Cosa ha effettivamente ottenuto il Labour?
https://www.ft.com/content/231c0637-3171-431e-8982-32e338622178?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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Cosa ha effettivamente ottenuto il Labour?
https://www.ft.com/content/231c0637-3171-431e-8982-32e338622178?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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“In fact, when the first parliamentary session ends this week, the prime minister will be able to point to 47 new laws since the general election in July 2024.
Those laws include: the scrapping of hereditary peers; improved rights for renters; the biggest overhaul of employment rights for half a century; and changes to planning rules.”
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“The prime minister has, however, boasted of the following laws:
The Employment Rights Act is controversial with business leaders, because it gives greater workplace rights to millions of people, strengthening sick pay, maternity and paternity leave and tackling zero-hours contracts, while also making it easier for unions to go on strike.
The Passenger Railway Services (public ownership) Act has begun the process of nationalising Britain’s railways, albeit only as existing contracts with private companies expire.
The Water (Special Measures) Act gives regulators powers to bring criminal charges against water industry executives for environmental damage, bans bonuses for polluting bosses, and mandates real-time monitoring of all sewage outlets. However, key tranches have yet to be brought into force, limiting regulators’ ability to crack down on bad actors.
A Great British Energy Act has set up a new quango in Aberdeen to invest in, develop and own renewable energy projects.
A Renters’ Rights Act has abolished “no-fault” section 21 evictions, eliminated fixed-term contracts in favour of rolling tenancies and capped rent increases to only once every year.”
Employment rights act is a big one in my view, and perhaps the biggest attempt to tackle poverty that I can recall in my lifetime.
Not being the tories, beginning to get the economy stable, getting closer ties to Europe, telling Trump
We won’t join his madness, improved child warefare / all the boring stuff
Crawled out of Donald trump’s arse and avoided being dragged into another war. The Tories and reform were gagging to get involved until they realised that they weren’t being popular.
Don’t underestimate what this how bad it could have been
“ That is partly because the public know much more about the unpopular policies — such as higher taxes on farmers — than the popular ones, according to polling by Ipsos. The fragmented media environment makes it harder for government messaging to penetrate the public consciousness.”
Do read the article folks. It presents the reality of the labour government, one of moderate success in passing several bills. But this paragraph I think is very important. I can’t recall what the media was doing back in 2010-11, during Cameron’s first year or two. However, I still have a strong sense that there’s something pretty exceptional about the particular vilification that Starmer has faced.
Edit: I’ll also add that I think the land inheritance tax was popular with a lot of voters, just exceptionally unpopular with a minority of land owners.
and despite all of this, Labour is facing extinction in Wales, where they’ve been in power for decades, losing huge numbers of councils in the upcoming election, Starmer holds the lowest approval rating of any PM in history, is experience a mass exodus of members from Labour’s membership….
Whatever Labour are doing, they aren’t winning the confidence or votes or support of ordinary people.
These ‘on paper’ achievements have zero impact on people struggling with cost of living, employment and housing crisis.
I got my NHS wage slip on Friday. Receiving our payrise ontime in April pay.
That never happened under the Tories. They would boast about giving staff a payrise, yet we wouldnt see it until October, 6 months after we should have got it
They have done alright imo. The only thing that fucks me off is the way they announce cuts in the NHS via the media. First time ive wrote to my local MP about it
They have achieved the online safety act, which has ensured I will never vote for them again.
The renter’s rights bill is one of the best bills passed in the last 30 years. Finally some long term stability for people who can’t afford to own a home. Not having to renew every year, and having the freedom to leave within 2 months, is very important.
That said, with a majority like Starmer’s, I’d go much further. Privatising water and energy for one.
They have over 400 MPs. They could be doing a lot of radical, pro growth policy but even the good bits feel like playing around with the edges.
Should probably do something about the trains. People will tell you they have. Just nothing about prices.
They’ve done some very good stuff on energy & workers rights. They have been quite progressive on taxing wealth such as VAT rises on private schools. I support the rise in military spending. I also support their planning reforms.
However they have a real authoritarian streak which I deplore. The Online safety bill is a shambles & I disagree with their crackdowns on protests etc
They’ve improved the way GPs work by ‘making’ them take messages via the NHS app. I sent them a photo of a rash and within an hour I was prescribed a cream via the app too. Our GP hates it and moaned about having to work hard in their new letter, which I thought was very unprofessional. However as a patient it’s a massive improvement to how they used to behave under the Conservatives.
Net migration down 78% from the Conservative high.
The same Conservatives who are now part of Reform.
How does Labour not talk about this more?
i mean look, i know labour have passed plenty of policies (some good, some eh, some bad), but with a gigantic majority and after 15 years of tory rule they should be substantially reshaping the country, and it just doesn’t feel like this government are interested in doing that. even the good stuff they actually commit to doing (renters rights bill, employment bill, rail ‘nationalisation’) gets significantly watered down by the time it becomes law. there just seems to be a lack of vision or ideological commitment underpinning their approach
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They’ve tinkered round the edges a bit but I am sceptical as to whether they will make any real difference or just try not to undo too much Torying before Farage replaces them.
Keir acts like someone who has 500k on Farage at the next election but then so do the BBC.
It’s sorta funny but there’s more English cheese and JCB construction equipment here in Canada so with my family I joke that Liz Truss achieved more in 40 days than Starmer has.
Job losses, mass surveillance, generational smoking ban, moving asylum seekers from hotels to newly-built homes.
Saved you a click.
Division, setting the scene for Reform to make a run for Office. Disaster of a start for Starmer and it keeps getting worse. Regardless if they change leader I think it’s too far gone and worry for the future of the country under Reform idiots (full of previous Tory MPs who ruined the country anyway).
It’s high time the government published a web billboard of major policiy announcements, bills passed and advertised what it actually has done for public good. That and a very clear page of national KPIs.
Depends what timeframe we’re talking about. If the bar is ‘fix everything quickly’, then yeah—no government is going to look impressive.
But if the question is more grounded—incremental changes, policy direction, undoing previous damage—then it’s probably less dramatic and more mixed than people want it to be.
Feels like UK politics has turned into instant-results culture: if it’s not visible immediately, it’s ‘nothing has been achieved’. Meanwhile most of the stuff that actually matters (housing, NHS, infrastructure) takes years to show up in real life.
Not saying they’ve nailed it—far from it—but ‘nothing’ is usually more of a reflection of frustration than reality.
There is a website that keeps tabs on all parties promises and delivery, and they are way ahead of all the recent Tory governments on it.I can’t remember a government this far ahead on its promises in all my 62 years, as someone strongly interested in Politics in general. Our perception on the world stage at the moment is the best I can remember also.
Edit: [https://fullfact.org/government-tracker/](https://fullfact.org/government-tracker/)
Successfully made it harder to exist as a trans person. Successfully killed a bunch of trans kids by removing their healthcare.
Expanding the online safety act / insisting on this Digital ID (now through the back door) to turn us into a full 1984 dystopia. Awful.
Criminalising cigarettes, pornography and proposing digital ID.
Basically taking our freedoms away. Worst government I’ve ever seen.
Its a tricky one to like labour atm. Based on this article and what has been quietly reported on, I think they’re the best government we’ve had in a long time.
However, I hate the creation of fake terrorists out of Palestine action whilst taking bribe money from Israel and attempting to be Farage lite is just stupid and will never win anyone over.
People with opposite political views to me will have their own grievances, too. It seems to just be a losing battle for labour despite them being an improvement.
They have successfully avoided:
Calling a self harm referendum that significantly lowers our GDP and alters the immigration landscape.
Killing over 200k people though incompetence and poor decision making.
Crashing the economy and fucking mortgage rates through a bad budget strategy.
Sending us to a war that is none of our business.
So, to date, they are the best government we’ve had in well over two decades.
They have successfully demoralised the british public.
The achievements are commendable, but will never make any headlines as they have few supporters where it counts.
I went to my local town ventre yesterday and it was full of people out in the sunshine. Everyone seemed to be having a good time, the shops and cafés were nearly all heaving. The economy has finally turned the corner. The quality of life here is one of the finest that you can find anywhere. Starmer is underrated. I’m backing Britain.
They did alot of really good things but they have also done bad stuff. And the nature of media cycles is negative stories and posts get more attention. So we here about the online safety act we here about the major data breaches. The failings to screen or aknowledhe the screening of a political time bomb etc.
And as much as I appreciate the good they have done there are things that need to be handled or addressed (personally I want to see the online safety act replaced with a more affective education scheme for parents to protect their kids) and the scrapping of digital I’d in any form to protect the safety and security of people. We don’t need a minority report style world. And we don’t need as citizens to have the risk of our whole lives no longer being ours because of bad people.
To blame the state of the countries Financial woes on the poor , the Elderly , the disabled and anyone unfortunately that has to rely on welfare and universal credit to top up their wages.
Even the uturn on winter fuel allowance and then set the qualifying threshold at £36,000 is a joke, with a lot of people not earning anywhere near that, yet they don’t get the fuel allowance.
I always believed that the Labour party was there to support the working person and the poor and underprivileged.
How far they have fallen.
Labour policies (pre Iran).
Waiting lists down to lowest level in 3 years
Net migration halved
Nearly 60,000 illegal migrants and foreign criminals have been removed or deported from the UK since July 2024.
Asylum hotels will be closed
There are 20% fewer migrants in asylum hotels than there were in Feb 2025
Violence against Women and Girls strategy launched.
Foreign nationals with a history of crime and violence will have their entry refused, regardless of when the crime took place – or deported if the offence was committed in the UK.
Funding for veterans’ capital housing grants totalling almost £3.7m – Homes for Heroes
Stronger protections against unfair dismissal
Limits on exploitative zero-hours contracts
Expanded rights for flexible working
Better sick pay and parental rights
New enforcement bodies for workplace rights
Higher minimum wage rates
Median wages have grown since July 2024
A “Youth Guarantee” so young people are either working, training or studying
Agreed a deal for rejoining Erasmus wef 2027
From September 2026, all children in households on Universal Credit in England will be entitled to free school meals helping lift about 100,000 out of poverty (this also applies to nurseries)
Rolling out Breakfast clubs
Announced 10 million of travel costs for children with cancer
Increased school based nursery places
Introduced stronger renters’ protections (moving to end no-fault evictions)
Ground rent capped
Froze or reduced some cost-of-living pressures (e.g. rail fares, bus fares prescription charges).
Rail services in West Midlands back under public ownership
Night buses will run to every Greater Manchester borough as Bee Network expands
High Street strategy to bring them back to life with £150 million investment
Record-breaking order for British Steel as UK and Nigeria sign landmark £746 million ports deal
Tightened rules on water companies and pollution
Will ban trail hunting
Banning snares to trap wild animals
A close season for hares during breeding
Animal welfare strategy published
Unlimited fine for livestock worrying by dogs which is now an offence
Enhanced payments further vet visits for livestock
Vet sector reform proposals including clear pricing with a price cap, more competition, operating licences and regulated.
Introduced Great British Energy, a state-owned energy company to invest in renewables which will reduce bills long term and create jobs.
Hereditary peers removed from House of Lords
GDP Higher than 2024
30 million for coastal communities adapting to erosion
Cutting water bills for hundreds of thousands of households, delivering the biggest WaterSure overhaul in nearly 30 years
Froze fuel duty
Fast-tracking homes, transport and clean energy projects, and investing £100 million to speed up planning approvals
British battery start-ups can now scale up next-generation EV technology at a new testing facility in Coventry
Speeding up power connections for major growth projects, prioritising industry and AI data centres
Launching a new tool for schools and families to tackle the stigma of child poverty
Strengthening communities and tackling extremism through a new national action plan
Working with allies to stabilise oil markets and backing coordinated oil releases to protect households from price shocks
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They have very neatly rearranged all the chairs on the Titanic.