To be sick of people being so negative about the things Burnham is putting into place

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Nobody thinks they’ll fix everything but he’s doing small things that can be actioned quickly and will drastically improve aspects of our lives that have got worse over the last two decades - parking fines, music on trains, vaping on public transport. They’re all small things, yes, but they will make things a little better.

He’s not said anywhere that he thinks that doing these things will save Britain. So why are people acting like he has said that?

I think the transport police are to enforce rather than the train or bus staff. I’m not sure how it will work in practice but the theory is good.

The £2 might help but the airlines forced to stop the £8.99 sitting together will mean it’s just hidden in the overall price. There’s 100+ more important things for him to be getting done instead of concentrating on teeny things.

I have been trying to think of something- just one thing- that will make a big enough difference to feel like real progress
The trouble is that there is so much to do and they all feel urgent

It’s become a trend almost to ‘HaTe ThE gOvErNmEnT’

It is so easy to be snobby and sneering about bus fares but for millions of ordinary working people, that is exactly the kind of thing that actually matters to their day to day life.

As for the rest, UK unemployment is actually down - it was in the news either yesterday or today that it has fallen to* *its lowest level in over a year. And we all know the debt is a problem, but in Bangkok last week the IMF literally singled out the UK to praise its deficit reduction plans.

Of course you can dislike the direction of travel of the government, but at least base your dislike on facts. The constant doom mongering about the country just gets so tiresome: and I actually think that's why Andy Burnham's hope messaging is cutting through.

What are the 100+ more important things?

The real world reduction in NHS waiting lists?

Flying isn’t an essential like transport to and from work is?

Quite. However, the things he’s NOT dealing with, do negatively affect others.

Hospital waiting lists came down under Starmer but have just gone up for the 4th month in a row. 🤔

I totally agree.

What are they?

I do like the bus fee cap. But that’s just continuation. Also it’s still not always the best option.

For me to bus to my dentist not nhs can’t get one. There and back would involve four busses that’s £8 at the £2 cap. Add my children because we all go together another £12 on their £1 tickets. £20. I can get a taxi for that there and back and not waste half my day on the bus. Or I can get day rider and ride all day long for less than my £8 or a family ticket for five of us for £15 and ride all day.

£2 tickets only help the occasional bus trips not those who need to catch more than one bus really. So I guess I like it but also in another breath it feels pointless 🤷🏻‍♀️ swings and roundabouts.

Although the number of job vacancies has fallen to below 700 000 for the first time since Covid because of employers NI, business rates so that is not a good thing.

i do agree that tackling low level antisocial behaviour is very important and if these are ignored then things will escalate.

At the end of 2025 there were 7.29 million patients waiting for care. There’s now 7.37 million. However, they fell as backlogs were cleared and now people are being seen quicker in general - is that not a good thing?

Or vacancies are being filled?

I am sure that ones I have seen acting up on public transport will be falling over themselves to pay. Lets ask the train conductors how accommodating difficult passengers are...

What I find rather fascinating is that people can know so much about a person apart from the name of the actual scheme they are supposedly abusing.

There is no such thing as a "mobility car". Although all cars provide mobility, I suppose.

I get the bus to and from work and it helps me.

I’m the last person who will vote Labour, but why do you think the trivial things shouldn’t be done? The last governments have failed at the small and big things, so at least he’s making progress on the little things.

Now I don’t agree with all the trivial decisions he’s made, but I support that he’s doing something and what he thinks is right - and as it happens, it doesn’t matter a huge amount that I don’t agree… because they’re small things. Together they will add up to a better society though.

I care about the economy and defence because without those two things we are nothing. Kemi is doing very well and attracting back a lot of the boomer voters who were going to vote for Farage.i expect she’ll attract a lot of Labour Brexit lovers too.

parking fines, music on trains, vaping on public transport.

I think banning loud music and vaping on public transport is an excellent idea, but who is going to stop it?
The guard or ticket collector or bus driver won’t want to risk being hurt.

its going take a long time to put right the Conservatives destruction of this country

He can hardly fix everything for all people all at once can he?