What are you most looking forward to if Labour win?

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Presuming theyre going to win the election, what manifesto promises are you hopeful about?

For me it's going to be their promise to fast track rape trials, providing proper support to rape victims and targeted support within the police for victims of domestic violence.

Let's hope they make it happen.

Neither. It was an unambiguous statement of fact.

I share that hope.

My fear is that if they do get worse then we will see the rise of the hard left and hard right at the 2029 election (like we are currently seeing in France right now).

For got about this.

Can not wait, especially as low speeds is shown to increase pollution. Excellent thing to look forward to.

And pay per mile- bravo- let's make driving only for the rich, that sounds like a solid socialist policy.

We already have 20 mile an hour roads throughout Leeds! They started introducing them in Sheffield in 1991!

I would love to see an improvement in state schools and a situation where teachers are not having to buy GCSE resources with their own money. I really like Labour's pledge to offer breakfast club for primary children so that they don't start school hungry.

I want to see the NHS funded properly again. Having had babies in the 00s and a baby in 2019, it was shocking to see how chaotic maternity services became.

That all labour voters get shafted up the a55. Can't bloody wait 🤗

You’re going to have a hell of a long wait. Hope you’re not holding your breath.

Maybe. My take is that most Conservatives are in a bubble. They don’t really care as you latently accept in your post, and seem only concerned when they think someone is “uncivil”. Had they any wider awareness they would not be surprised. I had an exchange with another lifer Tory who actually would not accept that people had a negative view of the Tories without actually being shown focus group evidence (they actually asked for it!!!). I’ve heard of high self regard but really extraordinary depths there

I love how proper you made this. Yet strangely, so revealing of you

Sorry, I have no intention of travelling to Belfast. Quite looking forward to a Labour government though.

That the sleeze and lies are reduced. That mates don't get awarded billions in contracts. That they sit down calmly and lookmat the issues. The end to scare tactics.

Gradual change over a few years for a more even society. I appreciate that will take time.

Tax loopholes gradually closed. Super rich farmers not getting grants and subsidies but giving them to poorer farmers. Landlords having a cap on tents but having to raise standards.

More over time.

Are you not already seeing the unravelling of this ?

Love it.
Pensioners first
Next middle earners.
Then the rest !

I’m not seeing the unraveling of anything. I can live quite happily without the £150 that was donated to the local foodbank.

The Treasury has had the WFP in their sights for years. And logically, in a resource-constrained environment, a universal benefit aimed at some of the age demographics with the greatest wealth is a bit bonkers.

Now with a government less reliant on the pensioner vote, I bet it was the first thing they put in front of Rachel Reeves.

There are hardly any benefits/payments that aren't means tests, and those that are still universal are pretty much all benefiting the retired demographic.

I fully expect capital gains tax and inheritance tax rates to be adjusted in the budget and welcome that too. It’s high time unearned income was fairly taxed.

Labour’s assault on benefits is something the Tories will be secretly content with. Hunt’s already said that they approve of the house building (though I suspect it will get mired in problems).

Obviously not everything will be Tory friendly, but so far this is a reassuringly conservative government.

Absolutely. The Netherlands have a nil band for IHT, but it's low. Dsis and I paid over most of our mum's estate. And that was fair; we didn't earn it.

But it has already been taxed.

And the biggest problem is why should anyone save anything if it will be taxed again.

The reality is inheritance tax can be planned around, and the rich do.

I don't have kids, it doesn't affect me but I don't agree with it

No analysis of impact has been done whatsoever. I personally dont know many well off pensioners and live in an affluent part of London. When libraries were closing down, the pensioners especially kicked up the most saying that they would sit at libraries during the day as they couldnt afford to heat up homes in the winter. And the pensioners won around me, and the library was kept open.

Wait until winter hits..

I can't get over the fact that a pensioner on state pension will not be entitled to any heating allowance.

£221.20 a week, and if we have a long hard winter how will they heat their homes.

These are people that have worked or cared for children enough to gain a full state pension but haven't got additional pension. These are NMW jobs, and affect women more.

These pensioners will be entitled to help with council tax and rent. Many will own their homes. Some will pension credit or pension savings credit as well. Then some get attendance allowance etc. There is benefit help for the poorer pensioners.

I personally know lots of pensioners who don't need their wfp and give it to grandchildren or pop in their banks.

I agree with you on not giving it to all. We used to get it and sent it to the air ambulance.

But if on full basic state pension they will not be getting pension credit. So no WFP.

I agree with means testing it but this is taking it away from people that actually need it.if the Torys had done this then people would be marching against it and calling them Nasty.

And yet she has removed the WFP. So how are they going to heat their homes now?

It hasn’t already been taxed. Most of the money in people’s estates is house price inflation, money that hasn’t been saved, earned or taxed. The loopholes to avoid inheritance tax need to be removed too so it can’t be “planned round”. The profits that attract capital gains tax haven’t been previously taxed either. In any case multiple taxation is a fact of life - when you fill your car you pay with money on which you’ve paid income tax and NI, then you pay VAT and fuel duty on the petrol, that money’s been taxed four times.