FabSwingers.com forum: Good things Labour have done

By (user no longer on site) OP
16 weeks ago

Genuinely! Not healthy to be negative all the time so...

Getting rid of PCC's

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By *wosmilersCouple
16 weeks ago

Heathrowish

"Genuinely! Not healthy to be negative all the time so...

Getting rid of PCC's

Have they got rid of Police and Crime Commissioners?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
16 weeks ago

"Genuinely! Not healthy to be negative all the time so...

Getting rid of PCC's

Have they got rid of Police and Crime Commissioners?"

That's the plan 🙏

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By *abioMan
16 weeks ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"Genuinely! Not healthy to be negative all the time so...

Getting rid of PCC's

The new transport plans for the north actually makes sense.. i wish they would fast track them

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By *ermbiMan
16 weeks ago

Ballyshannon

Not pursued leaving ECHR as put forward by other parties. One of tge pillars of the Good Friday Agreement. Peace must continue to be protected

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By *ostindreamsMan
16 weeks ago

London

Reduction in NHS waiting list.

Their policy changes to legal immigration will reduce the numbers.

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By *otsMan
16 weeks ago

Higham

Nothing

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By *otlovefun42Couple
16 weeks ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

Let me get back to you.

BTW. Holding your breath is very dangerous.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
16 weeks ago

"Let me get back to you.

BTW. Holding your breath is very dangerous.

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By *ellhungvweMan
16 weeks ago

Cheltenham

"Genuinely! Not healthy to be negative all the time so...

Getting rid of PCC's

The new transport plans for the north actually makes sense.. i wish they would fast track them "

Their original growth plans were sensible. Nothing has happened. I wouldn’t hold your breath on these plans.

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By *CExeCouple
16 weeks ago

Hong-Kong/Exeter

U turns on some of their more demented and vile policies. That's about all I can think of.

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By *abioMan
16 weeks ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"Genuinely! Not healthy to be negative all the time so...

Getting rid of PCC's

The new transport plans for the north actually makes sense.. i wish they would fast track them

Their original growth plans were sensible. Nothing has happened. I wouldn’t hold your breath on these plans."

Because of the way these ones have been costed and government capped, these are absolutely doable because the northern half of the old HS2 project has done a lot of the land procurement and planning

Also they are finally doing what I have been screaming out for them to do for ages, which is make use of freight only and upgrade them for passengers service.. which in the grand scheme of things is such a cheap thing to do.. for example, the proposed west London orbital… the Washington loop on the Tyne and Wear metro, the reopening of the alternative Newcastle to Durham line

Sorry.. transport nerd here… reopening lines with now expanding urban populations makes so much more sense than building new roads

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By *uietbloke67Man
16 weeks ago

outside your bedroom window ;-)

Never underestimate stability.

Closing the farming tax loophole.

Cutting the 2 child benefit cap

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By *lan157Man
16 weeks ago

a village near Haywards Heath in East Sussex

Arranged for a long period of poor weather in the Channel .

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By *exy_HornyCouple
16 weeks ago

Leigh

Many of their policies have been well intentioned but they have almost all been poorly thought through and therefore the implementation has been bad, or a U turn has been necessary.

Winter fuel payments - just don’t pay it to higher rate tax payers. Simple and most people would agree.

Farm tax, close loopholes by making full tax payable (the same as everyone else) if a farm is sold or put to uses other than farming. Otherwise let them be passed down the generations. Again, easy and fair.

Eye tests for over 70s for driving. Why pick on them? Make it compulsory to have an eye test in the 12 months before any licence is renewed or changed. The cost is small and everyone should have regular eye tests anyway.

Driving licence reform is being debated, particularly around motorcycles, and young car drivers. This is good as the current system is punitive and discourages motorcycles however the proposed reforms are weak. Why not adopt better systems from Europe? For example in France people can drive mopeds and “sans permis” from earlier than the UK but can’t learn to drive bigger vehicles until they are 18. Then they have a restricted licence for 2 years. All sensible, but won’t be implemented here.

Nationwide, consistent rules should be implemented regarding pavement parking (ideally ban it) and motorcycles in bus lanes (ideally allow it) but I doubt it will happen.

Any reduction in NHS waiting lists is welcome but the main issues have not been addressed. Efficiency and duplication in the NHS, and (the big one) a properly integrated system of social care.

Improved transport in the north is welcome but it is so far in the future I may not see it.

All the above was in the spirit of positivity. The good policies have been overshadowed by the bad: net zero madness, road pricing, national insurance rises, business rates rises, employment law changes, removal of 2 child benefit cap, starving the armed forces of money, removing jury trials, letting people off for minor offences and stopping short prison sentences, insufficient investment in police / justice system and prisons, inability to deport people who shouldn’t be here. Etc…….

It isn’t just Labour, the Conservatives were bad as well. The whole political system is broken - whoever wins, we get the same government run by the Civil Service blob.

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By *uietbloke67Man
16 weeks ago

outside your bedroom window ;-)

Ill tell you one big thing they have done.

Not bleated on about the UK being broken, negativity breeds negativity.

The UK is far far far from broken.

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By *ingdomNightTimePleasuresMan
16 weeks ago

nearby

13 policy U turns are welcomed

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By *illi3736Woman
16 weeks ago

Glasgow

Only people who don't travel other than on holiday don't realise compared to most countries it is not as bad as most say. I would not swap with any other G7 country I know that much.

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By *ornucopiaMan
16 weeks ago

Bexley

"Ill tell you one big thing they have done.

Not bleated on about the UK being broken, negativity breeds negativity.

The UK is far far far from broken."

The alliteration is the main reason for people enjoying bandying the Broken Britain phrase about.

I vote we start saying something similar about France!

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By *andM4FunCouple
16 weeks ago

Cambridgeshire

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

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By *enuineguy76Man
15 weeks ago

Glasgow

Digital IDs - or did he do another u-turn on it.

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By *roadShoulderzMan
15 weeks ago

Petersfield

Interesting that the GfK Consumer Confidence Barometer is showing a sustained difference in confidence between those under 50 and those over 50 especially in the under 30 group.

Younger people are much more positive than the negative whingers aged over 50.

Looking at the negativity on here about Labour's turnaround of the UK it's worth looking at the moaners' age. Many are over 50 and don't seem to understand results cannot be instant.

I guess if you are still a low achiever by the time you reach 50, it's blame everyone else time, especially the government of the day?

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By *otlovefun42Couple
15 weeks ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

"Interesting that the GfK Consumer Confidence Barometer is showing a sustained difference in confidence between those under 50 and those over 50 especially in the under 30 group.

Younger people are much more positive than the negative whingers aged over 50.

Looking at the negativity on here about Labour's turnaround of the UK it's worth looking at the moaners' age. Many are over 50 and don't seem to understand results cannot be instant.

I guess if you are still a low achiever by the time you reach 50, it's blame everyone else time, especially the government of the day?

Confidence through naivety methinks.

I could afford to semi retire at 47 and fully retired at 55. I'll take that "low achievement" thanks.

Half of the parliamentary Labour party are blaming this "government of the day".

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By *eroy1000Man
15 weeks ago

milton keynes

I would credit them with how they have dealt with Trump so far. Starmer in particular seems to have developed a reasonable relationship with Trump which given the history of comments of some of his MP's must have been difficult. As recent events have shown, Trump is so unpredictable so I do believe that is an achievement. Shame about the rest of it

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By (user no longer on site) OP
15 weeks ago

"Interesting that the GfK Consumer Confidence Barometer is showing a sustained difference in confidence between those under 50 and those over 50 especially in the under 30 group.

Younger people are much more positive than the negative whingers aged over 50.

Looking at the negativity on here about Labour's turnaround of the UK it's worth looking at the moaners' age. Many are over 50 and don't seem to understand results cannot be instant.

I guess if you are still a low achiever by the time you reach 50, it's blame everyone else time, especially the government of the day?

Do you have any evidence that those who criticise Labour are 'low achievers' ?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
15 weeks ago

"I would credit them with how they have dealt with Trump so far. Starmer in particular seems to have developed a reasonable relationship with Trump which given the history of comments of some of his MP's must have been difficult. As recent events have shown, Trump is so unpredictable so I do believe that is an achievement. Shame about the rest of it "

Starmer seems much happier with foreign affairs than domestic stuff.

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By *ornucopiaMan
15 weeks ago

Bexley

"Interesting that the GfK Consumer Confidence Barometer is showing a sustained difference in confidence between those under 50 and those over 50 especially in the under 30 group.

Younger people are much more positive than the negative whingers aged over 50.

Looking at the negativity on here about Labour's turnaround of the UK it's worth looking at the moaners' age. Many are over 50 and don't seem to understand results cannot be instant.

I guess if you are still a low achiever by the time you reach 50, it's blame everyone else time, especially the government of the day?

Do you have any evidence that those who criticise Labour are 'low achievers' ? "

Presumably not, but it will be a good one if it catches on!

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