Labour isn't working - Thread 13

[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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Dame Angela Eagle has ruled out any softening of IHT for farmers at next month's budget.
"The announcements have been made and the situation will be as it was announced.”She added: “I’m quashing them [the rumours]. We have been in discussions. The Treasury have made their announcement and they are not going to move.”

Construction remains the hardest hit sector for company insolvalncies, despite a slight improvement in August. 1 in 6 company insolvancies in England and Wales are construction companies.

https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/financial/administrations/construction-insolvencies-fall-in-august-but-sector-remains-hardest-hit-17-10-2025/?callback=in&code=NJM2OGM3NJQTYMQWMY0ZNGM4LTKZZWQTOTU3YWVJYZQWMTA0&state=26543988656b4faa84b350fe442506fa

Total idiots.

She's determined to blame Brexit for her own fuck ups. We didn't leave the EU in July '24, and our business was doing fine up until December.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0ypx859x8o

Looks like this will be an interesting listen.

Ooh, thanks CaveMum, that does look interesting.

Thanks.
Will try and listen to that after work.

Angela Eagle is yet another incompetent menace. The Labour party of today is full of them.

Also ex-Labour leader hopeful. No one wanted her apparently.

Not sure why she’s still here.

FABL

Pathetic, really. Sunak was right on Labour.

Exactly 💯

Not a good start for the grooming gangs inquiry.

https://news.sky.com/story/survivor-quits-grooming-gangs-inquiry-citing-toxic-culture-and-broken-trust-13453816

Anything but take ownership.

Disgusting.

Yes seems too good to be true they could actually make a good decision on farmers and IHT…

How many ordinary people will watch Clarkson's Farm, see the enormous struggles (and he acknowledges how much worse for ordinary farmers that don't have his income streams, but you can still see the stress), look at what Labour is doing, and draw their conclusions.

Well I can understand her concerns on police and social workers. The govt needs to justify better why these people are on the list for chairs. It’s useless without good survivor engagement surely?

Chilling and heartbreaking.

Who is Clarkson proposing to run for? Conservatives, Reform, Independent?

I was assuming it's just as an independent?

He might not, he's threatened to before.

Labour is braced for a historic defeat at the upcoming Caerphilly by-election, as its seeks to fend off a growing threat from Reform UK and Plaid Cymru in its Welsh heartlands.

A Labour stronghold, the South Wales Valleys seat has been consistently represented by the party in the Senedd assembly since devolution in 1999. In national elections, it has also continuously returned Labour MPs to the House of Commons for over a century, although one defected to the Social Democratic party in 1981. However, the October 23 election could see the governing party lose its Senedd seat, with the latest polls putting Labour at just 12 per cent in Caerphilly and sending shockwaves through the party.

FT

Well, it appears that Welsh Labour have ceased to be the party of ordinary working people. Instead they now represent public sector graduates, minorities rights activists, benefit claimants and net zero zealots. People have evidently had enough.

The arse has completely dropped out of the support for Labour in Wales. If this by-election produces results like that I expect it will be a total wipeout in the Senedd Elections for them.

Labour really did bring it on themselves. They’re hopeless and gaslighting.

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Well that's great news the Welsh farming community will rise and boot labour in the bum at our election next May.