Labour isn't working - Thread 23

[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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Someone knew that message was set to be sent. They should've stopped it.

A hero undeed.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15382381/Bondi-Beach-video-hero-good-samaritan-terror.html

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He's incredibly brave. The videos of the shooters are absolutely chilling. Its awful.

The left are falling around the world, thankfully.

Chile’s conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast secured a victory in the presidential election on Sunday, defeating the candidate of the centre-left governing coalition and setting the stage for the country’s most right-wing government in 35 years of democracy.

Kast won 58.2 per cent of the votes as Chileans overwhelmingly embraced his pledge to crack down on increased crime, deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status and revive the sluggish economy of one of Latin America’s most stable and prosperous nations.

OMG, Animal farm has been remade in animated form as socialist propaganda!

The farm animals finally overthrow the pigs - who had been corrupted from true communism by Bad Foreign Capitalists (who drive a vehicle similar to Elon Musk's) - and live happily ever after in the communist utopia which never was.

All satire and political commentary removed - except as an unintentional example of how socialists lie and corrupt.

Good morning 🎄

Andrew Gwynne has said that he has 'no plans' to stand aside to allow Burnham to stand. Let's see how long that lasts.

Starmer is facing the liaison committee later today. Should be interesting.

To all those who need them after yesterday's awful events. ❤️

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/14/labour-mp-andrew-gwynne-no-plans-to-give-up-seat-andy-burnham-keir-starmer

The left are falling around the world, thankfully.

Looking forward to the UK following suit. Tick tock Starmer.

Unemployment figures due this week expected to show another rise to 5.1%.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/15/young-people-bearing-brunt-of-uk-jobs-downturn-thinktank-warns

Good morning.

More vilification for Starmer:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15384435/Keir-Starmer-Labour-revolt-minister-reshuffle-PM-Rayner-Streeting-Burnham.html

Morning all, some new insights on how people are feeling about job security and household finances. Spoiler alert, it's not more money in their pocket or feeling like things are going well in the jobs market.

Saw Jamie Oliver on insta being interviewed about the breakfasts - saying that any food better than no food, but that without decent standards poor quality being delivered. It’s hardly a shock is it? What’s wrong with Labour that they couldn’t anticipate that.

Yeah, a bit of soggy toast is hardly the breakfast of champions, is it? And this idea that breakfast clubs are capturing the children whose parents cannot be arsed to feed them, is ridiculous.

Don't know about you, but I read that as a man trying desperately to distance himself from Starmer to save his own arse at the next election.
His wife was furious? Really? 🙄

No surprises there. Well, perhaps Starmer and Reeves would be surprised, but the rest of us could see it coming from space as soon as Reeves delivered their first budget.

If I hear a Labour mouthpiece banging on about these breakfast clubs one more time, I might scream.
They took something that already worked well, and smashed it to smithereens.
Agree with Upstartled, the parents who don't feed their kids aren't going to breakfast clubs. They never have and never will.

His wife was furious? 🤣 That's hilarious, I wonder why he thought that nugget was useful?

From that article the Resolution Foundation is clearly laying the blame for youth unemployment on lack of jobs, rather than an unwillingness / inability to work. Rather shows how laughable the government’s suggestion of just training young people in certain roles (eg hospitality) to help them is.

My biz is strongly linked to hospitality. We all predicted that this was going to happen after the last budget and yet they still hammered the sector even harder with this budget! I dread to think how many pubs and restaurants etc will close in the new year.

I loathed Labour before they got in power, but hadn’t imagined that even they could so much damage in so short a time! Even my left leaning friends can see the impact of their policies.

That’s it it’s all they have. Breakfast clubs. Forget jobs, growth and the pre GE lines. MPs have to cling to something to be able to speak about Labour.

That soggy toast is doing some heavy political lifting.

Literally says everything you need to know about this government - the only person they think can save them isn’t even an MP. They won’t let him run anyhow because they won’t want the mayorship going to reform.

It’s all so tiresome - bad ideas, not listening to experts in the area they’re charging into, crowing about results most of can see aren’t improving outcomes…

There seems to be no consideration of the downstream effects of the policies that they implement - especially around financially policy. You'd think that would be as easy as breathing for a chess champ economist chancellor.😙

Hard agree.
Good luck with your business. Its tough out there. I think your prediction of lots of hospitality businesses going under in the next few months is spot on.
I too knew that Labour would be appalling, but I also didn't see this coming. Our business has already gone under. Labour hate SMEs.

Yep. Its their only 'achievement' to date. Except its a failure, and everyone who has dc, or works in education knows it.