The Labour government thread

[Arniepie]

2 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

 

I don't know how this is solved but I know that it won't be solved by allowing these clowns to carry on unchallenged. What winds me up is that every so often we hear something about a new left wing party forming, or that there's "discussions" on it happening. Then fuck all. What are they waiting for? Just get something moving or maybe we really are doomed to have fucking reform running the country.

there is defo a space there for a centre left party

[Engineman Hicks]

5 hours ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

Well this is embarrassing. We all called Tories and Osbourne massive cunts back in the day for doing austerity, and everyone who voted for them the same. And continue to do so.
 

Does that mean Reeves, Labour and Labour voters are the cunts now? 

 

 

Good point. Welfare cuts, foreign aid cuts, increased military spending, crack down on immigration etc. If you didn’t know you’d think this was a Reform government. 

[Arniepie]

6 minutes ago, Engineman Hicks said:

Good point. Welfare cuts, foreign aid cuts, increased military spending, crack down on immigration etc. If you didn’t know you’d think this was a Reform government. 

Improved workers rights

biggest public service pay rise in years

breakfast clubs in schools

going after wealthy landowners 

[Numero Veinticinco]

14 minutes ago, Engineman Hicks said:

Good point. Welfare cuts, foreign aid cuts, increased military spending, crack down on immigration etc. If you didn’t know you’d think this was a Reform government. 

Or, if you just gave it two seconds of thought, you’d know immediately how ridiculous it would be to think such a thing. 

[Strontium]

I thought Hicks' tongue was placed firmly in cheek there, but some have claimed that I've been wrong before.

[Numero Veinticinco]

I’ve read his other posts, so… 

[Scooby Dudek]

To be fair to the front bench, in relation to tax rises/benefits cuts they did run on a manifesto of "self imposed rules on borrowing and spending "(being cunts), so you could argue it is o e pledge they are sticking to.

[Mudface]

3 minutes ago, Scooby Dudek said:

To be fair to the front bench, in relation to tax rises/benefits cuts they did run on a manifesto of "self imposed rules on borrowing and spending "(being cunts), so you could argue it is o e pledge they are sticking to.

 

Yep, but equally they could now say that the dire state of the finances left to them after the Tory disaster means they have to reconsider those made up rules.

[Section_31]

They're not remotely left wing, they're centre right/centrist, would probably say they compare to Cameron's version of Conservatism. 

 

That being said, that's still a world away from what the modern Conservatives have become. Flat Earthers and race-baiters. 

 

Still, it's not a great choice is it. Shooting yourself in the face or the dick. 

[Arniepie]

Labour mollifies the rich, targets disabled people and claims moral justification. There isn’t any | Frances Ryan | The Guardian

[Scooby Dudek]

4 hours ago, Mudface said:

 

Yep, but equally they could now say that the dire state of the finances left to them after the Tory disaster means they have to reconsider those made up rules.

I agree 100%.

They've obviously taken the difficult decision not to.

[Arniepie]

https://x.com/PippaCrerar/status/1899604377330938202

 

Sound

[AngryOfTuebrook]

42 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

https://x.com/PippaCrerar/status/1899604377330938202

 

Sound

It gets the approval of this cunt, whose timeline shows he's a big fan of Jenrick and Trump/Musk.

[sir roger]

Yeh, fuck the unions trying to stop their members being sacked because Cletus from Stoke needs a wank.

[Jairzinho]

It sounds like the wet dream of those Taxpayers Alliance cunts who used to be on Question Time once a fortnight.

[Arniepie]

Starmer echoes Liz Truss on reform of government - BBC News

 

another objectively balanced take

[Section_31]

The economic system is dying if not dead. Deckchairs on the titanic.

 

Was a story yesterday about the poorest in Slovenia being better off than the poorest in England.

 

The solution?

 

"Slash red tape"

"Do away with Whitehall mandarins"

"More growth."

 

It's bollocks. Economy has been on life support for decades, kept afloat with debt.

[Numero Veinticinco]

2 hours ago, Arniepie said:

Starmer echoes Liz Truss on reform of government - BBC News

 

another objectively balanced take

What absolute madness. A horrid organisation, a shadow of its former self, not fit for purpose, and beyond outdated. I’d go full vindictive Trump mode on then and gut the lot. 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

25 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

What absolute madness. A horrid organisation, a shadow of its former self, not fit for purpose, and beyond outdated. 

 

Who, the BBC or the Labour Party? 

[Red Phoenix]

From The Guardian's politics live :

 

 

Reeves defends welfare cuts plan after report that over half of cabinet are unhappy

[sir roger]

If the more socialist of the Labour mps aren't looking at setting up a new centre-left party with independents and likeminded Greens etc. they are as big a problem as Starmer.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Early polling suggests that Labour will lose the upcoming Runcorn by-election (the one brought about by the punchy MP) to Reform, with a predicted 20% swing from Labour to Reform.

[Arniepie]

6 minutes ago, Nelly-Szoboszlai said:

Early polling suggests that Labour will lose the upcoming Runcorn by-election (the one brought about by the punchy MP) to Reform, with a predicted 20% swing from Labour to Reform.

thick cunts

[Numero Veinticinco]

22 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

thick cunts

Nelly, the voters, or Labour and Reform?

[Engineman Hicks]

3 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

From The Guardian's politics live :

 

 

Reeves defends welfare cuts plan after report that over half of cabinet are unhappy

The cuts to foreign aid, winter fuel allowances and now welfare were all never mentioned in the manifesto.