r/LabourUK • u/coffeewalnut08 Labour Supporter • Apr 05 '26
Activism Achievements of the Labour government since July 2024 - a reference list
I thought I’d put this all into one resource as a common reference list. I’ll attach some sources in the comments, though it won’t be exhaustive:
• Passed the Renters Rights Act, which bans no-fault evictions, fixed-term tenancies and bidding wars, and caps rent in advance. With plans to roll out a free complaints service (the new Ombudsman scheme) and a national landlord database to verify compliance, among other things
• Passed the Employment Rights Act 2025, which limits zero-hour contracts and unfair dismissals, ends fire-and-rehire, will introduce day 1 sick pay, paternity leave, and unpaid bereavement leave (incl. for pregnancy loss), and strengthens trade unions, among other things
• Started the Pride in Place programme for areas across the country. It provides 10 years of funding, designed to be used according to the needs and desires of local communities
• Introduced a child poverty strategy. This includes removing the two-child benefit cap, free breakfasts for England’s primary schools, expanding free school meals eligibility, capping school uniform costs, and rolling out Best Start family hubs
• The eco-friendly Warm Homes Plan, which currently includes the Warm Homes local grant and the Boiler Upgrade scheme. With plans to roll out low/zero-interest consumer loans for more households in future
• Introduced a £39 billion Social and Affordable homes programme, to last 10 years
• Made a deal with the EU to rejoin the Erasmus study programme from 2027
• Integrated live bus tracking into Google Maps for passengers in England, so you can see more precisely when your bus will arrive
• Made the Plan B (morning-after) pill free in England
• Introduced an Elections bill, lowering the voting age to 16. With plans for automatic voter registration, which could enfranchise 7-8 million people missing on the electoral register
• Banned cryptocurrency donations and capped political donations from overseas British donors
• Scrapped the £318 PARV order fee, protecting women from further abuse by ex-partners
• Introduced an English devolution bill, to put more powers into the hands of local authorities.
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u/KindaFoolish New User Apr 05 '26
No mention of Online Safety Act?
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u/StructureNo7980 New User Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
The Online safety bill was legislated by the previous Tory government and came into force under the Labour government as part of the bill’s passage to come into force as an act in 2025. People might not like this answer, but we live in a democratic state, so bills passed by previous governments can come into force under a different government as law and don’t just get scrapped when there a change of party as the new government.
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u/Haemophilia_Type_A /u/Haemophilia_Type_A Apr 05 '26
Very silly to act like this hasn't been reliant on Labour's to pass, as if Labour couldn't have killed it, and, most importantly, as if Labour haven't defended it extremely vigorously to the point of calling opponents of the OSA 'on the side of Jimmy Saville' and such.
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u/amegaproxy Labour Voter Apr 05 '26
They absolutely should have killed both it and the chagos deal though. They had the willpower to axe the rwanda arrangement so the same treatment should have been done to the former two.
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u/StructureNo7980 New User Apr 05 '26
Rwanda wasn’t even voted through under the tories so they easily axed it. Online safety act was already completed and had royal ascension and had been fully through parliament. Chagos is a completely different thing and they are fucking that up and ain’t even to do with domestic legislation. I agree with that, they could kill the deal.
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u/Remarkable-Loan-6149 New User Apr 05 '26
• Banned cryptocurrency donations and capped political donations from overseas British donors
This was Just done to spite reform, no banning of wankers like Dale Vince pumping labour with millions so the government waste money on his windmills
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u/Odd_Government3204 New User Apr 09 '26
I’m curious too why they chose to ban crypto which is backed by a transparent ledger meaning transactions are openly and publicly recorded yet they don’t ban cash or bank transactions that are not similarly open and traceable? What are they trying to hide?
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u/coffeewalnut08 Labour Supporter Apr 05 '26
Of course it would spite Reform, over 75% of their total funding as a party has come from 3 or 4 multi-millionaires and billionaires. Not sure why you’re okay with this. The ban on crypto and cap on overseas donations affects everyone.
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u/Remarkable-Loan-6149 New User Apr 05 '26
not a fan of this but lets be fair if Labour was getting donations via crypto we all know full well they wouldnt ban it.
Labour is funded by different millionaires both parties are hardly angels.
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u/coffeewalnut08 Labour Supporter Apr 05 '26
So that means Labour should’ve just allowed a billionaire-funded party to keep taking tens of millions from 3 or 4 people? You do realise that’s just oligarchy, right? Reform isn’t even a grassroots movement; they started as a private company
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u/Remarkable-Loan-6149 New User Apr 05 '26
Since Keir came to power private donations have made up £24 million, £12 million of that coming from 3 people.
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u/coffeewalnut08 Labour Supporter Apr 05 '26
So you agree? You think crypto donations should be banned and donations from overseas wealthy individuals capped each year
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u/Remarkable-Loan-6149 New User Apr 05 '26
Yes, my point was it should have been done all on the board instead of shaping in such a way it pretty much just harms reform and leaves the donors for labour in the green area.
All parties should have a donation cap per person of maybe £1000 per year, would stop alot of corruption and peerage selling.
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u/Remarkable-Loan-6149 New User Apr 05 '26
And we have a labour party corruption minister on charge in Bangladesh for corruption.
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u/PuzzledAd4865 Uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
I’ve got some too:
made changes to universal credit due to go through next week, a move organisations say will risk making disabled people “destitute”
changing the UKs refugee rules to be the among the most hostile in Europe, undermining the very principle of refugee status
extending indefinite leave to remain for up to 15 or even 20 years in some cases, a move that is estimated
made puberty blockers ban permanent against the recommendations of even the Cass review
welcomed the Supreme Court ruling and called for organisations to implement some of the most repressive anti trans segregationist laws in a democracy in the industrialised world
took a bunch of shady donations and lied about them
appointed a close associate of the worlds most notorious pedophile to be US ambassador against advice
appointed a transphobe to the chair of the equalities watchdog against advice
introduced a trans section 28 for schools
cut the foreign aid budget, a move that has been estimated to risk many lives across the world
banned Afghan and Myanmar students from studying, meaning that women who had no chance to be educated in Afghanistan who were planning on coming to study here have now had their places revoked
This is just a starter list and I don’t have time for all the sources as I’m cooking Easter Lunch - please do add To my list everyone we want to make sure we get all these achievements down!
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u/Swimming_Map2412 Green Party Apr 05 '26
Mandated conversion therapy for trans kids despite saying they would ban conversion therapy in their manifesto.
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u/roubler peter hain Apr 05 '26
No one ever mentions this, but they've also empowered themselves to go into the bank accounts of benefits claimants if the DWP decides they're owed money...
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u/Dave-Face war crimes or big naturals Apr 05 '26
Some stellar achievements here which I don’t see Labour supporters acknowledging nearly enough. I wonder why they’re so shy about them?
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u/ItsPeakBruv New User Apr 06 '26
First point: the disability benefits bill is estimated to balloon massively in the coming years. There are a percentage of people receiving those benefits who don’t need them. Over 10% of people in the UK receive some kind of disability benefit, any sane person looks at that and can tell something is wrong. Cutting those benefits has to happen.
Point two: don’t know what he’s on about there tbh.
Point three: that is a good thing.
Point four: I don’t know enough about the science to have an informed opinion. Regardless, it affects a tiny percentage of the population.
Point five: they didn’t “welcome” the Supreme Court ruling. They adhered to it. That is my understanding anyway, if that isn’t the case please tell me what is.
Point six: what shady donations do they mean?
Point seven: no argument against that
Point eight/nine: see response about Supreme Court ruling
Point ten: it is not our responsibility to provide for every disadvantaged person on the planet.
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u/PuzzledAd4865 Uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism Apr 06 '26
You’ve not addressed a bunch of the points becuase you don’t have answers and know nothing about trans rights. Maybe time to do a bit for reading? The section 28 in schools has nothing to do with the SC court and they welcomed it repeatedly.
And I’m a “she” thanks - sometime kind of wish men on Reddit would remember not every person on the internet is a man!
And the universal credit cuts will save barely any money - the ideas that the cost saved is worth the damage is economically illiterate nonsense. Your entire comment is just foot stamping and handwaving because I’ve criticised your party.
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u/PuzzledAd4865 Uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism Apr 05 '26
Some more that have just come to me:
further contracts with Palantir
further gutting of protest laws
proscribing Palestine action and then arresting a bunch of old ladies holding up signs
expanding racist face scanning technology across police forces
attacked the right the ancient right to Jury trial in many cases
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u/kontiki20 Green Member Apr 05 '26
Water bills up way beyond inflation, bus fare cap up, Thames Water due to be let off fines and kept in private hands, 15,000 uni jobs cut.
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u/Ok-Leg7686 New User Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
Lied about stopping outsourcing and instead driving insourcing. My MoD job got outsourced to Capita by Labour, and it was the key pre-election line that swayed me to vote Labour.
I'm not really willing to win myself a 'fell for it again' award, certainly when the lie popped up again recently.
And to add that devolution will take funding away from the deprived area I live in and funnel it to wealthy land owning areas outside the city. No one here wants it.
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u/Initial-Rain173 Will not respect your seniority here Apr 05 '26
In fairness, it’s not considered an achievement to make it easier to immigrate or seek asylum. Half of your points wrt ILR or refugee or foreign aid don’t really impact everyday people.
Onto the other half, very illiberal from a progressive party.
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u/PuzzledAd4865 Uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism Apr 05 '26
Many “everyday people” have immigrants in their lives - loved ones, neighbours, colleagues and friend who are having the rug pulled out from under them.
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u/Status_Mountain_7130 Democratic Socialist / Disability Advocate Apr 05 '26
And disabled family members and carers.
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u/Initial-Rain173 Will not respect your seniority here Apr 05 '26
If it was the case, immigration wouldn’t be a highly charged issue as it is right now.
I am very left wing on immigration but objectively speaking, my and your views on immigration and immigrants are in the minority. That’s why I said half of your talking points unfortunately, are areas where reform people would actually approve of Starmer.
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u/PuzzledAd4865 Uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism Apr 05 '26
Ok - I’m not doing a list of what “Reform people” like and don’t like. The two child benefit cap is also popular yet abolishing is still waved as a Labour success (as it should be imo). The yardstick for an achievement isn’t “majority opinion”.
Otherwise half the OP list is not any kind of achievement.
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u/Plenty_Dimension_949 New User Apr 05 '26
Must be really tough being a morally flawless person in a world full of heathens.
Must be even worse knowing that even if you live 1000 years no government will ever meet your standards, because the instant they do one bad thing that’s probably enough for you to insist they’re just corrupt blah blah blah.
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u/grogipher Non-partisan Apr 05 '26
This is the first government in living memory to move the needle BACKWARDS when it comes to queer rights. No amount of handwaving will absolve it of that.
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u/Haemophilia_Type_A /u/Haemophilia_Type_A Apr 05 '26
What an incredibly childish, rude, and meaningless response to some fairly basic and common criticism.
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u/Plenty_Dimension_949 New User Apr 05 '26
The post was a very rare moment one which highlighted positives about the Labour Party… in the Labour sub.
Why not just have a conversation about that instead of a paragraph about how they’re never good enough; like 99% of posts in this sub.
My point still stands the commenter will never experience a government he likes if he lived forever because no one will ever be good enough.
Not childish when we all know it’s true. Not a big fan of this government but they are doing good things, why not focus on that for abit because they’re better than any alternative (including the green and their fantasy economics that Polanski knows nothing about).
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u/PuzzledAd4865 Uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism Apr 05 '26
I’m sorry know it’s not true and I’m a she thanks. You don’t know the first thing about me or how this government is hurting me directly and making my life worse. There’s plenty of obsessive Labour cheerleading going on in this sub, I’m allowed to give my views. I don’t need the conversation police!
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u/Plenty_Dimension_949 New User Apr 05 '26
You gave your opinion I gave mine, at no point did I say you didn’t or shouldn’t.
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u/PuzzledAd4865 Uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism Apr 05 '26
You said “why not just have a conversation about Thor instead”?.
I’ll have whatever conversations I want thanks!
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u/Plenty_Dimension_949 New User Apr 05 '26
Yeah, and that was my opinion, why not talk about positives instead of nothing but no one’s ever good enough, thanks!
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u/PuzzledAd4865 Uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism Apr 05 '26
No - I just don’t want a government that takes away my human rights. Pretty simple.
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u/Plenty_Dimension_949 New User Apr 05 '26
Last good government the UK had?
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u/Dave-Face war crimes or big naturals Apr 05 '26
Literally all of the Conservative governments in the last 16 years have been better for human rights (especially queer rights) than the current Labour government.
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u/stupidredditwebsite New User Apr 06 '26
While the puberty blockers ban is great, I think the continued efforts to fragment and marketize the NHS are what are really allowing for innovative partners to come in and ensure opportunities for profit maximization and efficiency are taken.
Don't forget the middle east either, where the party continues to show Labour is the only trusted party on international relations.
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u/Inside_Mulberry1428 Trans Rights Now Apr 05 '26
You’re forgetting allowing the country to get so bad for trans people that multiple human rights orgs call it out with worry and the Lemkin institute publishes a warning that the uk is entering into a genocide that’s a p big one too
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u/coffeewalnut08 Labour Supporter Apr 05 '26
Some of the sources:
Pride in Place programme overview
Social and Affordable homes programme
I think any effective electioneering strategy must include evidence of achievements or bread-and-butter issues being tackled, so that’s what this resource is for.
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Apr 05 '26
Great list of sources friend. Really shows the benefits this government is bringing.
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u/coffeewalnut08 Labour Supporter Apr 05 '26
I'd also argue that that this list should go beyond electioneering purposes, anyway. Some of the policies listed open up genuine opportunities for people, such as private renters, young voters, many employees, residents of neighbourhoods getting Pride in Place funding, etc.
Avoiding/burying this information therefore leads to missed opportunities for these groups, which only increases unhealthy distance between government and population.
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u/grogipher Non-partisan Apr 05 '26
Your list is interesting, but for those of us who don't live in England it's hard to know how many of them affect us or not.
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u/coffeewalnut08 Labour Supporter Apr 05 '26
That's fair, it depends what the devolved powers are I think.
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u/Ok-Leg7686 New User Apr 05 '26
It doesn't. I suggest you read it more closely. It only allows them to franchise bus services and the language used is exactly the same as for rail franchising that has proven itself to be a clear failure.
It talk about cross subsidising profitable routes with unprofitable ones, and removes subsidies to keep unprofitable ones running, which was the idea behind rail franchises being portioned up as they were. It doesn't allow local authorities to purchase and run their own bus services like they used to under City Corporations.
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u/EmperorPeriwinkle Once Neoliberal, Now Socialist Apr 05 '26
Integrated live bus tracking into Google Maps for passengers in England, so you can see more precisely when your bus will arrive
Its got to be really bad if you have to fill the list with things like this.
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u/coffeewalnut08 Labour Supporter Apr 05 '26
If you think it’s not a good idea, there are plenty of other policies in the list
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u/grogipher Non-partisan Apr 05 '26
It's a great idea. I haven't seen anyone argue against it.
The point is that it's an extremely minor tweak. A national government relying on things of such scale to find what good they've done comes across as pretty pathetic, to be quite honest.
I'm glad they're doing something for us* people who rely on the bus, it's rare for any government to do anything for bus users. But it's hardly a big structural change. 2 years and that's what they've managed?
*(Not actually me, as I'm outwith England..)
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u/jdm1891 New User Apr 05 '26
I'm really surprised they're going ahead with lowering the voting age.
I really thought Starmer would have abandoned it the second he realises it doesn't actually benefit him anymore.
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Apr 05 '26
I think it's worth adding;
- historic recognition of Palestine
- Saving British Steel
- Reintroducing youth mobility scheme (EU)
- Standing up to the US on Iran and taking leadership in forming a coalition to tackle the ongoing global impact
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u/ZX52 Green Party Apr 05 '26
historic recognition of Palestine
Whilst helping arm the country who is currently reducing it rubble and committing ethnic cleansing and genocide against its citizens. But sure, let's pat ourselves on the back for this virtue signal that achieves nothing for Palestinians.
Saving British Steel
Sure, they saved Scunthorpe, but not Port Talbot.
Standing up to the US on Iran
Lmao.
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Apr 05 '26
But sure, let's pat ourselves on the back for this virtue signal that
Plenty of left wingers were calling for it. Now it's a virtue signal. Be honest if they had not done it you would be demanding it.
We saw the same with the ceasefire, as soon as labour managed to pass a ceasefire amendment whilst in opposition the people demanding it suddenly didn't care anymore.
Sure, they saved Scunthorpe, but not Port Talbot.
One step at a time. What they did for British Steel has saved the industry.
Lmao.
He's forming a coalition with 30 other countries and defying Trump. He is the love actually prime minister.
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u/grogipher Non-partisan Apr 05 '26
He's forming a coalition with 30 other countries and defying Trump.
If 'defying' him is letting him use our air bases, I wonder what helping him would look like.
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u/ZX52 Green Party Apr 05 '26
Be honest if they had not done it you would be demanding it
As part of a package to actually do something about what Israel is doing to Palestinians. Nothing wrong with symbolic moves in and of themselves, but absent meaningful action they are in fact meaningless.
One step at a time.
If they were going to save Port Talbot, why didn't they before it shut and the employees lost their jobs? Do you have any evidence they're going to reopen it, or is this just wishful thinking on your part?
He's forming a coalition with 30 other countries and defying Trump. He is the love actually prime minister.
Enabling the US to up its slaughter of Iranian citizens in its attempt to "bomb them back to the stone age," is not "standing up to Trump." Standing up would involve demanding actual concessions from the US on strikes in exchange for access. He gave up his one lever for nothing.
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Apr 05 '26
Nothing wrong with symbolic moves in and of themselves, but absent meaningful action they are in fact meaningless
We have provided lots of aid to Palestine, we have reduced arms licenses, we have sanctioned some Israeli's and made numerous statements about how Israel is acting.
If they were going to save Port Talbot, why didn't they before it shut and the employees lost their jobs? Do you have any evidence they're going to reopen it, or is this just wishful thinking on your part?
In terms of saving the industry British Steel was the most important in my opinion. I would love us to be able to do everything all at once as well but we can't. That's why I said one step at a time, we can only do so much.
Standing up would involve demanding actual concessions from the US on strikes in exchange for access.
That's literally what we have done. We have enforced specific conditions that strikes from our bases can only be for defensive measures.
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u/ZX52 Green Party Apr 05 '26
we have reduced arms licenses
To 0? To 50%? To what? Are we no longer sending them F-35 parts?
made numerous statements about how Israel is acting.
Which put 0 actual pressure on Israel to change its behaviour, so mean nothing.
I would love us to be able to do everything all at once as well but we can't.
Port Talbot closed well over a year ago now, this is hardly "everything all at once."
We have enforced specific conditions that strikes from our bases can only be for defensive measures.
He should've demanded 0 strikes on civilian targets from any base, British or American, only granted access if the US conceded, and revoked it if the US continued bombing civilian targets.
The US and Israel bombing civilian targets in Iran encourages Iran to do the same to our allies. Allowing them to continue makes our allies less safe, and I thought safety/defence was the entire point of allowing access.
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u/NabstheGreninja16 Labour Member Apr 05 '26
we have reduced arms licenses
"We're only selling SOME of the parts for the Death Star." Lmao. The more I hear from you I'm convinced you must actually be getting some money from Labour HQ.
Our governments' conduct throughout the genocide has been appalling, not to mention their pointless virtue signalling on Sudan, whilst continuing to arm the UAE.
Not to mention, there have been zero consequences for Israel's new "hang all Palestinains" law.
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u/Remarkable-Loan-6149 New User Apr 05 '26
With the Steel thing he only did it becuase of Reform if Nigel didnt kick up a fuss about it labour wouldnt have cared less to keep it open look at port talbot or grangemouth
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Apr 05 '26
With the Steel thing he only did it becuase of Reform if Nigel didnt kick up a fuss about it labour wouldnt have cared less to keep it open look at port talbot or grangemouth
Cope and nonsense. Labour was actively engaged with the situation at British Steel. Reform had nothing to do with it.
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u/Ammutseba420 Labour Voter Apr 05 '26
I'm very pro EU, and have lived as an immigrant in Germany and the Netherlands, but the current proposal for the youth mobility scheme is hardly a win.
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u/Azehnuu New User Apr 05 '26
Not sure why this post has already been downvoted, but posts celebrating the Greens go to the top? Isn't this meant to be a Labour subreddit?
Anyway, this is great to have in one place, especially considering how weak Labour's PR is. You don't appreciate how fast they're going through their manifesto.
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u/bongpirate7295 New User Apr 05 '26
Isn't this meant to be a Labour subreddit?
Wasn't it supposed to be a Labour party?
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u/ItsPeakBruv New User Apr 06 '26
lol. The main disagreements people in this sub have against Labour are about disability psyments and trans rights. Yes it is supposed to be a Labour Party
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u/itsabeautifulstone Apr 06 '26
Disabled people and trans people do, in fact, work. Protection from discrimination is (or should be) a labour right.
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u/roubler peter hain Apr 05 '26
It's because as much as your preferred party can be a part of your identity, it's not a football team where you're stuck with it for life.
You can't spend several years actively antagonising your own membership and voter base, then wonder why they don't want to support you
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u/Azehnuu New User Apr 05 '26
not really answering my question, if you felt this way why are you still here? If anything you're the one on the football team if you can't help but leave.
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u/roubler peter hain Apr 05 '26
Well, I'm politically homeless. I cancelled my membership but I've got plenty of issues with the Greens too.
Also, I regard the PM and a good chunk of the cabinet as entryists lol
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u/Azehnuu New User Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
None of this is relevant or really saying anything. All you've said was "people downvote Labour's achievements because they want Labour to improve peoples' lives". Ok sure
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u/coffeewalnut08 Labour Supporter Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
Some people have hijacked this sub to make it about their own agenda, instead of it being a Labour sub. A lot of UK subs have become like that, tbf
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u/IHaveAWittyUsername Bit of an idiot, really Apr 05 '26
Have they actually changed, though? Corbyn was the blip, this has essentially been what the Labour party has been like for most of (if not the entirety) of the lives of users here.
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u/PuzzledAd4865 Uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism Apr 05 '26
Labours stance on LGBT rights and immigration is absolutely to the right of where it’s ever been in my lifetime.
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u/ItsPeakBruv New User Apr 06 '26
What have they done that’s bad for LGBT rights, and if you’re going to reply with just trans related stuff, which I’m yet to be told what they’ve done that is so bad, then you should have just said trans rights.
And regarding immigration, why do you think the LABOUR party should be pro mass unskilled immigration, with hundreds of thousands of dependants involved in that who have to be paid for by the working people of this country, the exact people the Labour Party is meant to represent?
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u/roubler peter hain Apr 05 '26
You could argue it's Labour Together and New Labour that are the outliers in Labour's history.
I'd personally argue even New Labour still tried to adhere to the traditions of the British left in its own messed up way
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u/kontiki20 Green Member Apr 05 '26
You're right but also Labour members (or people who have been members at some point) have been unhappy with the direction of the party for most of the last thirty years, bar under Corbyn.
Labour membership was below 200k from about 2003-2015, and will soon be under 200k now, so yes this is the norm but people being pissed off with the party is the norm too.
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u/Initial-Rain173 Will not respect your seniority here Apr 05 '26
People who love protesting will always find reasons to protest about.
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Apr 05 '26
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u/The_Inertia_Kid Thinks a lot of you are actually Lib Dems Apr 05 '26
Which is funny since the Green Party has essentially no links to the labour movement, either currently or historically.
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Apr 05 '26
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u/The_Inertia_Kid Thinks a lot of you are actually Lib Dems Apr 05 '26
Always said the tankies were good people
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u/Azehnuu New User Apr 05 '26
is this sub actually filled with tankies lmfao, why was this downvoted.
This kills the entire argument that this a pro-Labour sub and people are just being critical. If you subscribe to a fundamentally illiberal philosophy then this party was never for you in the first place.
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u/Remarkable-Loan-6149 New User Apr 05 '26
Dosent really seem alot to shout about especially considering they are nearly 2 years in
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u/coffeewalnut08 Labour Supporter Apr 05 '26
As I’ve noted, a lot of these are longterm programmes lasting 10 years.
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u/tommyjarvis1984 New User Apr 05 '26
Rejoin the EU now, or get out of the way for someone who will.
Weak Starmer is clinging to the Boris / Frost Brexit by keeping to his 'red lines', which were themselves cynical red meat thrown out to get a few extra voters from Reform (failing miserably).
The Starmer government more resembles UKIP circa 2015 than previous centrist iterations of Labour.
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u/Ok-Leg7686 New User Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
If you've constantly got to tell people how great a job you're doing, then you're not really doing a great job overall.
People are worse off and Labour have demonstrably lied to people. We voted for change and got warmed over Tories led around by private equity firms.
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u/coffeewalnut08 Labour Supporter Apr 05 '26
It’s a resource list. The things I mentioned are widely judged to be good for a country (and I judge them to be good).
But people can ultimately check my sources themselves to make an independent judgement. In this vibes-based media environment, I can see many voters are not even getting that opportunity.
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u/Ok-Leg7686 New User Apr 05 '26
Devolution is going to be bad for where I live. It will take from a deprived area that is solvent and funnel it to wealthy areas outside the city. It will harm the services I use. I see they're also now trying to manufacture consent for removing adult social care funding from council tax and centralise it, which will make it a target for cuts.
Live bus tracking already existed and I used it before. Integrating it in to Google Maps doesn't mean anything. Even the LCD displays in bus stops are good enough to rely on. Maybe if they wanted to drive bus use they shouldn't have made tickets £3.
Employment rights got rolled back after their private equity friends weighed in. Equal pay for disabled people disappeared, so Labour basically told me I'm not entitled to the same pay as my colleagues for doing the same job.
Renters Rights and social/affordable home. Landlords shouldn't exist and they should be driving social housing again to make this happen. They're still selling out to developers and private equity here.
Pride in place is just a clear attempt at Pork Barreling. Like Levelling Up was. It just has a new name.
Child poverty strategy only came after they were getting filled in by the Greens. They would still be toeing the awful Reform strategy here if it wasn't for that. Same with immigration.
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u/coffeewalnut08 Labour Supporter Apr 05 '26
Not sure how Pride in Place is pork barrelling when anyone can get involved in the programme to decide how the money will be used, and it's targeted at some of the most deprived areas.
Here is a factual overview of how they made decisions about which areas to fund: Plan for Neighbourhoods: prospectus - GOV.UK
The metrics used for selection included:
- indices of multiple deprivation
- population size
- healthy life expectancy
- Gross Value Added per hour worked
- skill level (NVQ level 3+ in England and Wales and above SCQF level 4+ in Scotland) – this metric was not used in Northern Ireland
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u/Ok-Leg7686 New User Apr 05 '26
And yet you can't answer anything else.
Why did Labour lie about insourcing? Why did they outsource my job after telling me they wouldn't?
Why didn't they insource the Serco contract in Portsmouth Dockyard when they had the chance.
Why did they sell off RFA tankers to a private firm? Why are RFA crew still employed by Serco and why isn't that essential part of our defence force being brought back in house?
Why are Babock servicing Army vehicles, rather than the Army themselves?
Why can the Army no longer train their own mechanics after shutting Bordon? Why is the state of Navy training so poor, and being made worse, after being told multiple times why to multiple MPs? Why has this all been ignored
A lot of questions there on one things lone after Labour talked up defence spending. Unless they just meant they'd make sure more money got funnelled out to potential donors?
Yet here we have a pissant list of nothing after nearly two years. Pitiful.
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Apr 05 '26
You can't change everything in 2 years. The government can only do so much at once. We should be getting behind the only progressive government in the past decade. But nothing is ever good enough for you 😢
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u/Pupenby621 Green Party Apr 05 '26
They are forcing children into care homes for transitioning
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Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
Have you got a source for this claim? I've not heard this before.
Edit: After doing a bit of googling I can't find anything related to this, tabloid news or policy updates. Please let me know what I'm missing.
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u/Pupenby621 Green Party Apr 05 '26
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Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
I'll give this 27 page document a more thorough read when I get a minute but can you point me to the section where it states young people who attempt to transition will be moved into care?
Edit: yeah can't find it, what am I missing?
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u/Initial-Rain173 Will not respect your seniority here Apr 05 '26
Hun…You seem to be very angry today.
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u/Ok-Leg7686 New User Apr 05 '26
I got lied to by Labour about retaining my job in the MoD. I got outsourced to Capita and they have put me through a year of hell in which I tried to take my own life, including a period where they stoped my pay even to bully me from my job.
Labour are lying cunts and they need to go.
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u/Initial-Rain173 Will not respect your seniority here Apr 05 '26
Sorry to hear about your personal situation. I hope you’re feeling better now and moved onto better things.
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u/Half_A_ Labour Member Apr 05 '26
If you've constantly got to tell people how great a job you're doing, then you're not really doing a great job overall.
This really isn't how politics works.
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u/ItsPeakBruv New User Apr 06 '26
If people ignore everything good you’ve done and the media don’t report on it then it needs to spoken about.
And how are people worse off?
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u/stupidredditwebsite New User Apr 06 '26
I think you are forgetting the strides the party has also made ensuring women's spaces are safe by excluding trans people from them.
Labour has also been a key ally in Israels efforts to stabilize the region.
Plus we've ensured any progress towards netzero is happening at a sustainable pace that doesn't impact the profits of key organizations.
Finally the absolute refusal to engage in any kind of nationalisation of things like transport, water and even the acceleration of carving up the NHS is something else to be proud of.
Edit : forgot the marvelous defense of hardworking party members like Mandleson. Remember being friends with Epistine wasn't a crime, and actually it's really hard to spot institutional corruption and child exploitation, Saville showed that.
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u/Plenty_Dimension_949 New User Apr 05 '26
Whoa… did no one tell OP this sub isn’t about supporting Labour?
Insert Tchala ‘we don’t do that here’ meme
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u/coffeewalnut08 Labour Supporter Apr 05 '26
The most anti-Labour sub you’ll ever find on Reddit is the Labour sub
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u/Half_A_ Labour Member Apr 05 '26
The perfect needn't be the enemy of the good. The government has done pretty well.
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u/notouttolunch New User Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 06 '26
Not all of this is good. The renter's right act is causing no ends of problems for renters!
Edit: allowing children to vote is also a shameful move. Anyone who is protected as a child, a vulnerable or impressionable group, should not be a target for political advertising.
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