Has Labour taken it literally when people said they are ‘doom and gloom’ and are now giving discounts to theme parks and kid’s attractions as a bit of fun?

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Whilst these are all quite ‘sweet’ initiatives and will help some families. Lower price theme park entry and cinema tickets don’t really help average working families with the cost of living crisis. Am I just being a grump?

If they reduced the billions of pounds they send abroad as aid, or the billions they pour into funding wars that aren't ours, then there would be plenty of money to help our economy. I am the first to help someone and I often defend the migrants but we can't house the migrants, keep funding Ukraine, keep sending aid to developing countries, keep increasing taxes and underfund our own national services and local communities - all while telling people to work 60 years so the government can pocket half your wage and then graciously give you less back in your state pension than what's needed to heat your home and eat 3 meals a day. The government is bonkers and so is anyone that agrees with their tax policies

Pensions are the largest share of the Welfare budget

It's desperation.

I expect the working age to contribute more than the elderly - but those are just my values - perhaps you don’t share them?

I have no idea what your values are so you could be right.

Shameful that many are happy to take state handouts.

Utterly shameful.

Particularly when the average household is going to be hit with an increase in energy bills of over £200 shortly.

I don’t forgive Labour’s failure to understand people in glass houses don’t throw stones and I accept that there always going to be ‘gifting’ in politics and MP’s, opposition and government . Sadly I don’t think it’s realistic to think we can eliminate it. BUT Labour declared their freebies, the Tories and Farage didn’t and that’s the issue for me. If it was within the rules that applied to everyone then if I don’t agree I can get the rules changed.If I don’t know about it, I can’t do anything. Transparency is the key point. The fact Farage and Johnson weren’t suggests they knew it wasn’t within the rules and tried to hide it.

Never going to happen.

There is help coming but guess what - it’s targeted.

Would it be anything else. 🙄Thankfully, Rachel has confirmed that she'll still be the Chancellor in the Autumn. The UK is in safe hands.

Labour weren't transparent either. Starmer didn't declare all his gifts until he was found out.

People can no longer afford restaurants as the cost of food has gone up, the business rates have gone up, labour costs have gone up, NI etc so this is all passed to the consumer.

This government is trying to a sort of eat out to help out.. but it’s not going to work. Alongside VAT on school fees - it’s a total mess.

The recent SEND white paper consultation was horrific and hard work to round it off she’s got Gemma Collins advertising the DofE. BP, RR and KS I’m absolutely disgusted with them all.

i genuinely think Labour will be wiped clean out at the next election. It took the Tory party 14 years of fuck ups, so far it’s taken Labour two and I’m speaking as someone who voted for them.

I feel similar, being a Labour voter myself.

I feel like one of the disadvantages of Labour is that their main supporters are often too busy working/ too tired from working so hard to bother their MPs. While the ones with no jobs have all time time and energy to write/ harass their MP. If half of us working had a minute left in the day we might actually be able to have more of a say!

@Sungladeoh I bothered my MP. I cried on him as I told him line by line of my financial situation and he emphatically said he’d help as he was bought up by a single mother. Then it took over a year of me chasing him to get any follow up - which essentially said yeah I can’t/won’t do anything. And proceeds to go for easy win good news stories on his Facebook page. In comparison my Tory MP would respond to my every email with a detailed response without a few weeks! The backbenchers haven’t got a fucking clue how to run a country or an economy! They will never get my vote again!

They wont/ can't go if they simply dont have the money to spend on a day out at a theme park or whatever regardless of whether the bus is free or not.

Same. Single working mum too knackered to complain except on here

It's utter garbage.

DS hasn't eaten a kids meal for years. He grew out of them since he's 8.

He declared them late which is actually quite common for MPs, and can be because you miss the deadline or in Starmers case updated compliance advice. It’s because he was late it was picked up, he could have not declared to avoid the media storm. But it’s better to declare it late than not declaring at all. The media storm was schadenfreude and bad political optics but he did declare his gifts. The others didn’t

He declared them when he realised he'd been found out. Lacking in any kind of morals and integrity just like the rest.

Just like when they reduced the VAT during Covid, the great British public won’t see a penny of these ‘savings.’ The businesses will absorb it all.

@GiaGia16single working mother here too… someone Labour believes has a never ending pot of cash for childcare, energy hikes, petrol costs etc etc! But it’s OK they’re given us money off biscuits (which are cheap anyway) and £5 off Legoland which I still wouldn’t be able to afford!

My suspicion is its more about providing a booster to the British tourism industry at at a time when people otherwise wouldn't be able to afford to visit attractions.

If they wanted to actually reduce people's costs they could have cut fuel duty or levies that hit energy bills. But the petrol industry doesn't need handouts right now and its not in line with "green agendas".

I know, such a shame I live 250 hours from Legoland or honestly we’d be there!