Are you glad you voted Labour ?

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Sir Keir is firmly in his new seat and appears to be making waves... winter fuel, VAT on private school fees, UEFA watchdog type scenario, budgets... increase in CGT, 20% increase for Jr doctors, immigration learnings from Italy to pay other countries to take Immigrants and that's only what I briefly followed.
So my question is - are you still glad you voted Labour, or that they are in Power if you didn't? And what if you are not happy anymore - why ?
I'm on the fence so trying to be objective ;-)

Honestly, I think all politicians despise the general public. Or at least most of them.

Very.

And every single daily post by the Tory bots makes me gladder. I'm so bored by all this crap. It's pathetic.

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I hope you only stick to mn, there's plenty more dislike out there

Very glad, even though the increase in CGT will affect me. My politics isn't about pure selfishness and greed.

Golly, another goady anti-Labour post by someone with no posting history. Whatever next?

Apologies for not RTFT as this thought may not be original.

Labour are supposed to be for working people. Not layabouts and malingerers.

ANd working people can be all sorts, even people who own companies. DH would be a retired person, but he wants the company he started to continue so he still works... and will do so until he sorts out an exit plan that keeps it working.

Whatever next? More goody threads by someone with no posting history. Day after day after day 🥱

The difference between people's views in the real world and the loudest voices on mumsnet on a range of issues can be striking!

yep looking at these threads and Labour posters belief everyone is a 'bot' is striking

Must include the polls, media and commentary

Absolutely not. If I could go back and change my vote to an independent would. I feel very angry that we were blatantly lied to during the election and now in power we see Labour’s rank hypocrisy. We have replaced one lot of greedy liars with another.

we were blatantly lied to during the election

We certainly were lied to by some politicians. Anyone who believed the lie that we were going to get tax cuts was very credulous. What lies did this government tell us?

Well, Suella Braverman is no longer in office.

I’m to the left of Starmer so not a fan, and I think they’ve handled a lot of things pretty badly and had awful communications. I might well vote green next time. But everything bad they do would have been absolutely dwarfed by the Tories, who were racking up atrocities weekly, so I’d take “underwhelming and mediocre” over “completely evil.”

I’m struggling to get worked up about some Arsenal tickets in the context of Michelle Mone’s £200,000,000.

Quite. Two things to share.
https://news.sky.com/story/kemi-badenoch-defends-mps-taking-freebies-as-way-to-spend-time-with-family-13220838

Badenoch justifying her own "hospitality" (at Ed Sheeran gigs) while accusing Labour of Hypocrisy

Lammy holding Putin directly to account at the UN.

Am I happy I voted Labour? Absolutely I am. Head and shoulders above the opposition. I wish the media would report on the big stuff as opposed to froth about dresses.

Ooh where do we start @Blossomtoes - so much to choose from! Supporting business and fiscal responsibility (reality - talking down and damaging our economy in doing so), broadest shoulders bullshit (reality is taking from pensioners to give to train drivers and other favoured groups who vote for them), the dishonesty and hypocrisy of their snouts in trough behaviour - flats in London! Flats in NY! Designer clothes! Glasses! Who knows what else. Oh what a delight to be a labour PM or cabinet minister with all those lovely luxurious freebies you can hoover up.

They are absolutely sickening and yes, I bitterly regret trusting them with my vote.

Based on the above "reality is taking from pensioners to give to train drivers and other favoured groups who vote for them" I'm really surprised you ever voted for a socialist party. Supporting workers rights is literally their raison d'etre.

Absolutely idiotic to say “snouts in the trough” without specifying which trough. Because gifts from rich peers is not the same as public money, which Tories took millions of. And Lord Alli has been a Labour peer since 1998 so he wasn’t exactly buying influence either.

I’m glad I didn't vote Labour and I’m glad I have no illusions in them. Certainly do not want the repulsive Tories back though

But it’s the optics of snouts in the trough. Something for nothing. Not living in the real world

It’s amazing how the red top language has emerged with a change of government. “Snouts in the troughs” never once made an appearance when politicians’ friends were siphoning off tens of millions of taxpayers’ money now it’s back with a vengeance. I think I saw a “gravy train” the other day.

Incidentally I’m still waiting to hear about the alleged lies @Babadookinthewardrobe.

You have been alive and sentient for the last 14 years?

Agreed. Labour, Tory, Liberal Democrats, Farages gang... none of them care about joe bloggs. Just line their own pockets and tax the working people.

Remember the MP expenses scandal? People who claimed 80p for a kit-kat were getting it in the neck just as much as people fraudulently claiming hundreds of thousands in 'mortgage costs' for houses which they owned outright. It was all rolled up as being "the same". But it clearly isn't. That's where "they're all as bad as each other" gets you. Lazy, lazy thinking.

If I had voted for this collection of self-serving clowns, I'd be too embarrassed to admit it.