Anyone else feel a sense of impending doom that we’ll have a Labour government tomorrow?

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No!

Bring it on 🌞🌞🌞

NO, I M DELIGHTED

Not in any way am I feeling impending doom.

I don’t expect miracles. I expect serious government focussed on repairing, restoring, rebuilding our nhs and other public services. They’re inheriting an almighty mess. I have more faith in Starmer to lead a decent government than I’ve had in any of the recent Conservatives.

We have had unelected leaders for sometime now

I suspect Labour will have less of a majority than expected, conservatives might do a wee bit better than expected, Lib Dems might do better and the B awful SNP slightly better than expected. Just more middling all round.
We'll have to get on with it. I hope there'll be a good government party and a strong opposition party. Just hoping really.

Yes! People have such short memories…….the last Labour government ruined this country for ever.

To be honest, I do not give a damn. in my long life I have found that changes in governing party are always an anticlimax and just more of the same.

I am resigned to a Labour government although I won't be voting for them. I just hope they don't get too much of a majority.

Poppyred

Yes! People have such short memories…….the last Labour government ruined this country for ever.

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Whatever are you on?

Poppyred

Yes! People have such short memories…….the last Labour government ruined this country for ever.

And the last 14 years?

Ah well! I'll be waiting for the thunderbolts sometime early tomorrow morning.

Sarnia

I am resigned to a Labour government although I won't be voting for them. I just hope they don't get too much of a majority.

Why does the size of the majority matter?

Memories are clearly short

Sort of.

But I am feeling a mixture.
I am so tied up in knots about the result, that I dont know what I want.

I know some of what I dont want.
But that is not the same at all of knowing what I do want.

There are a couple of smaller parties I dont want to improve very much.

I dont want a huge majority of one party or the other I dont think?

No, I feel hugely relieved that the s..tshow of the last 14 years will be over at last. I’m glad that the expectations of a Labour government are low actually, because it will take some time for the full horrors of what has gone before to be revealed and rectified. It’s like upgrading your house, you have to start with the foundations first when they are collapsing.

Aveline

Memories are clearly short

I do remember the last Labour government. Nothing wrong with my memory.

Millions of people have had a sense of impending doom for the past 14 years.

Poppyred

Yes! People have such short memories…….the last Labour government ruined this country for ever.

Genuine question: how?

I don’t like huge majorities, and never have. It makes governments too unaccountable.

As we saw with Thatcher and Blair.🙄

A working majority is best.

Aveline

Memories are clearly short

Yes, they are.

Any Government that is in for more than a couple of terms becomes complacent and thinks they can do what they like.

We do need a shake-up sometimes.

petra

Millions of people have had a sense of impending doom for the past 14 years.

Just in case the above isn’t clear I’m referring to homelessness, energy prices, cost of living, health issues, job security. Etc, etc.

M0nica

To be honest, I do not give a damn. in my long life I have found that changes in governing party are always an anticlimax and just more of the same.

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DiamondLily

I don’t like huge majorities, and never have. It makes governments too unaccountable.

As we saw with Thatcher and Blair.🙄

A working majority is best.

The size of the majority is immaterial. The Executive holds all the cards as far as parliamentary procedure is concerned and so long as it retains a majority vote, even if it is a majority of one, it will pass all its legislation.

The bigger problem is handling its own MPs.

Oh, to answer the OP: not impending doom - because I find it hard to believe anything could be worse than the Tories have been - but not much excitement either. I can’t find much that is inspirational or aspirational in Labour’s manifesto, and some of Starmer’s pronouncements (two-child cap, EU, the PFI energy scheme) underline that.

MaizieD

DiamondLily

I don’t like huge majorities, and never have. It makes governments too unaccountable.

As we saw with Thatcher and Blair.🙄

A working majority is best.

The size of the majority is immaterial. The Executive holds all the cards as far as parliamentary procedure is concerned and so long as it retains a majority vote, even if it is a majority of one, it will pass all its legislation.

The bigger problem is handling its own MPs.

In the main, but backbenchers can and have voted against their own government. Smaller majorities make it easier to halt bad legislation.

As we have seen, at times.

But, we’ll have to wait and see tomorrow. Voter turnout is predicted to be very low.