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

Airbnb is a great idea, thank you! It had never occurred to me before.

I would need to wait until existing tenants to leave due to Renters Rights....I have no way to evict and tenancies are periodic now. Not sure how long they are planning on staying..

My worry with respite is that my son won't manage with strangers. Am worried about distressing him further

Let me guess. You are a Restore member/voter because Reform is too left-wing and 'woke'.

it's numbers massaging - UK welfare bill is about 25% and includes pensions, so the graph doesn't compare apples with apples.

Welfare in Finland is universally accessible, unlike here when you lose childcare hours and many other benefits depends on your income
Welfare in Finland is time limited in terms of unemployment support
Finland taxes low and middle earners much more than UK

My worry with respite is that my son won't manage with strangers. Am worried about distressing him further

Might be a chance to rest, regroup.

Of course it is, sweetheart. Of course he is.

Bless.

Same.

so tired of low effort scared PMs who won’t try anything.

The assisted suicide bill was a private members one. Not a government one.

How is he "illegally" squatting?

Why do you have to bring trans people into every conversation. You seem obsessed with them... Bit creepy...

No, wanting to put men in the Ladies is what is really creepy.

Op all political squabbling aside, please call the dr today.

So what do you suggest?
Appropriate and redistribute?
A level politics?
You don’t have to accept anything. Get out, find a job or found your own business and get on with it.

The wealthy became wealthy through appropriation in the first place! Look at history, the feudal system. Even today people are having their house appropriated -or ‘compulsorily purchased’. It’s dispossession to provide land for property developers.

I suggest people become angry and do something about it. I’m not really suggesting it. I just think that’s what will happen when we reach a tipping point and people become more angry about what is happening to them.
Revolutions aren’t pretty.

A lot of poeple have jobs. They’re low paid and don’t provide a good life long standard of living. And here people are suggesting they get even less!
No.

No people bringing trans people up on every thread is not only creepy but ill mannered to every other person posting.

Maybe so. But this is a political thread about the possible impact of the new prime minister on a certain demographic; and the combination of circumstances the OP has gradually revealed over subsequent posts are particularly exceptional.

They are doing untold damage with their almost Marxist views.

Who can be tax to pay others benefits (said by a senior Labour Minister!)

Putting 20% on private schools. Bet that a % of MP's are using private schools themselves or use their position to get into the school of THEIR choice. Where has that money gone??

Putting immense pressure on small businesses with their stupid stupid taxes.

Make a pathetic attempt to rein in the balloning benefits bill and failed. This is really dangerous. It means that more and more people on benefits vote for the party which will keep the staus quo for them.

Offering a childcare proposal for people who arent working? Just why??

Your son will need to get used to it op, and yes for a while it might be hard, but consider long term what getting regular breaks will do.

Burnham has no right to the premiership, a GE is inevitable as he won’t have the creditability or authority to do anything, so please just hold on. The Labour Party is tearing itself apart no, and I expect it to continue until it is finished altogether.

You've no idea what Marxism means do you?

He didn’t “waltz in” from being a ‘glorified councillor’. He was a Cabinet member during the last Labour government. He was MP for Leigh for 16 years.

As brainwashing in higher education is a myth (are Mechanical Engineers brainwashed? Medical students? Economists? Accountants? Lawyers? Computer systems analysts? Architects?) probably best you don't attempt to discuss it. I hate to see people humiliate themselves in public.

The same would go - and has gone - for any PM. So, it's unclear what your point is.

Hold on for what? Even if a GE is called soon, what tangible things are going to change quickly enough to help OP?

Imagine typing out 'but what about the architects?!' with a straight face and thinking you’ve made a brilliant point 🙄

Pretending there isn't a massive ideological bias in higher education by pointing at computer analysts is pure gaslighting. If you're this terrified of a basic debate on a chat forum, no wonder you're resorting to patronising insults at other posters to try and shut it down.

Oh Op sorry that sounds so hard. Hopefully as he gets older things will change.

So you don't know what gaslighting is either.

The point PP is making is quite clear, you just seem to have missed it

Burnham is a red herring here. OP you are afraid. You perceive yourself to be on a knife edge. I have no doubt you are utterly exhausted.
Please consider a weeks respite for your son. Take a breath, regroup.
Maybe reconnect on a very light basis with a few folk.