To think few lives have improved due to Labour’s policies

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I knew they wouldn’t benefit me - but I thought they might help some people.

Train drivers have more money but other than that I’m struggling. I’ve lost my job as a direct result of their policies, it would be nice to find some positives.

YABU = my life had improved as a result of Labour’s policies.

YANBU = it hasn’t improved or has got worse

Veery true. But hopefully they will being money to spend on housing and everything that comes with international living. It does also open doors for UK students as well. I believe it brought in around £240m per year into the economy. Surely that is better than nothing or raising taxes?

Long term investment opportunities and hopefully the ability to retain the brighter minds that come over for study. We need immigrants especially skilled ones and ones who have been educated here and become assimilated early to our culture is surely a positive when looking at potential. It also gives the UK a better relationship with the EU which is needed long term.

@GivingUpFinally unless it's tweaked it benefited young EU students more than ours though ?

Many more came here then went the other way

Do you usually vote Labour

What a bizarre response to your posts@Bagsintheboot!

If anyone is expecting any party to sweep in and pave the streets with gold and turn Britain into a land of milk and honey, they are going to be severely disappointed.

People are stupid though, so here we are.

Well, I can’t find anyone who feels their life has improved, any more than I could have under the last Tory lot.

All hopeless in my view, but perhaps someone, somewhere feels their life is better.

EU students coming here though and staying here and working here is surely a good thing. Especially if their governments funded their education?

No it doesn't. It presents an excellent picture. Most promises are achieved or on track. What tracker did you view?!

The trouble is that they introduce a policy in what seems a very ill thought out way and very quickly decide to change their minds about it
Realistically speaking someone is going to have to be prepared to be unpopular and introduce policies that are not liked but may work to improve things in the long term and be prepared to stick at it

People are stupid though, so here we are.

True, but those of us who can see that Farage has nothing but snake oil to offer are being even more stupid if we don't learn the lessons of recent (Brexit) history. People living in run-down areas who have few prospects, have not seen the sunlit uplands promised by trickle-down economics, cannot get a dentist or see a GP and perceive that their standards of living have eroded as a direct consequence of immigration, and that those same immigrants are unwilling to assimilate culturally whilst being given advantages, will not give a tinker's cuss if they cause untold damage to the UK's economy, electoral system, international standing, or anything else. They just want a "fuck you all" button to press at the GE, which tbf is the only credible thing that Reform has to offer.

There are no easy solutions to our complex problems, unfortunately. I would vote for any party that actually spoke the truth about this and came up with a credible plan, even an unpalatable one. I suspect I am very much in the minority, however!

What happened to fully funded fully costed? That was a key campaigning promise.

The one on the post I responded to. Clearly highlights just how little Labour has achieved to date but I think we were all aware of that anyway. 'On track' is meaningless. Cold hard data speak the truth - like todays data on rising unemployment for example. Truly woeful.

Even Starmer and Labour have uttered you can’t get growth by increasing taxes so they should know it’s their policies, again, that are making things worse.

More Labour bullsh*t.

It’s ok @treeowlthe pp responded it didn’t need your ! addition.

Yes - proven by the economy growing less than forecasted in the final quarter of 2025.

NI increases, Pension schemes that employers now have to pay into for employees (which never gets mentioned), Min wage increases, reduction in capital gains tax, general tax increases, therefore every single supplier we deal with has to increase their prices, which means we also have to put our prices up.
Which means you the customer pays more.

They've also done fuck all about the energy companies absolutely fucking companies over. Our energy costs went from £13k a year to £33k a year.
We are a small business with 8 staff. We are in manufacturing and our energy use is exactly the same every day.

So no, not just one thing.

The huge energy and housing costs this country have are clearly the most urgent issue to sort out now.
As far as NHS is concerned, I think waiting lists are coming down but it is still a near third world experience having to use the NHS. Which it should not be. Having to suffer to use a service when you already feel ill is utterly demoralising both for the patients and the staff. It is not like this in most other European countries. Also state education, it should not be some miserable experience for children and a postcode lottery.

What is interesting about universities is that some students are bringing claims for failure to deliver during Covid. Same should apply during strikes. Unis have a responsibility to deliver, so does the NHS and state education. None of it is free, we are all paying dearly through our taxes.

Also, potholes. Sorry but if my car is damaged due to a pothole I will be suing my council and pretty confident I am going to win (if it happens to me).

They are shocking round here.
In France where I am from the country is economically fucked but the roads are beautiful, no potholes anywhere and if there is one it is filled immediately.
It's clean too, not rubbish everywhere.
Here I see bins overflowing that councils haven't emptied and overgrown hedges that they haven't cut back.
The country is a mess.

As you absolutely should, but you may just lose the will to live after engaging with the average LA’s legal department. Which I suspect is entirely strategic on their part!

My daughter is now getting 2 days on nursery for free.

Our business has now got to end, and we will take what we have and run.
This government has been a game changer for us. I just really hope others have benefitted as a result, but hardworking people, not chancers.
I suspect they haven’t.

I own a business and employ people so no, definitely not good for me.

Starmer is hardly poor is he? And giving the Chagos contract to one of his buddies, who has made millions from it …..isn’t that exactly what you are moaning about?

Exactly this

I knew that Labour weren’t going to be good for me but I didn’t expect it to be quite as bad.

I think we have stopped voting for the party we want to win and now vote against the party we don’t want to win. Hence the rise of Reform.