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#Starmer #LabourParty It seems they are intent on doing all they can to make me a non voter. Their stance on welfare is my primary reason for believing that. Yes the Tories and Reform would be even worse,but I need more than just 'at least they're not as bad' to cast a future vote for Labour. I need to know they genuinely care about the disabled and/or vulnerable...That they're not going to punish them for the bad and irresponsible behaviour of those far more fortunate in life. Sadly the signs are far from good. Voting for a Labour party that regards bullying the disabled and/or vulnerable as an acceptable way of proving how competent, and strong, it is, doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.

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Lotus over 1 year ago

That's one of the reasons I became a non voter - none of them care about the vulnerable.

Labour have also taken away the winter fuel allowance for most pensioners and have kept the personal tax allowance frozen, which increases the tax burden on the poorest.
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Deleted User over 1 year ago in reply to Lotus

Lotus said:
none of them care about the vulnerable.

We wouldn't have a welfare state or the NHS without the Labour party.

However, that was then and this is now.
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Lotus over 1 year ago in reply to Deleted User

Yes Deb, I'm aware of that - it's one of the reasons I voted Labour for decades when I was younger. But they started to go off course during the Blair years and in their current form they don't seem to care about the poorest sections of society. They are no longer "Labour".
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Lotus over 1 year ago in reply to Deleted User

Yes Deb, I'm aware of that - it's one of the reasons I voted Labour for decades when I was younger. But they started to go off course during the Blair years and in their current form they don't seem to care about the poorest sections of society. They are no longer "Labour".
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Deleted User over 1 year ago in reply to Lotus

Lotus said:
Don't apologise - I didn't think you were being patronising

I'm pleased to hear that.

Thank you for telling me.

Words on 'paper' can be read in so many ways.
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Lotus over 1 year ago in reply to Deleted User

Don't apologise - I didn't think you were being patronising!
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Deleted User over 1 year ago in reply to Lotus

Lotus said:
Yes Deb, I'm aware of that - it's one of the reasons I voted Labour for decades when I was younger.

Sorry - I hope I didn't sound patronising.

Lotus said:
in their current form they don't seem to care about the poorest sections of society.

I'm the same as you then really - I think I'm wedded to an old ideal of Labour although I do still vote for them because for me there is no alternative.

I'm disappointed by a lot of what they have done this time around.
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