The first 6 months: what has Labour actually done?

I actually want to know! Why is the stupid MSM showing us Farage, Stephen Waxy-Lemons and Elon Musk and his Freaking Dad instead of the people who we want to listen to as they are the ones that affect our lives, not the frogs. 🐸

Firefighting, the shit they have taken over, that’s what they’ve been doing so far.
F I R E F I G H T I N G

And the Daily Mail still drives the masses & media to hysteria.

I get weekly reports of what’s being debated in parliament each week and listen to Today in Parliament on R4. Quite a lot!

Problem is, if you can’t see it in your pocket. Will just end up like another Biden term. People need to visually start seeing improvement to their surroundings and lifestyle.

Boring, boring, boring. More of that please for at least 4 and a half years.

Not the most balanced article. In fact, incredibly biased.

Don’t downvote – argue with me, please.

Let’s look at those points one by one.

**1. Resolved long-running industrial disputes**
They threw money at these with zero negotiation. No reforms required, just gave the strikers exactly what they wanted. Hardly a skilful piece of negotiation, and to do this while the economy has a £22bn black hole in its finances was neither prudent nor fair, considering train drivers are in the top 10% of earners.

**2. Improved the incomes of many of the poorest**
The have kept the tax thresholds at the same level, and taken away winter fuel allowance from all but the poorest 15% – and even they have to now fill in a huge form to claim it.

**3. Fast-tracked legislation to improve workers’ rights**
Great on the face of it. Who doesn’t want more rights? However, when coupled with their drive for AI and the rise in employers’ NI, what this will do is drive up unemployment. If it doesn’t, I will eat my hat and that of everyone in the room. Raw. Employment rights are great, but only when you have a job…

**4. Restored NHS funding**
This is a total misrepresentation. There is not a government in recent history under which real-terms spending on the NHS has NOT increased. Find me a graph that says otherwise. Someone. Please.

**5. Launched housing and planning reform…”**
Every government has set ambitious targets… and has failed to meet them. I’m afraid to say this will be no different, because we don’t have the builders to build 1.5 million homes. The CITB estimates that we will require an *additional* 450,000 workers to achieve this… all of whom will need somewhere to live, and many of whom will bring a partner or family. That’s a third of those houses already swallowed up.

**6. Legislated to improve the regulation of the water industry**
I cannot argue with this, well overdue.

**7. Launched a major devolution to local government**
We will see how this goes. Local government can be terrible (see mismanagement by Croydon, Woking, Birmingham) so making mega councils could go either way as the power-hungry local overlords get twitchy thumbs. Don’t count this as a success until it is proven.

** 8. Improved International Relations**
We already had very good relations with Ukraine (cf Boris) and the US. Less so with the EU, but then the EU are rubbing their hands having seen the government’s negotiating ability with the strikers (see point 1)

**9. Launched a Strategic Defence Review**
Clutching at straws here. We had these in 2010, 2015 and 2021. It’s hardly an “achievement” to do something we do every 5 years.

**10. Strengthened Environmental Policies**
There is a reason that Europe is declining in wealth. We are in a gigantic act of self-harm; while the rest of the world is slowly aiming for net zero, we are going fast and hard at the cost of our industry and economy. Never mind, at least in 10 years we will feel smug about our solar panels (made in China), wind turbines (Chinese steel) and electric cars (made in China) while we sit around unemployed because there’s no industry left.

**11. Launched improvements to public transport**
The government has “capped” fares at £3 according to the article. No. They raised the cap by 50%. One gets the feeling that the authors of this article would have used that headline had the Nasty Tories done it.

**12. Strengthened police response to violence against women and girls**
While declining to hold an inquiry into their gang rapes and how councils turned a blind eye to it.

**13. Strengthened border control and increased returns of failed asylum seekers**
And still the boats keep arriving in ever greater numbers….

Labour has stopped real investigation of grooming gangs.

They sent 100 members to meddle in the US election and stop trump. Election interference? The hypocrisy of complaining about Elon is extreme.

6 months of poor decisions and broken promises and scandals, I had high hopes for change but I am sorely disappointed

Crashed the economy & lock up people for saying things online?

Probably waded half way through the shit that was left behind by the previous party.

Noticed we hear a lot less what is happening in Parliament than we did when the Torys were in.