https://x.com/itvnewspolitics/status/1901993207468044407?s=46&t=j20zR706pmXrBtdI_7p-NQ At least I didn’t vote for em. Difficult to be actually worse than the Tories but somehow they’ve managed it. Kudos to be fair.
Disgraceful. I don't usually subscribe to this mode of thinking, but if this were the Tories, they'd be slaughtered on here for such decisions. Reasons like this is why people just shrug politics off and say "they're all the same", and whilst I don't agree with that, by any stretch, it's hard to argue with stuff like this.
https://x.com/peterstefanovi2/status/1902120042898010356?s=46&t=j20zR706pmXrBtdI_7p-NQ This is even worse announcing it early so Reeves doesn’t look bad. WTAF
They should be slaughtered on here, I'll happily pile on. It's a disgrace what they are doing and morally wrong on so many levels. Particularly when there is an alternative, TAX THE EFFING RICH!
I know it might seem daft, but genuinely I do believe had it been the tories this thread would be about 20 pages long and virtually every member involved. Proper ashamed of my country and my party right now mate.
Back in the 90s, I was a member of the Labour Party but Blair's war put an end to that. Why not make The Green Party "your party"? They are the only ones genuinely trying to save the planet and offering progressive policies which help ordinary people instead of billionaires.
That would probably be because the Tories would at the same time be giving tax cuts/benefits to their friends/the rich. I’m of the opinion, and always have been, that claiming benefits shouldn’t be an alternative lifestyle to working, unless you can’t of course through various levels of disability. Their has to be a change, I don’t know if The govt have got it right, partially right, or totally wrong, time will tell. I sincerely hope that those that need benefit support and those that need help to get back into work get it.Edit: forgot to add, isn’t it ironic (almost laughable ( if it wasn’t for the seriousness of it) that those who supported the Tories during the last 14 years with their Austerity programme, lack of meaningful pay rises, reduction in working terms and conditions etc,etc, are now bleating and standing up for the ‘ordinary people’
Our reforms are guided by three principles. First, if you can work, you should. Second, if you want to work, the government should support you to make that a reality. Third, if you will never be able to work because of your illness or disability, the state should help you to get by with security, dignity and respect. What's not to like?
They're just words. Words that could easily have been uttered by a Tory spokesperson, the same ones you'd no doubt have ridiculed for doing so.
I can't wait for Reeves to turn up at her meetings with everyday people in Leeds West and defend this nonsense. She'll be smeared all over the office walls, and rightly so.
That's who i'll be voting for in the next election. It's who i should've gone for in the last one but i voted Labour as a tactical choice to try keep Reform out of the town.
This is the problem with the voting system. Vote green, get reform. So you always have to look at what your action could deliver. The area I'm moving to is currently Labour, but Reform have won a couple of council seats and the greens are nowhere. I voted Green at the last GE, but I couldn't take the risk of voting Green to potentially get a vile reform MP.
This with bells on. We're all upset at the minute but there's genuinely needs to be some cross-party collaboration from here on in, no more "never trust a Tory". We're sleepwalking into a Reform majority at local and national level for the foreseeable future. We need to avoid a Trump-style populist movement. I'm happy to vote for Norman Tebbit to head it off.
Cancelled my membership today. May still vote Labour in the future on a national level, but only tactically. Certainly won't be with my conscience.
Maybe the fact that their actions are at odds with at least one of those principles. What they're doing is absolutely disgraceful and makes me ashamed to have voted for them.
Glad this thread was created. I read the other one (welfare) and shook my head at some of the responses. I voted Green again, and whilst I appreciate the damage done after 14 years of Tory rule makes things tough for Labour, they are doing a great impression of the blue team. Tax the f****** wealthy. For once.
