Labour isn't working - Thread 17

[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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These are great, thanks for the reporting with pics, love that

BBC has ruled against Martine Croxall after she said pregnant women rather then pregnant people as per her autocue. Absolutely batshit.

But now the BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit has ruled against the presenter, upholding concerns from audience members, who claimed that Croxall “expressed a controversial view about trans people” and made a facial expression of “disgust, ridicule, contempt or exasperation.”

https://deadline.com/2025/11/bbc-rebukes-martine-croxall-pregnant-people-women-1236607821/

‘The ruling continued: “The ECU considered the facial expression which accompanied the change of ‘people’ to ‘women’ laid it open to the interpretation that it indicated a particular viewpoint….’

So. We’re being policed on our facial expressions now? What. The. Fck. The BBC is a totally captured organisation. Vomit. Stop the train I want to get off.

Stop the train I want to get off.

Hold the door, I want to get off too.

They need to crack open that Orwell book again.

Does the bbc have any credibility left after the recent revelations? TRIM / o neill predicting/hoping for income tax and property tax increases from what i heard.…

This could get interesting.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15266047/Labour-civil-war-new-deputy-leader-warns-manifesto-vow-not-hike-income-tax-kept-Left-demands-raid-wealthy-scrapping-two-child-benefit-cap.html

Guardian has it too for those not a fan of the mail

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/06/lucy-powell-says-labour-must-stand-by-promise-not-to-raise-key-taxes

Fighting against tax rises on average earners? Ffs.

Time for a run and a retreat to warm and fluffy holiday movie territory!

Oof! Watch out Starmer. 🔪's are out. 😁

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Enjoy ❤️

@NoWordForFluffy Would you allow your DS to select a subject at A-level that requires speaking? My DS refuses to speak to teachers and already I don’t feel A-levels will be the right path for him. As parents we need to aspire for our children but guide them to their strengths. I accommodate my KS3 and 4 students for their anxiety but if you actively choose to study a subject that requires speaking, I expect speaking.

Lammy has been out digging an even bigger hole for himself. He is a walking disaster.

He's now saying the accidental release took place before made the changes following Kebatu's release. Not true, he told the House changes were made and effective immediately on the 27th, this was confirmed by the MoJ, prisoners released on the 29th - 2 days later.

He's also decided that he wasn't informed of the accidental release until Wednesday morning now, despite his aides saying they had worked through the night on this issue, on Tuesday.

He now says, he wasn't shopping for a suit before PMQs on Wednesday morning, (the wearing of a just purchased suit was his excuse for the missing poppy, then being given the wrong poppy attached to the wrong lapel by Bridget Phillipson during PMQs), he bought the suit on Monday.
https://news.sky.com/story/lammy-defends-not-revealing-another-prisoner-had-been-mistakenly-released-13465137

It’s good we’ve got such a united party in power with such aligned priorities!

How exactly does Lucy Powell think the budget can be balanced?

Starmer has to be firm, if the backbenchers don't like it then there's always the IMF bailout as an option.

Will they like it?

Why does he let them hold the whole country for ransom? Starmer and Reeves relented once and didn't cut the welfare budget and here we are. Round two.

I’m sure she thinks, like the discworld tortoise, that the top 1/3 can just pay all of it.

She also wants the 2 child benefit cap scrapped in full.

This is utter madness.

I don't know. He's only Y7, so we've a while to go.

However, if a pupil is selectively mute, I'd expect all staff to have training in this and reasonable adjustments to be put in place.

Starmer would do well to stand up to his backbenchers, who do they think they are? Isn’t the idea that as an MP you rally round and support your leader rather than try and cause trouble? Many of them have tiny majorities, think they have ideas above their station.
Yes perhaps they would prefer the IMF. Hope they all get their comeuppance.

I don't think the Labour left care much about balancing the books.

I thought that within the Tories, Philip Grayling got criticised for being too much of an accountant.

I was puzzled at the time, because someone who is detailed in accounting is the person I want in charge of the economy ...seems like a really odd criticism, is it just me?

Bloody ridiculous. The BBC are so enmeshed with gender ideology that they are failing to connect with reality, let alone their license fee paying audience.

I'm sorry I don't know who Philip Grayling is? Unless you mean Chris Grayling?

I agree with your point about someone detailed in accounting, but I do think chancellors need to also be politically astute with a good understanding of business. This is Reeves's downfall imo.

Well said 👏
Lots of the papers have picked the story up now.