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

Hopefully Burnham will implement a MASSIVE crack down on crime because it is Out of Control in many parts of the country.

Well I’m “woke”. I don’t see it as an insult tbh.

No, the opposite is happening.

The new guidance is to avoid using custodial sentences for anything other than the most serious of crimes. Including sexual assault and GBH and carrying weapons. The public are yet to cotton on to just how watered down our justice system is going to become. Community orders will be given out to almost every offender.

Can I ask you something? You left your house due to a traumatic incident. Did you have your children then?

The Sentencing Act 2026

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxk6dqqp1qo

Another dire Labour policy

We are screwed - really we are, and people think it’s bad now.

The Tories themselves did that very thing several times, didn't they? That's the party you plan to vote for.

Labour needs to become a party for workers, not shirkers. Like the name says, LABOUR.

You seem to have a huge problem with the fact that he’s “unelected” yet four of the last five PMs from the party you intend to vote for took office without a general election (all within the last decade).

Some would say it's been like that for years depending where you live. 10 billion pounds was robbed during COVID.

Is this a joke- wonderful MP? She’s literally never in the constituency, other than the occasional photo op for the local paper. Dates back to way before she was party leader as well so that’s no excuse.

Can you list the successes of the 14 years and numerous Prime ministers of Tory Govt that Labour inherited?

Keir Hardie became known as the MP for the unemployed. You know the actual founder of the Labour Party?

www.keirhardiesociety.org/keir-hardie.html

State schools have many many autistic children who experience heightened, prolonged distress. That happens with autism. State schools are better than the private sector as regards SEND. You haven’t even tried the state option. A GP or nursery owner aren’t going to be able to give you educational advice and a teacher’s advice is subjective.

It is a sweeping statement. I think it's terribly sad what has happened to education. Gove and his ghastly frontal adverbials. Stifling creativity.
Little children sitting for far too long, being obliged to use a pencil before they are ready. Bored out of their heads, then misdiagnosed.

We will have to double/treble/quadruple the police force to even make a dent in the crime figures.

As for prison space we need to do something drastic and quick to increase it.

Pre kids. I got the property a long time ago. I left it and asked my parents to rent it out. I moved into their house for a while and then left London for a few years altogether. I made the mistake of remortgaging from it at the peak of the market to fund a deposit for a new property. I thought I could just kick the can down the road and deal with it later.

I have seen photos of the house but I have not been there for many many years. It doesnt seem to be in a great state. I tell tenants to tell me about issues promptly and I call out people to repair as soon as possible but I haven't seen the quality of repairs myself. I never make deposit deductions and I haven't seen the property for a long time. It is rented to group of young men/students who don't reach out often.

I don't believe in raising rents once tenants are in or taking deposits. I just was satisfied with a break even point. It was never about investment or anything else. It was just like a thing in the background that I didn't like to deal with until it became a financial drain when I needed money for my son.

Oh no this is your opinion on how to deal with crime? Yikes that's sad

Or. We could look at why people commit crime rather than locking them
up for doing it. For every person we lock up, there will be another one committing the same crime.

Locking them all away won’t stop it.

Worrying actually.

Ok. Sounds like a nightmare x. I just wondered if your little boy experienced the trauma that you did. Hope you get help to deal with it all.

I heard he's already scoping out suitable sites for the gulags.

I’ll remind you of that when it’s your dd or ds on the receiving end ! Or maybe you want criminals walking around with knives and no deterrent at all.

They've got almost 4 years to go before they have to have a GE, so hardly the "last days".

I think a lot of things have improved since they were elected. I've been able to get an NHS dentist, for a start.

Yikes...PP is talking about looking at the causes of crime in order to prevent them happening in the first place. How did you miss that