To be worried about what the Labour government will do next?

[Scenicgirl]

Let's be honest, Labour has been a massive disappointment for this country, pissing off the pensioners with taking away the WFA, the farmers, NI changes which impact employers, immigration etc and today refusing compensation to the WASPI women after they ridiculed the Conservatives when they didn't commit to a solution. Don't we deserve better than this constant shit show of lies and deceptions which were clearly spouted out purely to gain power?
For the 1st time in my life, I worry about where we are heading.

These arent always positive changes
Our small nhs team has has 2 new joiners recently. 1 is clinically incompetent so we have to monitor every appointment, leading to wait list building up. Other went off sick on week 2 of employment (4 months ago) and we are paying them full salary. Previously they would have been under 3 month trial periods and we couod have dismissed at least the first one. Now it's much harder, so we are all stuck covering extra work from these 2 and patients waiting even longer.

What are you talking about? You can still dismiss for incompetence. That hasn't changed since the Employment Rights Act 1996, Section 98

Um... inflation was beginning to get back to the level it was before they caused it to rocket last time, and they'd nearly got to the point where they could send 100 people to Rwanda. I think that was it. But honestly it was going to be great, soon. The unicorns were just about ready to leave the nest. All we had to do was hold on for another 14 years and you'd see.

I've just learnt that although this wasn't said in her budget speech Reeves has cancelled plans to reform child benefit to be based on household income. Sneaky and deceptive! Refusing to pay the WASPI women is disgusting. I'm regretting my vote for sure, wish I spoilt it instead.

Inflation was on its way down and we had growth in the economy. The signs were good in the first six months of the year that we were finally getting on an “even keel” after a very rough period. I previously worked for a staffing company and things changed post-election and have got worse since. Businesses are not simply not hiring. Thankfully I got out of the sector by choice but just after I left another round of redundancies were announced by my former employer.

You were the one who said I couldn’t decipher the meaning behind the message but now apparently I’m a snob!

If someone wrote a very simplistic post about immigration and then ended it with ‘fuck foreigners’. Would I be forgiven for ignoring their wider point and focusing on the language? Would you really expect me to take them seriously?

I didn’t know there were any plans to reform child benefit, were they in the manifesto? As a WASPI woman I never expected any money, there is no money to pay compensation and even if there was it wouldn’t be an appropriate use for it.

Do you work in the nhs? It's always been hard to fire people, the onus is put on managers to 'provide greater support' rather than the person to be accountable for their own practice. We have to prove that we have tried absolutely everything to support them, provide mounds of evidence and go through many many time consuming stages to be able to terminate a contract once someone has passed their probationary period, so we would previously terminate within that period if needed as its much easier. Now, this person has just also gone off sick with 'anxiety' so we are stuck paying them sick pay, and then will face accusations of discrimination on their return if we attempt to terminate their contract.

Lots of moans on MM about poor nhs experiences with incompetent staff, what they don't realise is that we all know who is no good at their job, try our best yo remove them but are blocked, and then as managers have to deal with complaints and move patients onto caseloads of our stronger staff, leaving the incompetent staff member being fully paid to twiddle their thumbs all day - weaponised incompetence I think it's called. They know they are useless, they know we know they are useless, and they know there is not much we can do about it!

These are all Mickey Mouse soundbites at best. Not actual policies.

Public sector pay increases are simply inflationary, since the public sector is even less productive than it was 5 years ago. If you put more more into something without better output, that’s not smart: it’s stupid. But really, it was a bribe for union support, paid for through tax increases.

The same goes for the NHS. Which is basically a black hole that badly run with poor outcomes.

‘plans’ for houses is just a nonsense way of saying that labour have done a load of talking and no delivering. No actual houses have been built and there is no way on this earth that they actually will. To reach that target they need to build 300k a year. And that not even incremental. It’s adding to what’s already being built.

GB energy is another nonsense soundbite. Unless labour are going to r
release more hot air to add these soundbites, where is energy coming from? We are not building more nuclear power stations, nor fracking. Nor drilling for oil. GB energy will be yet another taxpayer funded bloated public sector organization to funnel more taxes away to government cronies.

@BIossomtoes yes the conservative government said in their spring budget it would be based on household income from 2026. Labour have silently cancelled that plan.

So what? You can’t hold a Labour government to a promise made by the other party!

These are real policies contained in draft legislation...not soundbites.

In fact suggesting they are soundbites is fake news when they are in the Employment Rights Bill.

www.lewissilkin.com/insights/2024/10/18/whats-in-the-employment-rights-bill

These are the ones in the Employment Rights Bill.. the others are in different draft legislation..

Given the recent polling and ratings op I'd say there are many who feel as you do

The last seven bullets are the ones I am referring to!

@BIossomtoes when I was researching who to vote the labour websites only mention of this policy was that they thought it should be reformed and changed to household income. One of the reasons I felt like I could vote for them. This might not make a dot of difference to your life which is why you're dismissing it so easily but it makes a difference to a lot of families. It's something that Martin Lewis has campaigned for and it's just been silently brushed away. Disappointing!

Apologies. I possibly confused you with the poster calling people in Clacton names. I just hate the generalisation of groups of people that seems to happen these days and how if someone disagrees politically they are called idiots and morons. It got worse after the Brexit vote and I don't like it. I hate Labour as much as the next reasonable person but happily shared a house years ago with Labour supporters and we never felt the need to insult each other's intelligence.

But what if you stand 6 times and then on the 7th you get in? Indicating that you won the popular vote? Which is what happened.

Ok apologies. One of the biggest. Top five. I'm not sure that changes my argument that the NHS is not underfunded because that for a little country like the UK is completely out of proportion bearing in mind it's UK taxpayers that pay for it and I'm not sure there will be enough of us given Rach is determined to stuff the money earning part of our economy.

We are spending like we are a rich country. We aren't any more. Apparently we have been living off the remnants of the wealth earned from the Empire for the last century and that is now finally running out. Scary.

Actually I said no such thing.

Are ”foreigners” a driver of embedded societal
inequality? I don’t think you can compare the two.

Labour are a joke.

Inflation now up to 2.6%. Interest rating coming down well and truly halted.

The last time the 10 year bond price was above 4.6% was about 2008 in the GFC.

They hit us with one of the largest tax rises in history in the budget. But even that is not enough as they are losing control of spending.

Where we are heading does not look good. Time to batten down the hatches.

I think the UK is definitely still affected by its post-colonial status. However, there’s no reason we can’t remain a wealthy country. We have a lot of potential in terms of technological industry. We also have increasing inequality of resources which, if distributed more evenly, could alleviate a lot of the issues we face - for example poor health, housing, lowering life expectancy and a faltering educational system.

Hardworking family, getting by on combined income of about 40k. This government has only caused problems for us. Landlord putting pressure, we'll need to move somewhere smaller. Mum aged 70 can't afford to stop full time work, loses winter fuel allowance. Threats of redundancies, pay freezes, pay cuts at work due to VAT on school fees.

I also note that private schools do not want to pass the entire additional cost onto parents, and cutting down within the school too to absorb some of the hit. This affects the scholarship places. This affects all the outreach programmes my school puts on (for free) for kids from the local area due to unique facilities. Everyone loses out.

Could you expand on what you see as the decreased productivity of the public sector?