Labour isn't working - Thread 19

[TheNuthatch]

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

We are bracing for the budget 😬

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

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Not really their fault but of Universities, Group think and Peers !

If someone else did similar they’d chuck them on a school chart or go on about ‘far right’ but Labour and the BBC are very clear it’s ‘centre left’. Pull the other one

Absolute gaslighters

It was ever thus.

I do wonder why some people still like them.

Oh ffs! We've lost a roof tile, and its hit DH's car 🙄.

That sounds really bad!

Reckon they should tax that.

Bugger. Hope there's not too much damage.

Oh shit.
Praise the Lord you and yours were not out there when it went flying.

I don't think they do 'like them'. They're just too stubborn to admit that they were wrong imo.
Dh is on the left, as is ds, they both hate Starmer and co. There's nothing to like about Labour for the left or the right. Its just a weird cult at this point.

Don't @Legolava ..... please don't give them any ideas. @TheNuthatch clearly has a roof. And tiles. And an actual car. It lends itself to so many taxing possibilities.

No, we're all fine, but thank you.
He has only been home from work for 15 mins, parked on the drive and then we heard a bang. 🙄.
Roof and car repair to sort out tomorrow.

I'm sure the roofer and the body repair guys will accept cash 😉.

When I was at school we asked - during the run up to a GE, who do you vote for? To our class teacher. She said it didn’t really matter but also no one teaching you should ever say who they voted for as it could be influential and it’s no one’s business unless you choose to tell them anyway. I think she was trying to say; be polite to everyone, no matter how they vote; mind your own business and just stop asking - all in one ( I was 9). All fair enough. I have close friends who vote very differently quite often (and sometimes the same) and the ball and chain is MILES over to the right from me.

what she DID say, lapsing suddenly…was “I CAN tell you I’m pretty sure all your parents vote Conservative…”

Nice woman. Went on to be a prominent head at a school in the Home Counties. I do agree teachers shouldn’t say who they vote for to their impressionable pupils.

This.

plus sorry to hear that @TheNuthatchsounds annoying and expensive

DH always has and probably always will vote Labour but there’s nothing to like about the incompetence on display. He said to me the other day ‘have they only been in a year and a bit’? That’s the issue isn’t it, it already feels like an old govt that people don’t have hope in.

Not good, but as long as you're both okay that's the main thing. Hopefully, you won't need to involve your house insurers.

(Is it still stormy up north?)

Yep. Wet and windy up here! Cold too.

I wonder if this is area dependent? I’ve been teaching 25 years (3 different LEAs but all in a 12 mile radius!) and have rarely heard political discussions. I was wondering whether it was age dependent but I’m in a dept of 9 (7 are 29 and belies including my HoD and second) and they don’t even vote (or so they say).

Yeh it's pretty bad here. There's a tree down on the main road. Dd couldn't get to Manchester for her night out because theres a tree on the train line, and now our bloody roof and car. The wind is shocking.

Dh has called in a favour with a fella he knows. He's coming to sort the roof for the cost of a bacon butty. Just need to sort the car.

Hope you get everything fixed quickly (and cheaply!). Still blowing a hoolie here but think we’re over the worst. Found our gas BBQ in the middle of the back lawn though earlier and our fence panels are down but we can get those back in okay (I think).

I'm almost embarrassed to say it's currently 17C outside in my part of the South Coast - calm and positively balmy. The ceiling fan in the bedroom has been on all week. Sunday is forecast to be when it all changes and we freeze.🥶

Yes agree.
Dh has always voted Labour, but he's done with this lot. He can't stand them.
Ds if further left than dh, he was genuinely excited when Labour won the GE. He's really disappointed and I think they've actually pushed ds even further to the left.

Thanks. Fingers crossed for your fence and no more damage 🙏.

TheNuthatch · Today 21:15

I came home to Kent in April 1992 at age 19 in my first year of Politics Degree at Keele. I told my mother and father that i intended to vote for Labour and that Neil Kinnock was the right person and had the answers for the UK. I got the biggest bollocking from my mother who told me don't you ever Labour we are 'Conservative' and don't you forget it. A reverse from the normal Labour to I die mentality that Labour has now forfeited in working class towns in the North of England !

From then on in, 1997 I joined the Conservative Party, went canvasing for Neil Hamilton in Tatton against Martin Bell with all that nonsense. We moved to Essex eight years ago from Cheshire East. I left the Tory party two years ago when I could no longer stand it, I joined Reform in February after sister convinced me and went to the Conference at the NEC in Birmingham !