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

[notgettinganyyounger]

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

I'm happy. They weren't going to fix everything overnight and there were always going to be some hard choices. They are being clear about the challenges and I find Keir refreshingly open and honest in interviews. Very little waffling/political non answers

£11,500 is a very low base though to stop people getting the fuel allowance. I agree with means testing it but £11500 is just too low. Those on PC will now be better off than those on just a full state pension and no private top-up. That can't be right.

It's all swings and roundabouts..we need to wait a bit longer to judge if it's more fair for us and everyone we care about..as opposed to those we don't (the truth of the matter)

This sort of comment is so silly.

Everyone who doesn't love the Labour party is called Tory HQ.

No discussion of any facts or opinions, just a cheap and meaningless insult.

I wonder if this type of comment could be considered trolling.

I doubt very much there’s anything positive. It’ll be a higher than average state pension increase next April based on the September numbers, so why did they not wait and announce that at the same time? Or better still just think through what they were doing before they did it and have a higher cut off for the WFA. Honestly shoot yourself in the foot time and smacks of political idealism from Reeves

Interesting you feel you know so much about economics. I’d suggest that the employment laws proposed will be reversing precarious employment such as zero hours which really only suited the employer (how can you budget for your monthly costs not knowing what your income will be?)

It’s been proven that putting additional cash into the hands of lower earners stimulates the economy. If the economy is stimulated by more spending than employers will require more employees. They’ll be able to do so on a fairer basis with better employment laws.

Your insistence that our previous, Conservative approach was better makes me wonder if you still agree with the discredited economic philosophy of wealth trickling down. If this worked we’d be seeing far more disposable cash in our pockets as opposed to the bank accounts of the super rich, who have seen their share of wealth increase dramatically during the last decade, whilst the working class and middle classes have seen stagnating wages and decreased spending ability.

You’re thinking like a frustrated billionaire, I will never understand people on ‘normal’ incomes trying their best to make us try to protect the interests of the super rich.

Happy with the approach and the fact that our current pm is not a showman

Labour have already said that to process people faster, they will have to grant an amnesty to most. And the success rate of being able to stay in the UK following asylum application is high. Especially if you factor in appeals as well.

Which leaves these people needing homes and jobs. But mostly homes, because in all honesty many of the people coming are not skilled and will struggle to get well enough paid jobs, particularly if there are language barriers.

And if we can’t use the facilities we have been using, then that leaves one option, council housing. Of which we do not have enough.

See what annoyed me about your post was the implication that concerns about immigration were based on ethnicity and race. I come from a very diverse background and my family are not all white. I don’t care what colour skin a person has, but I do have legitimate concerns about immigration.

And by taking away the only (albeit not brilliant) deterrent, KS has sent out an invitation. The situation is going to get really bad. It’s not going to improve under Labour. We need a deterrent and soon. If not least to try to prevent deaths in the channel.

Some of that will go straight back in taxes.

The alternative was to alllow strikes to continue at an even higher cost and for even more staff to walk away from the NHS making it even harder to get an appointment.

Damned if they did and danmed if they didn’t.

@notgettinganyyounger

FFS it’s a five year term.
and if they had any sense they would do all the shitty and hard stuff now.

if the hope the benefits come in year 4/5.

people want everything in this country but how and where do we get the money .

every thing needs to change

considering the tories burnt this land with brexit and greed and unethical behaviours it seriously would he extremely hard to be worse.

and so forth.

Yes happy. They've barely got started. I'm still relieved and grateful to be rid of the last shower. Don't regret my vote at all.

The government can’t really impose a pay rise for the private sector.
And public sector got the wages frozen since the tories came in power when private was still increasing….

I actually spoilt my ballot as I didn’t feel I could fully support any party. But had I had to pick one (very glad we don’t force that) it probably would have been labour.

Currently I think it’s too soon to say - not to mention it will take years to put right what is broken given how bad things are. And this won’t be easy. Anyone who thought otherwise was deluded.

I imagine it will be a painful few years at the very least before things improve.

I studied history at degree level and to a point our history is the history of migration, it’s what the human race does. If I’m honest I don’t think there’s a way of preventing it, other than targeting the boat trafficking gangs which they are doing. Especially with our colonial past, our language is one of the most widely spoken and people will come here for that reason.

Of course we’re also ignoring that there are many other countries that take their fair share too and there’s no reason why we shouldn’t, we aren’t exceptional.

Thatcher sold off huge amounts of council housing and this needs to be sorted out.

My Mum worked quite closely with many immigrant families, one thing they all had in common was a desire to work very hard and build up money and property, and one by one they all did. All whilst paying tax and contributing to this country.

Immigration was not stopped by the Rwanda scheme or the likes of the Bibby Stockholm, I live in Kent and the small boats kept coming right through the period of Tory power.

Everything comes at a price. For some that price is Life or death or perhaps a chance of hope, for others it's a ticket at an overpriced concert while needing to look at a TV screen to see what's happening on a stage. Making a mountain out of a molehill and dividing us is what pays our media these days

Labour has so far completed 5% of their total term of office.

I think its very unreasonable to expect them to do magic.
On the upside they haven't done a Truss.

I don’t really care about history, or what the Tory’s did 40 years ago. I care about now.

and I care about this ridiculous Tories Bad, Labour Good mentality, based off legitimate immigration concerns, which are ignored by the left and viewed as racism as a lazy way to ignore a growing issue.

Didn’t the BoE just admit inflation was their fault?

We tend to repeat the same mistakes so history is incredibly pertinent to coming up with solutions to today’s problems.

Immigration concerns wouldn’t be an issue if everyone didn’t feel so squeezed at the moment. Fix the economy, fix the immigration issue.

Small boat crossings appear to me to be more weather dependent than anything else - figures are down over the last 12 months and it's been a pretty windy year

Also a south coast dweller

Especially since a lot of that was in recess due to the timing of rishi calling the election.

I visited Deal recently on a beautiful day, France looked so close and the sea so still you can absolutely see why they do it.

I think they just care a bit more about building a sustainable society.

I would feel completely reassured if Labour were talking about prosperity rather than pain ahead.

Happy. They're a breath of fresh air compared to the Tory toxic mess we had