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To wonder if people prefer the last government to this one?

240 replies

malificent7 · 12/11/2025 05:58

The amount of people who are saying they hate this government and would vote reform.
So let me get this straight: many would rather vote for someone who was a member of the facist party at university than labour? Er...ok then. It seems to me that most people are fairly racist and blame others for the state of the economy; immigrants, the disabled, sinle parents, working class etc.

The last government gave us Brexit which was a nightmare and landed us in the shit economically.
At least the roads are getting repaired under labour which is a tangible use of my taxes....and yet people moan about paying more taxes.

Im not saying Labour are amazing...tjey are not but are they worse than the tories?

OP posts:
LlynTegid · 13/11/2025 17:33

ilovesooty · 12/11/2025 14:25

I think Johnson was anything but funny.

How shallow.

The word I would use is traitor, a man who unlawfully suspended Parliament. The only difference from Charles I is that because of my opposition to the death penalty, I would spare Boris Johnson from hanging.

LlynTegid · 13/11/2025 17:34

Marshmallow4545 · 13/11/2025 16:19

We will all be old one day. We will also see the state pension age rise and rise in our lifetimes starting at a much higher base than the WASPI women.there probably won't even be a state pension by the time some of youngest adults retire. I will be utterly furious if the WASPI women are compensated.

The government have only promised to review the matter. Does not mean there will be compensation.

Justchilling07 · 13/11/2025 19:38

Marshmallow4545 · 13/11/2025 09:51

Of course their post makes sense. Politics isn't black and white. You don't have to love a candidate or agree with every one of their policies to vote for them. Sometimes it really is a case of voting for the best of a bad lot.

Labour don't get to wriggle out of their Brexit culpability because they weren't in power. Their actions during the referendum stand for themselves. Pretending that it somehow didn't count because they weren't in power is ridiculous.

I think the Tories had made too many mistakes and gone stale. Franky they were a mess. Labour had decades in the political wilderness to sort themselves out and people thought that they surely were a better option. People we disillusioned and just wanted to Tories out. This was wrong! Many people regret it. Sometimes the grass really isn't greener on the other side. Sometimes the grass is in fact dead.

Their post makes sense, only because you agree with it, l don’t, because it’s so contradictory.
”politics isn’t black and white and and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side”🙄who actually said it was? My point was, the conservatives, chose to call a referendum, fact.No idea what you’re on about, that l’m supposedly pretending that it had nothing to do with Labour, l’m just acknowledging, that the Tories were in power for 14 years, so yes they are culpable!

EmpressoftheMundane · 13/11/2025 19:58

I’d say Labour’s current performance is making a lot of people reassess their opinions on the conservatives. Turns out it’s not so easy, and the conservatives were doing better than I realised!

lifeonmars100 · 13/11/2025 21:22

HarshbutTrue2 · 13/11/2025 14:29

Never heard of the WASPI women? Women who worked hard all their lives, only to have their retirement put back, again, and again.
The government is introducing assisted dying in order to get rid of all the old people. So that's one problem solved. Don't say it's not true. It is the thin end of the wedge. This government hates old people.

Mumsnet isn't too keen on old people either!

lifeonmars100 · 13/11/2025 21:26

I was pleased to read that the govt is scrapping the Police and Crime Commisioner role, only a small thing in the general mess we are in but it is a sensible move as it is an utter waste of money.

Timeforabitofpeace · 13/11/2025 21:31

EmpressoftheMundane · 13/11/2025 19:58

I’d say Labour’s current performance is making a lot of people reassess their opinions on the conservatives. Turns out it’s not so easy, and the conservatives were doing better than I realised!

Lying to us from one day to the next…

bottledboot · 13/11/2025 22:18

Turns out it’s not so easy, and the conservatives were doing better than I realised!

How so? We had barely any growth for years...

bottledboot · 13/11/2025 22:19

This government does not hate old people. It bends over for them. The triple lock is not only unaffordable now, it will become more and more expensive as time goes on, yet it seems to be some sort of sacred cow.

It's one reason productivity is so shit. Zero investment in young people

HarshbutTrue2 · 14/11/2025 08:29

Don't worry. The government has no intention of paying the WASPI women. They are just kidding them on. The WASPI women who suffered were those in lower paid jobs, dinner ladies etc, ladies who had spent time rearing their children instead of working full time. The professional classes knew about it and made arrangements accordingly,
Judging by some of the comments on here it's amazing how many people absolutely hate and loathe their parents. They will be only too happy to sign them up for assisted dying so that they can grab their hard earned money and assets.
Back to the main point of the topic: I would trust Rishi with the economy more than Rachel from accounts.

EasternStandard · 14/11/2025 08:44

Starmer and Reeves are trying to avoid being taken out by back benchers or the markets. Today MPs seem to have got somewhere, the markets react. Borrowing costs hike.

They’re panicking over their jobs.

Papyrophile · 14/11/2025 08:54

Am I the only person to read that the Chancellor is rowing back on the income tax rise?

The FT (which most won't have read) had a persuasive article a couple of days ago saying that the UK economy is not as moribund as the broadsheet press would suggest; not in fine fettle either, but less grim than some say. Even one of the Telegraph's columnists (Ambrose Pritchard-Evans) has written similar.

JHound · 16/11/2025 13:46

surreygirly · 12/11/2025 13:02

Same old labour nonsense - it is not my fault

If they want to save money they could

Stop all foreign aid
Not have given 50M to Indian farmers
Not have given 50M to the guy who now runs Syria the ex ISIS commander
Not increase child allowance for more than 2 kids
Scrap all the people employed in diversity training
Stop benefits for illegal immigrants
Do not allow companies to pay less NI for employees from India than British people
Stop benefits for people who are able to work but do not wish to

None of that is rocket science to anyone other than Labour

Illegal immigrants don’t get benefits. “Foreign Aid” is a fraction of the national budget and its purpose is mainly to have influence. (Ditto the 50m to India as part of a trade deal).

And how much do you think the rest would really give us?

traintonowheretoday · 16/11/2025 16:01

£1800 to strip wallpaper?!

bittertwisted · 17/11/2025 15:40

JHound · 16/11/2025 13:46

Illegal immigrants don’t get benefits. “Foreign Aid” is a fraction of the national budget and its purpose is mainly to have influence. (Ditto the 50m to India as part of a trade deal).

And how much do you think the rest would really give us?

Yes can someone please explain to me how illegal immigrants get benefits? Asylum seekers maybe, but illegal immigrants don’t exist in benefits systems

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