After 14 years of Conservative rule, the UK has seen a significant shift in power with a surge in support for Labour. However, it’s still early days, but already some of the same issues of incompetence that plagued the previous government are still present.

What’s your take on the current situation, and what are your hopes for the future of the country?

Apologies if this is the wrong community to post this. Not trying to be divisive but constructive.

  • Baggins@piefed.socialEnglish
    18·
    4 days ago

    After 14 years of mismanagement and dismantling of services, it’s too soon to expect everything to be sorted.

    As usual you have whiners expected it to be up and running within days, and because it isn’t, are now screaming that Labour have lied and failed.

    • zante@slrpnk.netEnglish
      52·
      4 days ago

      It’s not whining, Labour have in fact broadly lied across the board and a still lying today.

      They lied about more of less everything important and continue you do so .

      • zero hours contracts
      • renationalisation
      • child benefit
      • tuition fees
      • the green new deal
      • cleaning up politics

      It’s a long list.

      Yesterday, Rachel from Accounts told non dom millionaires not to worry, because she’s listening , and will pause and dilute efforts to close their tax loopholes.

      So, you might argue about the merits of each policy, but it’s folly argue they tell the truth .

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    4 days ago

    I think it’s unrealistic to expect everything to be great. Even if the government was impossibly perfect, the UK would still have issues - be they inherited ones, ones that emerge from outside the UK, nonsense from mega-corps, or mistakes outside of government such as in the civil service.

    I will gladly accept what I hope will be gradual improvement over what we had for the past 14 years.

    Government is inherently slow to enact changes, so it’ll be at least another 6+ months before we really begin to see any change, IMO.

  • blackn1ght
    8·
    4 days ago

    I’m not there actually was a big surge towards Labour, Reform split the Tory vote.

    My general feeling though is that, so far, there doesn’t seem to be any ridiculous scandals or corruption like there was before.

    There’s always going to be criticism no matter who’s in power, but at the moment they seem ok. Not exactly filling me with any promise of things to get better, but there’s no feeling of doom like there has been either.

    I hope for electoral reform. For me, it’s why I don’t vote Labour because they’ll never be in favour of it.

    But other than that I hope for the cost of living to improve. Good quality housing to be more affordable and available. Utility and transport companies brought back into public ownership. A much more progressive drug policy and hopefully some kind of plan for returning to the EU. An education system where teachers aren’t burning out and more schools to reduce classroom sizes.

    Honestly I’m not really sure what Labours vision is. Maybe that’s a me problem but with other parties you do kind of get a feel for what they’re true aims are.

  • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Honestly, I don’t think much will change unless there’s a fundamental shift in how the media operates. People don’t like to admit it, but newspapers and social media really do lead them around by the nose and until the public either wises up to that or it changes from within somehow, it’s just going to be the same cycle of the media amplifying every problem with Labour (real or imagined) while down-playing everything the Tories do and we’ll just keep taking half a step forward and five steps back every decade or so.

    What I’d like to see the Tories pushed out to the unelectable fringes and to have Labour be the conservative option against a proper left-wing opposition of some sort, but realistically I don’t think that’ll happen. If anything it’s going the other way, where the Tories will end up being the less extreme option against Reform or something like that. At this point the Overton Window isn’t even attached to the house anymore, it’s halfway down the garden IMO.

  • DiddlydeeEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    Kier was in power for 2 days and the Tories were saying it’s a shit show, and they haven’t let up since. It’ll take years to fix the mess the Tories made, and I hope they never get back in power in my lifetime. As always, Fuck the Tories.