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

[OneWarmHazelQuail]

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

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

It''s not about "trans" it's about keeping men out of the Ladies. You may want men in the Ladies but you cannot give your consent on behalf of others.

Speaking as someone on the far left, Burnham is not 'one of ours'

‘My parents have had to help fund schooling it felt like my only hope as son has behavioural issues.’

Did the op say that the parents wholly fund the schooling in a subsequent post, as ‘help’ is only stated in the opening op?

You can only speak for yourself so there is no "we all accept Burnham is going to be very short-lived", even if you desperately hope he'll be short-lived.

Ditto with "far-left agenda". 'Anything I don't like' is not a synonym for 'far left'. 'What I want' is not a synonym for 'will of the people'.

Still, if it makes you happy to believe that millions of people in the country, including 24, 927 voters in Makerfield, are gullible dupes who've been deceived, and only you can see the truth, and we'll all be sorry...power on through, fill your boots. No one will stop you.

Also love to see on this thread how people are completely brainwashed by billionnaire-owned media into thinking that anything vaguely to the left of Reform is communist, yet go on and on about alleged leftie propaganda in higher education.

Yawn...

‘My parents help. They can't pay the lot.’

@thefireinyourheart . No, the mistake wasn’t mine. Op subsequently posted this. The parents are in their 70’s, and are helping with costs as the situation with the SEN is so desperate.

How does support for the sick and disabled in Finland compare? And is their healthcare better, so that people don't have to wait longer for treatment/surgery that will help them get back to work?

Interesting how no one wants to be associated with the far left, quite understandably, and yet here we are on the cusp of having one of Corbyn’s henchmen as PM, entirely unelected by anyone I might add.

It’s a pitiful state of affairs.

...didn't he literally just win an election?

I read recently that analysis of a number of Reform-supporting posts on a social media site (possibly FB) showed that 90% were bots.

I suspect something similar here, though perhaps not to 90% - but certainly, phrases such as "Burnham is far-left" and "Marxist" raise a smile, and a question mark. Or perhaps it's just a reflection of educational standards.

Yes I do know what it means. You clearly don’t though 🙄

Oh and there it is.

Of course you have to be a bot unless you agree with this farcical lefty madness 😂😂
It never changes on here.

Could you not be a little more innovative with your insults? Go on give it a whirl!

Ha, good one. That told her

Not a general election - no he did not!

He didn’t even win two Labour Party leadership contests!!!!!!

They also suggested it's a reflection of educational standards, if that one suits better

He’s not far left. He’s barely left of centre.

He has just won an election.

We do not vote for prime ministers in this country. We vote for our local MP, knowing that if our MP’s party gets enough seats in parliament they will form a government, and the leader of that party with become PM. We never truly elect a prime minister, unless they happen to be running in your constituency.

Is this really the best you can do?

My hope is really that he has a chancellor in place that can actually have a plan to improve our lives & quickly. That he can get a grip on the Energy policy & utility companies taking the P*.That a Border Control plan is harsh.
If he does'nt I don't think he will last long.

😅

That doesn’t mean much given actual votes at local and regional elections ended up with Starmer being ousted.

And what proportion of the previous conveyor belt of Tory prime ministers were unelected?

Someone needs to be brave enough to nationalise water.

I just think it's funny that you denied being a bot but didn't deny the other one

This.

I swear some people would regard a reincarnated Harold Wilson as hard left, and as for that Clement Atlee, he'd be an outright Bolshevik.