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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I reckon it's even less

Why not protest against higher taxes that would make more sense. Let them know how you feel. We all know how the British public feel about immigrant's.

Well it gets pretty ugly when it boils down the the MRP polls. 50 though - just 50 constituencies who'd stomach them after just one year of governing. I'll have to have a look and see who they are - I wonder if there are a lot of cats? 🤔

50!! Jhc.
I didn't realise it was that low. When I looked at the recent MRP prediction map, Labour would be almost exclusively concentrated around London.

Yep we’re a tiny spot of red

London has local elections in May next year, I wonder if they'll be as sure on those seats after that?

Interesting. The EC poll of polls paints a slightly different picture and points to a hung Parliament. Not sure about the cats, though

I am in Islington South. Pretty much guaranteed to vote Labour - to the point where any vote not for Labour is a protest vote.

Funnily enough, we had a Labour councillor come to the door yesterday evening. We haven’t had that for years and years. But I was on a call.

I thought you were just watching in the walls with your finger primed over the report button Pandora?

The electoral calculus MRP poll out today has reform on an overall majority.

MRP Poll October 2025 share.google/a1Er6bMKgzVgdwbND

Don’t we get writes ups elsewhere, seems to be the usual.

Thanks for this

The poll places Reform UK on 36pc, ahead of Labour on 21pc and with the Conservatives trailing on just 15pc. On these figures, Reform is predicted to secure 367 seats with an outright majority of 84, leaving Labour on 117 seats and the Liberal Democrats on 58.

Yes because London Liberal metropolitan elites are the only ones who can afford Labour policies. The rest of us can't!

Thanks for this 😊

At least Pandora uses her usual username. Rather than name changing when commenting on this thread, unlike her comrades.

Anyway we all know that opinion polls or predictive polls are unreliable. Time and time again, we’ve seen this.

No one I know says they’ll vote reform. No one I know says they’ll vote labour. Most people I know say they’ll vote Conservative (some for the first time). However none of this matters because none of us really know what people will tick in the box on the day.

Oops, missed the overnight thread change!

Those polls are pretty shocking. I’m still very firmly against Reform, or the incumbents, but jeez we are lacking in alternatives!

Yes I lurk on these threads, just as posters on this thread lurk on the Starmer threads. I report the occasional post as do the lurkers on the Starmer threads. All part and parcel of the site.

But, as posters here now make very personal remarks about me and other Starmer thread posters (our supposed lack of hygiene, our choice of perfume, our "parochialism"), I think it is fair game for me to post here if I wish. Might as well.

Insults and jeering about political views, fine. The above, not.

I’ll be amazed if we get overall control govt next time - I’ve long thought the polls flatter reform because they’re a vote for hoping for a better deal, but when people see who their local candidate is, those numbers will soften.

mind you - if we are sliding into recession as IMF thinks, and a share plummet (god helps us) then anything could happen

Hopefully this thread won’t become the mirror of others and we can stick to Labour’s not working.

Fwiw, I agree that the post you are referring to was wrong, but I think you are making a mountain out of a molehill there. You are not shy with insults yourself. Just saying.

You are welcome to join us here to chat, but I would ask that you be civil. If you don't like what you read, keep scrolling. I would much rather you join in, than throw stones from afar.

Very true. There is so much uncertainty rn. Who knows what the economic landscape will look like in 3.5 years. I do think the next election will be decided on the economy.

I'd say all these posts on here is a sign that it is working.

Brexit didn't work so vote for the guy who made that happen or go back to your natural home the Tories

Yes agree re voting on the economy, at the moment people certainly feel worse off than before Labour got in, and that’s definitely a problem that is hard for Labour to turn around

This thread is evidence that labour is working?

Was their goal to alienate half their voters, increase unemployment, increase the national debt, be so economically inept that cost to service that debt it exorbitant, fail to push through the welfare bill, insist that they were making one off tax hikes in 24 and pull out the begging bowl again in 25?

Did you read the op?
Why not pop on to one of the weight loss threads and tell them to stop eating? You'll go down a storm.

These posts rather than polls?

Labour should look at the polls instead.

It seems we are once again the most hated, yet most popular thread on MN.