The Labour government thread

[skend04]

Jenkyns on about cutting council staff numbers by 10%. Now, I might be the stupid one here, but didn't people vote for Reform because they wanted a change from the death by a thousand cuts that we've had for 15: years?

 

Seeing as it's Brexit Central, Lincolnshire is welcome to the ever worsening public services that they want to see improved.

[AngryofTuebrook]

12 hours ago, George Costanza said:

 

 

Labour completely fucked up by increasing the minimum wage so quickly. This has completely killed the SMB & hospitality sectors. Rather then giving workers more money to pay their bills they should have looked at reducing the bills in the first place.  Massive, massive fuck up. 

That was the Tories that did that, in a desperate bid for some working class votes.

 

[Arniepie]

https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1918943321445007690

 

It's beyond satire at this stage

[Arniepie]

24 minutes ago, skend04 said:

Jenkyns on about cutting council staff numbers by 10%. Now, I might be the stupid one here, but didn't people vote for Reform because they wanted a change from the death by a thousand cuts that we've had for 15: years?

 

Seeing as it's Brexit Central, Lincolnshire is welcome to the ever worsening public services that they want to see improved.

Me mate works for Liverpool council and says there have been massive job cut backs

This is going to be an utter car crash

 

[skend04]

7 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

Me mate works for Liverpool council and says there have been massive job cut backs

This is going to be an utter car crash

 

 

The particular councils these oddballs have taken on are going to be in trouble. I worked for Derbyshire for several years and our company is still part owned by the authority. Looks like I've got out at the right time because these lot couldn't run a bath. 10% cuts there, and you'd just have no semblance of a service around the county.

[Section_31]

[Jairzinho]

1 hour ago, Arniepie said:

Would that be done overnight though?

I have no problem with the minimum wage getting raised since everything is going up.

 

I don't in isolation either, but if the result is small companies folding while big companies fill the gap (often with plenty of financial jiggery-pokery), then maybe there are better ways. 

 

One of Corbyn's biggest failures was not creating enough of a distinction between the local butchers and Amazon. He should have been making the point about the absolute state of most British towns. A Wetherspoons, a Tesco, a Costa/Starbucks, a McDonald's, and a load of charity shops. 

 

[Section_31]

Telling that Canada and Australia have gone anti Trump and we've gone pro trump.

 

I make no apologies for saying the English are imbeciles.

[Section_31]

Don't invest here. 

[AngryofTuebrook]

30 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Telling that Canada and Australia have gone anti Trump and we've gone pro trump.

 

I make no apologies for saying the English are imbeciles.

We haven't.  Council election results often throw up cranks, due to low turnouts and a widespread view of them as a valid protest vote.  When it came to the General Election, they got five seats.

[Arniepie]

Watching the media, you wouldn't think the greens had over 200 more councillors than reform

 

[Creator Supreme]

5 hours ago, Arniepie said:

Watching the media, you wouldn't think the greens had over 200 more councillors than reform

 

Nah, we're just weird hippy so called do gooders who are no use.

[Denny Crane]

Hasn't even been a week and this Labour MP has shifted to scrap the ECHR unless they reform. If you are wondering he has a 902 majority and the seat has a strong Tory and Reform vote in 2024. I wonder how many Labour MPs are pondering to jump ship and join Reform if Labour continue to struggle in certain places. 

 

[Creator Supreme]

Just now, Denny Crane said:

Hasn't even been 48 hours and this Labour MP has shifted to scrap the EHCR unless they reform. If you are wondering he has a 902 majority and the seat has a strong Tory and Reform vote in 2024. I wonder how many Labour MPs are wondering to jump ship and join Reform if Labour continue to struggle in certain places. 

 

Humans wanting to remove access to a human rights court. Brilliant!

[skend04]

6 minutes ago, Denny Crane said:

Hasn't even been a week and this Labour MP has shifted to scrap the ECHR unless they reform. If you are wondering he has a 902 majority and the seat has a strong Tory and Reform vote in 2024. I wonder how many Labour MPs are pondering to jump ship and join Reform if Labour continue to struggle in certain places. 

 

 

Former police officer with a 1.9% majority. Says it all.

[Arniepie]

25 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

Humans wanting to remove access to a human rights court. Brilliant!

In other countries around the world,they demand human rights.

The bootlickers here demand they be removed.

[Mook]

20 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

In other countries around the world,they demand human rights.

The bootlickers here demand they be removed.

 

I don't think that's why people are voting for Reform.

[Arniepie]

3 minutes ago, Mook said:

 

I don't think that's why people are voting for Reform.

https://www.itv.com/news/2025-04-16/nigel-farage-says-first-thing-he-would-do-as-pm-is-leave-the-echr

[Mook]

1 minute ago, Arniepie said:

https://www.itv.com/news/2025-04-16/nigel-farage-says-first-thing-he-would-do-as-pm-is-leave-the-echr

 

I know he's saying that but I don't think that's a major reason people are voting for Reform.

 

They are voting for them because they are anti-immigration, anti-Islam & anti-woke.

[Arniepie]

1 minute ago, Mook said:

 

I know he's saying that but I don't think that's a major reason people are voting for Reform.

 

They are voting for them because they are anti-immigration, anti-Islam & anti-woke.

I've seen loads on twitter demand we leave it.

It's somehow linked to immigration but my head hurts just trying to Figure out the link.

I think they reason it will only affect brown people  

[Mook]

Fair enough, I steer clear of political Twitter as much as possible.

[Arniepie]

35 minutes ago, Mook said:

Fair enough, I steer clear of political Twitter as much as possible.

Probably a wise move in fairness 

[Olddantucker]

11 hours ago, Section_31 said:

Telling that Canada and Australia have gone anti Trump and we've gone pro trump.

 

I make no apologies for saying the English are imbeciles.

 

Was super happy with the election result here in Australia this weekend. I thought we would lurch to the right, the Liberal (Tory) leader latched onto Trump and it backfired spectacularly.

[AngryofTuebrook]

2 hours ago, skend04 said:

 

Former police officer with a 1.9% majority. Says it all.

Smells like another 30p Lee in the making.

 

With no political experience (other than losing a Council election) and no particular qualifications, he was picked as a candidate by the party that deselected Faiza Shaheen.

[Jack the Sipper]

Reform supporters hate the ECHR because it stopped the deportations to Rwanda. Their argument is that it placed the rights of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers (and, wrongly, convicted criminals) ahead of the ability of a sovereign, elected government to make its own decisions.

 

For the record, I'm in favour of it, and thought the Rwanda plan was dog whistle window dressing that was destined to fail.