Labour isn't working - Thread 24

[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.

Previous thread.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5454130-labour-isnt-working-thread-23?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

Do not want the Public emboldened.

Good point.

I look at X / Twitter but I don’t post. There is a lot of shit on there … but also some interesting stuff (like videos of the stuff in Iran).

Morning all.

Time are reporting that over 200 protesters have been killed. Figures from a doctor quoting deaths from 6 hospitals.
https://time.com/7345092/iran-protests-death-toll-regime-crackdown/

It's not good:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15450611/Friends-Tehran-tell-theyve-never-seen-like-writes-DAVID-PATRIKARAKOS-revolt-momentous-Starmer-BBC-near-silence.html

Starmer has made a statement on Iran hasn't he? The BBC has been covering the protests for 10/11 days.

Awful. I hope they succeed and prosper. It feels like the moment I hope it is.

To clarify my last comment, I was referring to the violence and casualties, not the motivation of the protestors.

Of course. No need to explain.
Thanks for the DM article. It was moving to read. I really hope this is finally 'it'.

Not much confidence in anything from BBC.
On the C other topic, I had barely heard of Grok before this week.
Just signed up today (not for the nude images) and happy with the great things I’ ve asked it.
Going to be more active on X too and follow more of the decent people.

Please ignore ski weather image /only intended to post the other one…

God those people are so strong I was talking to my second mum yesterday about this. I would have been 5 she would have been 28 when Iran was taken over these people my age 58 and hers 83 are demonstrating now what bloody strength !!! Starmer will need to climb down over digital id he’s a morin.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/09/the-bbc-iran-coverage-poor/

This

The bigger coverage is recent, for the last couple of days or so.

Not just the BBC, it was very light across the board.

This speaks for everything that is wrong with this 'regime' .

Eton College were building and funding a State School in Middlesbrough this was granted approval in 2023 but scrapped as being elitist by this 'regime' . Andy Mcdonald states (hard left Mp is the Middlesbrough and Thornby East)

Hopefully, this dinosaur and hope destroyer will be gone soon !

Labour denies Middlesbrough pupils free Eton-backed education (msn.com)

I also thought the coverage was sparse. Given the implications for the Middle East, Iran’s financing and direction of terror, the future of Gaza and so on, and - as a side issue - the connections between Iran and Venezuela, I was surprised there was so little from the broadcasters. Not none, but relatively little.

In fairness, Iranian revolt is a difficult one to judge. The regime is so awful and so brutal, and the anti-regime feeling in Iran is so complex, there have been numerous uprisings that have fallen away. Something in my bones tells me this is different, but difficult to know.

I hope the US does intervene. The world needs the crazy mullahs like it needs a hole in the head. But intervention would have to be very carefully done. Promoting insurgency would be much better than bombing.

OH friends husband is a Middlesbrough boy. Rabid left held opinions, he's very wealthy now but after a few drinks raging against anyone right of centre. We've drifted away because of his politics. Champagne socialism is very tiresome.

Andrew Neil discusses the almost non-existent defence budget and explains how Starmer and Reeves are putting this country at a very real risk.

https://archive.ph/hooVe

No money left now, all gone on welfare.

The same level of coverage given to Israel and Palestine?
Nowhere near.

You will not see people frothing at the mouths on MN about Khomeini’s tyranny.

Yup - and none of whom would be willing to fulfill their obligations to King and country.

You will not see people frothing at the mouths on MN about Khomeini’s tyranny.

No Jews, no news - and no protests. That’s the left’s way.

That’s it - their way or no way. They inhabit a parallel dimension.

Europe leaders are perhaps keeping a low profile because of the Muslim population. Having told us to welcome Muslims we're witnessing a country attempting to dismantle the religion. They're burning mosques.

A Labour council has been accused of building “socialist speed bumps” that scrape high-performance and luxury family cars.

Residents on an affluent street in Lewisham, south-east London, say the local authority has installed sleeping policemen that are prone to damaging the undercarriages of expensive private vehicles.

Motorists in Blackheath have even produced their own engineering report, which claims that 12 out of a sample of 15 new speed bumps breach Lewisham council’s recommended height limit. The council, however, insists they all meet national guidelines.

The local authority installed the speed bumps a few months ago in an attempt to stop drivers exceeding 20mph speed limits imposed on Lee Terrace and Belmont Hill.

The council has received numerous complaints that they are too high and the undercarriages of a variety of cars are being grazed.

The residents’ report claims the council’s “own standards” dictate that a speed bump should not be any higher than 80mm. But five of the 12 cushions they measured appeared to be between 100mm and 105mm high.