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.

Taxing working people to pay for the feckless and johhny foreigner is never going to win my vote

Like it or not - and I can almost hear the sharp intake of indignant breath - this is how many tax payers feel. I certainly do.
Labour and their supporters not only completely fail to see that this is a valid viewpoint, they also vilify it to the point of ‘no discussion.’

I was annoyed at the U turn on winter fuel and think the threshold should be lower and I absolutely believe the triple lock should be paused. I pay a lot of tax too and it needs to go into other areas.

Agree.

and paying crap wages against the level of housing costs increases the need for benefits. Which people don’t want.

The way to decrease the welfare bill is education and health which I think Labour are doing a good job on even if I don’t agree with all their policies and decisions.

I still very much support them, as do most of my friends. There is an element of trying to please (appease?) everyone and ending up pleasing no one, but they have so much more integrity and honesty than the Tories or the racists.

and paying crap wages against the level of housing costs increases the need for benefits. Which people don’t want

Yep housing benefit is huge here compared to other counties. Successive housing policies have fucked the economy really.

Absolutely agree.

I'm lucky enough to live in a HA property.

this allows me to have money to spend in the economy.

If I don’t I would be paying double what I pay now if which much would be covered by UC (it’s not now).Plus I’d be living hand to mouth and also unlikely to be able to give my disabled son what I do meaning his health would be worse.

people need money for a healthy lifestyle and to keep the economy rolling.

Integrity and honesty? Seriously?

Having so much money tied up in housing impacts productivity

Yes
My reasoning is that Labour broadly works for the good of all whereas the rightwing parties are more concerned the self-centred individual.
Labour = us as a nation
Tories = What I have I want to keep and not share for the common good

I'm from a farming family and I don't agree with what you are saying:

IHT has been increased to 2.5million per individual. It will have no impact on my families farm. It will impact very larger landowners and I don't see what that's such a bad thing.

The SFI wasn't removed - it was closed to.new applications?

There is no change to wood burning stoves and no threat to ban. The government have indicated a target to reduce emissions. There are already controls in place with the SCA and my understanding is that reductions come as a result of more efficient stoves, burning correct fuel etc. I fail to see why this is an issue.

Trail hunt ban - again see no problem here. We have very little to do with the hunt except that they use our land sometimes. It is hardly an accessible activity and even in our very rural area it is not a large part of anyone's life that I know. Hunting is a sport for rich people.

Animal housing - are you talking about the animal welfare bill? Literally no issue with that either. Would definitely rather not have cheap imported meat but my perception of Farage is that he'd sell his own granny - he doesn't believe in protecting British markets and I have no doubt we'd get American beef pumped full of hormones selling British farmers down the river.

Well they did everything I feared they would so far

I can’t stand KS them and would never vote for them/ him he’s a wet puffy puddle of shit
like most of his cabinet

I dislike his very authoritarian way

dislike how he says one thing then will do the opposite . He has no strength at all .

along with the lifting of the 2 child benefit cap
attempting to bring in digital Id which was never in the manifesto at all as far as I can tell.

immigration

and slowly trying to get back into the EU by stealth.

Can’t stand him or labour and can’t wait till they fuck off

I didn't vote for them, but I did think they would be better than they have been.

The pointless spite of some of their policies achieved nothing and is so devisive
The horrendous levels of stress and the suicides caused by the family farm tax, only to be reviewed later. If only they'd bothered to think about the impact first.
The same with their procrastination over the autumn statement, spooking businesses, damaging sales pipelines, causing redundancies. Scaring those on PIP.

The govt is ignorant and incompetent. I'll be pleased to be rid of them. The difficulty is who is likely to replace them. 🙁

No. I won’t be voting for them again in the near future.

Where would you like people to live?

Err what’s the alternative that would realistically get voted in ?

I saw zero evidence of Labour = us as a nation in the last budget.

I will not be voting for them, but I have no idea who I will vote for. As I understand it, this forum is traditionally left leaning. I may try tactical voting to get rid of our Labour MP but at the moment it is difficult to know who I would have to vote for to do just that.

From YouGov, the picture is as follows though polls can be wrong.

Voting intention: Ref 27%, Lab 19%, Con 18% (7-8 Dec 2025)

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/53692-voting-intention-ref-27-lab-19-con-18-7-8-dec-2025

I think they are the worst government in my living history and nothing in my newsfeed convinces me otherwise. History will not be kind re. this UK chapter.

IHT has been increased to 2.5million per individual. It will have no impact on my families farm. It will impact very larger landowners and I don't see what that's such a bad thing.

Well that’s great for you. But depending where you are in the country £2.5m doesn’t buy much of a productive farm. It will very much not be ‘larger landowners’ and even when it is those, why is that not a bad thing? Estates who are cash poor but employ dozens of people and have dozens of tenants should be broken up and sold for corporate carbon capture should they?

The SFI wasn't removed - it was closed to.newapplications?

….which is exactly the same thing? It literally happened overnight with zero warning.

There is no change to wood burning stoves and no threat to ban

Thats just false.

Trail hunt ban - again see no problem here. We have very little to do with the hunt except that they use our land sometimes. It is hardly an accessible activity and even in our very rural area it is not a large part of anyone's life that I know. Hunting is a sport for rich people.

Trail hunting is very accessible in the countryside. £10 for children and free for foot followers. Literally all walks of life out, just look at all the Boxing Day videos. But then, you openly admit you have nothing to do with it so obviously you wouldn’t know that.

Animal housing - are you talking about the animal welfare bill? Literally no issue with that either

I can only conclude that you are one of those people who says on SM ‘I’m a farmer’ but really has a few hens and pet lambs on 10 acres and literally no skin in the game.

A few months ago I would have been more polite. But just nope now.

I'd support them over the Tories and/or Reform any day.

I think the problem is that people want instant fixes and are mostly just too thick to understand that that isn't possible. It takes time and Rome wasn't built in a day.

People also want a fully reformed, recovered and working NHS but don't seem to appreciate that this will take time too (years to train the right people) and will cost money. A lot of money. Money that will have to come from more taxation, but they continue to want taxes cut and something for nothing.

To be fair though, politicians from all parties often turn into their own worst enemies over this come election time. All try to promise to fix the NHS or the education system without resorting to raising taxes. When in office, almost all find that they do have to raise taxes one way or another.

Back in the EU👏👏👏👏

I think the problem is that people want instant fixes and are just too thick to understand that that isn't possible. It takes time and Rome wasn't built in a day.
People also want a fully reformed, recovered and working NHS but don't seem to appreciate that this will cost money. A lot of money. Money that will have to come from more taxation, but they want taxes cut and something for nothing

People want great public services, low immigration and low taxes. This utopia doesn’t exist

Perhaps all those thick people would prefer to see the economy growing too rather than resorting to ever increasing taxes.

I'd vote for anyone who aligned us more closely with the EU. I'd like that, with a view to rejoining it in the future. Leaving was a ridiculous act of self harm.