To feel utterly miserable about a future with Andy Burnham as PM?

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I feel like I'm being stung in every possible way at the moment- £15 a day on tube to work, high mortgage costs, high energy costs, private schooling for SEN child (I was told state wouldn't be unlikely to assist him as he isn't mute or violent). My parents have had to help fund schooling it felt like my only hope as son has behavioural issues.

I also have an unsold old home that I have to rent out as it wouldn't sell. Buy-to-let mortgage costs, agent fees, maintenance and tax put me in a loss position.

I can't bear what the future holds with Andy Burnham. I have no doubt that he will find new and imaginative ways to keep me in this financial nightmare. I'm literally struggling from food poverty but regarded as rich by policy.

YABU- Andy Burnham is actually going to make things better

YANBU- I'm screwed

Video him and show the GP
Create a post on special needs boards or read some posts already there about speeding up and your legal rights on EHCP and DLA - you might be able to claim to use for therapies for him

I don’t need to educate myself. Economists are almost unanimous that investment would have achieved far more than austerity did. Interest rates were at rock bottom, it was the perfect time to invest, not slash and burn. Just to add insult to injury the debt only increased.

It’s like you haven’t noticed the property market has entirely died. Under Labour - the housing market isn’t moving. How do you sell a house with no buyers?

There's no difference. Except that people with ISAs don't whine that their ISA is impossible to cash out, when what they really mean is that it hasn't gone up in value as much as they were hoping to.

Sometimes, when you're in the middle of it, you can't see it. Come off MN and contact your GP.
You can join threads about children who need support, or you can also get support for your MH, but in the meantime, try to get some constructive help.
MNHQ have online resources and I've contacted them for you.
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Why are they not slashing taxes now then to encourage that investment? My business has a billion ideas on how to grow but no cash to do so. If we halve our business rates/ni tomorrow that money would go straight back in.

He screams and shouts for multiple hours a day. Sometimes as soon as he wakes. In public he tends to just stay away from other children but if he sees them in park for example, he will often be aggressive. He also wont use a toilet at home. 2 years of 7ish sets of soiled clothes in draining. At school, he's just very quiet but not mute. They say he speaks to adults about his family. He has no other interests.

I have done autism early bird course, courses with council. Taken him to OT and Speech and Lang. They say there may need sensory issues but he doesn't seem sensitive to sound or light so it's unclear to me what the cause is.

I also have a baby daughter. She's an aversive feeder - doctors think this is due to reflux.

I just feel so lost. There doesn't seem to be any help. I use every penny I have to try and help my son but nothing works. The advice doesn't work.

He was actually mayor of Greater Manchester. While I have no doubt he has done good for Manchester, those of us in the nine other boroughs have seen zero difference. No decent jobs, no plans to create any, town centres decimated and filled with homeless/drugs/drinkers that are intimidating to have to go past.

Public transport isn’t great, unless in city centre/south Manchester. My borough no longer has a direct service to the airport, meaning more people from here drive, rather than having to faff about changing trains in the city centre when you’ve got suitcases and it taking three times as long as the car.

He did back the campaign to save the railway ticket offices which was great. As he is now my MP, I will make an appointment to see him about the above issues.

No, why do you think Northerners are thick or something?

It's what he says, what he does. Surely you haven't forgotten his cringeworthy performance during the pandemic?

He was a mayor. A glorified councillor. He should not be able to waltz into a top political position.

YABU - you choose to commute in London. You choose to live in a house that’s beyond your means. You choose to send your son to private school. These are all choices you have made that you’re blaming others for.

I don’t think she chose for her son have SEN and be forced to pay for that provision. That’s a very mean and harsh take

Ok. You really do need some practical help and some emotional support. As I said upthread, start with the GP. I think there's a huge amount going on here.
Hopefully MN will send you some advice as well.

How else am I meant to get to work? I can't afford to live closer. I cant afford to not work. Where else am I meant to find work. I was born and raised here.

Ridiculous post

To be entirely balanced - the economy and life in general was much better then. No one plans to find out they have a SEN child with complex needs. No one plans for the wars, cost of living and poor decisions Reeves inflicted on us. No one plans for the housing market to tank.

He'll come in, launch a load of pointless crap to try and show that he is 'changing things', will drive the county into the ground like the last Labour Government, then the Conservatives or Reform will get in.

Op shouldn’t have to pay for a special school in the first place!

If you read more of the thread you would see the OP moved to another home because of a crisis. This isn’t someone who is privileged. They are in crisis. They posted about the stress of a child who screams most of the time; they posted about committing suicide.

This thread isn't helping you. Time to log out.
Contact the GP.

This argument is a crappy one that just wants to silence any reasonable debate though. The North has been systematically underfunded and overlooked for decades. Yet if anyone tries to level the playing field (which by definition means taking from those who have more than average) they get dismissed as spiteful or “chippy” (I never see that directed at anyone but northerners).

To those who have excess, equality will always feel like deprivation.

Austerity resulted in cuts to SEN provision. Brexit screwed the economy with a bit of Liz Truss and her disastrous budget. All the parties and the triple lock.
Specifically what is AB going to do to make it worse? As an SEN parent he might actually help you, the Tories actually cut provision.

I’m really pissed off with this change but let’s be fair, these issues aren’t his making nor Starmer’s making. Most of them are the aftermath of Tory management of the country for 14 years, and yes things like Brexit (it was clearly said it would make us all poorer!), Covid, underinvestment etc. high mortgage costs are thanks to Liz Truss. Even 100K income tax cliff as far as I remember was introduced by Tories.

unfortunately it’s very hard to undo that given that we are in the lean years and energy costs are influenced by the world’s political situation so outside of UK control allthogether

"Crashed the economy" it was already crashed, we have had a moribund economy for years , only the City has kept us afloat, and that has been handicapped by Brexit- losing all the Euro trade,and bond market.
The Tories were in for 14 years and we struggled more every year for the whole term- really your memory is so short you don't remember?

He has also held cabinet roles. None for more than year before being moved on though. People seem to have forgotten is track record is atrocious.

No and I am a decent landlord but the whole bureaucracy and the very notion that I have to go into battle if I want my property back , whatever else can someone own where the government now determines my rights to do as I wish on my own property . God knows they haven’t sorted out the leasehold scandal because of powerful rich freeholders but they’re quite happy for easy pickings on normal people .

This government has crippled aspiration to better yourself for you and your family . The message is the better you do the more we’ll take from you .

Oh do stop! You are talking BS to support your lame assertion that Labour have done well. They bankrupted us in the 70s, they more or less did the same thing in 2000s and left is penniless - hence why the conservatives were voted in, to clear up the mess. Here we go again with Burnham. It’s the same boring cycle.