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I mean, sure. If you ignore all the good things they're doing, they're only doing bad things.
Nobody expects Labour to do zero positive things. That does not mean they are not red tories whose failure to address the needs of working people will eventually usher the Reform Party into power.
The first reply to my comment literally asks:
Genuine question, what good things? Part of the problem of only getting news from podcasts and social media is that I very loudly get all the bad things and maybe the good things are being drowned out.
Sure! These are some things that I think were good. Obviously it's fair enough if you don't agree! I'll try and keep these fairly recent.
On the environment:
UK emissions fall 3.6% in 2024 as coal use drops to lowest since 1666
Record breaking funding for clean energy in Britain
The Nature Restoration Fund in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill
On workers' rights:
On housing, homelessness and renting:
Renters' Rights Bill. (I had to use the government website for this because it's been so under-reported that literally all I could find about it other than this was landlords moaning about it!)
Rough sleeping winter funding tripled to help people off the streets
On health:
Pledge of two million extra NHS appointments met, PM says
Abolition of NHS England 'final nail in coffin of disastrous' 2012 Tory health reorganisation
On foreign policy:
I could go on but I don't want to take up too much of your time (or mine!). Byline Times had a good recent list (some overlap with my suggestions).
Of course you might think that the bad outweighs the good, but it's important to acknowledge the good is really happening. Also, a lot of the above I would argue doesn't go far enough (but that's typical of me), so if that's how you feel, you'll get no argument from me.
On the particular issue Nesrine Malik is discussing in the original post, I completely agree that it's a terrible decision (I actually just emailed my MP about it this morning to ask him to vote against it), but even on that, the government has been listening to criticism and they have walked back some of the worst aspects of it (as this article describes). That said, I still think it's a horrible plan.
Yeah, but apart from those, what good are they doing???
'Cancelled the Rwanda scheme?'
'Cancelled the Rwanda--? Oh, shut up!'
Well yes, cancelled the Rwanda scheme, that goes without saying...
But seriously, your comments here and the other person asking the "genuine question" make a good point. Clicks mean cash and anger gets clicks.
I imagine that the media will whip up the same level of hate for Starmer's government as they did for the previous Conservative one over the next four years and Reform or some other wacko rightwing party will bamboozle enough people who might regret voting for them afterwards to get in next time and like the US we'll descend into an authoritarian hellscape.
Time to build a bunker or get REALLY good at giving blowjobs.
Renationalising the railways is the main one that comes to mind.