Would you vote for Labour/Getting rid of Triple Lock at the next general election?

[mybiggreenfrog]

Yes (YABU)
No (YANBU)

That’s more than two years out of date.

@BIossomtoesits been pretty widely published that they cost more. He’s something from ten months ago https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/28/quelling-public-disquiet-hotels-worth-extra-cost-housing-refugees-barracks-says-government

Did you miss Trussnomics?

The Tories nearly trebled the national debt.

The Norweigans have the largest state pension fund in the world. Amazing what you can do when you invest the proceeds from extracting natural resources rather than squandering it.

Thanks for the link @january1244

Agree.

One of the first things Labour did was introduce VAT on private school fees. They introduced it mid-year for maximum harm, after minimal consultation. The VAT is also added to additional learning support. That’s a direct tax on disabled SEN kids. Shameful. The impact on the number of kids leaving for state schools or home education is higher than predicted. As are the number of schools closed and teaching and other staff displaced. Already the cost is greater than the taxes collected in Scotland, and soon this will be the case for the rest of the UK. Labour did this out of hatred, spite, and confused ideology. It has had a huge impact to my family already. I despise them for doing this, and shame on anyone who supports it. It’s part of the national psyche to destroy and break nice things. No way the country gets better with this socialist cancer.

Not just employment income, any income. Why should passive income from investments be treated differently?

Oh it shouldn't, agreed. I mentioned income from employment because I haven't had to pay it since I reached state pension age, and it doesn't feel like a fair policy.

Were these sites barracks? Were they using the former accommodation at RAF Scampton or just using the site as a location to build portakabins on? If they were barracks, did they need much in the way of renovations? So many variables, you can't extrapolate from these cock-ups (made under the Tories, I note) to say that they're applicable to future schemes.

We need to opt out of EHCR and adopt A British Bill of Rights
The Human Rights Act was meant to be a British Bill of Rights. It's British judges interpreting the ECHR In ways that make it impossible to deport people. There are countries who are signatories to ECHR who are far stricter than we are and not stopped by the ECHR from doing so. Just like Brexit our problems are our own and instead of dealing with them we just decide it's someone else's fault and carry on.

The UK was one of the key authors of the European Convention of Human Rights, and the first nation to sign it. It would be a tragedy to leave it and a complete mistake. Don’t fall for this ruse that we need to leave it, I implore you!

I agree. The ECHR is not the problem. Neither was the EU ( The UK also proposed most of the ' elf n Safety' regulations) If we leave the ECHR our problems will still exist because they are caused by our useless governments.

Some absolutely hilariously, unhinged opinions about Labour in this thread, it's actually made me laugh out loud.

Apparently we're now living in a "communist dictatorship"

😂

It’s quite bizarre and so unlike anything I’ve experienced in real life. Amongst my own friends and family, we all have differing, and ever shifting political opinions - I don’t know if I’ve ever really spoken to anyone adamantly for or adamantly against every single thing any one political party ever says or does.

I don't know anyone in real life whatever their political persuasion, who shoehorns criticism of Labour into every discussion as doggedly as some posters on here do.

I don’t know anyone so tribal that’s for sure. I’m married to a lifelong Tory who is really impressed with Burnham’s speech yesterday.

Or put this in every post.

The posts for the last gov were more so, but if you’ve just joined then you probably missed that. Still are in some cases.

But yes rl political discussion and mn isn’t the same thing.

It was a good speech.

However most of what he discussed is not deliverable this side of a general election.

Indeed the FT is reporting the NCS won’t come in until the late 2030s.

I think his political capital will melt away much sooner. As a tax rising budget, combined with increased winter fuel and energy costs kick in.

I wouldn’t vote against it, but relative positions on our relationship with Europe is likely to be the vote decider for me at the next election. (Plus electoral reforms)

Yes, I was on Mumsnet years & years ago - and am only recently back, so missed anything said about the last government (I think we’ve been through 6-7 Prime Minister’s since I was last here!). I think the tone was a bit different then - but am learning the ropes!

I guess it’s always going to be the case that the people posting online about politics will have more strongly held views than most people in the real world.

It’s just different. It doesn’t mean much about the strength of views.

Posters do as you put for the other parties (and the next poster with the doggedly line), they are part of it so don’t see it as much as for their own party but it’s still there.

I think I see what you mean. I don’t really have a party I think of as “my own party” so I guess that’s part of why it seems odd to me.

But I suppose the government are always going to get more flak and scrutiny than the opposition parties - and probably rightly so.