So Lefty Government, Lefty Public Sector...what Could Go Wrong?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/26/triumphant-labour-will-unleash-worst-demons-of-left/

 

[TheChair]

Well, let's think about what went right in the last 14 years...

 

[youngmafbog]

That was then this is now, how about answering the question instead of whataboutery?

[youngmafbog]

TTT, I'd argue that the Ministrys are more Metropolitan Liberal rather than Labour left.

I dont thing Labour will have any more joy with them than the TINO's did.

[ToraToraTora]

09:37 If you think the last 14 years were bad, clearly you are too young to remember the last REAL Labour government.

[ToraToraTora]

09:39, I hope you are correct but liberals and the left are 2 cheeks of the same April.

[sandyRoe]

From the Telegraph, they'll be impartial, right?

[youngmafbog]

It's not just the Torygraph Sandy, when posting one has to pick a link people can get to, for instance I post from the Independant sometimes.  It's a guide to the discussion which I see you have failed to address rather choosing to denegrate the OPS choice of link.  Typical lefty.

[New Judge]

"Well, let's think about what went right in the last 14 years..."

The UK left the European Union. The rest is just "noise".

The problem the country has now is that it has rejected the only party which has the right ideas to address the country's problems. I can understand why - because the outgoing version of that party was hopelessly split and inept and did not support the values of he people who tradiionally vote for them. It knew the country was seething on a number of issues - especially immigration, taxes and the NHS - but did nothing to address the electorate's concerns. So they rightly got hammered.

There will now follow five years of regret. The "rich" (i.e. anyone working for a living and earning more than the minimum wage) will see their taxes increase. Immigration will continue to soar. The NHS will continue as a dysfunctional behemoth, consuming more than £20m an hour (half a billion pounds a day) of taxpayer's hard-earned. Meanwhile its incompetent management will firefight its latest crisis, all the time planning what to do with the lorry loads of £50 notes that are delivered every day. .

A Labour government will address none of these problems adequately. It will be consumed by left-wing ideology, spending vast amounts of time and other people's money pursuing is "equality, diversity and inclusiveness" dogma. It will seek to eradicate all advantages sought by the strivers, investors and savers on the basis that they are too "privileged" to be allowed to see the fruits of their labours. I know exacly where they're coming from because the harder I worked, the more "privileged" I seemed to become. 

Still, the deed is done. All that remains is for sufficient numbers of voters to be educated into the folly of their ways. Not their fault they are unfamiliar with the perils of a proper Labour government. There hasn't been one for 45 years and nobody under about 60 will have an inkling of what they and their families face in the coming five years. Hopefully this latest incarnation will put paid to he Socialists and their Utopian dream for another lengthy spell after 2029.  

[Mozz71]

//I hope you are correct but liberals and the left are 2 cheeks of the same April.//

And the conservative right is the bit directly in the middle of those cheeks.

[Old_Geezer]

Confusing. Reform wasn't an outgoing version of itself 🤔

[vulcan42]

Well, generally that bit between the two cheeks is quite useful.

[ToraToraTora]

mozz, I would be interested in your response to the judge above.

[Mozz71]

I'm sure you would Tora, but you're mistaking me for a huge Labour supporter, which I'm not. I'm more left than right, but my politics have become more centralist as I've aged.

Judge's comments, while as eloquently and intelligently written as all his posts tend to be, boils down to his opinion. I don't know what this Labour government is going to bring, we'll all find out together. It may be a disaster, it may be a surprise. What we did need, and what we did get, was a change.

[brainiac]

What could go wrong?  Pretty much everything: unchecked immigration, votes for 16 year olds, net zero lunacy, increased taxes, unfettered wokery...

 

At least with Farage's election we can look forward to him destroying Starmer in the Commons.

[ToraToraTora]

bang on, right I'm off to get plastered in a local seat that just turned red! They have a Quay you know!

[naomi24]

I agree with all you've said, brainiac - and I've no doubt Farage will make his mark.

[brainiac]

Whatever one's opinion of Reform's policies, nobody can deny Farage is an excellent debater, and will lay into both Labour and the Tories when the new parliament convenes.  Just as with George Galloway and Alex Salmond (neither of whom I can stand), it's enjoyable watching someone's debating skills take an opponent apart.

[brainiac]

I wonder if we'll now find out the names of Starmer's children?

[roadman]

lol the virtue signaller party 

[New Judge]

" I'm off to get plastered in a local seat that just turned red! They have a Quay you know!"

I trust you're not off to The Quay (Wethers), Tora. Much as I like Wethers' establishments, it's not one of his best, hough upstairs is not too bad (if it's open and you can get a seat by the window). I prefer the 'Spoons in Lagland Street (The Lord Wimborne, I think). Handy for breakfast before toddling over to the station for the train home. That said, the Foundry Arms in that same road was not too bad last time I visited. Then there's "The Cockleshell" a bit further down, though it's many years since I went in there.

Have one for me.