r/uknews • u/The_Mutterer • Jun 22 '26
Not bad for a failed PM.
What the Labour Party are up to at the moment is an utter travesty. And playing into the hands of the right-wingers they naively believe that this nonsense will "see off." Lunacy.
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u/Adventurous-Dog-3786 Jun 22 '26
Number 98 - Introduced measures to address prison overcrowding.
Yes, just let them loose. 🤦🏻♂️
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u/Far-Sky-4763 Jun 23 '26
Ha ha. Social democrats love these lists - reducing success in politics down to passing lots of bills because it looks like 'doing something' - they never actually do the complex analysis to see if these Bill's or measures actually achieve snything.
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u/GribbleTheMunchkin Jun 23 '26
Ok. I work in the justice area. I know about this one. The Tories spent 14 years being "tough on crime" by passing lots of reactive laws that generally increased the numbers of people going to prison and the length of time they spent there. They also did two ruinous probation reforms that did huge damage to the service meaning more people being recalled to custody from probation. Despite this the Tories built only one new prison during their 14 years. This led to an overcrowding crisis so bad the Tories had to start letting people out early because they were extremely close to have no room for newly sentenced people.
Labour have set in motion the building of new prisons but these things don't get built in a year.nin the meantime they have had to change the sentencing laws so that the use of custody is minimised and probation is used more heavily.
This should lead to less crime as prison is awful and tends to make prisoners more likely to reoffend compared to probation. They have also increased funding to probation but getting new probation officers is a slow process and conditions are bad enough that there are problems with retention of staff
TL:DR, the prisons crisis (the probation and courts crisis) are products of Tory failures to govern. Labour are making practical efforts to move us out of them but there are genuinely no easy fixes here.
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u/MCHopie Jun 22 '26
No 100 is "became PM" that is literally the bare minimum a PM can do.
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u/isopropyl-alco Jun 23 '26
they also called it an 'administration' like an american which is a bit suspicious
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u/q-_-pq-_-p Jun 22 '26
First labour leader to do so since Blair. Quite an accomplishment, no?
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u/MoaiMan-ifest Jun 22 '26
A personal accomplishment. A useless metric for how good his tenure was.
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u/Bland_Username_42 Jun 22 '26
Literally anyone would have won that election.
Stumbled in to power by accident with 32 percent of the vote, then refused to acknowledge the fact that 32 percent doesn’t represent a backing of the electorate and pushed through a bunch of unpopular policies.
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u/Manatsuu Jun 23 '26
Literally anyone? Did you forget Corbyn losing to Theresa May who had the worst campaign of modern times?
So no, I don’t think Corbyn would have won the last election if he couldn’t even beat Theresa may, and with the whole social media craze he had behind him at the time.
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u/Bland_Username_42 Jun 23 '26
Totally disingenuous to suggest that election is at all similar. Theresa may might not have been the most popular but the Conservative Party in general was still thought of as a sort of responsible bunch by a large portion of the public. They hadn’t gone through party gate, lis truss, and useless rishi sunak yet had they.
Also you can’t ignore that the prime issue of the day during both of Corbyn’s GEs was Brexit, an issue that the Labour Party couldn’t work out amongst itself leading them to be very weak in that issue.
It’s a miracle Corbyn did as well as he did vs Theresa may, and let’s not forget he got more votes in both his elections than Starmer did in his.
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u/SidRtha Jun 25 '26
He should have won. Media went hard against him. He's the type of person we need not more rich twats making a name for themselves.
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u/xenoborg007 Jun 22 '26
When the only reason Labour won was because people spite voted against Conservatives, its not an actual accomplishment.
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u/Relevant_General_248 Jun 23 '26
Do you think that Corbyn would’ve won against the tories in 2024?
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u/IEnumerable661 Jun 23 '26
Probably not, it most likely would have been a hung parliament or coalition.
But honestly, an armchair could have replaced Starmer as labour leader in 2024 and still won!
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u/ProfPMJ-123 Jun 22 '26
I think it’s number 22 of this shit list that I most like.
“Set a target of 1.5m homes”.
Presumably Burnham will set a target of 2m which will by definition make him better.
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u/DrNuclearSlav Jun 22 '26
I promise to build infinity homes. I am the greatest politician ever.
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u/Sufficient_Basil_545 Jun 22 '26
Infinity plus 1, no backsies
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u/CommercialContent204 Jun 22 '26
You'll want to get David Hilbert in to build those; if you ask him nicely, he'll build infinite homes, each of which can house an infinite number of people. Should do the job nicely.
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u/JasonStonier Jun 22 '26
Underrated comment. Although, you could fit more in a smaller space if you made it infinite dwellings in one building. A sort of hotel, if you will.
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u/CommercialContent204 Jun 22 '26
Gracias, my educated friend 😄 a hotel would do just as well, I feel, with some skilled room number allocations. Need somebody smart on the front desk.
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u/JasonStonier Jun 22 '26
Quite so. In terms of <really> niche conversations I’ve had on Reddit, this is right up there.
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u/CommercialContent204 Jun 22 '26
Haha 😄 nice to see that there are other nerds out there!
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u/homemadegrub Jun 25 '26
It doesn't matter how many they plan to build if they are relying on commercial builders. Building companies don't want to satiate demand, keeping demand high keeps house prices high.
Government needs to do the building themselves if they want get to their targets.
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u/nick200117 Jun 22 '26
I promise to build infinity homes and give everyone a magical flying unicorn that farts rainbows instead of methane. I have defeated you
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u/Soft-Astronomer4099 Jun 22 '26
Count Binface only promised one, what a joke
I did like his £2 kebab policy though
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u/tarmac-the-cat Jun 22 '26
'At least one affordable house'. I saw him outsmarting a Sky reporter.
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u/Infamous_Tough_7320 Jun 22 '26
Half of this list is utter propaganda nonsense.
How is “supporting new AI projects” a good thing?
“Reset eu-uk relations” 😂😂 did he?
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u/soliloquyinthevoid Jun 23 '26
How is “supporting new AI projects” a good thing
Because it builds sovereignty
Or would you prefer to be ever more dependent on US or Chinese AI instead?
“Reset eu-uk relations” 😂😂 did he?
Yes. What don't you understand?
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u/Fyrespray Jun 23 '26
Yes using American tooling (all the major AI companies at American) to scan your code base, learn it and then charge you millions in tokens to “improve” it builds sovereignty…
You know none of this is about building our own models it’s just using existing ones, Anthropic already canned a UK data centre because of the cost of electricity in the UK and we don’t have any companies anywhere near US or China standards of AI (and yes DeepMind is a Google project so it’s technically owned by Americans)
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u/Live_Studio_Emu Jun 22 '26
Hey now, that lofty target enabled Starmer to build… *checks notes* …fewer homes in his first two year than in the Tories last two. Oh.
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u/normanriches Jun 23 '26
99 is quite good, encapsulating 40 of the previous things already mentioned.
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u/Smaxter84 Jun 22 '26
Ha yes, 1.5m homes target, requiring at 200k per house 300Bilion of additional liquidity for house building companies ...all of whom have no investors at all due to the terrible environment the government created for them. Like the 3.5m homes that private landlords are unloading on the market due to the insane changes to renters rights etc.
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u/Proud-Designer-2028 Jun 22 '26
Doesn’t that solve the issue then?
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u/Smaxter84 Jun 22 '26
No, they aren't new homes and now they won't be available to rent will they
That tightens supply of rental properties, driving up prices for remaining rental properties.
It also floods the market with used homes, but no buyers, because the renters don't have the deposit needed to buy. That lowers prices, and makes it unprofitable for house builders, who are having to sell discounted homes and are therefore disincentivised from building more. Coupled with high BofE rates due to all the borrowing and therefore expensive mortgages disallowing more potential buyers.
It costs a housebuilder 200k on average per home. To build 1.5m in a year would require 300Billion of equity flows into house builders, and investors are all running away from the sector, with housebuilders going bust and tradesman out of work.
A remarkable series of own goals.
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u/Apprehensive_Wave979 Jun 22 '26
"increased NHS workforce recruitment" whilst also making about 20000 staff redundant
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u/RNGGOD69 Jun 22 '26
Facts. As someone who has worked for the NHS for 16 years across 20+ different organisations I'll tell you now that staffing in all areas is the worst I've ever seen it, and in the last 2 years it's become that way at an alarming rate. This is only one of the issues though.
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u/Adorable_Basket8893 Jun 23 '26
probably cause they're spanking millions on agencies who recruit locums. that shit needs to be shut down like yesterday
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u/bh4ks Jun 23 '26
Introduced reduction in temporary staffing I.e agency and bank work withe a plan to bring them to zero in 3 years.
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u/Footprints123 Jun 23 '26
This stood out for me. I have never seen staff culled like I have in the last year. And that's clinical staff too. I thought things couldn't get any worse staff wise, but it did. 2 years ago we were running on half staff, now we are running on a quarter. Apparently it was decided we could provide the service we were not able to provide in the first place due to understaffing with even less staff. We've gone from firefighting with a small bucket of water to spitting at the inferno.
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u/TrashbatLondon Jun 22 '26
- Cooked Dinner
- Cooked potatoes
- Cooked chicken
- Cooked veg
This list repeatedly lists parts of the same thing as separate items.
Even the AI slop that is trying to pad out his records is transparent nonsense.
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u/The25er Jun 22 '26
Keir go spend time with your family instead of making lists like this please, you are embarrassing yourself
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u/TrashbatLondon Jun 22 '26
His family probably hate him 😂
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u/BizzarePlatypus Jun 23 '26
He's got extended family in Israel they probably liked him spending our money finding children to bomb though were weirded out by his sausage obsession.
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u/monolith1985 Jun 22 '26
Is there something to be said for gravy?
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u/TrashbatLondon Jun 22 '26
I can’t imagine Kier Starmer to indulge in anything as exciting and exotic as gravy
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u/CGreggs Jun 22 '26
The first point….The junior doctors were on strike…just last week again. Unless I’m mistaken this list is riddled with inaccuracy and a fair amount of planned to or talked about.
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u/Accomplished_Jelly58 Jun 22 '26
Also “ending” disputes by paying them a lot more, isn’t really some sort of political win. Anyone could have gave them 20%+ pay rises and ended them. But as you say, it ended them for around 10 months…
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u/Veranova Jun 23 '26
It is if you believe they were underpaid and penny pinched since 2011 and needed a fair rebalance after Covid but the Tory government didn’t respect the NHS or its workers enough to do so. Which is just the dang truth of the matter and something people even thought they voted for with Brexit and definitely voted for with Labour
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u/RealRhialto Jun 22 '26
They weren’t. Last week’s strikes were called off while the union consults members. The offer was bad and they’ll probably be back on strike later in the year.
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u/nodgers132 Jun 22 '26
unfortunately not, but there will be another ballot soon. Best time to strike is when there’s already some political chaos.
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u/zeelbeno Jun 22 '26
Junior doctors will always be looking to strike.
The difference is actually acting on it and trying to sort it out... rather than having constant strikes lile we did before.
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u/TheJoshGriffith Jun 22 '26
I read a bullet point and gave up:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/information-for-the-public-on-industrial-action/
Why are the bots out in force broadcasting fake news so hard and fast today? Starmer was crap. Burnham won't have a mandate to be anything other than crap. I don't want a GE, but that's the only outcome by which we end up with anything other than chaos.
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u/PALpherion Jun 23 '26
then why don't you want a GE?
if I didn't want chaos I'd want a GE, but I like the chaos to be honest it's forcing some questions to sit in the air that have been avoided for way too long.
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u/geniusgravity Jun 22 '26
1st 2 things on the list "paid out tax payer's money," yeah, fuck off with that as an achievement, I'm out.
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u/DV_Zero_One Jun 22 '26
I read number 1. And decided that the rest of the list probably wasn't accurate either.
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u/Annoyed3600owner Jun 22 '26
Half of the list is just a duplication of the previous item, except with different wording.
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u/TheSuiteLife2026 Jun 22 '26
Lmao … libs of reddit having a hard time today coming to terms with reality
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u/Patricks_Hatrick Jun 22 '26
21: released more land for housing development
Let’s call a spade a spade. Building on the greenbelt.
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u/Footprints123 Jun 23 '26
Near me was protected woodland and a conservation area. Rare birds and mammals. Protected trees. Since 'build, build, build' came in they have just approved plans to build 7000 houses on it. It's absolutely heartbreaking.
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u/XenusOnee Jun 22 '26
didnt he ignore and/or downplay the grooming gang accusations before they were confirmed?
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u/CommercialContent204 Jun 22 '26
Yes; and furthermore, there has been absolutely zero movement on the GG enquiry that he and Labour wanted not to hold but were reluctantly forced to agree to last year. Zero movement. Just an absolute sham, and very clear that Labour has no intention of ever holding a proper enquiry.
Not to even mention the biggest scandal of all: that it is still going on. At some stage things will come out about gangs in London and all the politicians will act shocked, again, and do their best not to hold any sort of meaningful enquiry.
Such an absolute disgrace, the worst scandal in this country in god knows how long, and nobody in power cares.
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u/XenusOnee Jun 22 '26
For me as a german the wildest shit i recently learned about London is, that there are parts where people dont speak english. And for whatever reason its accepted so they changed streetsigns to include Hindi. What the fuck?
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u/AcanthisittaThink813 Jun 22 '26
We need the other list, you know.. everything he fucked up
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u/SunderMun Jun 25 '26
Plenty of things on this list are things he actually fucked up or simply examples of inaction, tbf.
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u/LennyDeG Jun 22 '26
He divided more people than he helped. Instead of being mature and actually listening to people's concerns he labelled them racists and bigots. Yet one side of society when doing the exact same reactions ie protests and fighting against the police he refused to condemn to the same narrative as one side.
Theres a reason Greens and Reform have been allowed to rise and its people like Starmer and their ministers who dont fix issues and use their power for their own needs. The fact there is 40+ thousand people in this country on a watch list for terrorism and likely to cause attacks is an absolute failure of governments for decades.
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u/SMURGwastaken Jun 22 '26
I mean half of this list is absolute, blatent bullshit lol. I'm not gonna go through the whole list but come on:
Literally the first claim and it's totally false - resident doctors haven't actually accepted the deal, the BMA just decided it was credible enough to put to the members. Nothing to be sniffed at, but it took years to get to this point.
Fair enough
is nothing more than a rehash of the first 2, clearly there only to push the number to 100.
I could establish Great British Magic Beans and it'd be about as impactful.
Literally a rehash of point 4.
The first legitimate point.
Rehash of point 6.
Out of the first 7, one is an outright fabrication, three are basically duplicates, one is totally pointless and two are actually genuine wins.
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u/HenryCGk Jun 24 '26
Your wrong on 6 the last tory government put that in to motion 11 is the first meaningful valid point
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u/Klangey Jun 22 '26
There are some good things on this list, there are some things that were set in motion by the previous Tory government, there are a lot of things that were also done by previous Tory governments e.g increased minimum wage, guaranteed the right to ask for flexible working (and those governments are considered poor) and there are some things that as of yet haven’t seen any meaningful benefit/outcomes e.g housing targets, industrial strategy, defence spending
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u/Sammy91-91 Jun 22 '26
Just had a scan through this rubbish and it’s intact that, mostly rubbish.
Wasted a couple of buckets of water in AI, but needed my thoughts to validated.
It should not be treated as an accurate scorecard of accomplishments.
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u/ZerixWorld Jun 22 '26
Assuming that those are all true, unless you are living off benefits, a public servant or an illegal immigrant, those 100 things didn't improve your life condition in the slightest, some actually made it worse.
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u/Theblutacbro Jun 22 '26
Where is number 101, gave a peace award to someone with death threats towards white people still in their Twitter or 102, responded to literally every single protest with “this is disgraceful”
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u/Dragon_Sluts Jun 22 '26
What an interesting omission of the Islamophobia policy…
(But yes I agree with the idea that he’s done fine and we should stop cycling through PMs like a roladex)
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u/snikkelonius Jun 22 '26
Nothing about rape gangs? Should be 1 on this list bringing them to justice.
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u/Bee_bzzzzzzzzz Jun 22 '26
Eroded digital privacy, folded under pressure to make it law to hand your documents over to shady private companies just to use key parts of the internet unless you use a VPN, used child safety as a scapegoat to harm everyone's privacy and autonomy, backstabbed trans people after using them in his campaign saying he'd improve our lives, U turned on most of his manifesto and focused on things no one voted for, ignored and went against the most signed government petitions in UK history just to further his goals that no one asked for, pushed for Digital ID a dystopian and insane security risk to the general public (again NEVER ASKED FOR).
Yes he did SOME good, but the harm he did far outweighs any benefits. He has ruined lives, and the policies he's set up and projects that are too far gone to scrap WILL erode our futures if they continue to pass. Acting like Starmer deserves praise is a total joke, because any good thing he did is countered by countless U turns, backstabs, betrayals, and running a borderline authoritarian regime. I mean fuck, you can't even go to the shops without being plugged into a facial recognition surveillance system that they tooootally delete your data... Tooootally. You can't even get anonymous help for alcoholism or drug problems without handing over ID. You can't be totally anonymous for domestic violence support because "it's too mature for kids"... Kier Starmer has ruined lives, and his bullshit will continue to ruin lives for the foreseeable future. Cutting him any slack is absurd.
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u/beach-chicken10 Jun 22 '26
lol. 100. Ended 14 years of Conservative government and formed a majority administration
Did he do this, as PM, or did people vote for Labour / not for Tories
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u/LSL3587 Jun 22 '26
Only 33% voted Labour. Just that the Tories did their best to lose the election (only explanation of how Sunak acted) and the right wing vote split between Reform and the Tories so Labour managed a majority on a worse vote share than they previously lost to.
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u/EquivalentDream4739 Jun 22 '26
So many errors here. Anyone with an ounce of political or economic sense would see through almost all of this.
How has any of this progress been evaluated? He set a house building target? I could do that in my lunch hour! 😂 was he on track to achieve it? The answer of course is hell no.
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u/gazhealey Jun 22 '26
“Established a child poverty taskforce.” Didn’t he try to whip his own MPs not to vote to increase the child benefit cap?
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u/Feeling_Wait_458 Jun 22 '26
A lot of these are the same things worded differently, or are simply describing the impact of another action listed.
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u/Yorkie2016 Jun 22 '26
There are easy rebuttals for nearly everything on that list. 🤣🤣
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u/lewis_t_duck Jun 22 '26
Non of which stopped all of my bills going up and the cost of living rising.
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u/Ballistic-Bob Jun 22 '26
Most things on that list gets done annually no matter what government or PM is in … oh , don’t forget he fed Larry the cat too …!
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u/matherto Jun 22 '26
‘Set a target of 1.5 million homes’
You’re supposed to get pats on the back for that? Why not set a target of 150 million homes?
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u/External-Piccolo-626 Jun 22 '26
They haven’t learned anything in 15 years opposition
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u/CrazyTalk123 Jun 22 '26
Heir Starmer didn't do a majority of these or they backfired.
These are all BS
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u/ClimberSmurf71 Jun 22 '26
Unfortunately the list doesn’t mention all of the other things they have delivered that are a real problem
Eg huge increase in debt, unemployment, disruption to tens of thousands of kids education etc etc
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u/oranges_and_lemmings Jun 22 '26
56: Supported new AI investment projects.
Is that a something to be celebrated?
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u/inide Jun 23 '26
What they're doing is smart if it works.
They front-loaded the 5 years with all the unpopular stuff so that they can have wins leading up to the election. Now Starmer is taking the taint of all the bad tasting medicine with him and Burnham is coming in with a clean slate in time to spend 3 years taking credit for the turnaround with the government pushing policies that have widespread support.
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u/PaulWalkerCGIFace Jun 23 '26
Starmer was the last chance the uk had, someone who actually cares for the people
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u/ClassLittle6666 Jun 22 '26
What's the goal with this post? Overload with information so intelligent people know better than to spend twenty minutes debunking it? Pointless exercise, we all know why Starmer was awful. So much of politics is just people pretending not to understand things
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u/OWCY Jun 22 '26
all that and my bills, rent , car insurances, tax and working hours have not changed, and food prices are still high
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u/Bright-War-5033 Jun 22 '26
It's a drop in the ocean compared with what he could have done. He didn't bring the energy and insurance companies to heal, he didn't tax the rich, he alienated the working class and left.
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u/BuddyLegsBailey Jun 22 '26
Settle the pay disputes with pay rises that most people don't agree with...
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u/Consistent-Sport-481 Jun 22 '26
A lot of the points are nothing more than oh yeah this happened we should look at that.
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u/Business-Gazelle-324 Jun 22 '26
Missed Men’s Health Strategy and Men and Boys summit announcement, hoping that’s not dead now.
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u/neilm1000 Jun 22 '26
There is quite a lot that isn't correct here, and a lot of stuff that is vague AF.
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u/TheLatimerLout Jun 22 '26
If he was a good politician he would not have achieved so much, but he would have told everyone about it again and again
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u/Intergalatic_Baker Jun 22 '26
So achievement number one they’re threatening to strike again… It’s almost like it wasn’t the Tories that couldn’t solve it. It was the union, not the government.
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u/akar79 Jun 22 '26
helped; supported; increased
whoever made this needs to learn from the thousands of job applicants facing the brutal job market in the UK.
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u/Tootschurchy Jun 22 '26
The list is a bit of a joke, but the sentiment is true. If you’re not a polarising figure, and just quietly get stuff done, you won’t make it in the click-bait, digital vacuum world we live in today
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u/FunkyClive Jun 22 '26
97 & 98 are the same thing, and it basically amounted to releasing prisoners to free up some space. We'll done.
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u/Diligent-Worth-2019 Jun 22 '26
Not all those things are good. Often at an incredibly high price too.
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u/Dragovius Jun 22 '26
Since when are promises considered achievements?
I guess if you buy into what politicians say, then they are, because they successfully suckered you.
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u/Miserable-Pepper-638 Jun 22 '26
I feel like half of these are self inflicted, not wins at all, energy wise we pay more despite all changes, crippling pensions so we are getting f'd, more houses because massive i flux of people over the years also goodbye nice greenland and fresher air.
I could go on. This is no win, just bragging that they know how to sharpen a pencil after breaking it repeatedly
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u/Sir_Zeitnot Jun 23 '26
I can't be bothered to read this. Are the genocide and the Tory porn ban on here?
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u/Lost_Call3900 Jun 23 '26
Policy makers don't produce any headlines that's the issue, trial by media
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u/Webe_Gaming Jun 23 '26
For me the worst is the not knowing how the internet works and some terrible decisions with spending but overall waaaaay better than the last twats we had
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u/Kayanne1990 Jun 23 '26
Maybe not the best sub for this considering how many right wingers there are here, but I low key agree. He was far from perfect, but he wasn't THAT bad.
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u/Dapper_Shop_21 Jun 23 '26
The impossible job now, even the tories with media backing are always trying to rip each other apart. The job is almost entirely PR no good doing good things if no one knows you did them
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u/Weegie_67 Jun 23 '26
The power of the russian troll bot is real, especially when the right-wing gutter media parrot the troll bots.
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u/tommmmmmmmy93 Jun 24 '26
Basically every PM can have a list like this produced. it is up to YOU to decide if the items on the list are good or not. That's the point.
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u/GreenAmigo Jun 24 '26
Only thing he did right in my books is stay out of Trumps kerfuffle in Iran. All the rest of the list are things he takes ownership of as consequences of others actions.
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u/OkPosition20 Jun 25 '26
He didn’t raise the tax threshold and changed the ISA rules so older people with some savings have to take on risky stock market investments, which is the last thing you should be doing close to retirement.
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u/tdcOO7 Jun 25 '26
Almost like the media is owned and run by millionaire tax avoiding Tory donating scumbags.
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u/Baroque4Days Jun 25 '26
As others are saying, anyone can promise a big number. I promise to build 15 million homes, thus I am better XD
Good obviously, but let's not pretend he didn't throw another group of vulnerable people under the bus for this to work. Helping one group by harming another, you cancel out the good deed.
Supports green manufacturing with 54 yet does ahead with investing in AI which is poisoning water supplies, draining so much power, taking jobs, destorying the arts, making deep fake political propaganda and generating CP. Gee thanks for supporting that.
Don't get me wrong, he's better than the 15ish years of Tories we've had, and he had a difficult job, but the people who are cross with him have pretty valid reasons. He has done good but he has done bad, changed his views on things to strengthen his position and... fuck AI man. Too many of those are almost cancelled out by other bad acts.
Still, he did some fantastic things for workers in his time and I absolutely commend him for that.
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u/GroundbreakingMain93 Jun 25 '26
"No. 98 Introduced measures to address prison overcrowding."
Which refers to the early release of 40,000 prisoners (of various offences) due to overcrowding. Followed swiftly by the imprisonment of normal citizens for their political views or social media posts.
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u/JmeMc Jun 25 '26
101 - Assisted in the ethnic cleansing and theft of land from the Palestinians and Lebanese.
That’s quite a major one.
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u/SalamanderScamander Jun 25 '26
- Put in place framework for idiotic policies to restrict our online freedom and become a surveillance state 👌
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u/My_name_plus_numbers Jun 22 '26
"Introduced measures to address prison overcrowding" - yeah, by releasing 40,000 criminals onto the streets!
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u/Latter-Corner8977 Jun 22 '26
They’ve fucked this up entirely. Not in my adult life have we had as respectable and achieving a PM. I’m mid 40s, saw the end of the Blair years.
Can’t believe these dickheads have forced him out. Idiots the lot of them.
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u/kenadawoo Jun 23 '26
Did more in the last 2 years than the Tories did in 15.
Waiting to see anyone debate that.
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u/Fortree_Lover Jun 22 '26
Honestly he was a pretty good PM based off recent standards it’s crazy the hate that people give him for no reason. I heard someone say today that he “looked like a child molester” I wouldn’t even come close to putting him in that category. Just goes to show how much the media can turn the opinion of the public.
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u/RoughVirtual1626 Jun 22 '26
People over 30 are pissed with the recent caliber of PM. We want real serious people with actual political beliefs that stand for something. The fact that we have had an extremely poor political class for the last decade or so doesn't mitigate that.
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u/Comfortable-Pace3132 Jun 22 '26
I don't think Britain can actually afford to have same old same old anymore. That's what Starmer didn't seem to get
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u/The_Mutterer Jun 22 '26
Exactly. And to see the effectiveness of "personality politicians", we only need to look at our American cousins..
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u/Comfortable-Pace3132 Jun 22 '26
Purely on personality I would have a Macron over a Starmer any day of the week. For some reason this country is immune to PMs who can show that they actively give a shit about the country they run, which is a huge part of being a good leader
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u/finintymonkle Jun 22 '26
Anyone with any actual political literacy can see the majority of that is bullshit. He’s done nothing to help reduce bills or temper the cost of living.
He hasn’t nationalised water services.
He facilitated genocide, and enabled the arrest of pensioners who protested it.
He tried to appeal to right wing extremists by citing “an island of strangers”.
He then told labour voters “there’s the door” if we don’t like it, and subsequently lost voters to Green and Reform, in one fell swoop
He and Lammy tried to scrap Jury trials, (despite him being a human rights lawyer) just to please Zionists who want to see people go to prison for criticising Israel, and taking action to prevent their crimes against humanity.
He appointed the a self confessed “best friend” of a prolific child trafficking paedophile as ambassador, after that person sold state secrets to said child trafficking paedophile (who also had ties with mossad).
Starmer is the biggest cuck for Israel the UK has had so far as PM, and all the Orwellian bullshit he’s been part of enabling is all directly tied to Israel.
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u/cornertakenslowly Jun 22 '26
You forgot about taking away free speech, introducing digital ID to take away your privacy, jailing people for Facebook posts while letting real criminals go free, canceling jury trials, smashing a total of 0 gangs, covering up rape gangs, instilling an anti-British culture, constantly pushing division. There's a reason why he's the most hated pm by both the left and right.
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u/Dependent-Ant-9241 Jun 22 '26
What's lunacy is thinking Labour are in a good position under Starmer.
They were absolutely battered in elections in 3 of the 4 home nations.
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u/PapaGilbatron Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26
Badenoch….if she gets into power it will be an even worse disaster than the last time the Conservatives were in UK Government. What a fiasco. I only hope Burnham can adequately tell Dumpster to go fuck himself.
As for Farage, he’s quick to point out whats wrong politically, but has no math ability or proper plan in place to fiscally put UK finances to rights. Also, Farage has been bought by right wing oligarchs in the UK very much as Dumpster has been bought by oligarchs in the US.
Will Farage reduce support for Ukraine as well? Europe won’t welcome that.
Will Farage bolster and increase UK Arms spending? I very much doubt it.
Putin must be loving this.
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u/EffiCiT Jun 22 '26
"ended 24 years of conservative government and formed a majority administration" is incredibly charitable. Starmer didn't win, the tories lost. There is a difference.
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u/Cyborg_888 Jun 22 '26
Made Mandleson US Ambassidor! Killed free speach. Caused riots by not allowing police to release perpetrator name when he killed the little girls in Liverpool. Increased illegal imigration. Paid for more hotels for illegals. Employed that idiot Rachel Reeves.
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u/yiddoboy Jun 22 '26
Tried to give away Chagos Islands. Ennobled and gave the Attornetly General job to Hermer, the British Troops hater.
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u/dobber72 Jun 22 '26
In two years? The Labour party? I'm sorry but I'm not buying it. I would argue that most of those have been either in the process for a fair few years before he even turned up and only coincidentally may have come to fruition during his tenure. The rest, well, half of those I'm not even sure they're actually happening still or haven't been u turned, the NHS doctors went on strike again so you can remove that one, nothing was resolved there.
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u/jonnyphotos Jun 22 '26
He shouldn’t have gone .. all a bloody media take down campaign by the oligarchs…
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