To ask what you expect from Labour when/if they win the election?

[Welovecrumpets]

Just curious. I’ll be voting for them reluctantly but I’m not really sure what can or will be done about the state of the country. It seems we’re skint so they’ll just have to tinker around the edges.

Not much, they're all still looking out for themselves.

First sentence spot on. Lots and lots of box ticking.

I expect them to take all my cash basically. Tax on my home, tax on my savings, tax on my pension, tax on the kids school fees and even more tax on my income. I might as well just hand 100% of my salary over to HMRC the day they win the election.

A complete disregard for women's rights

This is a BIG worry for me too, especially with a teenage daughter. The pushback against men in women's sports/toilets/changing rooms needs to be HUGE! We are at risk of losing everything women of the past have fought for.

I hope to God they do.

Dreading it. Higher taxes, and they’re proposing ridiculous employment laws.

Higher taxes
Higher school fees
NHS breakdown
Many many years of recession
Global organisations and talent being driven away
Women's right being eroded
Lower defence spends leading to volatile geopolitics

And this.

I’m really worried. I feel like they’re going to crush us middle earners while also painting us as bigots to appease students, and spend any remaining money on concessions to keep the vote.

To sort social care out, and not penalise people with savings who go into care.
To sort out the migrant situation by speeding up processing, and setting a limit on the number of asylum seekers allowed in the U.K.
To overhaul the benefits system, so no one is better off on unemployment benefits than working, and overhaul the pension credits system

I expect women rights to go back 100 years if Labour get in. I'm terrified for children as their protections will be stripped away too so some children with mental health issues will be put on a pathway to "change gender".

I've never been as concerned about a change of government- and I know the Conservatives have massive issues - but we do have some strong women in them and the tories do seem to know what a woman is and realise protection of children is paramount.

Tbh that reads like a Conservative manifesto, that just isn’t what Labour are about. Curbing welfare, limiting asylum seekers, allowing wealthy pensioners to have free care. They’d never get that through

I’m not fussed about this. I live in Scotland and we pay £700+ more a month in tax for the privilege of living here. I can’t see our taxes going up any higher.

Nothing.. they never did anything good in the past. Don't expect it in the future if they do win.

I didn’t say free care! It should be fairer, especially as someone who has put nothing in the pot gets the same care as someone who is overcharged to make up the shortfall from the amount the council pay towards care.
The welfare situation needs an overhaul- there isn’t unlimited money in the Pot! Immigration is a huge problem, the present s cannot be allowed to carry on! Has Labour suddenly found trillions down theback of the sofa? If Starmer doesn’t sort these things out Labour won’t last long, as the things I mentioned are high priority on the list of many!

Sometimes it’s better the devil you know!

You should vote Tory if you want those things, that’s not a labour manifesto.

What would you expect Labour to do, then, if they don’t sort the things I’ve mentioned, they’ll soon be out!

Things will continue just the same with Labour blaming the outgoing Tories for all their problems for the next ten years.

Mostly this - I think we'll end up with higher taxes whatever as so many service have been cut to the bone at same time facing higher burden of use.

I'm highly pessimistic of what a labour government will be able to achieve. I think that they will adopt a sympathetic head tilt and a rhetoric of caring but impotent to achieve anything different or useful within this economic climate.

Meanwhile we'll see a march of social progressivism to give the illusion of 'doing something' with the disastrous consequences on women's rights, safeguarding, freedom of speech and everything else it touches. See Canada. And with the landslide win predicted the opposition parties won't be able to mount an effective challenge.

So yeah, fun times ahead. What's worrying is that their own supporters don't seem to expect much more from them than I do.

I’m really surprised I thought there was a lot of support for labour on here. Perhaps I confused it with hate for tories?

It'd be nice to see a return to Britain under the Blair years.

Things just seemed to work and there seemed like a lot more optimism and hope in the country.

I fear the Tories have been following a scorched earth policy.

People will expect Labour to fix everything on day one and when they cant as there is zero money and the Tories have taken UK debt from around £1 trillion in 2010 to almost £3 trillion in the space of 14 years (Where the fuck has the money gone?!?!?!), the Tories will get in again and win IMO, at least 2 consecutive terms.

I'm expecting more of the same but hopefully with a little more integrity and honesty. Austerity, high taxes and tough times.

This terrifies me too.

People are fed up with the Tories because of their failure to sort immigration m social care and the benefits system. If Labour is not going to address those things as a matter of priority they won’t last long!