It is simply pretty spectacular how badly they’ve done in such a short time. We are a year in and Reform are essentially guaranteed a parliamentary majority. The Lib Dem’s are on track to become the official opposition. There is a new left wing party taking chunks out of their base and leaving them with historically low support, which is matching their approval rating.
Making things worse, the support they do have left is bitterly divided and there is no good news coming on the horizon. It’s like a perfect storm of inadequacy and stagnation and they don’t appear to see the issue.
Going to be an interesting time for our politics.
Deltaforce1-17 on
‘Eventually a paralysis will set in, if ultimately the country thinks the bond market is determining the whole of our policy.’
Since when did the bond market not determine this government’s policy?
CuriousThylacine on
Given that their policy position on everything is “business as usual”, that’s unsurprising.
Ok-Journalist612 on
Keith Rodney Starmer is a busted flush PM
Tory punch down policies and a genocide denying war criminal to boot!
G_Morgan on
Starmer’s Labour is just another political party who privately see themselves as our masters. Worse they aren’t even using this disregard to try and fix the difficult issues in the nation. If they had some kind of vision their arrogance might be less irritating.
IncorrectAddress on
The real problem is politics are stuck in a loop treading water and instead of making good decisions we keep making bad ones.
We as the public generally never get an option, what we get is to vote on is generally “lies and media”, so the end result is that most politically balanced people look for that middle ground and hope that the outcome is better than the past examples of bad governmental decisions.
The only real way out of these governmental situations (which could even be worse until it gets better) is to enforce and implement the smartest people to find solutions to the social and monetary problems, and remove the current democratic system for a “political agent” system that relies on the input of a population on the direction of the country in a democratic system were peoples votes actually matter for something other than just putting the next “collective of individuals” in power to do what ever they like really.
But maybe the human race is too far gone with greed, desire, manipulation, domination, control.
Ahh well, good luck, im old…. XD
PristineResearch5410 on
The government needs to lift people out of poverty. It’s as simple as that. That’s what voters think Labour is about. Trying to cut the winter fuel allowance and punching down on people with physical disabilities like Parkinson’s is not the best idea. Labour is coming across as the anti-welfare party when the people elected them to be the welfare party. This isn’t about ideological issues of socialism, communism, capitalism, conservatism, liberalism or any other ism. It’s not about trans, or migrants, or gaza.
If Labour just lifted say…a million people out of poverty, they’d win the next election. I get Reddit and others want to push this big grand vision of socialism and putting LGBTQIA123XYZ+ posters up everywhere and letting all the migrants in and obsessing over cooperatives and nationalisation, but that’s not what voters care about. The Labour left is just as misguided as the Labour right in this regard. There’s too much overthinking.
BaldyBaldyBouncer on
As someone a little older than most who lived through the Blair years I thought this might happen, really hoped it wouldn’t but here we are. Toires and Labour are two cheeks of the same arse and exist only serve their billionaire backers.
Azzaphox on
Starmer’s team who are actually doing boringly useful government being criticised by someone who isn’t?
Colour me shocked.
StarmersReckoning on
Because to all intents and purposes, they are a continuity government. Little has changed, and a lot of that has been for the worse. Even the vile rhetoric against vulnerable communities has been the same old, tired, manufactured hate for political purposes that the Tories were doing for the last decade+
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It is simply pretty spectacular how badly they’ve done in such a short time. We are a year in and Reform are essentially guaranteed a parliamentary majority. The Lib Dem’s are on track to become the official opposition. There is a new left wing party taking chunks out of their base and leaving them with historically low support, which is matching their approval rating.
Making things worse, the support they do have left is bitterly divided and there is no good news coming on the horizon. It’s like a perfect storm of inadequacy and stagnation and they don’t appear to see the issue.
Going to be an interesting time for our politics.
‘Eventually a paralysis will set in, if ultimately the country thinks the bond market is determining the whole of our policy.’
Since when did the bond market not determine this government’s policy?
Given that their policy position on everything is “business as usual”, that’s unsurprising.
Keith Rodney Starmer is a busted flush PM
Tory punch down policies and a genocide denying war criminal to boot!
Starmer’s Labour is just another political party who privately see themselves as our masters. Worse they aren’t even using this disregard to try and fix the difficult issues in the nation. If they had some kind of vision their arrogance might be less irritating.
The real problem is politics are stuck in a loop treading water and instead of making good decisions we keep making bad ones.
We as the public generally never get an option, what we get is to vote on is generally “lies and media”, so the end result is that most politically balanced people look for that middle ground and hope that the outcome is better than the past examples of bad governmental decisions.
The only real way out of these governmental situations (which could even be worse until it gets better) is to enforce and implement the smartest people to find solutions to the social and monetary problems, and remove the current democratic system for a “political agent” system that relies on the input of a population on the direction of the country in a democratic system were peoples votes actually matter for something other than just putting the next “collective of individuals” in power to do what ever they like really.
But maybe the human race is too far gone with greed, desire, manipulation, domination, control.
Ahh well, good luck, im old…. XD
The government needs to lift people out of poverty. It’s as simple as that. That’s what voters think Labour is about. Trying to cut the winter fuel allowance and punching down on people with physical disabilities like Parkinson’s is not the best idea. Labour is coming across as the anti-welfare party when the people elected them to be the welfare party. This isn’t about ideological issues of socialism, communism, capitalism, conservatism, liberalism or any other ism. It’s not about trans, or migrants, or gaza.
If Labour just lifted say…a million people out of poverty, they’d win the next election. I get Reddit and others want to push this big grand vision of socialism and putting LGBTQIA123XYZ+ posters up everywhere and letting all the migrants in and obsessing over cooperatives and nationalisation, but that’s not what voters care about. The Labour left is just as misguided as the Labour right in this regard. There’s too much overthinking.
As someone a little older than most who lived through the Blair years I thought this might happen, really hoped it wouldn’t but here we are. Toires and Labour are two cheeks of the same arse and exist only serve their billionaire backers.
Starmer’s team who are actually doing boringly useful government being criticised by someone who isn’t?
Colour me shocked.
Because to all intents and purposes, they are a continuity government. Little has changed, and a lot of that has been for the worse. Even the vile rhetoric against vulnerable communities has been the same old, tired, manufactured hate for political purposes that the Tories were doing for the last decade+
I voted for “change”