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Labour isn't working - Thread 9

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TheNuthatch · 16/09/2025 17:55

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

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

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Upstartled · 17/09/2025 14:41

Yes. He's doing computer science. I'm not good for career advice though. He kind of went his own way with it, I was trying to nudge to engineering 🤷🏼‍♀️

Rivalled · 17/09/2025 14:44

Similar issues here - if I know anything about my dd it’s that she’s going to choose what she thinks is best. Between engineering, physics, maths, IT, any of the sciences or even philosophy, psychology or law, any of those could be a good launch to AI.

Upstartled · 17/09/2025 14:52

My only advice - and we aren't even out of freshers week - is to teach them how to use a ceramic hob before you leave the halls because my kid is going to starve with a bin full of burnt food if phonecalls home are anything to go by.

EasternStandard · 17/09/2025 14:55

Older ds is doing engineering, it suits him well so that’s cool. Middle dc could go in a few directions but he seems keener on comp sci I think.

EasternStandard · 17/09/2025 14:56

Upstartled · 17/09/2025 14:52

My only advice - and we aren't even out of freshers week - is to teach them how to use a ceramic hob before you leave the halls because my kid is going to starve with a bin full of burnt food if phonecalls home are anything to go by.

Haha

CaveMum · 17/09/2025 15:01

Upstartled · 17/09/2025 14:52

My only advice - and we aren't even out of freshers week - is to teach them how to use a ceramic hob before you leave the halls because my kid is going to starve with a bin full of burnt food if phonecalls home are anything to go by.

Oh dear!

Upstartled · 17/09/2025 15:03

Yeah, he'll get hang of it. Wetherspoons is saving him 😁

TheNuthatch · 17/09/2025 15:20

Upstartled · 17/09/2025 14:52

My only advice - and we aren't even out of freshers week - is to teach them how to use a ceramic hob before you leave the halls because my kid is going to starve with a bin full of burnt food if phonecalls home are anything to go by.

😂😂 It's a learning curve.

I get regular requests for a week's worth of freezer dinners to take back on the train. DD also has an airfryer that she hid in her room in halls.

Apart from the cooking, how is he getting on? I hope he's enjoying freshers.

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TheNuthatch · 17/09/2025 15:23

EasternStandard · 17/09/2025 14:55

Older ds is doing engineering, it suits him well so that’s cool. Middle dc could go in a few directions but he seems keener on comp sci I think.

Oh that's cool. Great career paths available for them both.
My careers advice was found to be utterly useless. Thank God my older two didn't listen to me 😂.

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Upstartled · 17/09/2025 15:24

Really well thanks, making friends, generally finding his way around and looking forward to getting stuck in. Exciting times. (I miss him dreadfully)

TheNuthatch · 17/09/2025 15:27

Upstartled · 17/09/2025 15:24

Really well thanks, making friends, generally finding his way around and looking forward to getting stuck in. Exciting times. (I miss him dreadfully)

That's great.
It is tough on us Mums though.
If he's anywhere near Manchester, let me know and I'll drop him off a casserole 😂.

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Upstartled · 17/09/2025 15:31

TheNuthatch · 17/09/2025 15:27

That's great.
It is tough on us Mums though.
If he's anywhere near Manchester, let me know and I'll drop him off a casserole 😂.

😁 Aww, can you imagine? "Mam, a woman ranting about Keir Starmer and Labour incompetence gave me a chicken casserole"

twistyizzy · 17/09/2025 15:32

Upstartled · 17/09/2025 15:31

😁 Aww, can you imagine? "Mam, a woman ranting about Keir Starmer and Labour incompetence gave me a chicken casserole"

🤣🤣🤣

Upstartled · 17/09/2025 15:34

Like a Conservative student-saving angel.

Northquit · 17/09/2025 15:36

If she upped personal tax allowances to £13000 then that'd give people more money to spend.
People like spending money and surprisingly enough it's what keeps the 'economy' going. It all being a coffee shop economy currently.

To get people spending big chunks of money on cars and houses would require strong and stable economic forecasts. To achieve this she needs to u-turn her employers NI rise and do something positive to help employers help people.
Maybe something that would also encourage them to take on people with ill health and who could be supported easily into work.

Looking at wider things - encouraging industry is unlikely to happen (why any company wants to invest in this country with high energy prices?) unless an encouraging tax regime is created.
And a takeaway tax and enforcement on every one who delivers food to ensure they are properly paying tax would be beneficial.

A review of the state of the highstreet and potential money laundering shops needs to be looked at - no point taking tax from fake businesses if it actually serious damages the economy in other ways.

We need cheaper energy and cheaper housing. Neither are likely under this government. But the number of migrants coming to do jobs is insane and needs to stop.
Students are a huge lifeblood for the university system but that in itself has damaged it beyond belief and taken many towns into the "uni land" clown world which means it's actually really not positive for the country.

We can not import the rest of the world here and I think our own trained people should be priorisitised for work in the NHS (nurses, doctors, midwives etc)
1/3 pensions, 1/3 malpractice payouts 1/3 on real NHS is not sustainable.

I'd streamline the civil service too and ditch huge numbers of the newly recruited lot and I would stamp out the appalling work ethic of "I can do what i want when I have finished my work" nonsense that exists.

Significantly I'd look at the number of children's homes that are making money for private companies, buying up properties and costing about £1M per child. That's one of the reasons why councils have no money.

We need to get better at spending money wisely across the board.

TheNuthatch · 17/09/2025 15:36

Upstartled · 17/09/2025 15:31

😁 Aww, can you imagine? "Mam, a woman ranting about Keir Starmer and Labour incompetence gave me a chicken casserole"

🤣🤣
You'd know it was me.

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TheNuthatch · 17/09/2025 15:48

Some good ideas there @Northquit. Much of that would require a Chancellor with some common sense.

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Itcantbetrue · 17/09/2025 17:47

Silly comment but trump is so orange on tv I wonder what he actually looks like close up ?
Just seeing the way Charles is glancing at him..

Itcantbetrue · 17/09/2025 17:47

Ie would TV darken or lighten him

Absentosaur · 17/09/2025 17:52

TheNuthatch · 17/09/2025 13:18

I didn't leave the party, the party left me 😂

That old chestnut.

😂 🤣

It’s not you, it’s me.

Oh I mean it’s not me, it’s you.

Oh whatever. I just don’t want us to be together anymore. Ok. I’ve got a new partner. More exciting. Get to keep me job. And all that. Innit.

TheNuthatch · 17/09/2025 18:45

Itcantbetrue · 17/09/2025 17:47

Silly comment but trump is so orange on tv I wonder what he actually looks like close up ?
Just seeing the way Charles is glancing at him..

Do you think it's fake tan? Or sunbed?
This is a regular convo between me and dd 😂.
Dd reckons he has oval shaped white bits around his eyes like sunbed goggles.

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TheNuthatch · 17/09/2025 18:46

Absentosaur · 17/09/2025 17:52

😂 🤣

It’s not you, it’s me.

Oh I mean it’s not me, it’s you.

Oh whatever. I just don’t want us to be together anymore. Ok. I’ve got a new partner. More exciting. Get to keep me job. And all that. Innit.

🤣🤣

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Rivalled · 17/09/2025 18:49

Oooh she might be right - I’ve always wondered why he had those funny pale half moons under his eyes - but could get same effect either from sunbed or wearing goggles for all over spray tan?

You've got to pity the person with that job!

TheNuthatch · 17/09/2025 18:53

Rivalled · 17/09/2025 18:49

Oooh she might be right - I’ve always wondered why he had those funny pale half moons under his eyes - but could get same effect either from sunbed or wearing goggles for all over spray tan?

You've got to pity the person with that job!

I've just pictured him in goggles and a thong 🤣🤣

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