Is anyone better off since Labour

[Luckymum20]

I am not just talking financially but feeling optimistic about the future for children, old age.

With the £22 billion debt now pasing £50 billion.

The increase in Council tax (that they said the wouldn't do). OAPs raid on pensions and no Winter fuel relief. Changes to finance regarding care homes. Utilities up. TV licence up. Food costs up...

I know minimum wage has increased but all costs have increased by a greater amount!

In 2021 minimum wage was almost 30% lower than it is now...

So I ask. Is anyone actually feeling better off, optimistic and pleased with this Government.

Also the October budget of likely to bring more stains on the 'average working man"

YABU - change will happen. It a good thing.

YANBU - not good

We're certainly not better off. Wish the whole lot of them were in Hell.

Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Angela....

No I agree. There's loads of boring things they've brought in, the sort of boring stuff that didn't make the Tories richer so they didn't bother

This is just ridiculous

Far worse off here.

I'm self employed and all my costs have gone through the roof but my customers are also feeling the pinch and I just cannot afford to put my prices up enough to cover the additional costs. I'm struggling to get sales as it is.

Having lost access to the EU/EEA market earlier this year, I've now lost access to the US market this week.

Nope!

Definitely not better off and can’t say I’ve noticed an improvement anything locally either.

I think you misspelled ‘true’.

what I can not accept or forgive is pandering to Reform-inclined idiots who would never vote for Labour in any case, just to be seen to be having some sort of response to immigration concerns. They should be distancing themselves from Reform at every juncture, not aping them, and calling out the rhetoric, dog-whistles, and straightforward lying at every single turn. They've even started using the same disingenuous, othering, and incendiary language, and that is wholly unforgiveable

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What’s everyone feeling about the mansion tax? Surely this affects many? Lots of the ‘fixes’ Labour has implemented are slowing financial growth and industry, doesn’t seem wise to me, but I’m not an economist.

Unless you don’t eat then you are likely to be worse off since labour came to power.

Food inflation is higher now than pre Labour. Inflation overall is running double the target. Taxes are higher, unemployment is rising at worrying levels. Labour are making everyone poorer.

You can hardly expect a year to be enough to repair fourteen years of austerity?

Who are you? Can you go into politics please? This is a strong and convincing post.

This!

I always find it strange how people expect everything to be fixed quicker than the time it took to go downhill.

To be honest, our only 'main contenders' as political parties have been an absolute shit show during their terms in office. It concerns me greatly that none of the current cabinet have ever owned or run their own business. I was done with lying and hypocrisy, with Boris, but now we have a Housing Minister who is punishing second home owners as they clearly see them as an easy target, but has just bought her third. (Personally I think there should be a cap on owning more than one home, but I can't say how many that should be - not qualified to do so. I have lived through observed all typers of government, and would be considered a floating voter; I've no loyalty to anyone, but will vote for who I think will benefit myself and my family in the coming years. So back to Labour. They are the party who will just borrow, and tax the middle classes and when the Tories get back in, they have to put us back into austerity to start reducing the world debt, and obviously the interest rates we owe the world banks. Life was reasonably good pre-pandemic, as inflation was low, (austerity) and we hadn't had anything since World War II to really stick us up shit creek for the foreseeable (banking crash in 2008 perhaps), So along comes Covid; THEN, unbeknownst to any run of the mill British citizen, Russia invaded Ukraine, therefore our cheap gas supplies ended literally overnight. That has had a massive impact on most of us as we can't live without it.
I don't think Brexit has helped, albeit I was a Brexiteer - it was executed very poorly but I still now, think we should be a sovereign country, making our own laws without being influenced one way or another by Europe, which we were, whilst in the EU. I'd like to think things will get better, but sadly in my lifetime I don't think they will. The internet/social media/AI has changed our lives, and how people can contact one another so easily, for ever, and none of it is good for humanity, or communities and social cohesion. Add to that climate change - and people are migrating more now than ever before, as their home continents are ravaged by floods, fire, war, poverty and the rest. We should be thankful we have the shitty governing we have in some respects, but most people want controlled borders and a few quid left to spend in the economy after pay day. The middle classes are almost being squeezed into poverty for good. Apologies for the long reply; it all interests me and my main focus is to now vote for whoever I think will benefit my children's lives.

Where’s is the string or convincing part? You can’t tax your way to growth. Never works.

People are annoyed about Labour trashing the economy further in a year. Not that they haven’t fixed it.

So what have Labour done to help farmers?

I’m no better or worse off. I earn just above the minimum wage so poorer. But DH who relies on massive corporations having money to burn has had a bumper year.

Yep.

I'll be better off when they stop pretending to hate immigrants. Stuck in a different country because the spouse visa rules are so strict that I can't come back to my own country with my family. Thought Labour would change that.

Also, what has happened to the west coast mainline train? It's utter shit now. So when they nationalised that I'll be happy.

The funniest bit is the assertion this iteration of the Labour Party are in any way Socialist or have ever made any claim to be.

Starmer's lot spent years fabricating all sorts of nonsense just to force the few remaining Socialists out of the Labour Party, and yet still there are people on this site who insist Labour is the "loony Left" and so on. The ignorance truly is astounding.

This! I didn't expect miracles, but I didn't expect things to get worse.
In real terms over past year

• my children's primary school budget - cut
• my nhs teams budget - cut
• dH's council team budget - cut
• our COL - up
• our council tax - up
• our mortgage- up

Hope is rapidly dwindling, and fears that reform will get in if labour don't get a handle on this fast - up

Angela Rayner She's just bought a second home for £800k.

I'm better off by 27k a year. My DS is no longer at private school but at a selective state sixth form. That money is no longer circulating in the economy as it goes into my pension and abroad on foreign holidays. Won't be for long as Rachel is looking at thieving that away to fill her deficit due to economic mismanagemnt. I had hoped they would grow the economy but sadly you can't tax your way to growth and everything she's done so far has stifled growth and I can't see that changing and try to be optimistic but that's very difficult.

Own a business - employer NI has made me worse off.