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.

No, Im pleased. The riots were because britain was a tinderbox as tories were using immigration as a distraction from their appalling behaviour to stoke division and scaremonger. Do you blame tory/lib dems them for the 2011 riots? I felt they dealt with it swiftly and decisively.

They are making cuts because they need to. Debt is 100% of GDP (sky, guardian, bbc etc) cuts have to be made. Give them a chance to make changes to the mess and corruption theyve been left with.

That said, dont like how they are cowering from corporation tax and the scandal around the gifts is all too familiar and disappointing.

https://www.if.org.uk/research-posts/3-million-pensioner-millionaires-identifying-the-numbers/

Meh, reform/tory, just two cheeks of the same arse

I'm amazed at quickly the country has turned against 2 tier Keir. It's only been a couple of months and the country has rejected him.

The country can't reject him. He's less than three months into a five year term.

1.4 million pensioners receive pension credit so will retain the WFA. I agree there's probably something that should be done for those who only just miss out, but they're all getting a 4% (£460) increase in state pension.

Maybe the state pension should be more, but the last lot had 14 years to do that, if they wanted to.

Do you think we will get one of these threads everyday for 5 years?

Not at all. I love seeing democracy in action. I voted Green, but am thrilled with Labour's take on fiscal measures such as the WFA.
I applaud their firm and decisive action on the rioters -it was a great comfort to people in our city.
They didn't hang about with scrapping Ofsted's one-word judgements and I think they have interesting ideas for curriculum reform in the pipeline.
Can't wait to see what they'll do on Green issues; probably not radical enough for my liking, but I have faith in the democratic processes and institutions of our nation and my capacity to effect change.

I’m amazed at the lies people tell. The country hasn’t turned against him and we’re not under martial law - and that’s just two lies you’ve tried to propagate in one afternoon.

Just done a uiu gov poll and the country or those that voted goes him have not rejected him so you speaking shit

🤣🤣🤣🤣 where's your evidence? Conversation with people just like you? who bandy around terms like martial law with no understanding as to what it means

I only opened the thread to ask this but I was going to say once a week.

No of course not. To judge a party coming into government after fourteen years of misrule is ludicrous. The time to make an assessment of them is two years from now.

The Tories were so bad that there wasn’t much option. The LD are all things to all people, and the rest of the parties are just the joke we enjoy.🤷‍♀️

Labour won’t be any different, as has been seen already, but we did need a change. 🙂

Mumsnet is famously left wing 😂 why would ask that here in the hopes you would get a yes 😂🥴 - I don’t vote them - but I expected this of them…

You've not responded to any of the comments in your own thread. Why not? Yabu just for that alone

This !

Didn't you say you voted for them on your previous "Do you regret voting Labout" thread @MeadowL?

Oh I forgot about that. You’re right, they did.

You think those who voted to get rid of an incompetent and corrupt government should apologise? How sweet.

Nope, don't feel the need to apologise. They've made some mistakes, but they are still better than the Tories.

And re the winter fuel allowance. The pensioners have been protected from cuts previously, while children and disabled and other most vulnerable in society have had their benefits cut and cut and cut under the tories. Not all pensioners need it.

My own parents included. They WANT it, but they don't NEED it. Literally complaining about how hard done they are about losing this payment, yet sitting with 1000's in the bank, paid off mortgage and comfortable company pensions which is not actually that far off my own modest salary. Of course, childcare and mortgage paid out of that, but somehow that doesn't count...

I love them dearly, but they are living in a rather selfish bubble.

No. Not in the slightest.

I'm very bored with the constant, daily threads from tory bots trying to persuade people they've made a mistake in who they voted for.

Just bore off. We're a lot happier than we were with Rishi, Liz, Boris, Theresa May or Cameron thanks.

I know. It's blatant and annoying.

Martial law?

It's conference season, time for the Right to flail around and stamp its collective feet because their fingernails have finally been prised from the treasure chest they've been looting for the last 14 years. Got a mate who runs a pub? £££s contract for him then. Your wife's dressmaker? Same for her. You want a yacht? No problem, sell us something you haven't got, that we don't need, and get paid for it. Is that a spare peerage lying around over there? Catch! It's yours. Can't do it any more. So they are all very pissed off. And a leadership election coming up for the Tories. Serious business for them, hilarity for the rest of us. It's utterly pointless to attempt to seriously address any 'points' they make as
"They only do it to annoy
Because they know it teases"
Apologies to Lewis Carroll

No regrets. Still have more integrity than the last shit show.