Does anyone still support this Labour government?

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I know NO ONE in real life who still sticks up for them (apart from my mother, and she would support Labour even if KS owned up to creating Covid). Apart from that, all quiet on the western front.

I haven’t seen any support on here, or SM for weeks now.

Is it my algorithm bubble, or are people genuinely disappointed with them? I don’t think it can be the algorithms though, as until a few weeks ago there were still words of support popping up.

For full disclosure I think this government is a total shitshow intent on dismantling British culture, and taxing the private sector to death in order to pay for the public sector. With no long term plan once the private sector is squeezed totally dry. I am BEYOND disappointed with them.

I suppose they would cater for centrists but I don’t think I know anybody who is in the centre of the political spectrum anymore, only right and left.

I think i’m a centrist or at least I’m more right on some things & left on others. I feel politically homeless tbh.

I agree with that.

Because usually as soon as anyone mentions policies that horribly impact farming and the rural economy, the response is ‘well they need taxing, they’re rich.’

I’m disappointed. But not as disappointed as I would be by any of the others-and also I am aware that there are no quick fixes. So yes, I do still support them.

Re 'the last point especially'
"And not least, their all-out war on rural Britain."
... examples of the all - out war please? Aside from the inheritance tax threshold for farms being set at 2.5million (per individual)

There never have been quick fixes. There were none in 1979 or after Brown’s lamentable performance, and none in the face of Covid. The important thing for a new government is not to make things even worse, which Starmer’s doing at full speed.

This government’s disillusioned all but its very few hardcore supporters because it’s turned out to have lied its way into office and to be a shitty combination of being personally greedy, dishonest, unprincipled and incompetent. They make the Tories look quite good, frankly.

Ending the 2 child benefit cap finished them for me.

How long have you got??

IHT is a huge one which will have a massive impact on everyone. As tenant farmers, when our landlord passes on to the next generation it will probably mean them having to sell. We can’t buy it, so that’s probably us out of farming. There’s no security in our futures anymore.

One of the first things they did was to cancel the SFI grant scheme instantly with no warning. This has had a huge impact on not only farms, but the rural UK businesses who carried out the work. It was a proper ‘rug from under the feet’ moment.

Threatening to ban log burners.

The TRAIL hunt ban - a legal activity which provides jobs, income and most importantly, the opportunity and framework for farmers to meet every weekend over the dark winter months.

Setting incredibly costly animal housing and management targets, whilst still allowing meat from places like Thailand with dreadful animal welfare practices to come in and undercut us.

I could go on, and Iwill later when I get chance.

I never did. I've only 'supported' a party if it was the least bad of the bunch, but then slowly realised they're all sides to the same pile of poop and that we're not voting our way out of this mess. The rot in government has to be broken up from the inside, not through a ballot box.

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Polanski is awful - their economic policies are student politics / class war. What happened to the badly dressed veggies who cared about the environment?

I continue to support them and don’t understand why some of the much needed legislation they have brought in is not being more widely acclaimed. The increase in minimum wage , employment legislation, changes to landlord and tenant law and animal welfare are all very important to me. I’m optimistic there will be improvements by in the NHS. Our local MP is doing a very good job and speaks frequently in parliament and does a lot of constituency work. All good. I think if they could be more effective on immigration they would be more popular.

I guess senior executives and shareholders in the arms industry and private healthcare industries do. After all, they own ‘Labour’ now.

Absolute nonsense - I thought checks Daily Telegraph and Mail they were in thrall to their evil trade union overlords. Both cannot be correct. Which is it?

There's a few posters saying they've done good things that the media hasn't talked about

Please could you share what things they are?

@blankcanvas3 with you voting Green, please could I ask what you think the pluses are? And how you see society changing when all drugs are legal. (I totally get that point in theory, in practice, I think it would be a bad thing unfortunately).

I do. Not uncritically, though.

Increasing minimum wage above inflation has hugely contributed to the employment market slump.

No I don't support them. They have caused my daughter to close her business because of their economic policies

Nope. I voted for them and I am appalled at what they have done so far. The only way forward is to get rid of Starmer and start again with a new Labour leader with real Labour values.

But salaries have been eroded for years & minimum wage didn’t keep pace with inflation every year.
Low wages are not the route to economic growth.

I'm a fan of the Employment Rights Act (I work in the field).

The Rwanda plan was billions of dollars£a for 200 people reciprocal agreement.

We have no evidence it would deter people as people knew once they had exchanged the 200 people they wouldn’t be sent offshore for processing.

The increase in minimum wage , employment legislation, changes to landlord and tenant law and animal welfare are all very important to me

Some see this as an attack on them though.

Yes, me.

I'm disappointed they caved on the winter fuel allowance and now on inheritance tax for farmers. And the 2 child benefit cap. But other than that yes I support them.