To absolutely hate this government, and what they are doing to our country?

[CoventryCity]

To absolutely hate this government, and what they are doing to our country?

Strong words but is is how I feel at this point in time. All of them make me feel physically sick. The latest example -

No wonder Labour won't cut benefits. More than half of Burnham's MPs represent seats where claimant count is higher than their Commons majority

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16147745/No-wonder-Labour-wont-cut-benefits-half-Burnhams-MPs-represent-seats-claimant-count-higher-Commons-majority.html

Which is?

Well, let's see .... people who refer to entire ethnic groups or cultures as sexual predators?

People who genuinely think an article in the Sun or Telegraph, or a picture from their X feed, is proof of their views about entire ethnic or cultural groups.

People whose posts are frequently deleted.

People who claim they are not actually against immigrants because they quite liked Rishi Sunak 😆

Yes, all this and so much more on AIBU..,

I'm surprised you don't know that.

Invisible apparently.

Is it Katie Hopkins?

Are you going to answer the question?

Almost as though there was no battlecry.

As someone who appears to be concerned about antisemitism, do you condemn the Great Replacement Theory @LuckyHazelFox?

Let's say the premise in the original post is true. Let's examine a constituency that elected a Labour MP in the last general election. I used Aldershot because they're the first one alphabetically which swung Con > Lab.

Labour won 40.7 % of the vote in 2024, which was an 18.6% gain for them over the 2019 election. Conservatives came in second at 29% (a decline of 27.8%) and Reform third with 16.9%, which was pure gain as they did not stand in 2019. (Note that had all of the Reform votes gone to the Conservatives, the then-incumbent Leo Docherty (Con) would have held the seat.)

Labour received 19,764 votes with a turnout of 61.8%, a decline of 5.7% since 2019. (In the absence of contradictory evidence, we have to assume that the other 38.2% of Aldershot's 78,569 registered voters - 30,013 people - chose not to vote. That's their right.) Your hypothesis suggests that at least 31,987 adults in the constituency ( < 40.7% of the electorate) are currently receiving government benefits.

You, OP, claim that Labour, and by extension Aldershot's MP Alex Baker, protect benefits BECAUSE such a high number of their constituents use benefits. If this is the case, is it not both logical and ethical for the MP - whoever it is, and whatever party - to support the benefits that their constituents depend on? What do you suppose would happen to the UK as a whole if these benefits were suddenly stripped, USA-Trump 2024-style? If there is a way to remove or reduce the benefits and support these constituents in another way, how is Labour uniquely awful for not doing so in their 26 months in office when the Conservatives failed to do so for 170 months? Or, if you believe that there has been a dramatic rise in successful benefits claims in Aldershot during the 2010 - 2024 period, how does that support your theory that recent Conservative governments have been dramatically superior to Labour?

I must be missing something because this thread is primarily concerned with Labour’s economic record - a significant part of which, is their unwillingness/inability to cut spending, including welfare.

You take a singular view regarding this Labour party Government. Basically it amounts to "they're rubbish'. So, with that in mind, I make no apologies for my laughing emojis to you.

Anyway, don't you just love laughing emojis 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Cough. Cov. Cough

😂

The thread has evolved, as threads do.

It might be a laughing matter for you, not for many others.

I’m not sure those emojis will last. Headlines setting the scene, ‘difficult decisions’ line again.

Let's just say some posters are quite prolific and fool nobody.

Several posters on here are prolific, and almost all have an axe to grind.

I am one.

Nothing wrong with emojis but I see how they offend you, as much as me shortening a poster's name to Cov. I will be mindful of that in future.

I feel similarly about the laughing emojis and attack posts. It’s not going to change the incoming issues.

Your axe has a very wide reach, it seems.

Whos trying to fool you?

Private psychiatry companies are routinely misdiagnosing ADHD in children and must face tighter regulation, a government review will conclude this week. Most NHS-funded assessments for ADHD now take place in the private sector in a “market failure” that is inflating diagnosis, it will say.

A review led by Professor Peter Fonagy of University College London will recommend a focused investigation of private clinics by the Care Quality Commission along with a ban on advertising NHS-funded assessment and treatment, according to people familiar with the report’s contents.

The report was commissioned by then health secretary Wes Streeting last year in response to concern about the rapid rise in diagnosis of conditions such as ADHD and autism, along with common mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression, amid concern that this was contributing to an increase in sickness benefit claims.
FT

‘Medicalising’ kids that are inattentive or poorly behaved will harm their long term prospects. How many adults do we now see giggling that they can't do simple tasks because they have ADHD, as if that's the end of the matter so far as they are concerned? As ever, the intent of government may have been good, in recognising an emerging disability... but exploitation by the quacks and benefits class has gone too far, a correction is certainly due.

Not much difference to your sneering at fan girls threads earlier.

The war in Iran isn't ending any time soon.

Those posters who wanted the UK to join Trump have gone silent over that issue.

Kind of you to say so.

I prefer to follow the money - and, it’s always about money.