> While 24% of voters approve of the job he is doing, 50% disapprove,
Not sure how one even begins to bish bash bosh their way out of that
It’s been 2 months – WTF were UK voters expecting, a co-op of Mary Poppins and the Ministry of Magic to make everything better?
To a certain extent people’s opinion right now won’t matter, voters have short memories. But he better be sure the short term pain is going to offer something before the next election if he wants a further five years.
Wonder if there’ll be a swing towards some fringe nutjob, who promises easy solutions, and is a kremlin sycophant
I’m not sure what they expected, austerity was never going to be a popular policy.
The naked bribery doesn’t help either.
People are angry the world over. All authority is unpopular these days. Good luck.
We live in a world of difficult and sometimes impossible to solve problems, but people want easy and instant solutions. That’s why populists rise in so many countries. It’s dumb.
Monday: AgeUK: 3 million pensioners will struggle to keep warm this winter after losing their winter fuel payments.
Tuesday: Department for work and pensions: 70% of pensioners that will lose their winter fuel payments have a disability.
Wednesday: Keir Starmer has received £107,145 in gifts, benefits, and hospitality.
Thursday: Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds: The Prime Minister is in a “pressure” job and should be allowed to enjoy gifts and hospitality.
Friday: The economy is a mess, we’re putting up everyone’s taxes.
I mean, it’s not surprising.
Ridiculous. We are a country of morons.
Is it unpopular cleaning up after the Tories?
It’s okay to be unpopular with no elections. Take the hurt upfront
The whole election was Kier saying they will deliver long term economic growth, which historically, is the trend anyway? He ran on a mandate of promising nothing but being better than the Conservative Party, which is a party ground in 14 years of scandal and corruption.
All he has to do on his mandate is stick to sensible economic policy, that doesn’t spook the banks or markets and he’ll have a free pass till the next general election. Economically speaking, we have no money and debt will continue to spiral, budgets are going to be slashed or tax will rise, as a country we are going to suffer whoever is in charge because of the mess we are in, there’s no more action to take to rescue this situation.
If I could wave a magic want I would blame this issue primarily on wealth inequality but as a single country we aren’t in a position to change that and international politics is too weak and corrupt to look towards changing things.
Hahahaha that’s hilarious. I swear no matter what you do, everybody will hate you. Fuck public office man
who even was the last popular PM in the UK? Blair?? was he popular? he was there for quite a while i guess
2 tier keir losing popularity? the pm who jails people for memes while allowing religious fundamentalists to instruct UK police?
I yam shocked, shocked I tell ya
US observer here. Wow, that didn’t take long.
Death, taxes, Labour being politically inept
Boomer logic: means test benefits, have a tapering threshold for child benefits, load students up to the teeth with debt – All ok.
Take a measly £300 blanket heating allowance for all away and make it means tested – like omfg my life is over.
Then by all means happy telling young people to get side hussles and seconds jobs and to save for retirement to cope with the cost of living. Insanely hypocritical from all old people and tories.
Brexit was an absolute mistake costing absolutely billions and the amount of food wasted because of fucking paperwork.
Make it make sense
A bunch of clowns wanting change, but then crying when things change.
Give things time and give a fair assessment once adequate time has passed
If people expect instant gratification, they are in for a rude surprise.
Won and election by not being the Tories and this followed that up with …
Austerity.
Two tier policing.
Taking hand out after hand out after criticising former politicians for less outrageous behaviour.
Pensioner Winter fuel allowance cuts.
Painting any and all upset at children being murdered / illegal immigration as ‘far right extremism’.
Releasing actual criminals while fast tracking sentencing of people who say things he disagrees with on the internet.
He’s just a bit of a shit isn’t he? Like I’m sure he means well and all and is probably an okay guy to have a beer with you if you know him.. but objectively as the leader of the country he’s just a complete shit.
Our voters are just stupid as fuck
He’s cleaning up the mess
If Tories are in power they complain, it’s a lose lose, fucking whingers
This is typical politics: someone gets voted in on the basis that they’re *not* the useless moron who came before, followed by an almost immediate public & media disappointment that the nation isn’t now a utopia
I don’t think Kier was destined to be a particularly noteworthy PM (though I’ll be happy to be wrong about that), but if he just turns out to be a caretaker that quietly keeps things running, that’s still a huge improvement over the previous 5 Prime Ministers
Is he really though? I don’t feel like it’s been enough time at all…
Been in 5 minutes, wtf do people expect
Are UK voters dumb or what? Are all the effects of austerity policies and moronic decisions like Brexit supposed to vanish overnight?
Polls are snapshots, left-wing voters love to be contrarian and the Conservative wreckage is extensive. I do not really care about popularity bumps or drops unless the perception is valid and threatens the proper working of government.
In this case, who really gives a shit? Labour needs to sort stuff out and his popularity will bounce about as serious crises occur, unless he gets crazy lucky in which case it will probably rise.
American here. I noticed that the English and French seem to follow simular script: 1. Hate your PM/president like they personally went to your house and killed your dog and said your baby is ugly. 2. Beg for change because anyone must be better than this 3. Vote someone new in. 4. Wait 48 hours and return to step 1.
Judge the guy after 18 months in the job, sick of this fugging knee jerk politics. Fair play with Liz Truss though that shit was wild
We should definitely just vote back in the Tories because they would have instantly fixed all the problems they caused in 14 years of rule /s
People are fucking stupid. If you hadn’t left criminals in charge for 14 years then we might not be in such a state.
First time I’ve taken politicians side. Note that I’ve have no clue what Keir has done, but the UK people need to let their politicians do their thing.
We should wait and scan. Media should not incite rash decision.
Remember the time that politician saved us!?.
Go to work take care of your family and let’s hope he’s not a crook.
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> While 24% of voters approve of the job he is doing, 50% disapprove,
Not sure how one even begins to bish bash bosh their way out of that
It’s been 2 months – WTF were UK voters expecting, a co-op of Mary Poppins and the Ministry of Magic to make everything better?
To a certain extent people’s opinion right now won’t matter, voters have short memories. But he better be sure the short term pain is going to offer something before the next election if he wants a further five years.
Wonder if there’ll be a swing towards some fringe nutjob, who promises easy solutions, and is a kremlin sycophant
I’m not sure what they expected, austerity was never going to be a popular policy.
The naked bribery doesn’t help either.
People are angry the world over. All authority is unpopular these days. Good luck.
We live in a world of difficult and sometimes impossible to solve problems, but people want easy and instant solutions. That’s why populists rise in so many countries. It’s dumb.
Monday: AgeUK: 3 million pensioners will struggle to keep warm this winter after losing their winter fuel payments.
Tuesday: Department for work and pensions: 70% of pensioners that will lose their winter fuel payments have a disability.
Wednesday: Keir Starmer has received £107,145 in gifts, benefits, and hospitality.
Thursday: Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds: The Prime Minister is in a “pressure” job and should be allowed to enjoy gifts and hospitality.
Friday: The economy is a mess, we’re putting up everyone’s taxes.
I mean, it’s not surprising.
Ridiculous. We are a country of morons.
Is it unpopular cleaning up after the Tories?
It’s okay to be unpopular with no elections. Take the hurt upfront
The whole election was Kier saying they will deliver long term economic growth, which historically, is the trend anyway? He ran on a mandate of promising nothing but being better than the Conservative Party, which is a party ground in 14 years of scandal and corruption.
All he has to do on his mandate is stick to sensible economic policy, that doesn’t spook the banks or markets and he’ll have a free pass till the next general election. Economically speaking, we have no money and debt will continue to spiral, budgets are going to be slashed or tax will rise, as a country we are going to suffer whoever is in charge because of the mess we are in, there’s no more action to take to rescue this situation.
If I could wave a magic want I would blame this issue primarily on wealth inequality but as a single country we aren’t in a position to change that and international politics is too weak and corrupt to look towards changing things.
Hahahaha that’s hilarious. I swear no matter what you do, everybody will hate you. Fuck public office man
who even was the last popular PM in the UK? Blair?? was he popular? he was there for quite a while i guess
2 tier keir losing popularity? the pm who jails people for memes while allowing religious fundamentalists to instruct UK police?
I yam shocked, shocked I tell ya
US observer here. Wow, that didn’t take long.
Death, taxes, Labour being politically inept
Boomer logic: means test benefits, have a tapering threshold for child benefits, load students up to the teeth with debt – All ok.
Take a measly £300 blanket heating allowance for all away and make it means tested – like omfg my life is over.
Then by all means happy telling young people to get side hussles and seconds jobs and to save for retirement to cope with the cost of living. Insanely hypocritical from all old people and tories.
Brexit was an absolute mistake costing absolutely billions and the amount of food wasted because of fucking paperwork.
Make it make sense
A bunch of clowns wanting change, but then crying when things change.
Give things time and give a fair assessment once adequate time has passed
If people expect instant gratification, they are in for a rude surprise.
Won and election by not being the Tories and this followed that up with …
Austerity.
Two tier policing.
Taking hand out after hand out after criticising former politicians for less outrageous behaviour.
Pensioner Winter fuel allowance cuts.
Painting any and all upset at children being murdered / illegal immigration as ‘far right extremism’.
Releasing actual criminals while fast tracking sentencing of people who say things he disagrees with on the internet.
He’s just a bit of a shit isn’t he? Like I’m sure he means well and all and is probably an okay guy to have a beer with you if you know him.. but objectively as the leader of the country he’s just a complete shit.
Our voters are just stupid as fuck
He’s cleaning up the mess
If Tories are in power they complain, it’s a lose lose, fucking whingers
This is typical politics: someone gets voted in on the basis that they’re *not* the useless moron who came before, followed by an almost immediate public & media disappointment that the nation isn’t now a utopia
I don’t think Kier was destined to be a particularly noteworthy PM (though I’ll be happy to be wrong about that), but if he just turns out to be a caretaker that quietly keeps things running, that’s still a huge improvement over the previous 5 Prime Ministers
Is he really though? I don’t feel like it’s been enough time at all…
Been in 5 minutes, wtf do people expect
Are UK voters dumb or what? Are all the effects of austerity policies and moronic decisions like Brexit supposed to vanish overnight?
Polls are snapshots, left-wing voters love to be contrarian and the Conservative wreckage is extensive. I do not really care about popularity bumps or drops unless the perception is valid and threatens the proper working of government.
In this case, who really gives a shit? Labour needs to sort stuff out and his popularity will bounce about as serious crises occur, unless he gets crazy lucky in which case it will probably rise.
American here. I noticed that the English and French seem to follow simular script:
1. Hate your PM/president like they personally went to your house and killed your dog and said your baby is ugly.
2. Beg for change because anyone must be better than this
3. Vote someone new in.
4. Wait 48 hours and return to step 1.
Judge the guy after 18 months in the job, sick of this fugging knee jerk politics.
Fair play with Liz Truss though that shit was wild
We should definitely just vote back in the Tories because they would have instantly fixed all the problems they caused in 14 years of rule /s
People are fucking stupid. If you hadn’t left criminals in charge for 14 years then we might not be in such a state.
First time I’ve taken politicians side. Note that I’ve have no clue what Keir has done, but the UK people need to let their politicians do their thing.
We should wait and scan.
Media should not incite rash decision.
Remember the time that politician saved us!?.
Go to work take care of your family and let’s hope he’s not a crook.
No one is coming to save us.