Labour isn't working - Thread 12

[TheNuthatch]

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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I like Kemi. I don’t mind her taking her time. She doesn’t need to peak now, so why be in a rush. She has avoided saying ridiculous things and making rash commitments that would come back to haunt her at the next election.

She has avoided own goals, snd there is notjing to win at the moment.

Yes, I like Kemi.

I am not convinced that Reform will be good at managing the economy (and Labour definitely are not).

A year 4 years is a long time in politics.. What on earth we’ll see is in no way predictable.. the last year has been terrible of course. Can it get worse??? Yeah yeah I know.. 🙈

If it helps, I've just switched bank account as it'll pay me £200 for doing so. (To Barclays; there are other switch offers around.)

Mine too!

The streets of Mumbai have been lined with photos of Starmer.
I'm sure the people are loving it. Imagine having to look at his face hundreds of times on your way to work. 🤢🤢

Why is that?

Nothing more than lauding him on his visit. I'm sure he'll love it. Me well @TheNuthatch nailed it 🤢🤢🤢

Gawd he'll come home all puffed up 🙄

I’m a floating voter who hasn’t been wild about Kemi as leader of the opposition though I thought she was excellent as minister in the last government. I hope she’s sort of settling in as til now she’s felt like a strategic placeholder for a few more years til Jenrick and Cleverly oust her pre election.

i do think her speech and Sir Mel Stride’s we’re good! I always say I couldn’t be a person who would “never” vote X party and have voted for both Conservative and Labour before but I can’t at the moment see myself ending up as a Reform voter and Labour have now lost me for the moment so I’m quite pleased to see some spark from the Tories this week. Maybe they could do better than we hope.

I was certainly better off and more hopeful two years ago!

I reckon Labour will do that raise income tax and drop NI by 2p that the papers are talking about because it’ll have the added benefit of putting the SNP in an awkward position - income tax already higher here, so raising it further would be a vote loser but NI is reserved so it’s a tax cut for the working age.

Scottish Labour can then presumably campaign that they’ve put money in the hands of ‘working people’ in 2026 - because they are in for a right drubbing otherwise.

That's quite a record.
Interesting that they suggest Starmer was lying about China being against the Chagos deal. He said thise who oppose it were in the same column as China, Russia and Iran.

He will 🙄
He can pretend that he is liked and admired when he's abroad 😂

Oh my. It looks dystopian, is that pollution too or just the pic? I feel like it’s some digital ID-like mners fantasy.

I like your thinking 👍

Don't be giving Labour any good ideas though @Rivalled. I reckon Reeves reads this thread 😂

Its probably gas rising from all the vomit by the side of the roads 😂

My brother and family live in China. The Chinese haven't a scoobies who he is for the most part. Daresay similar in India.

😂

That doesn't surprise me.
I don't think my kids would recognise him in Tesco to be fair.

Lucky them 😬 the same here probably.

😂😂

Seriously though, can you imagine driving past them at speed? It would be like Starmer flick book animation. There are hundreds of them lining the motorway apparently.

They need some like this

Well @TheNuthatch it’d be the first sign of political nous they’ve shown since the election so yeah, that means it probably won’t happen!

Although I am wondering - can Labour afford to piss of any more pensioners? Or have they calculated that they’ve well and truly lost the pension vote so might as well try and buy the working age vote?

only 7 more weeks to find out…

They care nothing for the elderly