When Labour came to power, I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt, some good decisions were made such as James Timpson appointed Minister of prisons, I was feeling positive.
However, as my husband predicted, it wouldn’t last.
Removing the winter fuel allowance and the cap on nursing home fees was dreadful but her latest move is beyond comprehension.
Angela Rayner has dropped Tory plans to limit applications for social housing to long-term British residents.
The Housing Secretary has formally scrapped reforms that would have prevented recently arrived migrants from applying for a council house in England.
Enough is enough!
Mollygo
Funny they way that complaints about this government are dismissed with
“Well look what the last government did.”
It’s like the playground cry of
“He did it first!”
And the assumption that anyone criticising this government automatically endorsed all the previous government’s actions, which is not true.
No, it’s more like “I’ve been living off McDonalds and junk food for the last 12 years, Why has my new diet whivh I started 5 weeks ago not shed the 4 stone I put on”
I don’t do X/Twitter but I do use Facebook as My friend and I manage our local site. I have been staggered the last few days by the huge number of people sharing posts about Labour’s poor start. Posts vary but mostly people are saying how come they can stop theWinterFuel Payments but they can’t stop illegal immigrants from arriving in boats.
Primrose53
I don’t do X/Twitter but I do use Facebook as My friend and I manage our local site. I have been staggered the last few days by the huge number of people sharing posts about Labour’s poor start. Posts vary but mostly people are saying how come they can stop theWinterFuel Payments but they can’t stop illegal immigrants from arriving in boats.
- ‘how come they can stop the winter fuel payments but the can’t stop illegal immigrants from arriving in boats.
Seriously?
In a five week timespan?
With riots thrown into the mix??
Primrose53
I don’t do X/Twitter but I do use Facebook as My friend and I manage our local site. I have been staggered the last few days by the huge number of people sharing posts about Labour’s poor start. Posts vary but mostly people are saying how come they can stop theWinterFuel Payments but they can’t stop illegal immigrants from arriving in boats.
Our local Facebook page has had posts slagging off Labour. They were re posts from people who followed Katie Hopkins and another one who was posting videos of Tommy Robinson. I questioned the motive behind the posts and they have been removed.
No world peace. No miracle green fuel. No cure all known diseases. Not even an extra bank holiday for no reason at all. Slackers.
Iam64
Primrose53
I don’t do X/Twitter but I do use Facebook as My friend and I manage our local site. I have been staggered the last few days by the huge number of people sharing posts about Labour’s poor start. Posts vary but mostly people are saying how come they can stop theWinterFuel Payments but they can’t stop illegal immigrants from arriving in boats.
- ‘how come they can stop the winter fuel payments but the can’t stop illegal immigrants from arriving in boats.
Seriously?
It’s going to be interesting to see how they are going to reduce boats coming over.
As for economics, don’t expect any give aways, do expect extra taxation across the board.
Primrose53
I don’t do X/Twitter but I do use Facebook as My friend and I manage our local site. I have been staggered the last few days by the huge number of people sharing posts about Labour’s poor start. Posts vary but mostly people are saying how come they can stop theWinterFuel Payments but they can’t stop illegal immigrants from arriving in boats.
I expect you would immediately leave any groups where there is widespread praise of Labour’s start, although of course those pages are also widely available. I’d ignore the reality that hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in the last few days to support immigrants too if I were you.
I suppose if people repeat over and over the word "boat" its like a sort of Pavlovian response.
Primrose53
I don’t do X/Twitter but I do use Facebook as My friend and I manage our local site. I have been staggered the last few days by the huge number of people sharing posts about Labour’s poor start. Posts vary but mostly people are saying how come they can stop theWinterFuel Payments but they can’t stop illegal immigrants from arriving in boats.
Really? Have you replied the previous govt spent 14 years trying to stop them??
Cadeby
I suppose if people repeat over and over the word "boat" its like a sort of Pavlovian response.
Yup “Stop The Boats” is like “Get Brexit Done” just a meaningless mantra.
Stand in front of a mirror and repeat these words three times, turn around three times, switch the lights on and off and look back in the mirror, look there’s good old Nige and Boris! 😱😱😱
Cossy
Cadeby
I suppose if people repeat over and over the word "boat" its like a sort of Pavlovian response.
Yup “Stop The Boats” is like “Get Brexit Done” just a meaningless mantra.
Stand in front of a mirror and repeat these words three times, turn around three times, switch the lights on and off and look back in the mirror, look there’s good old Nige and Boris! 😱😱😱
Like Harry Potter staring into the Mirror of Erised, showing the deepest desire of his heart.
cossy that is funny. I do wonder if the age group on here is really that of mature adults….
Cadeby
Stand in front of a mirror and repeat these words three times, turn around three times, switch the lights on and off and look back in the mirror, look there’s good old Nige and Boris! 😱😱😱
If you do that, you deserve to see Farage and Johnson. I wonder how you discovered that happened!
A local Facebook site purporting the serve all the community allows political postings? And fostered by the site organiser?
Blimey.
Ours has genuine local community news and local concerns.
Siope
No world peace. No miracle green fuel. No cure all known diseases. Not even an extra bank holiday for no reason at all. Slackers.
Indeed! Sack the lot of them immediately!
Honestly they’ve been in power less time that Lettuce Truss and her dubious chancellor, they managed to do far more (damage) in their 7 measly weeks!
Wyllow3
A local Facebook site purporting the serve all the community allows political postings? And fostered by the site organiser?
Blimey.
Ours has genuine local community news and local concerns.
Our local community sites on both F/B and the next door website actively discourage political and religious postings, due to the divisive nature of these topics and bad feelings caused.
Some moderators could learn from this.
Siope
No world peace. No miracle green fuel. No cure all known diseases. Not even an extra bank holiday for no reason at all. Slackers.
🤣🤣🤣
Honestly, I wonder what they've been doing all this time?
Partying at No 10, I bet! 🎉🎊🥂🍺🍷
Wyllow3
A local Facebook site purporting the serve all the community allows political postings? And fostered by the site organiser?
Blimey.
Ours has genuine local community news and local concerns.
Read it again. i did not say the posts were on our local site. I said my friend and i manage that local site.
Actually genuinely shocked. Local FB site is for all: since locally people actually know each other, makes it all the more important to set boundaries.
If you however set up a site for political discussion, its another matter of course
Cross posted. I assumed when you said you "managed a local site" it was your community site not a local political site.
Wyllow3
Cross posted. I assumed when you said you "managed a local site" it was your community site not a local political site.
I probably didn’t word it very well. 😉
OK, its clear now.
Siope
No world peace. No miracle green fuel. No cure all known diseases. Not even an extra bank holiday for no reason at all. Slackers.
No slacking unfortunately where cutting WFA was concerned.
Damage limitation!
The govt has to raise funds somehow, we need to invest in our failing public services.
I am truly sorry that withdrawing the WFA will affect those who fall through the gap, maybe some of you may be entitled to pension credits but not claiming them?
I’d like to see better public services at all levels.
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