How exactly? Literally one example please.

Improved pay for public sector workers. Reduced NHS waiting lists. More GP appointments. VAT on private school fees. Inheritance Tax on farmers. But, I agree that these positives are small beer compared to the sustained capitulation to the right. Blue Labour/Red Tory politics is shit.

The more GP appointments bit is a lie. They are claiming more outpatient appointments, but the situation at GPs is as dire as it ever was. And in every other part of the NHS that Streeting can't privatise.

What makes you say they are lying about GP appointments? Is there data for that which shows the lie?

The appointments are not with GPs, they're with surgery staff, associates and such like, or nursing staff.

Very true. However, my shockingly awful practise have brought in 2 hospital doctors to cover holidays I guess. My telephone appointment was marvellous & he put me through to reception to make an appointment with him. Just waiting for a 24 hour ECG now.

my union has accepted a pay rise but it's not enough, the public sector is bleeding workers, which the private sector LOVES because they're the ones being paid huge contracts to provide agency staff.

Yeah, it's not enough but it is better. After a decade of zero pay increases I have seen an improvement.

The Scottish electorate have delivered 3 democratic mandates to hold another referendum. Starmer is the latest in a long line of undemocratic British Nationalist. His statement that a referendum will never be agreed while he is in power is border line fascist. He's pawn of the British State, vile.

The last two are not positives and the first not fully funded.

We disagree

Obviously. Why do you think they are positive? And why do think think the raises were funded?

I believe private education is corrosive to the nation. I believe inherited wealth is also generally corrosive above a relatively low level. My experience of teachers pay is that the raises were more funded than not. Schools were able to recruit and there were no redundancies. Unlike past years.

Why do you believe a sector that provides the merit good of education to 600k kids at no cost to the state is corrosive? What experience of teachers pay and how was it funded? The schools budget has increased by less than the cost of the increases. Schools have less money after salaries now.

As I say, we disagree. Goodbye.

I see. No rational explanation. I guess we are to assume spite.

My explanation is that private schools breed elitism, and thereby remove the incentive for that elite to improve state education. You assume spite all you like, but in this exchange it is you who sound bitter. Bye.

The reduced waiting lists is a lie, they’re just chucking people on the Medefer merry-go-round.

What does that mean?

Medefer is a company that is managing waiting lists, they take people off waiting lists but in reality not many are actually getting treatment. It’s just a con, but someone’s making money so I guess Streeting will be pleased.

That's interesting and your cynicism is probably justified. What I can see from my own experience is that I don't need to see a GP for my blood pressure unless it's changed, so if Medefer improved the triage system it would be a good thing. BUT, why couldn't the NHS do that itself? Resources?

That’s a great question, really the NHS could do it better and more efficiently, but this government is ideologically wedded to using the private sector. Medefer are just taking people off the waiting list for a time, it’s a fudge so the gov can say waiting lists are coming down.

Well, re. this govts ideology, I don't know if that's true or not. I mean, I don't believe they think profit should determine healthcare outcomes. I do believe they think profit motive can make systems more efficient. I know people who variously work for the NHS who bemoan its inefficiencies.

The biggest inefficiencies are the use of private finance and private providers, and the friction created to enable their use.

Maybe. Could you envisage an NHS owned/managed toilet paper factory? My point is that every nationalised industry has to engage with private providers at some level.

They didn’t hire a known sex pest as chief whip, unlike the Tories.

Free school meals, more nursery places, reducing NHS waiting times. VAT on private schools, taxing fake farmers who bought up land for no reason. There are loads of examples but hey people don’t like to look or see much easier to moan 👍

Slightly better mayby. Not miles better. And absolutely shite. They're going to lose the next election.

They’re literally doing shit the tories didn’t dare to do. Mass arresting protestors, banning trans people from public life, going all in on genocide, gutting benefits for disabled people

as a benefits claimant I am significantly worse off under Starmer's Labour than the tories. At least I could afford to eat regularly when those bastards were in charge.

They are wildly incompetent and the chancellor appears to not understand the economy.

They promised to be and one or two things in the beginning looked promising but the reality now is they're behaving worse in their vain attempt to out ghastly Fatrage. Shambling idiot that he was Bozo is not socially liberal than Starmer.

Tell those on #NHS waiting lists that Starmer is just as bad as the Tories. www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/nhs-wai...

Improve NHS lists and in the balance is their attacks on the old, the disabled, trans folks, civil liberties. The support for genocide etc. Inflation is still rising too much. Personally it doesn't bug me much but his bold "smash the gangs" and failure to do so has handed a weapon to Fatrage

While people are looking to #NigelFarage to answers, Labour under #Starmer are getting on with a job that most of the media ignores. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Forcing asylum seekers into even worse accommodation? That's hardly something to be proud of.

From the link “They said the department had prioritised moving families and children into regular housing so they were not living in hotels for long periods of time.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They’ve been better at being Tories.