General Election

[Iamacatslave]

Looks like July 4th.

That wasn't all areas. Hospitals were OK depending on area, kids ate shit as the nutrition standards weren't in until 2008..

Patronising as well as offensive. Some of us pensioners perhaps have a bit more life experience and intelligence than yourself.

I've noticed that too. What do you think may happen?

Well said.
That previous post was very offensive !

The funniest thing tho saying ‘I don’t expect any rational or reasonable posts on here for while’…….🤣

pot….black

Sunak is bloody clueless.

He and his wife are richer than the KING.

Nobody needs that much money. It is sick. Truly.

They can never relate to the working person. EVER.

I’m in my 50s. What a very stupid assumption.

You really think the Tories give a shit about women’s rights either?

Labour has committed to the Tories' spending plans. This isn't Blair's Labour. Things won't change.

I think Labour, if they think ahead and massively scale up the copium production and also start salt mining, should make billions for the UK economy off Conservative voters after the election

Poor mites will have to suffer watching culture wars nonsense become the fringe issues they should be and not mainstream government policy, mmmm Conservative tears are going to be so tasty

We have that in Wales because Welsh Labour is totally incompetent, the people within it are. That's true. I think some within Labour in general are too, absolutely. I think Starmer will have to sideline them if he wants this to go anywhere, and go measured and middle ground which is what's needed.

Money can be spent differently?

Why so much wasteful privatisation that ends up costing far more? look at what happened when MOD payroll privatised? the Chinese hacked it.

It's great that your life has improved over the last 14 years Martini.

Overall, would you say that education, support for disabled people and opportunities for those on low incomes have been on an upward trajectory?

Same! I worry for small businesses with labour, women’s rights ( the women’s sector haven’t done to bad with funding under tories)

I don’t think Labour will do much about homelessness tbh more so make things worse.

I do normally spoil my vote, but I feel like this time round isn’t what I should be doing, but what do I do !

It is the day after the announcement and still ecstatic! I have a new spring on my step. I think this smile on my face is going to last till July. Finally!

It'll make a difference to have leaders who aren't just ideologically cruel and selfish.

Over 50% of women who call domestic violence refuges, are turned away because the Tories have cut funding.

The number of women killed by ex or current partners is going UP, its almost 3 women each and every week.

Out of 100 women raped, 98 will never see their attacker in court, let alone convicted.

Labour hasn’t been Labour since Blair got in. You basically now have a two cheeks of the same arse scenario. After 14 years of the Real Thing it looks like Britain is ready to cut back and go Diet Tory for a bit! As much as the Tories deserve a good kicking, Sunak did make one point it’s hard to argue with: having lied through his teeth to secure the Labour leadership, it’s likely he’s now doing the same to become PM.

Really? You’d feel cheerful if Labour got in? Unless they’ve changed a lot since last in power, I think the utopia people are expecting with a Labour government may be somewhat misplaced. It makes me nervous contemplating a Labour government. Im old enough to remember what it was like the last time they were in power.

You really don't have to be that old to remember that. I remember it and I'm 44.

I also remember the last 14 years. I'm not hoping for utopia. I'm just hoping to roll the dice and give us a chance at someone different because this lot have been cruel, greedy and incompetent.

Sunak might want us all to forget he was part of the covid crowd but he was there handing out contracts to mates and demanding adherence to rules they didn't give a shit about. Made worse by his flagship 'eat out to help out' farce. A party that voted Liz Truss in - a woman of such awful incompetence that to put her has head of the party can only be described as waging war on your own country. A party of handing £200m to "Dame" Mone for PPE that never worked. Of wanking in H of Commons. Thats paid Rwanda £240m so far for nothing and agreed to pay almost £500k per person for the first 300 people on top of that. That turned blind eyes to sexual assaults by an MP.

Perhaps the problem is that my memory is too good - because it's going to be a long time until I forget what's happened over the last 14 years.

Regardless of whether the other guys turn out to be any good or not, I'm willing to give them a shot. Maybe they're just as bad. Maybe they're not. I'll use my vote to find out because there is no way in hell this lot are getting my vote.

I don’t know. Starmer struck me as being the very definition of ideologically cruel when he supported the cutting off of water and electricity to Gaza, which directly led to many infant deaths. I generally don’t get any feeling of empathy from him whatsoever - has has the coldness of a post-Iraq Blair about him.

Not to day to day life it won't!

The government-yesterday…it was all over the media before Sunak’s announcement

What difference would it make to have an empathetic leader who does exactly the same thing as a cruel one? Reeves could stand and cry while she tells us that there will be no new money for those with disabilities, Streeting could blub while he tells us that further privatisation is inevitable and Keir could weep a river while he tells us that l, actually, there isn't actually a place to just magic up new teachers for schools. And that would be enough for you would it? A performance?

It seems to me that the level of expectation from Labour supporters of a Labour government is as low as the conservative voters.

After all the damage they caused with their moronic string of leaders, it’s ironic that the Tories get kicked out when they have the most competent and likeable of their Five leaders at the helm. To be replaced by the robotic Starmer who you feel will say - and do - literally anything to gain and stay in power. After a decade and a half we finally have a non top ideological economically literate person at the helm - oh wait now, let’s switch for the economically illiterate populist!

Yes funny enough I’m fully aware.

You think Labour will do anything about that when they believe men can be women ? It’ll get worse in what women only spaces will need to do to jump through hoops to get the funding mark my words on that one.