Labour isn't working - Thread 6

[TheNuthatch]

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

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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Hypocrisy with a side order of superiority complex!

That speaks volumes doesnt it. A sign at their house to let the world know that they hate tories ffs. Your friend would love me lol!
It is trendy to hate tories. My kids hate tories too, "except you Mum" 😂😂

Blimey that's an about turn for Germany isn't it. I may be wrong here, but I'm sure I read somewhere that Germany have also been deporting back to Afghanistan?

It probably means more migrants will arrive here instead, seeing as we have a whopping great neon 'welcome' sign on our south coast 🙄. As you once said, they might as well just start running a P&O ferry at this point.

Yes, the rise of the adf has required Metz to take a practical approach to the anti-immigration movement to stop it building any further momentum.

I'm not sure what it means for us... hopefully not p&o ferries 🫣

Whopping great neon welcome sign 😅

Indeed we do.

Interesting article in tomorrow's paper,
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/88dfe6f4cb0e1c68

"Prof Jagjit Chadha, who recently stepped down as the head of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, claimed the economy was at risk of “collapse”.

He said the financial situation was “as perilous the period leading up to the IMF loan of 1976”, when Britain had to be bailed out by the global banking body.

He told the When the Facts Change Substack, written by the Telegraph columnist Liam Halligan: “I’m in a world in which I could imagine it [an IMF bailout] happening, and we’ll be bereft in that case.

“We will not be able to roll over debt, we will not be able to meet pensions payments, benefits will be hard to pay out.”

That's the most dire assessment of the shape of things that I've read so far. I don't think most people have a read on the damage that has been done over the last year but unless Reeves can do something quite exceptional- beyond additional taxation and stalling the economy further, the sum of poor policy decisions will bite hard.

‘Willem Buiter, another former member of the Monetary Policy Committee, said that, unless Ms Reeves changed course, she would face scrutiny from the markets “that will be at least as effective as the pressure from the IMF was in the 1970s”.

He said the Chancellor “will be forced” to break Labour’s manifesto and raise taxes on working people in the autumn to calm the bond markets.’

👀👀👀👀

I think we all can see taxes are going to increase again - for everyone in the next budget.

By the time these clowns are out of office and done all their damage, we will need a Thatcher-like character to get us back on something looking like an even keel.

Anyone else feel like days of Boris and birthday cake are from a fairytale past?

Yes. Give me cake ambushes any day over this.

Bloody hell 🤯

And she's not capable of doing that so.........

Yes and Reeves knows it, but lacks the political power to get any kind of significant spending reform done - it’s clearly where we’re going to end. Tbh the IMF’s intervention over Truss should’ve woken us up to the precarious and worsening situation.

In a way I hope IMF do get involved because then the left will have to shut up with the "what about Truss".

And then there's WC Raynor...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15028265/Angela-Rayner-home-Labour-seaside-pad.html

I disliked Boris but I never thought we'd end up with a prime minister that was even worse. Yes I agree, we will need a strong leader after this shitshow has ended.

Indeed the financial picture is bleak. As to who that strong leader is, any ideas for I have none!

I'm so glad I've found my people.

I actually have sleepless nights over what is going on

Starmer has been Community Noted on X because he tried to claim that the £3 bus fare cap is saving people money. In fact, Labour increased it from £2 under Tories, up to £3.
Their brazen attempts at gaslighting are at least being challenged now

Who is doing his tweets...they are generally awful

I’m not a big Boris fan either but we never really had the opportunity to see what he’d be like as PM in normal times. Most of his reign was spent dealing with Covid.

Posting disinformation on social media, tut tut.

Should be reported and banned

Do as I say, not as I do.
Hypocrites the lot of them.

😂

Surely that warrants a custodial sentence at a time of social unrest? 😉

Well said

Starmer has strong form for playing fast and loose with facts. Just look at the Chagos bill and what he announced.

TBH I don’t expect politicians of any stripe to be especially truthful. But Starmer does stand out in that way.

I’m convinced it all comes from his personal ambition and towering self-regard, which even for a senior politician is gobsmacking. That’s also why he took freebies. I never believed a word of the Lord Ali penthouse explanation.

The only upside is that he’s storing up massive scorn and ridicule for when he has to break major manifesto pledges. Another politician could plead that facts have changed or the unexpected’s come about. But Starmer’s run out of road for goodwill and the benefit of the doubt.