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

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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?

I prefer this government to the last one but didn’t vote for it (voted Liberal Democrats). I will be voting Greens next time unless there’s some major scandal in that house. Reform is beneath me 😱😱

Jeremy Corbin gave us Brexit by agreeing to front the Remain campaign on behalf of the Labour party and then giving every impression he supported Leave.

Why are you trying to blame Labour for Brexit? It was a Tory decision to hold the referendum in the first place! Stupidity.

This. I won’t be voting Labour anytime soon. I liked Rishi Sunak and he was right about what this government would do.

I think Cameron called the referendum hoping that the result would be Remain, and he could knight himself as the one who put the issue to bed once and for all.

He didn’t follow the advice of a pupil on Grange Hill in about 1988: “They’ll only call a referendum when they’re certain they’ll get the result they want!”

I voted Labour at the last election, for the first time in many years. I wish I hadn’t. This is a very left wing government. It seems to have the mentality that behaviour of companies and individuals won’t change no matter how hard you tax or over legislate. The moment that the NIC for employers increased, workers rights increased and min wage increased the less likely employers became to take on risks with staff. Smaller businesses near me reduced staff hours rather than make staff redundant. Push too hard and businesses start finding ways to mitigate. The increase in unemployment is appalling.

Labour's formal policy position was to remain, and if it had wholeheartedly campaigned to remain and made the case for it then it's likely that enough 'red wall' voters would have voted remain to tip the balance too.

Put simply, that cunt Corbyn sabotaged Labour's contribution to the remain campaign because he personally was opposed to it.

I liked Rishi Sunak.

Both Governments have very similar problems.

I would like all the infighting to stop and for them to get on with their jobs quietly.

Absolutely nothing would have changed the minds of those red wall voters.

It’s the same now with them supporting Farage and Reform.

How can it be discredited?!! It happened.

Just curios - why did you vote for them? to get Tories out no matter what? or did you expect something different from Labour?

I voted Labour because I thought they would at the very least invest in infrastructure and in industry, have a better relationship with the EU which would stimulate growth and pay for things. But they seem to have done none of that. They are being held to ransom by their own backbenchers despite having a stonking majority, and as a result have made damaging and expensive u-turns, making things worse than they were before the decisions. It just gives a terrible impression of a government that just wont be able to achieve anything, because their own party is acting as the official opposition.

You are lucky. Mine are all being dug up. Not sure it's much to go with the government though,

There’s a lot of rewriting of history going on here! Brexit the fault of Labour (!!!)

We couldn't have had the Tories in again as they were a complete shit show - I don't think this Gov are doing a lot better but it was worth taking the risk - but where to go to next - definitely not Reform. I think I'll really struggle getting behind any party.

They are being held to ransom by their own backbenchers despite having a stonking majority

hmm... backbenchers are Labour, and reflect Labour values as much as KS, RR and the rest.
I'm really surprised that anyone's surprised, their course of actions was completely predictable and we discussed it here on MN in June 2024...

We can't change the past, but the fuckers responsible should at the very least be held accountable.

@MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack what form would holding them accountable take?

What is your definition of a mansion? grounds? Square footage? Value?

@GasPanic i would also like to know the answer to this.
Would a family of five living in a house with six bedrooms have to pay more tax than a single person living in a house with four bedrooms?
As the pp said, would value affect it?
Anyway, please let us know your definition of a mansion.

Why won’t they be working?

Because it’s rare for a child needing significant support and who can only manage an hour of school a day, or who refuses school completely, to enter the workforce with no issue. I’ve heard this said by many teachers - they think a lot of them will be unemployable

If reverse that. The previous government was a dhit show, but this one is far shittier. They have been talking the economy into the ground from day one. Their rhetoric is scaring investment away and increasing borrowing costs, which means less money coming into the country and more of our taxes are spent repaying debt, instead of having that money for public services. It is palpably stupid.

As a small business owner, this Government is genuinely terrifying me.

I voted for Labour for education. I feel very let down to be honest. The new curriculum doesn't go far enough and it's very secondary focused. Schools are struggling from years of cuts and underfunding but we trusted Labour to improve things. They haven't.

I would never vote Reform or Tory though. However bad people think Labour are, they would be (and have been) worse.

I preferred the previous government. The current government have put us in an economic doom loop.

That's a local council decision not a central gov one.