To wonder what could Starmer do, to turn things around?

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He was elected on fewer votes than Corbyn with very lukewarm support, the Tories lost that election, Labour did not sweep in on a tide of public approval, they just benefitted from peoples anger at the Conservatives. Since then, Starmers approval rating has tanked. He seems to have gone from one ill judged move to the next and seems totally tone deaf in speeches. Can he turn it around? What would he need to do?

Oof. The shark was jumped very early!

Good points. The latter should include food and energy security as a priority, the former is being hindered, the latter needs the full mix of energy which has been pulled back

Exactly- we need to think about being as self sufficient as possible. We need to be adjusting our lives now to survive the future.

I am (mostly) "economically inactive". I draw no unemployment benefits, nor am I registered as unemployed, nor am I looking for work. There are millions like me.
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I am similar to this, I don't work the 70 hours a week I used to work when I was full on and self-employed. I retrained as a teacher but no school wanted to employ me at 50. So I run family life and pension funds. One pension (NEST) for the company and another for the family.

Some people work flat out to succeed in life; others don't. Who can judge which is the better path?

Then it would have only achieved 60 to 80% of the savings. The simplest solution is precisely what’s been done. The threshold should have been at the same level as that for paying income tax.

They couldn’t be blocked by Labour. They had a 80 seat majority for five years. They could have done anything they wanted to.

Say what a woman is & update the equality act.

@PandoraSox

"I am (mostly) "economically inactive". I draw no unemployment benefits, nor am I registered as unemployed, nor am I looking for work. There are millions like me."

Absolutely there are millions like you - 9 million to be exact.

It should also absolutely be your choice whether you choose to work or not. But by not working you do become an unfair cost to other taxpayers. These taxpayers pay for the NHS that you use, they pay for the schools, the police, the military and even the roads you travel on.

I'm sure many people are in jobs that they would rather not do on Monday morning but they still do and as a result they pay income taxes to the government to pay for these things.

Can you see how some of these people going to work early on Monday morning might resent the fact that you chose not to but are benefiting from the taxes they pay.

Because their popularity has massively plummeted?

I worked for around 35 years (more if you add in casual work I did as a student). I am now a full time carer for my DH who is disabled (who worked for nearly 40 years).

Feel free to resent me and my DH, but only if you take on my caring responsibilities and his disability.

BTW I still pay income tax. As do a lot of economically inactive people.

Also @1dayatatime

www.carersuk.org/press-releases/unpaid-care-in-england-and-wales-valued-at-445-million-per-day/

There was another thread on here saying the young people can't get jobs.

We need to prioritise who is already here.

There are too many people coming who are a drain on our resources and it needs to stop

That’s a reason not to, surely.

Young people absolutely can get jobs. They just don’t to do them. Plenty of jobs in farming, plumbing, bricklaying you can walk into tomorrow (to be fair you’d probably need an apprenticeship in some of them). They just don’t want to do them. They want 9-4 with Fridays off in offices, not grafting outside in all weathers.

That's not how elections work 🙄 Stop being influenced by whatever far-right rubbish you're reading.

Calm down, dear.

@WhitegreeNcandle

You are probably right

What actual part of brexit is right now making it harder on UK. I live in EU. You all look in a good position from my view.

Because the Tories are left winger and socialists. What makes you think otherwise. Their track record is clear.

Highest ever taxes - until Two Tier and Rachel from accounts took over and made it even worse.

Open borders and One million a year net migration

Uncontolled borrowing and printing money to pay for people to sit at home

highest ever public spending, massive bloated state and civil sector

Highest ever welfare and benefits

Lowest productivity

Aye, the Rwanda plan was so left wing. See also the hounding of disabled people and the "reform" of the NHS with a view to making it easier to privatise. That is just off the top of my head.

Even the current Labour government isn't left wing. Left of centre and Tory lite in some aspects.

I guess you are a Farage fan?

And how many people did they forcibly deport to Rwanda. Yes, that right - 0. And what ‘hounding’? The welfare bill had never been larger than it was under the Tories.

You can make stuff up but it doesn’t change facts.

And how many people did they forcibly deport to Rwanda. Yes, that right - 0.

Not for the want of trying.

We were on the up, it’s stalled somewhat in second half of 2024 but will see re 2025

I get your point though on the eurozone and various figures there, Germany, France etc

Yeah, those pesky facts again. Whenever the facts don’t support your narrative, just come out with some random statement.

The Tories were left. Their record on the economy, borrowing, tax, ballooning state spending, social issues and immigration proves that. It’s in the numbers.

I made nothing up.

The Rwanda plan may have failed, but that does not change the fact that it was a right wing populist policy.

As for the hounding of disabled people:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/22/inquiry-to-begin-into-dwps-treatment-of-ill-and-disabled-people-on-benefits