AIBU to feel the media is pushing Starmer out?

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To feel the media is forcing Starmer out and to be annoyed by this.

They need constant drama and content and this is done at the expense of the country. Starmer is boring but things are improving despite major problems like Iran in the background.

If this were 20 years ago he’d have been safe. They are treating government like football clubs and want Burnham as they think he’s more showbiz. These foreign owner media outlets don’t care about the stability of this country, they just want headlines and drama on X to drum up more drama for headlines and opinion pieces where the media all interview each other.

The country is becoming ungovernable because them and I’m sick of it.

Did you just call me an idiot?

That is very rude.

It's awful to see people happy for kids to suffer because their parents make bad choices. But you are far from unique in that.

Affording income protection comes before affording kids surely???? Why would you have kids if you’re going to be so reckless they could face destitution?

People who cannot work should be looked after but buy their families first, and only by the state when there are no other options. We shouldn’t have slightly depressed 20 somethings gaming in their bedroom at their mums all day in receipt of benefits.

whet do you suggest the solution is?

Who said only the wealthy should have children?

Common sense would say, if you can only afford one child, then one is enough - not five or six. If you can't afford to have kids, perhaps you shouldn't have any.

What is so hard to understand, dear?

Well you seem to have implied there is an untapped source of vast tax wealth that Keir decided not to tap. Seems a little naive to me…

You too

Many people continue to have children they can't afford to support on their own because state benefits mean they can afford them.

And as they're 'entitled' to those benefits, they factor in those benefits as it's become part of their income. Their right. They don't think about how they'd manage without it, they just think well we'll get these benefits and so that's okay.

There's several UK 'family vloggers' on Youtube with 6-13 kids that i'm aware of that are planning more kids even if they already have one or more disabled kid and think that's just fine because they're already in social housing and claiming thousands a year but think it's okay because the man works a manual job. They don't think well he definitely isn't earning enough to support a family of 8-15, they think it's justified because the housing and the benefits are what they're entitled to.

Starmer and co and their inability to see it’s not the media is part of why he’s gone.

Well, benefits have become the bread and butter of the UK.

'I can't afford my kids, but I'll just go on benefits.

They're so good, we have individuals flocking from overseas to apply for them.

I agree with this. He should've stuck to his guns on the winter fuel allowance and the 2 child benefit cap.

I lived overseas for a while. We couldn’t get benefits until we’d worked there for at least 5 years. This seemed perfectly reasonable. Why are people moving to the UK able to receive benefits?

Rishi was voted out!

Rishi Sunak has done an interesting post about this on Linkedin. This stood out to me as ringing particularly true: "In the past fortnight, I have been in several European capitals and the conversations are all strikingly similar. Almost everywhere, the leader is unpopular, the populists are hammering at the door, the economy is in trouble, the fiscal challenges have been heightened by the need to increase defence spending and there is a sense that the state just can’t deliver any more."

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rishi-sunak_any-embattled-prime-minister-has-dark-nights-activity-7474340335003828224-4ht-?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAkSxugB35vu7LBhs8LuH4J7uEvSdnCwBPc

I agree. And it's enraging, especially when you look at who owns the media. They aren't supporting the man in the street by any stretch of the imagination.
I was not a fan of him at all, but he was actually slowly making progress out of the sh*tshow the Tories made, with all their incompetence and under the table deals and austerity measures that just made people poorer.

It was never gonna be fixed in under 2 years, so people blaming him for the whole countries problems is beyond ridiculous.

Well, that's it. No one knew what he stood for.

The benefit cap must be returned to disincentivise irresponsible individuals from creating villages of children they cannot afford.

I 100% agree and am disappointed this is happening

The British population by and large is thick as shit

The lifting of the benefit cap was bizzare. This was a move deeply unpopular with the voting public as well as ruinously expensive. Why do it?

Reform peddled drivel. 🙄

It's the imaginary money trees, dear.

I must find out where they are grown 😂

You know GB news is owed by Farage sponsers, right??

I always fed my own kids. Apparently that's a big ask this day and age.

It seems some parents fail to realise that feeding their kids is a part of parenting.

The UK has become softened into believing benefits are the answer to everything.

I think it’s different attitudes amongst different sorts of people. I’ve always moved for work, either my work or my husbands. All over UK and in 4 different countries globally. If we were to somehow end up on the breadline wholly reliant on benefits and couldn’t afford to live off them we’d move to the very cheapest possible part of the UK and live there. It’s the people thinking they’ve a right to be housed by the taxpayer in Chelsea etc that I find baffling.