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.

Are we going to have one of these threads every day? The Tories really are desperate.

I voted Lib Dem tactically to get our useless Tory MP out. I'm still delighted with the result, both that we now havea very good Lib Dem MP, and that Labour are running the country. I think Keir Starmer will be an excellent PM.

I find it utterly bizarre that the BBC are making such a big deal about donations and gifts, when everyone knows the Tories under Boris Johnson were the biggest bunch of corrupt liars going. It's that classic Trumpian thing of accusing the opposition of exactly what you yourself are doing wrong.

Nope.

As you may recall, the last administration offered us up the 5 worst prime ministers in history.

Sunak and May were merely inept and useless.

Johnson and Truss. Embarrassing.

Cameron. Dum de dum de dum.

I can sometimes understand people holding views that may lead them to want to vote for the Conservative Party, but defending/voting for/agreeing with that lot takes some explaining.

I find it utterly bizarre that the BBC are making such a big deal about donations and gifts, when everyone knows the Tories under Boris Johnson were the biggest bunch of corrupt liars going.

Not that bizarre when you consider who the Director General is.

No. Give them a chance.

And law and order hasnt completely broken down despite the tories trashing our emergency services, prisons, social work, probation services, courts etc. I still have faith in the fundamental decency of a majority.

I agree

Don't be ridiculous. The Tories had been making a right pig's ear of things. I had started to believe that they were being willfully negligent. How ludicrous it was! A new prime minister every five minutes, each one talking more nonsense than the last one. Liz Truss alone was a complete shambles.

And I'm supposed to apologise for Kier Starmer when you'd all be kissing his bum if he wore a blue ribbon? As if you cared about pensioners five minutes ago.

"Law and order has completely broken down"?! PMSL 😂😂 You can't blame Labour for the riots - seeds of that were sown in the previous 14 years. Also, I'm not sure I should really be answering this question. I always was a Labour voter but, because of their pitiful failure to condemn genocide and the fact they've basically been promising austerity 2.0, I didn't vote for them this time. And they're still better than the Tories.

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

God – that was a good laugh. Thanks, OP. (Also didn't we just have this exact thread about a week ago).

Couldn't be happier with my vote. I'm really pleased with the decisions as they making, and agree with means testing winter fuel allowance (as does my swing-voting, low income pensioner mother and her friends in a similar boat).

I could tolerate the Tories to the David Cameron years, but after that – no. Chronically and viscerally unforgivable.

Same thread every week .. with a couple of others under a slightly different title every couple of days

Either learn to search, keep it on one thread, or hop off to Politics

It’s so odd to me that people expect Labour to have turned around the entire country in under 3 months after it was slowly decimated by the Tories for years.

You'd have to be a bit dim to blame the riots on Labour. They'd only been in power 5 minutes. As for Labour voters apologising. I'd love tory and brexit voters to apologise for trashing the country please.
We've bumbled out of the single market like idiots. This has had no benefits, only damage.
All public services have been trashed under the tories.
We've got into terrible debt.
The tories and the right wing press have whipped up racism and anger. See riots.

I didn't vote Labour, my fil did. He regrets voting them in completely. Can't ever see them being voted in for years now.

This. If the OP isn't a troll / bot I'd love to know what they think they should have done.

How were the riots the fault of Labour? I put that squarely at the door of the party that has been practising dog whistle racism for the last 14 hears and who emboldened the racists through the self harm that was brexit.
Snouts in the trough?! Some silly choices, yes, but it is no way whatsoever compares to the atrocious behaviour from the Tories since 2010. PPE scandal, anyone?

These posts are getting increasingly desperate.

Didn't vote Labour as in a Tory/Lib Dem area, I very likely would have if I lived in an area where it would've helped. I didn't have high hopes at all but the Tories really were done and so I didn't think there was any choice. I stand by that opinion, even though so far they have been far, far worse than I feared they would be.

They seem to have absolutely zero understanding of business and economics; every day there's another ridiculous statement seemingly designed to terrify the corporate world and scare off anyone contemplating investment. A man who's worked in the private sector for a total of one whole year declaring that he knows more about running a company than JP Morgan and Amazon, and that he'd happily tell them so?! And there I was thinking the Conservatives were embarrassing.

And that's obviously ignoring the fuel payments, the prisoner releases (and then the extreme heavy-handed policing of certain other criminals), the grubby displays of naked greed, the seeming endorsement of medical care being denied to people who had the wrong political views, the dangerous and misguided foreign policy announcements, the immediate surrender to the unions which has - surprise surprise - made everyone already up their demands, the endless and predictable buck-passing and invented excuses... etc, etc. I guess it's true that we need to hit rock-bottom before we can recover - dear god, I hope the opposition stops pissing about soon and starts developing some ideas of how to rebuild.

@JandLandG - I agree that the last 5 prime ministers were appalling however the worst one ever, without a doubt, was Tony Blair.

You can’t blame voters for a dysfunctional government. No one votes for incompetence

There was a thread started on this last week

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

I'm a little disappointed in the poor effort by CCHQ, they could at least try to keep track of the threads they start

Labour have been in for less than 3 months, and have not had chance to produce a budget yet.

If the Tories were in during the riots, then the chat from them would be blaming the asylum seekers for being in hotels rather than blaming the racist cunts who rioted.

There's no point asking that here, Mumsnetters live in la la land and they have their fingers in their ears 😂

Well the Tory voters do, that's for certain

Do I regret voting Labour? No

Do I agree with everything they do? Also no

Am I relieved that the GE ridded us of the most corrupt, incompetent and cruel government this country has seen in a long time? Absolutely yes

Am I sick of the lying, biased and self-serving excuse we have for media in this country. Also yes

I disagree. Not a Tory voter by any means but I think this is why people say: 'Better the devil you know'.
I genuinely don't think 2-Tier Kier and his lot have a clue and, let's face it, they only really got in because they were deemed slightly less shit than the Tories. Which is hardly an accolade...

Too early to say.
We need to wait at least 2 years to form a fair opinion.

Anything is better than the Tories.

Anyone using two tier Kier unironically is definitely a Tory voter

Difficult .. tory party were a sh1t show.. I voted tactically for the first itne to get them out. Honestly they are as bad as each other

No I don't regret it.
I think they have done alot of good already that had been ingnored. I wish they had not cut winter fuel allowance from as many people, but I do think it should be means tested. They haven't got that right. And I'm disappointed in the cash for glasses shite...

But overall I think they have made a decent start. And they are a million times better than what we had before.