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.

I expect that the circus will have left town, the revolving doors of PMs closed, and some boring sober government in No 10.

Hallelujah.

Why weren't we told this before the Brexit referendum?
It might have changed the way I voted.

Nobody has been aggressive; you have had a misunderstanding pointed out to you, that is all.
Probably best to wait until you grasp the facts before you climb on the soapbox.

I didn't misunderstand at all. I do understand the facts. But I still really don't care that much.

There is considerable evidence that Labour has won the London mayoral election, the remaining question appears to be whether it is with the biggest mandate ever in the election.
Here is to looking forward to the mayor continuing to make changes to that great city that benefit those that live there.

Well I can certainly agree with the last bit. Maybe some intelligent civil servants can explain their policy to them once they’re in government. God what a job.

I’d say your points being contested isn’t ‘aggression’ and you’re still not making correct claims about the tax under EU law. Obviously if are loyal to Labour you’re not going to change, it doesn’t mean people can’t correct claims.

The delight some adults get at dc being moved is not a good look. The whole policy is poor for various reasons, many put on other threads.

The current thread is wild.

They've now moved on to defending non-doms!

With the same old politics of envy tropes.

The proof will be in the pudding I guess. I'm more interested in what happens with the NHS.

She appears to believe that parents should have planned for something which was until recently a legal impossibility. Because that’s « judicious », apparently. Too funny.

Yes, you do right to back away from this one 😂

Isn’t it more that the Suffragettes campaigned for women’s right to vote? Si a woman would have the right to vote should she wish to do so. Should she make that choice. They didn’t campaign for women to be forced to do something.

Judging by this thread, I think there is going to be a lot of disappointed people if Labour win the next election.
It's as if everything the Tories do is wrong and everything Labour do is right. Even Angela Rayner is given a free pass for tax dodging, which would never happen if she was an evil Tory.
I'm old enough to have lived under both parties and I can't say there is any discernible difference to most people's day-to-day lives regardless of who is in power.
I can remember driving home on the day Tony Blair won the election and there was a real feeling that things were changing - but they didn't.
What I do find pathetic and childish is the constant jibes about 'helping their friends', millionaires (see Starmer), privileged and hating 'poor people'.
Just the other day there was a thread about when the election will be, with the op quite seriously saying it would be based on school terms so Tory MPs would get more time without paying VAT on school fees. That is so simplistic and childish it's unbelievable tbh, quite aside from the fact that many Labour MPs will also have children in private school (but that's OK because caring).
Added to this is the notion that people who vote Labour care and those that vote Conservative don't. I do wonder if people's critical thinking stayed in the classroom when they left school.
I am up to now a Conservative voter. I can take sensible criticism, but am not interested in pathetic arguments about eg the price of Theresa May's trousers when it's more than likely Harriet Harman has some pretty pricy garb also.
I cannot stand hypocrisy.

I get absolutely no laughs from children, or indeed anyone suffering, thank you. As I said in a previous post, I want a fairer society for all. Not just advantages for those dc whose parents can afford to pay for them. What about children who are struggling in state schools (I'm a teacher btw) because of funding cuts (in real terms) and whose parents can't afford to go private? You may not laugh about it but if you're not voting to get the Tories out you're doing fuck all about it . So think about that next time you accuse me of not caring about 'dc'.

Of course they should have built in contingency for fee increases over and above inflation. It is common sense if you are embarking on a thirteen year commitment. If they had been really forward looking, they could have looked at NPVs and ROI % too and they would most probably have opted for buying a nice house in catchment. If they were lucky enough to have that choice, of course. If you haven't assessed the fees, then tough.

There have been some quite funny posts but the bold part is a good one for comedy value.

Exactly

And calling me and others 'spiteful and unpleasant' when you've come onto a thread on a fantastic day for Labour to basically piss all over people's hopes for the future is a bit rich really. People saying they expect a fairer society or words to that effect are met with crying laughing emojis on this thread, very pleasant and not at all spiteful.

More of the same

come onto a thread on a fantastic day for Labour

You can’t read a thread like this on such a day? That is quite funny too. You know there is a hide option if it’s too much.

Because as I have stated previously it would cost us 150K+ to do that whereas it will cost around 75K for 5 years of private school. Also using our money to buy a house in a better catchment area is taking that school place away from another child. It is still buying privilege, just a more socially acceptable way of doing so.

Inflation isn't 10% fee rise plus 20% VAT is it though? Of course we budgeted for annual fee rises of between 7-10% but no we didn't budget VAT in the same way that mortgage holders didn't budget for sharp hikes in interest rates. We have only ever thought of private from Yr7-11 and use state either side of that.

Are you aware of the thread title? Were you hoping people would give exclusively warm and fuzzy answers so you could convince yourself that others aren't worried about a future under a Labour government.

And I have to tell you, I'm not particularly cheered by the number of Labour supporters who seem to be in two crazy camps of 1) can't wait for the 90s to happen all over again and 2) don't care if Labour do anything materially different to the Tories at all.

This ^^

Why be so cynical, it’s not realism or even rationalism as the list of Conservative incompetencies over the last 14 years would be enough to fill the pages of this whole thread! It is all very well suggesting you are not a Conservative voter or even Tory HQ but you certainly do come across like you are desperately hanging on for their victory just like they are!