Labour isn't working Thread 2

[TheNuthatch]

A chat thread for those who don't like this Labour government.

but then society needs a better economic model if we have to amout to basically slave labour wages just to prop up different companies

What would be your idea of a better economic model?
I'm not sure who you are referencing re slave labour wages. The Guardian article I linked this morning shows that wages are rising, along with details of a huge rise in job losses in March.

Plenty are sick of Labour. They are the kings of mismanagement. They are just as bad at local level as at national level too. They presided over bankrupt Birmingham. Rubbish everywhere, rats and it's a health hazard. To make it worse Labour have cancelled many May elections so they can't even be voted out which is not democratic. In area where there are elections Reform UK will win.

@caringcarer i don’t really understand how they have cancelled the May elections it’s awful. Yes reform will storm it I think just can see the grifters faces on May 2nd

I'd have the Tories back tomorrow. 14 wasted years or not, this can't go on. Labour have to go. Why do people keep voting them in to bankrupt us every time?

How anyone can back these cretins. They'll have to learn the hard way. We're in for 5 years of hell. They have to go.

Well done those who wanted change. You were better off with Sunak who actually knows a thing or two about economics..fucking lemmings. Labour fan girls on here (and boys and elsewhere) have led us to this. Hope you're all happy now.

They're an utter, utter disgrace. Every Labour voter needs to own what they've facilitated.

Are you a Reform voter by any chance?

@SpringerSprockerCocker yes probably I will vote reform on May 1st
@User135644 its pretty unbelievable their incompetence wanting change I mean this much badly executed change 🤦‍♀️

@User135644 I truly believe these labour voters don’t understand what they’ve done they think it’s all going swimmingly

He giving away the Chagos Islands to Mauritius who they have never belonged to and are 1600 miles away. Then he's going to rent it back. You couldn't make it up.

@caringcarer what !!!! What bullshit is this ?

I am a lurker to this thread as others say it much better than me, but long may this thread continue.

Last summer, I was surrounded by lots of people who openly admitted to 'getting the Tories out' and voted labour. Including family. Now they are looking to Reform as the answer. Time will tell but there's a possibility they could in government in a few years time.

However, I would not discount the Tories coming back up in the polls nearer to the next election. We are mainly a centre right country.

I don't think taxpayers paid for the wallpaper, if indeed it did cost that much. Wasn't it a donor?

So if the wallpaper was no big deal because it was a donor who paid, what about Starmer’s clothes and being lent a flat for his family last summer? No big deal either?

Why am I not surprised.

@SpringerSprockerCocker if none of your demographic are like this demographic what are they like ? Are they in agreement with two tier growler and Rachel from accounts bridge from the block

Good news about inflation being down by more than expected today isn't it? Bit like the better than anticipated growth figures last week. Nice to hear something positive now and again.

Oh good. We’re in for a summer of strikes - TU’s rule.

Welcome to a Labour government everybody.

Except it’s even worse than expected..

WFA removed for All (despite the fact hundreds of thousands need it), attack on disabled benefits, attack on workers just trying to get by (who now have no job as their employers can’t afford to keep them due to Labour policies), attack on education.

That’s just whilst I drink my morning coffee. I’m sure there’s more. Where does it end. I’m afraid not for 4.5 more years.

🤯🥺

Oh yes, lucky Birmingham with their useless labour council. 🫣

I know right? It was great having no strikes when the Tories were in power.

🙄 dearie me.

Were you around in the 70’s / have you read about it? Expect the same. Except we’re stuck with Starmer now.

We’ll see where mn goes with that. Some will back Labour anyway but public sector have been strong in support so far.

No, but I was round over the last two years and there were a lot of strikes then you may recall. Also school strikes in the late 80s-early 90s (Tories) and again in the 2010s (Tories). No need to go all the way back to the 70s.

Since 2022, workers in the United Kingdom have staged a series of strikes over their pay and working conditions. In December 2022 for example, there were approximately 830,000 working days lost due to labor disputes, with 155,000 workers being on strike in that month. This was the peak, in terms of working days lost in this surge in industrial action that continued throughout 2023 and into 2024. The first wave of these strikes began in May 2022 when the UK's largest transport union; the RMT, voted to go on strike in the following month. Industrial action has also spread to other sectors in the UK, with workers in health, education, and many other sectors opting to strike during this period.

Mix of old school centre right Tories and Liberal or centre Left Labour. Some of the trust-fund types are more bothered about ecological stuff than anything else. They all hate Reform.

A number feel politically homeless at the moment. I don't know anyone who is happy with the current lot but most were just as unhappy with recent Tory governments and the current opposition. It all feels a bit of a mess.

Sorry meant to write Labour and Liberal - mix of both but that's London.