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

No property is unsellable. Reduce the price.

Question is - who would you rather…? 🤔

I’m not convinced he’ll be PM for that long.

It’s easy to criticise from the outside. Much harder to be the one everybody is critical of. Even harder if people believed their support would lead to specific roles and now feel betrayed.

I sniff a GE in the future, well before the official term expires. Probably to do what T. May wanted and attempt to get a “legitimate” mandate for a new leader with new plans.

We have assets too but DH’s business which is our main source of income isn’t doing well. First time he’s had to make someone redundant.
COL increased massively as adult DC come back home to live and neither are working f/t (applying post-uni, one works part-time).
Working is hard for me as I have some medical conditions so I work for DH.
I’m worried that he’s going to increase corporation tax - NIC increase had been bad enough.

Why did Andy Burnham and other labour MPs agreed to replace Starmer? You think Burnham won’t be criticised by media or foreign bad actors? So then every 2 year we expect a new face?

Seriously. If you don't know that Brexit will financially scupper us forever, you do not understand basic economics. Strangely, the only people that benefited financially from Brexit were the incredibly rich. You know, the sort of rich people that bung, the person that fought for Brexit to happen five million pounds (for no good reason of course).

Oh dear… Tell me you know nothing about economics without telling me you know nothing about economics

Even with the mn catnip of mentioning private fees and btl you have more agreeing with votes.

Did you not notice the horrific damage done in the preceding 14 years?

Op will the council not buy your rented out home from you? I've no clue how it works but that might be an idea

If your house won't sell, it's because you're asking too much for it.

Have you bothered to find out about applying for an EHCP for your child? It's ridiculous to say that you won't get special educational provision funded on the basis of third hand misinformation.

Absolutely all of this. The audacity of bleating about private school fees and second home ownership is breathtaking.

Ithink things are unlikely to be worse for you. The worse thing for you would be VAT on school fees- and that is already done. There is likely to be a benefit shake up, but you are unlikely to lose out on that, there is really no leeway for more income tax, taxing wealth is likely to be the way forward, which won't affect you.

Burnham is nowhere near being a "Corbynite"!

No decent landlord would object to renters rights...

But surely we should be able to expect more out of our life than just avoiding poverty and homelessness, or is everyone with a crap job and somewhere to sleep supposed to be eternally grateful and forelock tugging

Yep, we’re fucked. Feel like packing in my demanding full time job and going on benefits

I didnt buy as an investment. I bought to live in but was a victim of a traumatic crime so moved out quite suddenly.

I dont think anyone goes into buying a property and expects it to be unsellable

If he tries to make CGT the same as income tax that will hopefully trigger an election as he has no mandate to do that and it will kill all enterprise/ possible job creation. That or he may have to square up to Putin not the decks in a nightclub.

Were bids placed on it at auction? Did those bids not reach your reserve?

What damage have labour done? Apart from VAT on private school fees? I am sympathetic with the situation with your child, but surely most people that have children in private school are doing it out of choice - they could choose to just send children to ordinary schools.

Unfortunately the damage done by Brexit is ongoing, and that was always inevitable. You really have to be economically and politically naive if you really believe that it was over and done with in 2016, especially given that the referendum vote didn't even take effect fully until three years later.

Apols - replied to the wrong post. I put it on auction and it didn't sell, I have a large mortgage on it. It's not about profit, it's about stemming loss.

The EHCP process is a long one. We're still on that road but what am I supposed to do with a highly distressed child? I have done all the courses through council, Autism charity etc. It hasn't helped

I actually don’t think Burnham will last long. Once in the role, the spotlight will be on, and I would not be surprised if Kemi makes mincemeat of him, let alone the media. He may well be revealed as a light weight in the role, which I suspect is what he is. Starmer and his friends may well stick the knife in if they can, though we might not hear about it. And there may yet be scandals and failures to be revealed connected with Burnham.

I expect Burnham to have a short reign, and either Cooper or Mahmoud to step in. For me, Mahmoud would be a relief in some ways, because I think she is likely to have more of a no-nonsense approach, however, she is certainly controversial for her participation in a protest march that will not sit well with a huge number of people. I really think it is unwise for a politician of any political persuasion to be seen to participate in a controversial protest if they are ambitious about leading the country.

I could be wrong, but I think Mahmoud’s parents had their own business? If so, she may be more sympathetic to helping small businesses and reversing some of the poor decisions by Reeves that have resulted in stagnation of recruitment, businesses going under, and have even harmed small charities due to added costs.

Job losses and rising youth unemployment.