the heating thermostat quite low. Let's face it many of the older generation didn't grow up with central heating and know how to keep warm (and there are lots of modern ways at their disposal). I do think it's important that those who qualify for pension credit, claim it though, and we need to look out and help those who might qualify. £300 over a year is not going to make a big impact apart from the psychological effect of 'running out of money' which is real to that generation

I understand higher spend means higher taxes but it seems they're mostly making cuts. So I'm not really sure the plan... seems counter to the principles of the Labour Party.

Well, yes, but I did. It just seems to me that some of them might be a bit, um, disingenuous? Not that I'm implying yours is, of course.

No worries

No regrets

I did think it was a bit 🤔 when they declared a £22bn finance black hole and how difficult it was to fix that but in the same breath give public sector workers a whopping pay rise which cost about half an much again. I do think the public sector guys deserve a pay rise but so do we (private sector,
no pay rise for 2 and a half years and no union either)

I’m a floating voter and voted for them but I wish they had put th winter fuel allowance threshold higher. I do agree it needed to be means tested somehow though.

I’ll wait for the budget. KS seems reasonable. But if everyone has to pay a wealth tax (I know some Labour voters are very keen for this but I’m not) and I end up paying 1% of my house value a year in tax, I will vote elsewhere next time. The core Labour voters hoping for a wealth tax always think it will apply to only the wealthy but you don’t know if they decide the threshold should be all homeowners. Not just multi millionaire.

Curious

Yes I voted for Labour

I have a great local labour MP and I wanted a Labour government led by Keir Starmer

I am pleased with how things have gone so far particularly around the riots and the stopping of selling arms to Israel (though would like this to go further but it’s a start). am not happy about the pensioners losing winter fuel payments unless on benefits at all. I think this decision was taken as easy to implement it’s disappointing

I do not expect to support every decision that is made

Yes and yes.

Given the catastrophic situation the Tories left the country in , yes, I am very happy to see a new government addressing incredibly difficult issues with realistic solutions.

It can’t be sunshine and lollipops when the previous government drive the country to its knees and asset stripped it to make their wealthy friends even wealthier.

I work in the public sector. My pay rise this year will be approximately 1.9%. Woohoo.

But the fact they did that it at all shows poor judgement. You don’t exactly have to be mystic meg to know that it was going to be a problem for pensioners close to the cut off and that all we need is a cold winter and excess deaths reported for it to be a complete political disaster for them.

And Starmer’s recent interviews about how we need to balance the books are just scaring the market and letting the rumour mill run into overdrive. If that’s a tactic to make us feel relieved on the 30th of October it’s not a very smart one