Exactly one year - how have Labour done?

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TeessideCleveland

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So it’s now exactly a year since the polls closed - and a well spread just over 33 per cent of the votes gave Labour a whopping majority

Have they done really well , well , ok , not so well or really badly in that year?
 
Dealt with some important events well e.g. responding to last year's riots.

Put through some legislation I agree with e.g. farmer's inheritance taxes, and dealt with the backlash well

Overall the vibes are off, and the current welfare reform fiasco is probably a low for Starmer, although pleased with how many in the party have reacted.
 
To me they have looked absolutely naïve. From getting caught up in the freeby clothes debacle, at the beginning through to the u turns recently.
There is a craft and an art in giving with one hand and taking with another. There is also a way to pull some of your levers when tightening fiscal policy, but this government lay all the cards on the table with nowhere else to go.
I had hopes that they would deliver change as promised and have been happy to give them time, but they really need to start delivering. A lot of the economy stimulation is long term plans which will land after the next election. What they need to show is a few short term changes along with mid and long term.
Starmer appears to have done quite well on the world stage, but we need to see real change at home for him to be taken seriously.
 
This came on WhatsApp. Make of it what you will. Not really had time to look at it yet but the BBC have as they are currently ripping into Labour on tonights news.

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Great to see so many of you in Liverpool this week. This is your regular morning bulletin from No10.

Change has begun. As we mark our first year in office, this Labour Government has started rebuilding security for working people after 14 years of Tory decline.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1940783014503743725

The Prime Minister is leading this mission to renew our country in three phases - just as he did in our successful journey back to power from Opposition.

1. To fix the broken foundations we inherited
2. To begin making life fairer for working people
3. To deliver national renewal

OUR FIRST YEAR ACHIEVEMENTS

🚑 Promised 2 million extra NHS appointments and delivered 4 million

🏥 Lowest NHS Waiting lists for two years

🇮🇳🇪🇺🇺🇸 3 trade deals

⚖ 4 Interest rate cuts

👷 384,000 jobs created

📈 Business confidence at a 9-year-high

💰Record levels of private sector investment - £120bn

📉 Net migration is falling

✈ Deported 30,000 people with no right to be here

👮‍♂ 3,000 more local police offices

👩‍⚕1,900 more GPs

🥣 Opened first 750 Free Breakfast Clubs

📑 The biggest upgrade in workers rights in a generation

🍽 Free School Meals expanded to half a million children - lifting 100,000 out of poverty

💦 Bonuses banned for water bosses who pollute our rivers

🪖The biggest boost to defence spending since the Cold War

💷 Wages grew more in our first 10 months than in the last 10 years under the Tories - including a pay rise for 3 million of the lowest paid workers.

And there is much more to come - we’re just getting started…

ON THE MORNING ROUND More police will be on the streets in 500 towns across the country this summer. The Home Secretary has been setting out how this blitz of increased patrols will crack down on antisocial behaviour. Read the full details. https://x.com/ukhomeoffice/status/1941050664312009013?s=46&t=olIUMhC66OlOj-frSPsdCQ

SOMETHING TO READ The Health Secretary has written for The Times on how our 10 Year Plan for the NHS will deliver a better experience for patients https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/wes-streeting-nhs-plan-25c9c0xgk

SOMETHING TO SHARE Our new Neighbourhood Health Centres will benefit every community across the country - please share this post to help spread the word. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/167U4KaYxw/?mibextid=wwXIfr
 
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It's clearly a work in progress, no one ever said it was going to be easy, the government have upset the far right, the right, the left and the far left, which to me just proves that so much had to be done to fix the mess we were in.
1 year in and most of the predictions, from many on here 15 months ago that this governments would need 2 terms seem to be 100% right.
 
14 years of utterly catastrophic dismantling of our social fabric, including infrastructure, the NHS, Brexit, wage stagnation, austerity, mental health care and provision, Schools deprived of funds and basically starting to fall to pieces due to construction budgets being slashed, massive cuts to funding for police forces, community-support services axed.

One year is simply not enough to make a real dent in the damage done. Yes they have made mistakes and thankfully some have been reversed dues to those with a conscience. Hopefully the party can make better and more informed decisions in future.

If anyone things Farage and his fascist supporters would do better they need a wake up call.
 
mercury_redstone7 said:
Must be doing well and making progress, the far right fruit cakes on here are showing their hatred. UTLP UTB.
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‘The far right fruit cakes’ as you put it are still voters and human beings with families.. disillusioned, disenfranchised subjected to disinformation and need to be reached out to. What is good for the people of this country is good for the people of this country. Communication and understanding is severely lacking. Questions need to be asked why these tin pot fascist grifters are getting so much traction.. why do they receive such a disproportionate level of media coverage.

Troll politics seems to be reigning supreme.. changes need to be made from the top. Politics needs cleaning up, trust needs to be built and that can only be done through transparency and accountability.

Why have we got so many politicians with their fingers in so many pies? Public servants should not be available for hire, public service should not be an investment opportunity. They are not celebrities they don’t need sponsorships or endorsements to boost their income.
 
They've been terrible. The first year is the one you can make real changes.
A few wins aside they've been Tory light and now the cabinet don't even have control of more than half the party. Fin shambles

A labour party hitting the poor and barely taxing the rich isn't a Labour party
 
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