Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

Designed to self destruct in 2 yrs.

 

So ... apparently ... we might be heading towards a Labour supermajority, which, according to the Tories, will be the end of Britain as we now know it.

Britain has been changed beyond measure since 2010 ... and I'm pretty hard pressed to think of anything that has got better, so it is the Tories who have broken it.

 

We obviously need a change of direction but I for one am not convinced by Labour and Mr Starmer just seems a bit wet

 

Labour won’t be perfect … they’ll make a few mistakes I’m sure … but at least they won’t be screwing the country over intentionally … that’ll do for me given the options we have …

 

I would love to vote green but I might as well just set fire to my ballot paper (or in my case set fire to my ipad).

 

They all keep promising what they are going to do but no ones figures appear to add up, apparently.
Its about time the voting system was changed and peoples votes should all count, even if you dont vote for the winner in your area.

A system where the Tories are saying a vote for Reform is a vote for Labour has got to be wrong, but what they are saying is right under the cockeyed system we have now.

Its basically fixed, a two party system cannot be called a democracy.

 

Me too.

copied from a friend of a friends Fbook page


“What did New Labour, 1997-2010, do for us? This list is not exhaustive.

National Minimum Wage
Low Pay Commission
Human Rights Act
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships
Tripled NHS spending
4 new medical schools
42,400 extra teachers
212,000 more support staff
Scrapped section 28
Civil partnerships
Gender Recognition Act
Doubled overseas aid
Sure Start
Increased maternity leave rights
Paternity leave
Lifted 900,000 pensioners out of poverty
Good Friday Agreement
Tax credits
Disability Rights Commission
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Number of people waiting 6 months for an operation reduced from 284,000 to almost zero.
44,000 more doctors
89,000 more nurses
Free eye tests for over 60s
16,000 more police officers
Extended the opening hours of over 75% of GP practices
Free Prescriptions for cancer patients
Free part-time nursery place for every three & four year-old
Freedom of Information
Paid annual leave to 28 days per year
Removed almost all hereditary peers
Paternity leave doubled
Doubled the spend per pupil in schools
Increased the value of child benefit by over 26%
Food Standards Agency
Equality Act
Increased university places
Restored democracy to Sierra Leone
Crossrail
Rural development programme
Education Maintenance Allowance
Free bus passes for over 60s
Devolution to Scotland, Wales & London
Banned cluster bombs
£20 billion improvements to social housing
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 1960s
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000
Cancer deaths down by 50,000
Removed the minimum donations limit from gift aid
Reduced NHS waiting lists by over 500,000
NHS waiting times fell to a maximum of 18 weeks (lowest ever levels)
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75%
Doubled the number of registered childcare spaces
Free school milk & fruit
Raised legal age of buying cigarettes to 18
Banned tobacco advertising in magazines newspapers and billboards
Free entry to galleries and museums
Giving 18 year olds right to stand for election
National Coroners Service
Autism Act
£2 billion New Deal for Communities Programme
Electoral Commission
Halved the number of our nuclear weapons
Free TV licences for over 75s
EU Social Chapter
Free breast cancer screening
Record low A&E waiting times
Reintroduced hospital matrons
Hunting Act
Banned testing of cosmetics on animals
Created Department of International Development
Reduced class sizes.
93,000 more 11-year-olds achieving numeracy each year
10 years of continuous economic growth
NHS Direct
Healthier school meals
Access to life saving drugs for HIV and AIDS
Equalised age of consent
Smoking ban
Crime down 45% since 1995.
Wrote off 100% of debt owed by the poorest countries.”

Compare that with the past fourteen years !!!

 

All that too @Dovefromabove .
Do you think someone might cobble together something for the Tories?

 

For what its worth I personally give Starmer 2 yrs as leader, once elected, I dont think he is strong enough and he will go the way most Conservative PMs have gone, overthrown by his own party, we will probably end up with Miss gobby running the country.

 

Who's that?

 

I forget her name she's Starmer's understudy.

 

Would a gobby man be more acceptable?