Labour voters - do you regret voting for them?

[MeadowL]

They got off to a really bad start and it's just gone downhill ever since. Within a couple of weeks we practically had martial law, we've had riots you name it. Law and order has completely broken down. They've cut the pensioners fuel allowance and all the while they've had their snouts in the trough. 2 tier Keir approval rating has fallen off a cliff - the country has had enough already lol.

Aibu to think that those who voted them in should apologise.

I voted independent as I have major issues with some of their policies and also their actions towards the likes of Diane Abbott etc. However, I believe they are better than the shitshow that ran before them.... which to be fair wouldn't be difficult!!!

That’s hilarious, I didn’t spot that!

Let’s home and pray we never have a reason for martial law to be declared in this country.

Here you go OP, this is the thread from last week - latest post was a whole 40 minutes before you started this one.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5167004-are-you-glad-you-voted-labour?

Jesus no. Don’t you remember what that previous shower of twats were like? Their utter, utter, contempt for the electorate. Having Dominic Cummings basically in charge of the country until he got the sack for calling Johnson’s girlfriend Princess Nutnuts? Parties during covid? Proroguing parliament? Getting us literally the shittest Brexit deal it was possible to got? That haunted pencil pretending to sleep during an important debate? Using taxpayers money to build a duck house on a lake and put central heating in the stables? Michelle Mone and her massive yacht paid for with the £28m proceeds of a government contract to supply unusable PPE , even though she had never had anything to do with PPE? Utter utter fuckery. The lot of them should be strung up. How they’re not in jail is beyond me. Things got so bad I was starting to respect Theresa by the end of it.

I didn't vote Labour (never have) but a little bit of me hoped they would make a difference. Unfortunately it's not been a great start and I can't see it improving.

The nurses have just rejected the 5.5% offered, probably partly because they've seen how Labour have thrown money at and caved into the train drivers (with no requirement for any changes in working practices) and the junior doctors.

They keep saying that everything is the fault of the Tories however they've had plenty of time to plan and I'm just not seeing it. They haven't hit the ground running.

No, I don't regret it. The train and doctors strikes have been settled after months of failure to handle them by the predecessors. The riots were successfully quashed. Something had to be done about the fuel allowance - so many well of pensioners receiving the allowance they didn't need.

The immediate and relentless picking from certain sections of the media was entirely predictable.

That's a pretty baity post - I thought the same about people asking if Tory voters should apologise. Nothing was ever likely to be resolved within a couple of months and a lot of the issues we have can still squarely be blamed on the previous government. They can't get away with blaming everything on the Tories forever but it's too early to make any big judgements.

Lol. Nope.

There was another thread with an almost identical title on here a few days ago. Tory HQ are in overdrive.

No, I don't regret it. Because a parliamentary term is five years, not three months. If things are better in five years than they are now, I won't regret it.

No regrets at all.

I do wish MHQ would stop these daily Tory bots. On the other hand, these threads are so shallow they are easy to dismiss.

And the blanket winter fuel allowance was a mad idea. My parents got it twice because they had two homes. They spent it on a mini break.

Public is shifting in views re Labour, shown easily in polls but you won't capture that on these threads op.

Asking people if they regret it will just get the opposite response

No - they’re faced with the predominant right wing media taking them to task for things that the Tories did on a much larger scale. Tories and their billionaire followers are aping Trump in not accepting they resoundingly lost power. It will take longer than 3 months to turn things round

There have been plenty of threads where people have been critical of specific things labour have done.

But a thread about martial law and a complete breakdown of law and order is always going to be dismissed because it is nonsense. We have very obviously not had martial law. So it does suggest that the OP isn't completely up for a rational discussion.

Not sorry and absolutely not going to apologise. The country couldn’t survive another five years of Tory misrule.

Can't decide if these OPs are exceedingly stupid and obvious Tory bots, or whether they are actually Trojan Horse-style Labour supporters who are in fact trolling the trolls 🤔

Anyway. Your OP is total fiction and I'm still glad I voted Labour 🙂

Yes. Because they have proved to be untrustworthy. Personally I'm not bothered about winter fuelgate but it should have been in their manifesto. They wouldn't have got as many votes. They were deceitful.

Not again.

I voted for them. I don't regret it and I'm certainly not going to apologise to you or anyone else.

Aside from the Murdoch press, I've always thought the BBC to be largely impartial, if not perfect. But I've noticed a marked doubling down on Labour Party related non stories that wouldn't have seen the light of day under the last Government. Is that Tory Party donor still at the helm? Chris Mason, having covered the Sue Grey non story, even returned to the matter to justify writing about it in the first instance. It all came across as rather bizarre. Particularly when you consider the heinous things the last Goverment largely got away with.

Why have you started another thread on this?

I don't regret it, but if I say "sorry that it's not working out for you", is that good enough?

YABU

I'm not expecting miracles. By the end, the previous government were a shambles.

I voted Labour this time and at the previous by-election as much as anything as a protest.

Our local MP was recalled, suspended, then the spineless local party selected his girlfriend as candidate in the resulting by-election because he had threatened to stand as an independent.

For the general election they selected a no hope carpet bagger.

Why on earth should this shower get my vote?

No, because they don't have a magic wand to fix everything, they have a huge mess to deal with and no-one expected things to change like a flick of a light switch.

bore off.

This

There's lots of talk about people only voting Labour to get the Tories out.
But all those people thought about it and, on balance, voted Labour - so they were voting for Labour policies and principles. They thought the country couldn't stand another 5 years of Tory decline.

Those thinking people now understand that change will take time.

Those people who didn't think in the first place now expect miracles. It's a capacity to think thing isn't it.

"Haunted pencil" 😂 Loving that description. But surely he's a quill rather than a pencil?