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

Whitewavemark2

Sparklefizz

And Angela Rayner has set up a domain "Angela 4 PM"

😄😄

Let me guess

Daily Mail by any chance?

As the media are not allowed to produce any propaganda on election day, this is what it is.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rQxorVNADA
Expect a lot more of the same over the next few months.

Smileless2012

I'm 63 and feel that way too M0nica .

I'm with M0nica as well. If I cry for a month over a new Labour government, it won't change the way of the world, so why get het up?
I wasn't even going to vote a few weeks ago, but I'll show up and do my bit. Then carry on as usual with my pleasant life.

Sparklefizz

And Angela Rayner has set up a domain "Angela 4 PM"

😄😄

Let me guess

Daily Mail by any chance?

No doom here. No glee or excitement either.

Que sera, sera

I'm 63 and feel that way too M0nica .

And Angela Rayner has set up a domain "Angela 4 PM"

NO impending doom here!

I feel optimistic and hopeful😀

Bring it on👏👏👏

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.

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.

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.

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.

🤣🤣🤣

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.

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.

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.

Poppyred

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

Genuine question: how?

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

Aveline

Memories are clearly short

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

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.

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?

Memories are clearly short

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?

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.

Poppyred

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

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Whatever are you on?

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.

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.