To feel so upset about the government censorship?

[Utterlydisillusioned]

This has just appeared in my news feed and I feel so upset and disillusioned. I was a labour voter, thinking we voted the bad guys out but I'm now really scared about what we've let in...what on earth have we done...? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/08/17/education-secretary-bridget-phillipson-private-school-tax-r/

In a few weeks, they've already managed to upset most pensioners and thousands of working-class people, who now feel effectively silenced when it comes to questioning or protesting large-scale immigration. The dispersal of up to 70,000 asylum seekers into private or council accommodation will see rents rise and waiting lists burgeon. I really am worried about the next five years; we could end up with a housing crisis on the scale of Ireland's.

So we need to build lots of lovely affordable housing as the solution ? I am all for that, as I am sure you are too ? No point in letting developers build 5 executive homes when they could build 20 affordable ones instead ? A Government with a large majority could bring in legislation that could mean that this is achievable ?

OP, why is it okay that mostly-Tory politicians have been doing this for years but, once a Labour MP is reported to have done it, you're trembling with fear?

So if they were still on the page you originally saw them when you went back, how have they been ‘censored’ by deletion? Have the screenshots been posted to another page?

Well if that’s the best you’ve got…

What, report it, so its removed? So, censored, you mean? The comment didn't break talk guidelines as the poster clearly said 'generic you' so suggesting it's reported can only be to censor it. I'm very very very upset that you'd suggest that OP.

Labour's "thumping majority" was 34%. Yet SKS tried for years to overturn the Brexit 52% as he felt 52% wasn't substantial enough. SKS is a hypocrite. Oddly most Labour voters are anti-Brexit yet are delighted with a "thumping" 34% but decry a 52%.

Brexit was largely working class people protesting at their pay being undermined by an influx of cheaper foreign workers. Since Labour got in they are doing their best to punish the working class by doing things that disproportionately affect the working class: Letting 10,000 criminals out back into their neighbourhoods, Illegal immigrants fast tracked (aka just a rubber stamping exercise) that will put pressure on working class housing etc.... even VAT on private school fees (which I agree with in principle if introduced in a considered way which will be beyond the wit of a Labour politician driven by spite) will cause class sizes to increase even further. Oh and sentences for white working class rioters will / are exceeding those typically seen before as SKS is determined to punish them severely.

Yes of course Labour will be an authoritarian nightmare, they have already talked about banning twix (like China and other similar countries). They are the sort of people Orwell wrote 1984 about (and they will be even more incompetent than the Tories). They got a massive majority on a very small vote (20% ofvoting public, 9.5m historically very low) but will make no effort to bring the country together and already dividing us further. Starmers popularity has plummeted to 6%. A disaster.

I taught it every year for years. Still voted Labour.

My local council have always hid comments on Facebook, I can see there might be 50 comments, but can only read 2 even when I click the option to read all. I always think they’re trying to hide something when they do it.

Scared??
That's a rather extreme state to be in. As scared as someone in a war zone? As scared as someone in a dictatorship?

I’m just quoting this in the hope that it appearing twice makes it harder for OP to ignore.

It isn’t that 52% wasn’t enough, it’s the margin that wasn’t wide enough. It is usually stipulated that referenda need a certain percentage majority to win, and for such a huge and permanent decision that had such a huge impact on the country, there should have been a wider margin. General elections are completely different, if you don’t like a government, you get to vote them out every five years. It always amuses me that people can’t understand things like that. The two things are not comparable.

Well explain how posting something at the request of the OP, something I simply went on to another page to retrieve and share here makes anyone a prat.

Yes, as someone is the country clearly heading for dictatorship

It's telling how she / he was unable to argue with the content of the posts...

Oh and sentences for white working class rioters will / are exceeding those typically seen before as SKS is determined to punish them severely

you do realised Keir Starmer doesn’t sentence people don’t you? It’s an independent court system as it always has been.

Yes, as someone is the country clearly heading for dictatorship

you’ve jumped the shark here op. You voted Labour but because one minister has removed some FB comments you’re ’genuinely scared’ we’re going to be living in a dictatorship?

Where is the money coming from to build these thousands of houses? I thought most councils in GB were skint? How on earth is central govt going to fund such ambitious building programs?

This is funny!

If you are 'in' the media sector, you'd know something like this doesn't need evidence and you'd know which papers are biased in which direction. You wouldn't be framing your own views based on a piece like this.

Why does no one understand tactical voting…

Wilful ignorance?

People are absolutely free to question and express objections. I can think of 10 better, more effective ways to do that right now off the top of my head, other than leaving bloody Facebook comments.

Deleting a Facebook comment is not removing your human rights.

its always been there in one way or another google edward Bernays and what he achieved etc all that is different is the technology

You don't actually believe that, surely.

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Again, the original writer of the screenshot looks a self-important prat for the reasons I’ve already outlined. Twice.