General election July 4th

[pete]

Answers a lot of questions 

[mayevora]

[pete]

Exactly as predicted labour will be saying it is worse than they expected. Backed themselves into a corner by saying they weren't going to raise certain taxes 

[Chillidoggy]

Here we go again.

[C8RKH]

Why would anyone be surprised by this?

It was as obvious as night follows day that the working person would get walloped to pay for the workshy and woke schemes. 

 

[Bibs]

There's the small matter of the £2.6tr national debt too, and that's not a typo...

[oneshot]

No but debate is  

[C8RKH]

1 hour ago, Bibs said:

£2.6tr national debate

Assume you meant debt. Put it down to spell checker....

A top priority of this Labour Government needs to include the reclaiming of loans that were fraudulently taken out by many during the pandemic.

The millions overpaid in stuff like PPE etc also needs to be clawed back.

The Tories always end up borrowing more than Labour, but then Labour always ends up clawing more back from the worker. Take your pick.

[exeterjeep]

Seem to have lost my winter fuel payments. Need to pay for the above inflation rises to the unions.

[Chillidoggy]

How very altruistic of you.

[exeterjeep]

If I could claim attendance allowance - that's not means tested and worth a lot more.

[Chillidoggy]

They’ve got to find the money from somewhere for the 22% pay rise for junior doctors.

[C8RKH]

And the inflation busting 5.5% for Teachers.

Who'd of thought that within a month of Labour getting in they'd be handing out such high public sector pay rises. I'm so surprised! Especially as they keep saying the cupboard is completely empty, indeed, even the cupboard had been sold apparently.

[exeterjeep]

2 minutes ago, C8RKH said:

cupboard

been burnt for firewood.

[C8RKH]

39 minutes ago, exeterjeep said:

been burnt for firewood.

Shame we didn't burn the politicians on top.

[Dave Eds]

Now there's an idea...what you doing November 5th?

[PaulCP]

There are going to be quite a few voters kicking themselves before the end of the year for believing Labour’s lies.

No wait, that can’t be true, didn’t Ms Reeves say this morning that it is time to start telling the public the truth. 🤔. 
Well that was a good start today wasn’t it? 🙄

[C8RKH]

The Tories deserved to lose. Their infighting has been disgraceful.

But if they nominate that Tugandpull idiot as leader then they're absolutely finished. The candidates for Tory Leader are as appetising as a stale four week old slice of Black Forest Gateaux.

[PaulCP]

I fully agree Andy @C8RKH, hence why, for the first time in 50 years, I felt unable to vote for any of the t0ssers.

I am currently looking into whether we are too old to emigrate👍

[pete]

The unions will be knocking at the door soon

[Chillidoggy]

I watched Farage’s first speech in Parliament. Politics aside, it was a very strong performance. I’d be surprised if his Reform Party doesn’t pick up disillusioned voters.

[Kimbers]

1 hour ago, Chillidoggy said:

I watched Farage’s first speech in Parliament. Politics aside, it was a very strong performance. I’d be surprised if his Reform Party doesn’t pick up disillusioned voters.

Unless the Tories do something drastic I think Reform will win more and more votes. They were the 3rd largest party in terms of votes, though the Lib Dems got 20 x the number of seats on less votes overall (great system we have).

[Chillidoggy]

I’m wondering where the money’s coming from to pay the salary rises, and I rather suspect it will become clearer that a lot of us will be worse off to pay for the largesse.

[910Esprit]

Hmmm - What's the corollary of "we wont raise taxes on working people"?   I can think of a cohort of people/money that are not Labour's voters to lose.  

Edited July 30 by 910Esprit

[march]

7 hours ago, Chillidoggy said:

I’m wondering where the money’s coming from

I have just been told the winter fuel allowance has been cancelled, that should help - not sure if this is true but if it is there may be a lot of pensioners in even more dire straits this winter. Should help keep the hospitals full this winter.

Edited July 30 by march