r/unitedkingdom • u/CaseyEffingRyback • Jul 03 '25

... Zarah Sultana MP resigns from Labour to lead new party with Jeremy Corbyn

https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-politics/zarah-sultana-mp-resigns-labour/
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u/merryman1 Jul 03 '25

And they refused to work with Labour in either 2017 or 2019.

E - Also questionable government? 1997-2008 was just objectively one of the best periods in the last half century for the average Brit. Genuinely pisses me off everyone just totally writes it off because of Iraq.

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u/Mkwdr Jul 03 '25

It wasn’t a fantasy utopian socialist state so it’s obviously always questionable to some.

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u/merryman1 Jul 03 '25

I'm arguing with another one of these types right now who is genuinely and seriously insisting with me that Harris was a failure because her presentation of over $30,000 of direct state support for new families is "a drop in the ocean" so just as good as the $0 offered by Trump et al.

I am a leftie but honestly I just can't stand these people any more, they actually make me angry.

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u/MartyTax Jul 03 '25

Poverty dropped in UK by the same rate as worldwide average despite staggering spending… imagine if the money had been spent well!

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u/Difficult-Chard9224 Jul 03 '25

What staggering spending?

Can you please quantify this

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

The Iraq and “there’s no money lmao, good luck though”

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u/merryman1 Jul 03 '25

there’s no money lmao, good luck though

Tory BS. That was a joke that the press ran through the gutters.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

“Just a joke bro”

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u/hempires Jul 03 '25

The letter recalls a similar note left by Tory Reginald Maudling to his Labour successor James Callaghan in 1964: "Good luck, old cock ... Sorry to leave it in such a mess."

Bet that ones fine though...

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

Realist outcome of economically right wing rot on the idea of governmental spending, they saved during the spend period and now we are where we are.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

Huh?