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

Seemingly, Cameron and his successors did. After all, they slashed youth services and halved the number of police.

Do you want lower crime rates?
If so, let the experts advise based on what is known to work.

That’s a bit naive. Not all crime is caused by poverty. Counties with sufficient food, shelter and income to survive still have crime.

That's not the way tax works,you only pay tax on your £300 pension if you earn over £12570 from other sources.

Thank you for calling me an idiot.

Still with the Saint Kemi? She’s outlasted your Starmer.

It's a political conundrum - what's popular doesn't work, what works isn't popular.

And it's difficult for a government to get "unpopular" stuff through parliament and implemented, then monitored to show that it works, before the next GE.

Imo that's why governments rarely seem to achieve much of significance in their first term.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5555164-heather-herbert-charged-over-ann-widdecombe-comments

Explain the reason for this crime and how to prevent it?

It might be hard for you to understand, but some things are too complex to be answered in a mumsnet post

As many as she and her Party can get away with.

Only because she didn't become PM. Given how long her predecessors lasted she might well be on her way out now and there is no guarantee if she were to become PM about how long she would be in the job

The current gov are trying to undermine send legal rights ,legal actions are being launched left right and center

Obviously it’s easier to outlast the pm when you’re in opposition 🙄. Especially when people are so quick to blame the entirety of the country’s problems on someone who’s been in charge for less than two years and many of those problems are caused or exacerbated by things out of their control (like wars in other countries).

Sure if that helps you get past it. He’s still out due to his own MPs.

You're absolutely right. Tax evasion by multimllionaires isn't caused by poverty. Expanding your druggling smuggling operation across a region isn't caused by poverty.

But, a lot of crime in the UK is caused by poverty as well as long-term lack of opportunity stemming from that poverty. What's the best way to spend on money on chronic thieves do you think? Years before the thief has started operations, through family support, youth programmes, targeted skills training and education during and after school years? Or on housing them at HMP's pleasure during their repetitive cycle in and out of prison?

When you have no valid argument just revert to being patronising 👍

To be fair, I don't think you are quite in
a position to criticise people using nicknames for politicians! Will Kemi manage to outlast three PMs and remain as leader for six years as Starmer did, do you think?

He's not my Starmer, as you well know. But the Badenoch worship on Mumsnet is nauseating - people seem to want to overlook her views on people with autism, and this is the reality many people live with every day. Fair access to education matters so much and yet Kemi doesn't seem to care.

If Starmer being out annoys you use emojis.

Starter being out doesn't annoy me 😉

No the Starmer love was nauseating but it didn’t work in the end. He’s out, good stuff.

Starmer outlasted Johnson and Truss, and comprehensively trounced Sunak. All in four years.

What's your point?

Yes and that too! Of course!

but there still will also crime like theft and robbery and assaults and SA and murders even if all basic needs are met.

i do agree that early intervention and youth services are needed too. But they won’t still eradicate crime so policing and custodial punishments will still be necessary too.

No one said they wouldn't be necessary at all

Fed up of people on MN arguing a point that no one has made

I agree with that - he was a poor politician. He did however do some excellent stuff on the international stage - such as not dragging us into Trump's war. Which Badenoch supported at first, then quickly changing her mind in the face of public opinion.