Labour needs a decade to rebuild Britain

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1. So far Labour have announced we should prepare for
   continued austerity, called for further erosion of our privacy rights, made life harder for the transes, and been caught out engaged in cronyism.

   I’m squinting hard but all I’m seeing is a red Tory party and the continuation of our managed decline.

2. Reform The Town County Planning Act quickly then and get on with it

3. I understand the sentiment that Labour had done nothing yet and people feel hopeless but personally i think it’s a bit early and you have to be eager to damn this country based on 7 weeks where Parliament has been on summer break especially considering how well he dealt with riots. Although if they continue with austerity it will be difficult to vote for them again

4. I agree, I believe that if they do everything right, by 2030 we will start seeing some actual improvements.

5. They won’t get 10 years unless they take a risk and invest in the country.

   There is no appetite for more austerity after 14 years.

6. Well they need to start sorting things out and be seen to be doing in about 6 months as thats all I think people will stand for.

   Come election time they need to have things looking a lot brighter and moving in the correct direction.

7. Before anyone gets snarky, remember that the UK population handed the Conservative party the keys to the palace for 14 years during which they accrued a shining record of the following but not limited to:

   – Applying economic sanctions on the country (nice one)

   – Took free school meals away from *CHILDREN*, requiring a footballer to get involved

   – Managed the decline of government services, breaking NHS and Police thereby contributing to the brazen lawlessness and appalling wellbeing of populace we see today

   – Scrapped the only infrastructure project attempting to modernize British rail

   – Partied and got drunk while your nan died of Covid

   – Laughed at unions that were on the receiving end of Covid for asking for a raise

   – Crashed the economy and then had to replace PM who failed to outlast a lettuce

   But yes tell me how because Labour has not cured cancer and ended world hunger in 2 months, we’re all fucked.

8. Have all the delusional young Redditors realised that nothing really changes despite the colour of Government? That fervent Labour enthusiasm doesn’t seem so rife now.

9. We told you they’d say this.

   And they’ll keep saying this long after a decade has passed, handy how they now have a free rhetorical pass to commit even more economic violence by austerity and privatisation and you’re only going to be hit with the “Tories made a mess” argument. Blaming the Last Government just like the Tories did for 14 years.

   This Labour government won’t last ten years anyway, Reform or someone of their ilk will promise the moon on a stick and people will vote for the Nazis. History repeats in times of such economic suffering and we haven’t even really had ecofascism bite yet with climate change.

10. 10 years huh? Shame there needs to be an election in 5.

11. I’m not sure how engaging in Austerity is likely to start creating the rebuilding of Britain.

12. Same old thing. No matter who is in power. We always “just need time”. Unless the U.K rolls out an AI god, a vaccine for ageing or cold fusion, we will still be struggling with the national debt and pensions in 10 years.

    Unless we are planning a cull, or global domination.

13. eh, i’ll still take incompetent over criminal liars and thieves.

14. It’s wishful thinking if they believe voters will allow that. They have 5 years.

15. lAbOuR aRe jUsT pReTeNdInG tO hOlD tOrY lItE pOlIcIeS tO kEeP tHe rIgHt wInG pReSs oNbOaRd. oNcE tHeY gEt iN pOwEr tHeY’ll vEeR tO tHe lEfT, yOu wAtCh.

    https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/keir-starmer-labour-leader-general-election-interview/

    >If you achieve the huge election mandate that polls are suggesting, will you be as bold as Attlee in 1945 or be locked into austerity-lite?

    >I’ll be as bold as Attlee. I ran a public service during austerity, I saw the impact of the Tories’ decisions. There will be no return to austerity with a Labour government. We’ll have a decade of national renewal instead, with ambitious investment and reform.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-69063666

16. They’re making Blair’s ’97 government look like Bennites aren’t they?

17. Considering the damage they’ve done in 8 weeks, imagine how bad the country would be after 10 years of these clowns (not that the Tories would be any better).

18. Who destroyed Britain must pay the bill of rebuilding it. The Tories voters.

19. I’m not surprised Labour needs time to sort this Tory driven shit show of corruption out, but I don’t see how they’ll survive an election under austerity.

    And it’s hard to ignore the cracks appearing in Labours claims of clearing out the corruption, donors have been given jobs at 5x the pay of the amount they ever donated.

    And while I agree/like people being held accountable for what they say online, it’s a slippery slope & I’d like these things to be part of a wider agenda online targeting corporations etc and holding them to account for hovering up people’s data while not storing it adequately, inevitably for it to be stolen.

    I get so many Pwned alerts for my data being lost in hacks due to random companies I’d never even heard of, it’s wrong.

20. And then the next government needs 10 years to “fix” the country and the cycle repeats, endlessly.

    This two party setup we are forced into is dull, boring and entirely undemocratic.

21. Shout out to the Reddit crew who kept downvoting when I said Labour are just the less shit version.

    People banging on about how great Tony Blair was and that everything is the Tories fault. It’s both parties and I hope everyone sees that now.

22. That carrots getting mouldy

    Tax the rich already, austerity is proven failure

23. The negative sentiment towards excessive immigration isn’t going away.

    If the ‘sensible’ parties don’t address it then we’ll end up with the less sensible party in power dealing with it.

24. Ten years time, “Labour needs another decade to rebuild Britain.”