First 100 days

[Iwishicouldflyhigh]

whoever you voted for, what are your thoughts after the First 100 Days?
I didn’t vote for Labour, but I was quite excited in their first few weeks as Keir got his head down and I was excited fir change.

Now I just feel deflated. Same old….freebiegate, nitpicking, infighting. A bit depressing really.

i don’t even think there was a decent alternative really….and that’s even more depressing!!!!!

I agree. Completely.

An interesting post. I do think we need to be competitive here

It's very difficult to make money out of farming. His farms will be losing huge amounts of money every year. If some of you had their way we would have collective farms and use horses to plough the fields.🙄

Dyson Farming made a pre-tax profit of £5.2m in the year to 31 December 2023, up by £527,000 on the previous year. Sir James Dyson's farming business also increased its turnover by 16% to total £40.6m, according to the company's accounts, with arable farming continuing to be the principal business activity.

Tell me you don’t know anything about my views without telling me 🤣

Good!

As I said. Wealth creation. I see naivety works both ways…

I don't really think there are all that many.

He's making money out of his arable business and investing it into the strawberry growing. I hold no candle for James Dyson and voted Remain. HTH

I'm all in favour of schmoozing CEOs. A mutual exchange of ideas is always worthwhile. I'm not a dogmatic socialist, unless you think wanting someone who works full time to be able to afford the essentials to keep body and soul together is a dogmatic socialist idea.

But you were so sure he was doing it for a huge loss. HTH. Code for I was massively wrong 😂

9.26 million people aged 16-64 were economically inactive, and the inactivity rate was 21.8%.

June-Aug 2024.

Ok, so you dont want people earning significant wealth, because you are working FT to afford the essentials? Is that the context?

That figure has been dissected and debunked many, many, many times on MN. I'm a bit shocked to see you still peddling it, as you seem quite knowledgeable.

It includes:

• People who have enough money to retire early without needing to claim benefits
• People in full time education
• People who are too ill to work
• People who are full time carers

The real number is far, far lower than that. How are you going to motivate people who do not need to work because they are comfortable financially to return? Take their money? What are you going to do about students? Many do in fact work part time - many also can't, because their courses don't allow it.

I'm all for getting people well enough to go back to work. The lack of investment in the NHS (and yes, reform too!) will need to be turned around so that waiting lists come down and people can return to work. Work is good for the vast majority of people.

I'm also all for carers being enabled to work, so let's hope the review into how their earnings and the impact on Carer Allowance goes into this. Carers save the government many millions every single year, so introducing more flexibility and a proper taper would be great.

OK so lets get granular, and break out the numbers please - if it has been dissected many times previously on MN.

No, you aren't getting it. I want everyone to be able to have the essentials if they work, and I want people to realise that actually they don't need designer everything and a different Lamborghini for every season. So we level up a little bit at the bottom and we level down a bit at the very top. The rich will still be fabulously, fabulously rich. And that's fine.

Here you go: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52660591

30 seconds on Google. I'm really surprised you haven't seen these graphics.

Silly me.

OK, well I might be inclined to focus on your own life, and let others focus on theirs. If you voted in Labour, you may also want to trust that they will deliver on their manifesto pledges…

Forgive me if I study this.

Data is open to interpretation…

Of course but then so is yours...

I'm prepared to give them more than 3 months, unlike some very impatient people on here.

This thread isn't very nice.
Net drainers and the like.
I have no idea how we aren't looking at the bigger picture and by the way I am the biggest net drainer ever.
3.5 years cancer treatment for your child and relying on carers allowance and disability benefits for them does that- without the cost of treatment. Shall we do a "Liz " for those of us?
I have absolutely no problem at all for those that are successful in their working lives and enjoy the income from that BUT I do have a problem with those people not recognising that without low paid essential workers things wouldn't work so well.
Your parents care workers decide - not today
Your nanny decides - not today
The talk of " unions" is actually talking about a collective of workers, each and every one of them individual.
We need to be better for all our people.

Government data.

Long-term sickness and declaring yourself a student were the leading reasons for economic inactivity, during the period in question, with the latter worthy of a section devoted to why many young people are not entering the workforce after finishing education.

Hmm.

I dont think any reasonable person would question the support needed for our most vulnerable - yours clearly being a compelling case, and I sincerely wish you and your family the best.

Many of us are being asked to bear an increasing fiscal burden, and we are entitled to challenge whether this is correct, where the money is going, and if Labour are the proper custodians of our tax revenue (I would argue they are not).

Well said. I pay over £50k a year in income tax alone; and every interface I have with the state is broken; roads, schools, hospitals etc. I don’t see how paying over £60k a year will make any difference. Which is why I am sceptical!