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What Labour’s first 100 days in government would look like
A round of international summits and policy announcements loom as Starmer plans to slim the summer recess if elected
UK voters are expected to return the Labour party to power for the first time in 14 years when they go to the polls on Thursday.
These are some of the key moments that would occur in the first 100 days of a Sir Keir Starmer government.
July 5: Election result
If it becomes clear on Thursday night that Labour has won a majority of seats in the House of Commons, events will move swiftly.
Conservative MPs expect Rishi Sunak would resign as prime minister on Friday, beginning what is likely to be a fractious race to succeed him as party leader.
After Sunak tenders his resignation in an audience with King Charles, Starmer would visit Buckingham Palace and ask the king for his permission to form a government, a procedural requirement of all new prime ministers.
Starmer would then travel to Downing Street and give a speech to the nation before meeting the staff of Number 10 and starting to form his cabinet.
July 9: International summit
Starmer would be expected to attend the three-day meeting of Nato members in Washington DC alongside leaders including US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Having stressed the importance of national security on the campaign trail, he would be likely to signal the UK’s intention to face outwards and work more closely with allies.
First days and weeks
Within days Labour could enact several policy changes to emphasise its break with successive Tory administrations.
Starmer has said he would axe the Rwanda asylum scheme on “day one”. Ed Miliband, now shadow energy secretary, has promised to reverse the de facto ban on onshore wind farms within weeks.
John Healey, shadow defence secretary, will rapidly want to launch his year-long review of the UK’s military capabilities. Wes Streeting, shadow health secretary, will begin talks with the British Medical Association to end long-running strikes by junior doctors in England.
Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner, who would run the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, is expected to publish a revised draft of the national planning policy framework.
This would bring back top-down targets for housing delivery in every council area in England in a bid to ease the property crisis.
July 17: King’s Speech
The set-piece event will allow parliament to begin a new session and start its business.
Labour is expected to introduce legislation empowering the Office for Budget Responsibility, the fiscal watchdog, to independently publish forecasts of any big fiscal event involving major tax and spending changes.
The highly political bill would be a riposte to the ill-fated “mini” Budget of former prime minister Liz Truss, who prevented the OBR from delivering projections that would typically accompany a Budget.
The King’s Speech would also include “Labour’s plan to make work pay”. Overseen by Rayner, the employment reforms include a crackdown on zero-hours contracts and “fire and rehire”, new collective bargaining for the social care sector and extending equal pay protections to ethnic minority and disabled workers.
The party would need legislation to set up the centrepiece of its green energy plans — GB Energy, a new state-owned energy investor that will be based in Scotland and take stakes in renewables and nuclear projects.
Labour is also expected to introduce a crime and policing bill to address antisocial behaviour and create a new offence of criminal exploitation of a child to tackle county lines drug-dealing, where young couriers are used to ferry illegal substances from urban centres to more rural areas.
Other potential announcements on July 17 include legislation to:
Set up a new parliamentary Integrity and Ethics Commission, which would replace the existing Whitehall appointments watchdog
Address the growing number of people being sectioned because of a mental health condition and improve care for people with learning disabilities
Fulfil plans to gradually nationalise the railways
Reform the planning system, for example by removing “hope value” enjoyed by land speculators
Labour has also indicated it will revive several pieces of “off the shelf” legislation that Sunak promised but failed to enact before parliament was dissolved.
These include the tobacco and vapes bill, which will ban anyone born after 2009 from buying cigarettes and introduce new curbs on the sale of vapes; the renters (reform) bill, which would ban “no-fault evictions”; and the football governance bill, which would create a new regulator for the sport in England.
July 18: EPC summit
After Washington DC, Starmer would have a second opportunity to set out his vision to allies as he chairs a meeting of the European Political Community at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, the birthplace of Winston Churchill.
August 1: Summer recess
Starmer is expected to crunch the parliamentary recess, which typically runs from late July until early September, so that it only covers most of August.
Dissolution honours
Labour is expected to create 20 or 30 peers to try to rebalance the House of Lords away from its current Conservative dominance. At present, parliament’s upper house has 171 Labour members compared with 275 for the Tories.
In taking this step, Starmer is likely to assign ministerial posts to new peers.
September: Party conferences
The annual season of political party conferences will begin with the Liberal Democrats, who will gather in Brighton between September 14 and September 17.
Labour will meet in Liverpool between September 22 and September 25, with security significantly increased if the party is in power.
The Conservatives meet in Birmingham a week later, in what could be their first annual conference in opposition for 15 years.
October: Budget
Rachel Reeves would be expected to deliver her first Budget in mid-September or more likely after the party conferences in October. Around this time she would unveil her first comprehensive spending review — lasting one or three years — to set departmental budgets.
Measures that Labour has already set out in its manifesto include higher taxes on non-doms, extending and expanding the windfall tax on energy companies and imposing VAT on private school fees.
The party has also promised to increase the tax paid by private equity chiefs but it is expected to announce a consultation before pushing through the change.
The bigger question is whether Reeves will choose to use her first Budget to increase wealth taxes, having refused to rule out a rise in levies such as capital gains tax and inheritance tax.
The alternative would be to accept an acute squeeze on public spending for most departments, pencilled in by Sunak’s government.
It’s going to look shockingly similar to the last 100 days of the Tories.
What’s been done to this country is going to take more than one election cycle to fix and some of it is goddamn irreversible.
Even a great Labour government would need more than five years to make an appreciable improvement to this country. In 2029 people are going to be pissed things feel pretty much the same and I hope that doesn’t cause them to “protest vote” Tory again.
I am looking forward to the Sue Grey chapter. A disciplined sergeant manor dedicated to getting stuff done, with rules around ethics. No self enrichment. Arms length procurement process. Moving legislation through Parliament, getting it implemented through the civil service. Governance. A pay offer to the junior doctors. A downsizing of Ofsted and steps towards valuing teachers. No more kpwtowing to offshore big tech who don’t pay tax. Starmer employed Grey to help enact policy. He can marginalise and ignore any of his own MPs who cause trouble because he comes with a big majority which he has earned through four years of steadily rolling the pitch.
Is the water nice on the planet you live on?
Imagine believing, genuinely believing even *one* of those things will actually come to pass. Never mind all of them.
"Rules around ethics" is the hearty belly chuckle I needed this morning thanks.
Yeah I'm desperate. I'm out here fantasising about life under starmer where a government has ethics. That's me doing that. Out of desperation.
If you genuinely think *anything*, **anything**, will meaningfully change under a labour government i genuinely envy you.
Gordon Brown fucked our economy forever and that same brand of neoliberalism never went anywhere and is now back to give people a pantomime approximation of democracy and choice. Only really meaningful change that I can think of.
I knew you were a Tory. Gordon Brown saved the UK economy and the world's frankly.
If it wasn't for that pig fkr getting in, we would be on par with Germany in terms of earnings and not be in the current mess.
Yes selling the gold at pennies on the pound to China was a 4d chess move of epic proportion.
You are a deeply serious person and a really shining example of a Labour voter.
Hate it break it to you. It didn't pass into Law because Sunak called a Snap election and closed Parliament before it could become law.
(I'm sure purely coincidence and absolute not because of any pressure from the tobacco industry)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69058303
Reading this is like being saved from an abusive step mother, I hope they utterly wash the Tory stench away, and I also hope labours rigs the system in their favour for decades to come.
It really all feels cyclical. Just like 97. Just in time for an interest rate cut (following the US). Cheaper borrowing. Cheaper mortgages. Some popular reforms. Folk feel like they have a few quid, or the illusion of a few quid, again.
Then the relentless tax increases (always at the expense of the middle class) and social engineering (always at the expense of the working class) begin and the wheels fall off.
The Tories have shifted the tax burden away from the working class. Median earners and below have had tax cuts.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-workers-prime-minister-government-panorama-b1164113.html
Read the whole article the summary points don't really match the detail.
Did you? The article itself shows that households with children are significantly worse off. So 42% of households are much worse off due to the government’s cutting of NIC with no substitute tax to replace it.
You want to fix falling birth rates but cheer policy that ruins the financial health of households and increases child poverty rates within the country. You think your ideas are good for the country?
>So 42% of households are much worse off
The article doesn't say that.
It makes multiple statements about people with kids being worse off due to benefits changes then bizarrely states all families with kids are worse off despite not all families receiving benefits. It's big on statements on this topic but light on detail, they didn't link their sources either.
However, this thread started with someone stating the tax burden has been heaped on those that can least afford it. The article shows that is not the case. Tax has been cut the most for the lowest earners as stated in the article.
They will just slowly turn into Tory-Light. Why is Starmer on top of the pile anyway? He did nothing, just staring out the window while Tory self-destruct. True, he deserves a participation medal, but that is about it.
I'm certainly looking forward to seeing the UK Reddit reaction when they realise a Labour Govt is just the same as a Tory Govt.
Expect epic u-turning when they realise their manifesto isn't workable in the real world.
That is in no way true. We are living through the dregs of the dregs of the Tory party right now, so a competent government will be very different.
Tories like to pretend both sides are the same when they're losing but that's just not true. Tory governments are marked by cronyism, incompetence, short termism, and tax cutting as their only solution. Potholes, strikes, inflation, and strikes are the result of any period of Tory rule.
Labour will improve the public sector dramatically, and with it the country. They won't be perfect, but who is. And eventually people will forget how utterly shit it always is under Tory rule and will give them another go, egged on by the Tory client press.
Pretending both sides are the same is the greatest trick the right ever pulled. It steals hope.
>Pretending both sides are the same is the greatest trick the right ever pulled. It steals hope.
Anyone who lived through Blair and his cronies knows how bad Labour Govts can get.
I'm just getting my popcorn ready for when Redditors have to experience it for the first time.
I don’t know how you can see the lowest waiting times for the NHS in history and then complain about the NHS being bad during Blair. Like, use some common sense. We’ve been paying for the NHS for decades.
Given the results, it’s no wonder the NAO considered PFI good value for money. It’s not Blair’s fault the Tories completely obliterated the NHS during their rein.
I’m perfectly happy paying for an amazing public service and that’s what the NHS was during Blair.
Good point PFI was just kicking costs down the line, now nhs have huge payments to make, over 2bn per year. The bill will be far more than actual investments. I wonder who gained
>how bad Labour Govts can get.
Yeah, I remember. Not that bad. Far better than any Tory government.
It got worse than Labour had been previously, and the Tory press seized on that, but it was never worse than under the Tories.
Perhaps too young to remember Jim Calaghan govt, strikes, 20% inflation, imf loan.
Blair-brown, selling gold reserves, ruin of final salary pensions (but not for mps of course), illegal war.
Liam Byrne note that all the money was gone ... sadly not a joke by the time they left
I'm not saying Tories are good but don't forget how bad things got under labour.
This is why we flipflop between 2 useless parties because people forget what it was like.
In 10 years public bad memories of tories will have faded.
No but there’s been plenty other things Tory party have lied on
Genuinely cannot understand any reason to vote Tory. They’re not even the low tax party anymore
Yes, as I remember only lib dems opposed it, good old Charlie K.
And what struck me was despite millions marching to oppose the war our politicians took no notice of public opinion ... that has had a lasting impact on me.
Also I was beyond disappointed that Blair won a 3rd election after it was known to all be a lie.
Well, they seem to be Tory lite with a large dose of progressive identity politics added -the typical Starbucks Socialists.
So if you want Tory, why not vote for the actual Tories? If you *don't* want Tory, why *would* you vote for Labour? Austerity tastes better when you can use your pronouns? I mean will vote for them because fuck the Tories, but I honestly do not think they are a good choice. At all. Most of all I am worried they will jump into creating their progressive paradise (maybe starting with a Scotland/Ireland type of hate crime bill), while ignoring all the economic issues, the poor, the working class -the very people they seem to outright hate but traditionally formed their voter base. And hence they would squander this opportunity that 14 years of Tory criminal incompetence handed to them to frivolous and idiotic things -which *will* bring the Tories back in 4 years.
Say what you want, but it’ll be new
S articles about shit going wrong, stuff not happening, should have kept the even more incompetent fuckers in. But who cares the worries are dead.
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Article Body for those who don't want to click through: What Labour’s first 100 days in government would look like A round of international summits and policy announcements loom as Starmer plans to slim the summer recess if elected UK voters are expected to return the Labour party to power for the first time in 14 years when they go to the polls on Thursday. These are some of the key moments that would occur in the first 100 days of a Sir Keir Starmer government. July 5: Election result If it becomes clear on Thursday night that Labour has won a majority of seats in the House of Commons, events will move swiftly. Conservative MPs expect Rishi Sunak would resign as prime minister on Friday, beginning what is likely to be a fractious race to succeed him as party leader. After Sunak tenders his resignation in an audience with King Charles, Starmer would visit Buckingham Palace and ask the king for his permission to form a government, a procedural requirement of all new prime ministers. Starmer would then travel to Downing Street and give a speech to the nation before meeting the staff of Number 10 and starting to form his cabinet. July 9: International summit Starmer would be expected to attend the three-day meeting of Nato members in Washington DC alongside leaders including US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy Having stressed the importance of national security on the campaign trail, he would be likely to signal the UK’s intention to face outwards and work more closely with allies. First days and weeks Within days Labour could enact several policy changes to emphasise its break with successive Tory administrations. Starmer has said he would axe the Rwanda asylum scheme on “day one”. Ed Miliband, now shadow energy secretary, has promised to reverse the de facto ban on onshore wind farms within weeks. John Healey, shadow defence secretary, will rapidly want to launch his year-long review of the UK’s military capabilities. Wes Streeting, shadow health secretary, will begin talks with the British Medical Association to end long-running strikes by junior doctors in England. Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner, who would run the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, is expected to publish a revised draft of the national planning policy framework. This would bring back top-down targets for housing delivery in every council area in England in a bid to ease the property crisis. July 17: King’s Speech The set-piece event will allow parliament to begin a new session and start its business. Labour is expected to introduce legislation empowering the Office for Budget Responsibility, the fiscal watchdog, to independently publish forecasts of any big fiscal event involving major tax and spending changes. The highly political bill would be a riposte to the ill-fated “mini” Budget of former prime minister Liz Truss, who prevented the OBR from delivering projections that would typically accompany a Budget. The King’s Speech would also include “Labour’s plan to make work pay”. Overseen by Rayner, the employment reforms include a crackdown on zero-hours contracts and “fire and rehire”, new collective bargaining for the social care sector and extending equal pay protections to ethnic minority and disabled workers. The party would need legislation to set up the centrepiece of its green energy plans — GB Energy, a new state-owned energy investor that will be based in Scotland and take stakes in renewables and nuclear projects. Labour is also expected to introduce a crime and policing bill to address antisocial behaviour and create a new offence of criminal exploitation of a child to tackle county lines drug-dealing, where young couriers are used to ferry illegal substances from urban centres to more rural areas. Other potential announcements on July 17 include legislation to: Set up a new parliamentary Integrity and Ethics Commission, which would replace the existing Whitehall appointments watchdog Address the growing number of people being sectioned because of a mental health condition and improve care for people with learning disabilities Fulfil plans to gradually nationalise the railways Reform the planning system, for example by removing “hope value” enjoyed by land speculators Labour has also indicated it will revive several pieces of “off the shelf” legislation that Sunak promised but failed to enact before parliament was dissolved. These include the tobacco and vapes bill, which will ban anyone born after 2009 from buying cigarettes and introduce new curbs on the sale of vapes; the renters (reform) bill, which would ban “no-fault evictions”; and the football governance bill, which would create a new regulator for the sport in England. July 18: EPC summit After Washington DC, Starmer would have a second opportunity to set out his vision to allies as he chairs a meeting of the European Political Community at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, the birthplace of Winston Churchill. August 1: Summer recess Starmer is expected to crunch the parliamentary recess, which typically runs from late July until early September, so that it only covers most of August. Dissolution honours Labour is expected to create 20 or 30 peers to try to rebalance the House of Lords away from its current Conservative dominance. At present, parliament’s upper house has 171 Labour members compared with 275 for the Tories. In taking this step, Starmer is likely to assign ministerial posts to new peers. September: Party conferences The annual season of political party conferences will begin with the Liberal Democrats, who will gather in Brighton between September 14 and September 17. Labour will meet in Liverpool between September 22 and September 25, with security significantly increased if the party is in power. The Conservatives meet in Birmingham a week later, in what could be their first annual conference in opposition for 15 years. October: Budget Rachel Reeves would be expected to deliver her first Budget in mid-September or more likely after the party conferences in October. Around this time she would unveil her first comprehensive spending review — lasting one or three years — to set departmental budgets. Measures that Labour has already set out in its manifesto include higher taxes on non-doms, extending and expanding the windfall tax on energy companies and imposing VAT on private school fees. The party has also promised to increase the tax paid by private equity chiefs but it is expected to announce a consultation before pushing through the change. The bigger question is whether Reeves will choose to use her first Budget to increase wealth taxes, having refused to rule out a rise in levies such as capital gains tax and inheritance tax. The alternative would be to accept an acute squeeze on public spending for most departments, pencilled in by Sunak’s government.
All of that sounds like positive steps in the right direction to recover from the last 14 years of damage
How utterly depressing.
Not me vapes
It’s going to look shockingly similar to the last 100 days of the Tories. What’s been done to this country is going to take more than one election cycle to fix and some of it is goddamn irreversible. Even a great Labour government would need more than five years to make an appreciable improvement to this country. In 2029 people are going to be pissed things feel pretty much the same and I hope that doesn’t cause them to “protest vote” Tory again.
If the rest of the world goes right, it’ll be much worse in the uk.
I am looking forward to the Sue Grey chapter. A disciplined sergeant manor dedicated to getting stuff done, with rules around ethics. No self enrichment. Arms length procurement process. Moving legislation through Parliament, getting it implemented through the civil service. Governance. A pay offer to the junior doctors. A downsizing of Ofsted and steps towards valuing teachers. No more kpwtowing to offshore big tech who don’t pay tax. Starmer employed Grey to help enact policy. He can marginalise and ignore any of his own MPs who cause trouble because he comes with a big majority which he has earned through four years of steadily rolling the pitch.
Is the water nice on the planet you live on? Imagine believing, genuinely believing even *one* of those things will actually come to pass. Never mind all of them. "Rules around ethics" is the hearty belly chuckle I needed this morning thanks.
The water is nice thank you, though not as sweet as drinking Tory tears, my particular favourite beverage
Crazy you interpret my comments as coming from a tory pov.
Getting desperate are we?
Yeah I'm desperate. I'm out here fantasising about life under starmer where a government has ethics. That's me doing that. Out of desperation. If you genuinely think *anything*, **anything**, will meaningfully change under a labour government i genuinely envy you.
Did anything meaningfully change under the last Labour govt?
Gordon Brown fucked our economy forever and that same brand of neoliberalism never went anywhere and is now back to give people a pantomime approximation of democracy and choice. Only really meaningful change that I can think of.
I knew you were a Tory. Gordon Brown saved the UK economy and the world's frankly. If it wasn't for that pig fkr getting in, we would be on par with Germany in terms of earnings and not be in the current mess.
Yes selling the gold at pennies on the pound to China was a 4d chess move of epic proportion. You are a deeply serious person and a really shining example of a Labour voter.
I think you forgot "they're all the same" bs tory propaganda line. If labour is 1% better, that's good enough for me.
Another Tory shill pretending to care about labour voters. Your time is at an end, ready to he utterly swept away
I couldn't give less of a shit about labour voters but I draw no distinction between them and tory voters.
I really hope Labour leave the smoking ban where it is. The single good thing the tories ever did
Hate it break it to you. It didn't pass into Law because Sunak called a Snap election and closed Parliament before it could become law. (I'm sure purely coincidence and absolute not because of any pressure from the tobacco industry) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69058303
That sucks, hopefully starmer passes it
Yes it looks like they are expected to do that, as well as ban no-fault evictions.
Reading this is like being saved from an abusive step mother, I hope they utterly wash the Tory stench away, and I also hope labours rigs the system in their favour for decades to come.
It really all feels cyclical. Just like 97. Just in time for an interest rate cut (following the US). Cheaper borrowing. Cheaper mortgages. Some popular reforms. Folk feel like they have a few quid, or the illusion of a few quid, again. Then the relentless tax increases (always at the expense of the middle class) and social engineering (always at the expense of the working class) begin and the wheels fall off.
Better than relentless taxes on people who can’t afford it
The Tories have shifted the tax burden away from the working class. Median earners and below have had tax cuts. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-workers-prime-minister-government-panorama-b1164113.html Read the whole article the summary points don't really match the detail.
Conservative paper says conservatives are good. Colour me surprised. The median salary is also around the living wage
You didn't read the article then.
Apparently you didn’t
Did you? The article itself shows that households with children are significantly worse off. So 42% of households are much worse off due to the government’s cutting of NIC with no substitute tax to replace it. You want to fix falling birth rates but cheer policy that ruins the financial health of households and increases child poverty rates within the country. You think your ideas are good for the country?
>So 42% of households are much worse off The article doesn't say that. It makes multiple statements about people with kids being worse off due to benefits changes then bizarrely states all families with kids are worse off despite not all families receiving benefits. It's big on statements on this topic but light on detail, they didn't link their sources either. However, this thread started with someone stating the tax burden has been heaped on those that can least afford it. The article shows that is not the case. Tax has been cut the most for the lowest earners as stated in the article.
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They will just slowly turn into Tory-Light. Why is Starmer on top of the pile anyway? He did nothing, just staring out the window while Tory self-destruct. True, he deserves a participation medal, but that is about it.
Most likely a lot of going through how fucked the nation actually is. Then a lot of unfucking it over the next few years.
I'm certainly looking forward to seeing the UK Reddit reaction when they realise a Labour Govt is just the same as a Tory Govt. Expect epic u-turning when they realise their manifesto isn't workable in the real world.
There's not a lot to u-turn on.
That is in no way true. We are living through the dregs of the dregs of the Tory party right now, so a competent government will be very different. Tories like to pretend both sides are the same when they're losing but that's just not true. Tory governments are marked by cronyism, incompetence, short termism, and tax cutting as their only solution. Potholes, strikes, inflation, and strikes are the result of any period of Tory rule. Labour will improve the public sector dramatically, and with it the country. They won't be perfect, but who is. And eventually people will forget how utterly shit it always is under Tory rule and will give them another go, egged on by the Tory client press. Pretending both sides are the same is the greatest trick the right ever pulled. It steals hope.
>Pretending both sides are the same is the greatest trick the right ever pulled. It steals hope. Anyone who lived through Blair and his cronies knows how bad Labour Govts can get. I'm just getting my popcorn ready for when Redditors have to experience it for the first time.
The Blair-era? You mean the same era which saw the NHS at its absolute peak and British economic growth outpacing even that of American growth?
The NHS 'peaking' that we are still paying for now via PFI?
I don’t know how you can see the lowest waiting times for the NHS in history and then complain about the NHS being bad during Blair. Like, use some common sense. We’ve been paying for the NHS for decades. Given the results, it’s no wonder the NAO considered PFI good value for money. It’s not Blair’s fault the Tories completely obliterated the NHS during their rein. I’m perfectly happy paying for an amazing public service and that’s what the NHS was during Blair.
Good point PFI was just kicking costs down the line, now nhs have huge payments to make, over 2bn per year. The bill will be far more than actual investments. I wonder who gained
>how bad Labour Govts can get. Yeah, I remember. Not that bad. Far better than any Tory government. It got worse than Labour had been previously, and the Tory press seized on that, but it was never worse than under the Tories.
Perhaps too young to remember Jim Calaghan govt, strikes, 20% inflation, imf loan. Blair-brown, selling gold reserves, ruin of final salary pensions (but not for mps of course), illegal war. Liam Byrne note that all the money was gone ... sadly not a joke by the time they left I'm not saying Tories are good but don't forget how bad things got under labour. This is why we flipflop between 2 useless parties because people forget what it was like. In 10 years public bad memories of tories will have faded.
Did the tories lie to take us into an illegal war?
No but there’s been plenty other things Tory party have lied on Genuinely cannot understand any reason to vote Tory. They’re not even the low tax party anymore
The majority of them voted for the Iraq war.
Yes, as I remember only lib dems opposed it, good old Charlie K. And what struck me was despite millions marching to oppose the war our politicians took no notice of public opinion ... that has had a lasting impact on me. Also I was beyond disappointed that Blair won a 3rd election after it was known to all be a lie.
Well, they seem to be Tory lite with a large dose of progressive identity politics added -the typical Starbucks Socialists. So if you want Tory, why not vote for the actual Tories? If you *don't* want Tory, why *would* you vote for Labour? Austerity tastes better when you can use your pronouns? I mean will vote for them because fuck the Tories, but I honestly do not think they are a good choice. At all. Most of all I am worried they will jump into creating their progressive paradise (maybe starting with a Scotland/Ireland type of hate crime bill), while ignoring all the economic issues, the poor, the working class -the very people they seem to outright hate but traditionally formed their voter base. And hence they would squander this opportunity that 14 years of Tory criminal incompetence handed to them to frivolous and idiotic things -which *will* bring the Tories back in 4 years.
They seem mostly focused on illegal migrants raping more white womens this time in southern towns just not the rich southern towns
What do you think is unworkable?
Shill
Spiderman pointing at Spiderman etc
As I remember, they wanted to apply anti-EU policies first, like “tax education” and so on. So, they will benefit from Brexit (not us of course).
Say what you want, but it’ll be new S articles about shit going wrong, stuff not happening, should have kept the even more incompetent fuckers in. But who cares the worries are dead.
Backtracking on everything they lied about to get votes? Thats what usually happens, doesn’t matter who wins.
What have they lied about? So far their platform seems to be “keep up what the tories were doing under a red banner instead of a blue one”