Is there a policy Labour haven't done a u-turn on? Voted in on lies?

[Luckymum20]

Is there a major promise / policy that labour have not done a u-turn on?

I just feel they were voted in on false promises... As a labour voter do you feel lied to?

And now to top it all millions of hard working families are worse off than people on benefits... how can that be a realistic situation!

Did you also protest like this when Brexit happened? Were you able to prevent it? Did you learn a lesson from it?

So what? None of that will stop him getting into power.

They seem to be better at sticking to their manifesto promises than the last lot. I trust OP was spamming these boards with criticism of the Tories...

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Labour were voted in on the basis that they were not the Tories.
What was, or was not, in the manifesto is an irrelevance.
How many people do you think had even read it or cared about it before the election?

To be honest, don't really think Labour were voted in so much as the Tories were voted out. There has never been much enthusiasm for Starmer and the blank space where policies were meant to go. But the Tories brought this country to its knees, so they had to go.

Labour have been a disappointing replacement. I wish I could see more evidence that they were digging us out of the hole the Tories created....but here we are.

Reform had to do U turns with over 100 of their election candidates for the last election. More than a dozen of whom were sacked after offensive and racist comments were revealed.

Zia Yusuf U turned on his own resignation.

Farage has U turned on his own retirement/resignation at least four times to my memory.

Farage's other U turns -

• Promised Reform tax cuts were ditched because those plans were “only ever aspirations” and “substantial tax cuts” are “not realistic”.
• He initially said that Reform would detain and deport “absolutely anyone” who arrives on British shores “illegally”. But he retracted those comments within the same week.
• He said Ukraine provoked Russia by wanting to join NATO. Six months later he was saying that Ukraine joining Nato is almost an essential part of a peace deal.

Farage and Reform. Masters of the U turn.

Why is Brexit relevant to your hypocritical stance?

@Collaborate That data is fascinating. Makes a mockery of the original post and pretty much everything the media is promoting.

I suppose none of that will matter to people who vote Reform because they aren't Labour or the Tories and either don't care about or actively celebrate that Farage is a lying racist.

There is a shift in the general consciousness and more interest in politics. You hear snippets in the street. Brits are too lazy to have any sort of revolution and only extremists protest on issues. What will happen in the next GE is unknown obviously.

Labour had the smallest vote share ever in modern history of any Government. They were never ever going to be popular. They won because the Conservatives were punished by the electorate including their own. The vote was split by Reform in some areas. I live in a marginal seat, Reform certainly split the vote. and where I live it makes a huge difference as it swings red and blue like the pendulum of a clock.

Did they lie more than Boris Johnson?

Once again:

Tories: “we can promise more miracles than Jesus, the moon on a stick, and all the wealth in the world can be yours, if you worship us.”

Farage: “I can stop the boats, too! I’m one of you, even though I’m a privileged multimillionaire who thinks a certain AH was a bit misunderstood.”

Labour: “We are trying to sort out the mess after a professional liar promised miracles, and the moon on a stick, and scorched the earth for you.”

You’re very removed from how the public feel with this.

You must have cried about Brexit and thrown insults also, like you are doing now.

Worked well for you, didn’t it.

I think all parties these days see manifesto pledges as problems to be managed rather than being commitments to be fulfilled.

This is the very conversation we've been having at home.

Why didn't people see this coming?

We knew and were told by politicians themselves that these things had to be repaid. There was only ever going to be one way to do that, and that's by taxing everyone.

The Conservatives knew this had to happen, hence calling an election they would never win and making it someone else's problem.

Where have I thrown insults? I said your stance is hypocritical, which it is.

Exactly my experience. The small business I started 14 years ago finally had to be shut down last month. It breaks my heart and we had to let a lot of employees/suppliers go but I simply can't afford it in the UK any more. I am sadly not employable any more it seems (despite running a reasonably successful business) as there are no jobs available/too many applications so I am now looking to move abroad. Just to survive. Or I guess I can take benefits and wait for years until I find a job but I just can't bring myself to do it. The UK is really out to kill businesses and the generation of wealth - we really need to support businesses and wealth creation so that jobs are created and the benefits ripple down to everyone in society.

But I am angry that Labour completely failed to admit that the lockdowns which they supported and wanted to never end caused massive harms.